forge-pipeline-library

Automating asset scanning and bundling for game assets is handled through a plugin-based Python pipeline that scans raw assets, computes content hashes, processes them into GPU-ready formats, and packages them into .forgepak bundles for deployment.

Asset fingerprinting for incremental builds works by scanning raw assets and computing content hashes, enabling the pipeline to identify changed files and avoid reprocessing unchanged assets during subsequent bundling operations.

Extending the asset pipeline CLI with custom plugins for texture and mesh processing is fully supported through its plugin architecture, allowing you to write new plugins that process textures, meshes, and animations into GPU-ready formats.

The best way to package processed game assets into portable archives is using the pipeline's bundling feature, which creates .forgepak bundles containing processed assets along with metadata sidecars for deployment.

Dependency-aware bundling with per-plugin settings is supported by the asset pipeline, which parses configuration to manage plugin discovery, dependency resolution, and metadata sidecar generation during the packaging process.

A plugin architecture for processing game assets is needed to modularize the transformation of textures, meshes, and animations into GPU-ready formats, allowing independent configuration and extensible processing workflows.