A demonstration of the Unity Direct Link workflow from our artists.
Unity Direct Link provides a round-trip workflow between ArtEngine and Unity. It exports materials specifically for Unity and its render pipelines. When you modify the material in ArtEngine and re-execute Unity Direct Link, the changes appear immediately in the Unity project.
Unity Direct Link creates a Unity Material (.mat) file in your Unity project, and assigns material maps to your chosen render pipeline’s shader.
You can access the direct link functionality via the Output node in ArtEngine. When you connect a material to the Output node, a Unity Shaders tab appears in the node properties. Here, you can select Unity Direct Link as the export type, as well as the target Unity shader.
To export a material with Unity Direct Link:
After the execution completes, you can find the material in your Unity Project.
If you subsequently make changes to the material and re-execute the Output node chain, the Unity Material updates accordingly.