> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://tiplaystudio.gitbook.io/tiplay-assets/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://tiplaystudio.gitbook.io/tiplay-assets/clayxels.md). # Clayxels {% embed url="" %} {% embed url="" %} ![](https://2688793952-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-MFj2vg4QJR2sRMIhR35%2F-MIT9sgnqtPfGNJQHzX0%2F-MITAVomsyGn5K9lQqeo%2FScreen%20Shot%202020-09-30%20at%2010.28.39.png?alt=media\&token=7b02af02-0ebc-40b4-be8a-100077e5d3fd) **Sculpt and animate your assets inside Unity and give your game a whole new set of interactive volumetric capabilities.**\ \- you can sculpt and then animate assets directly in Unity without the need for complex mesh operations\ \- everything stays interactive, what you do in the editor works in game just as well\ \- fast level design iterations, clayxels can help you achieve complex architectural shapes in a matter of seconds\ \- export to FBX to move your clayxels models to any external package if you need so\ \ **Clayxels works with plain, simple points.**\ \- the point cloud that clayxels generates is shaded per vertex, rendering it is as cheap as a standard mesh\ \- nothing stops you from interactively creating volumes during gameplay. Only at that point a compute-shader will update the point cloud (this is of course a GPU heavy operation that will impact on your FPS)\ \- clayxels can be animated in editor or used with procedural motion at runtime\ \- physics work with standard colliders, you can even use clayxels to generate its own mesh colliders\ \ **Open C# code, editable render shaders and signed-distance functions, but you can ignore all of that if you like. Clayxels works by simply moving around standard Unity GameObjects.**\ \- Extend or hack the provided APIs or simply move Unity's standard GameObjects to interact with the volumes\ \- Write new shaders via code or use Amplify Shader to customize the existing shaders with nodes\ \- All the mathematical functions are exposed and you can add your own to change how the signed distance field is generated\ \ **Current limitations (subject to change as development progresses):**\ \- performance will vary a lot depending on the available GPU, this is especially relevant if you plan on using clayxels at runtime in your game\ \- it is preferable to use clayxels on machines with a dedicated GPU to get optimal performance\ \- mobile targets are untested and will work using the included baking functionality only\ \- webgl is not a supported target