Some game spaces are fully enclosed within a 3D environment built and themed for the game. But often fully enclosed environments require alot of processing power due to increased polygon counts. If you're looking to keep the frame rate high and reduce demand on player's CPUs then a Skybox will be essential. A skybox being a single texture that wraps around the game space creating the illusion of an all-encompassing background. You can source a skybox online (example site here

In the previous posts we've sourced and prepped a 3D asset for ingest into Tabletop Simulator and we've modified the texture of the asset to fit our needs. Now comes the moment of truth, importing the new toy into the game. NOTES FROM VIDEO ABOVE: - Importing the Object into Tabletop Simulator. In the top menu select 'Object' -->'Components' --> 'Custom'; move the cursor to where you want to spawn the object; in 'Model/Mesh' add the .obj; in 'Diffuse/Image' add your .png or .

Following on from the previous post on prepping 3D assets, it's time to play with textures. The files below came with the asset previously downloaded in step 10. They are: : .PNG: the object texture : .MTL: ignore this, it's a texture file for .3DS objects :.OBJ: this is the 3D object file :.RAR: the zip file all of these came from, downloaded from Turbosquid : Metal.PNG, Normal.PNG, Rough.PNG: these are all lighting and surface maps that can be used in a variety of programs

If you're following along I'll assume in part it's because you want to know how the development of Cards & Combat can help you with your own project. So the next few posts will focus on customizing and enhancing a Table Top Simulator project. Once you have the tools and know-how, you'll also be able to create your own custom assets to incorporate into Cards & Combat or any other game you're playing using Tabletop Simulator. - Sourcing Assets. There are plenty of places onlin