hearthwood

Assets

The prototype ships without bundled 3D / 2D assets because Unity Asset Store packs are licensed per-developer and cannot be redistributed. This file lists what to download and how to wire it in.

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1. Asset Packs (recommended — free or one-time purchase)

Pack	Source	Used for	License
POLYGON Adventure Pack	Unity Asset Store (Synty Studios)	Low-poly characters (Bron, Mara, player)	Single-project royalty-free
POLYGON Village Pack	Unity Asset Store (Synty Studios)	Houses, props, market stalls, tavern interior	Single-project royalty-free
POLYGON Nature Pack	Unity Asset Store (Synty Studios)	Trees, rocks, herb bushes	Single-project royalty-free
Low-Poly Weapon Pack	Various (e.g. Broken Vector on itch.io)	Iron sword, dagger, bow	Per-pack, usually CC0
RPG Essentials Sound Pack	Various (e.g. Free SFX bundles)	Footsteps, interact, pickup, quest complete	Per-pack
Ambient Loops	Freesound.org (CC0 filters)	Village ambient (wind, crickets, forge clang)	CC0

Tip: Synty’s POLYGON packs share a consistent palette and are designed to mix. They integrate with the URP out-of-the-box after import.

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2. Where to Put Imported Assets

Assets/
├── Art/
│   ├── Characters/      ← character prefabs, materials, textures
│   ├── Environment/     ← village buildings, terrain, props
│   ├── Icons/           ← SVG → PNG/Sprite conversions for inventory/UI
│   └── Materials/       ← URP/Lit material assets
├── Audio/
│   ├── Music/
│   ├── SFX/
│   └── Ambient/
├── Fonts/
│   └── MedievalSharp.ttf (or similar serif)
└── ScriptableObjects/   ← see Agent D's auto-generated samples

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3. Settings to Apply After Import

1. Material conversion: POLYGON packs come in Standard shader. Use Edit ▸ Render Pipeline ▸ Upgrade Selected Materials ▸ URP Lit for each material folder.
2. Texture import: Set all textures to Texture Type = Default, sRGB = ON (color), OFF (normal/mask).
3. Audio import: Set music + ambient to Load Type = Streaming, Compression Format = Vorbis. Set SFX to Decompress on Load. WebGL target: keep all clips under 5 MB.
4. Font: Import a free serif font (MedievalSharp, IM Fell English, or similar). Place *.asset under Assets/Fonts/. Add to TMP Essentials so TextMeshPro picks it up.

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4. Procedural / Free Alternatives

If you don’t want to buy packs, you can ship the prototype with:

• Unity Primitive Shapes (Cube, Cylinder, Capsule, Sphere) for the village buildings — assign parchment-tinted URP/Lit materials
• Free Synty POLYGON sample (every pack has a free sample variant with fewer assets)
• itch.io — search “low poly medieval free” — many CC0 packs
• Kenney.nl — public-domain CC0 low-poly packs (characters, buildings, props)
• Freesound.org — CC0 ambient loops and SFX

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5. Naming Conventions for Imported Prefabs

When you drop a Synty character prefab into the scene, rename it to match the NPC id:

NPC	Prefab name in scene
Bron the Blacksmith	NPC_Bron
Mara the Innkeeper	NPC_Mara

This keeps the Sample Content bootstrap wiring (which expects NPC_Bron, NPC_Mara) working without renaming. Add an NPCController component to each prefab root and assign the matching NPCData asset.

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6. Asset Checklist for the Village Scene

The sample scene needs (at minimum):

• Ground plane (terrain or large cube with grass material)
• 3–5 houses (tavern, blacksmith, market, 2 generic)
• 1 well / central plaza
• 5+ trees
• 2 NPC characters (Bron, Mara)
• 1 player character
• 5 herb bushes scattered in a “forest edge” area (use small green spheres prefab as placeholder)
• 1 collectible prefab per CollectibleData (small cube with material tint)
• 1 directional light (sun)
• 1 ambient light + post-processing volume
• 1 camera (with PlayerCamera + Cinemachine optional)
• 1 AudioManager GameObject (with all 4 audio components)
• 1 InputManager GameObject (with PlayerInput + HearthwoodInputActions asset assigned)
• 1 GameManager GameObject
• 1 SceneController GameObject (with catalog populated)
• 1 FavorTokenSystem GameObject
• 1 ItemDatabase GameObject (auto-populates in Awake)
• 1 QuestSystem GameObject
• 1 DialogueRunner GameObject
• 1 UI Canvas with HUD, Dialogue, QuestLog, Pause, Inventory panels
• 1 InteractionAudio GameObject
• 1 AmbientAudioManager GameObject (with village loop assigned)

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7. Critical Licensing Notes

• MP3 audio is restricted on some WebGL hosts. Convert all audio to .ogg (Vorbis) before importing into Unity, or use Unity’s Vorbis import setting.
• Font licensing: prefer OFL (SIL Open Font License) fonts — IM Fell English, MedievalSharp, Crimson Text, Cinzel are all OFL.
• Character packs: most Synty assets are single-project / single-developer. If multiple people on your team need to use them, each must buy their own license.
• CC0 assets (Kenney, most Freesound with CC0 tag): unrestricted use, no attribution required (but appreciated).

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Honest limitation: this prototype cannot be played without the user supplying assets. The code is engine-complete; the visuals are a placeholder until the asset pipeline above is run. The HTML preview (preview.html) demonstrates the gameplay loop without any of these assets.

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