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Simplygon on Tour: Shanghai, Tokyo & Montréal
This autumn, Simplygon is heading around the world to meet game developers and help even more studios optimise their games. We will be attending Unreal Fest Shanghai, Unreal Fest Tokyo and MIGS 2026. If you are attending any of these events, this is your chance to meet the Simplygon team and talk directly with experts in automated 3D optimisation.
Simplygon turns 20
Two decades of helping developers build bigger worlds, optimize at scale, and spend more time creating.
Customer story: Porting Cozy Caravan to mobile and Switch
Cozy Caravan is a Unity based wholesome crafting adventure from 5 Lives Studios. Players travel through picturesque landscapes with their companion Bubba in a trusty caravan, helping local communities by gathering resources, crafting handmade goods, setting up a market stall, and meeting a cast of charming characters along the way. With its focus on customization, kindness, and life on the road, the game’s cozy visual style is a big part of its appeal, which also made preserving that look during optimisation especially important.
Customer story: Scaling Forza Horizon 6 with Simplygon
Forza Horizon 6 welcomes players to Japan: a location of striking contrasts, where rural landscapes, mountain roads, wooded regions, industrial districts, and the iconic streets of Tokyo City come together in one spectacular driving experience. Simplygon became an important enabling technology in achieving that goal, supporting Playground Gamesʼ technical art and content teams across three key areas: Hierarchical Level of Detail, Projection Level of Detail, and Impostor Baking.
Customer story: South of Midnight
South of Midnight is a third-person action-adventure game from Compulsion Games set in a fantastical, Southern Gothic reimagining of the American Deep South. In the game, players explore a world full of myth and folklore following a devastating hurricane.
What's new in Simplygon Autumn 2025
Since our initial release of Simplygon 10.4 we have added several new features, improvements and fixes to the core Simplygon SDK, as well as our integrations with DCC tools and game engines.
What's new in Simplygon 10.4
We are proud to present our next major release. Simplygon 10.4 comes with improvements to the quad reducer, small parts remover and tessellated attributes. It also adds support for Unreal Engine 5.5, Maya 2025 and Blender 4.2.
What's new in Simplygon 10.3
In Simplygon 10.3 we have focused on improving our integrations. Simplygon's Unreal Engine 5 plugin now comes with major updates for World Partition HLODs. Our Unity plugin has been overhauled to improve support. It also adds support for 3ds Max 2024, Maya 2024 and Blender 4.0.
What's new in Simplygon 10.2
As a Midsummer gift to all game developers we are proud to release Simplygon 10.2! In this release we have worked on core improvements to our remesher, support for Unity's Universal Render Pipeline and High Definition Render Pipeline and lastly support for Unreal Engine 5.2.
What's new in Simplygon 10.1
In Simplygon 10.1 we have focused on improving the new features added in 10.0, as well as adding new exciting features. The headline of the release is definately shader casting which we hope will make it much easier for developers to bake materials and textures. We have also added a high density reducer to tackle very high poly scanned and sculpted meshes.
Simplygon supporting NVIDIA's new Micro-Mesh technology
With NVIDIA's new Micro-Mesh technology, developers will be able to continue their quest to fill their worlds with content. The technology removes many of the traditional bottlenecks, releasing creators from many of the shackles that previous generation hardware had put on them. We at Simplygon have been working closely with NVIDIA to ensure that can use our SDK to transform your meshes to be ready for your Micro-Mesh render pipeline.
What's new in Simplygon 10
The Simplygon 10 release brings a couple of real hero features to the game. In this version we have added a quad reducer and processor that helps with protecting seams when optimizing modular content.
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