This article contains ideas for assets naming convention and content folders structure.
Copied from https://wiki.unrealengine.com/Assets_Naming_Convention at Sat 23 Aug 2014 15:03 PDT.
- All names in English.
- All asset dependencies should be in it’s folder (instead of some shared assets).
- Do not use prefixes.
##Assets folders
| (maps) | Description |
|---|---|
| Content\Maps | parent maps folder |
| Content\Maps\Episode(_Number) | game episodes, where (_Number) is 01, 02, 03, etc |
| Content\Maps\TestMaps | test maps, maps prototypes and other levels not for production |
| (assets) | Description |
|---|---|
| Content\Base | basic materials, material functions and other “foundation” assets |
| Content\Characters | folder for characters |
| Content\Characters\NPC | NPCs |
| Content\Characters\Player | player character(s) |
| Content\Dev | development assets, like objects icons, special meshes and textures, etc |
| Content\Effects | various shared effects |
| Content\Environment | environment assets |
| Content\Environment\Background | backgrounds |
| Content\Environment\Buildings | buildings (simple or procedural) |
| Content\Environment\Foliage | foliage |
| Content\Environment\Props | various props |
| Content\Environment\Sky | skies |
| Content\Environment\Landscape | terrains assets |
| Content\Environment\Water | water meshes and materials |
| Content\Gameplay | assets for various gameplay purposes |
| Content\PostProcess | post process chains and it’s assets |
| Content\Sound | sounds and sound cues |
| Content\UI | UI assets |
| Content\Vehicles | vehicles with effects |
| Content\Weapons | weapons with effects |
| Folder | Type |
|---|---|
| Blueprints | blueprints |
| Meshes | static and skeletal meshes, physical assets |
| Materials | materials and instances |
| Textures | textures |
| Animations | animations |
| Particles | particle systems |
| LensFlares | flares |
| Sounds | sounds + cues |
| Morphs | morphs |
| FaceFX | FaceFX assets |
##Assets names
Form:
AssetName(_Number)(_Suffix)
Example:
Rock_01_D
Suffixes:
| (textures) | Description |
|---|---|
| _BC | Base color |
| _MT | Metallic |
| _S | Specular |
| _R | Roughness |
| _N | Normal |
| _DP | Displacement |
| _AO | Ambient Occlusion |
| _H | Height Map |
| _FM | Flow Map |
| _L | Light Map (fake) |
| _M | Mask |
| (meshes) | Description |
|---|---|
| _Physics | physics assets (generated name) |
| _FaceFX | FaceFx assets |
| (animations) | Description |
|---|---|
| _BlendSpace | blend space (generated name) |
| _AnimBlueprint | animation blueprint (generated name) |
##Texture Masks
RGB Mask for characters:
- R = Metallic
- G = Roughness
- B = Subsurface Opacity
RGB Mask for character's Hair:
- R = Hair Alpha
- G = Specular/Roughness map
- B = Anisotropic direction map
RGB Mask for environment:
- R = Metallic
- G = Roughness
- B = Ambient Occlusion
Prefixes: (optional because of filters in content browser)
| (by usage) | Description |
|---|---|
| CH_ | Characters |
| UI_ | User Interface |
| VH_ | Vehicles |
| WP_ | Weapons |
| (by type) | Description |
|---|---|
| BP_ | Blueprint |
| SK_ | Skeletal Mesh |
| SM_ | Static Mesh |
| AD_ | Apex Destructible Asset |
| AC_ | Apex Cloth Asset |
| MT_ | Morph Target |
| ST_ | Speed Tree |
| PS_ | Particle System |
| LF_ | Lens Flare |
| VF_ | Vector Field |
| S_ | Sound |
| SC_ | Sound Cue |
| M_ | Material |
| MI_ | Material Instance |
| MITV_ | Material Instance Time Varying |
| MF_ | Material Function |
| MPC_ | Material Parameter Collection |
| T_ | Texture |
| TC_ | Texture Cube |
| RT_ | Render Target |
| PM_ | Physical Material |