# Quality Guidelines

## Topics

<table data-card-size="large" data-view="cards"><thead><tr><th data-type="content-ref"></th><th></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><a href="#optimise-performance">#optimise-performance</a></td><td>Guidelines for highest quality</td></tr><tr><td><a href="#quality-assurance-testing">#quality-assurance-testing</a></td><td>Recommendations for final review</td></tr><tr><td><a href="ve-guidelines/asset-types-and-collisions">asset-types-and-collisions</a></td><td>How creative method determines collisions</td></tr><tr><td><a href="ve-guidelines/asset-scale">asset-scale</a></td><td>Recommendations for common assets</td></tr><tr><td><a href="ve-guidelines/node-efficiency">node-efficiency</a></td><td>Best practices with visual examples</td></tr><tr><td><a href="ve-guidelines/pivot-point-and-alignment">pivot-point-and-alignment</a></td><td>Making assets easy to create &#x26; place</td></tr><tr><td><a href="ve-guidelines/animation">animation</a></td><td>Tips, name compatibility with behaviours</td></tr><tr><td><a href="ve-guidelines/visual-quality">visual-quality</a></td><td>Colour, shape &#x26; common issues</td></tr><tr><td><a href="ve-guidelines/asset-name-and-description">asset-name-and-description</a></td><td>Optimisation for discovery</td></tr><tr><td><a href="ve-guidelines/manage-files-and-folders">manage-files-and-folders</a></td><td>Prevent conflicts</td></tr></tbody></table>

## Optimise Performance

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### Minimalist Design

Efficient assets provide Experience creators greater flexibility to add more assets and logic to their creations.&#x20;

As a rule, every asset should be an optimised design. Strive for minimalism and simplicity in shape and add more detail in texture.

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**MAXIMUM RECOMMENDATIONS**

The following guidelines are the absolute maximum recommendations for special circumstances in order to prioritise play quality in The Sandbox Game.
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<table data-view="cards"><thead><tr><th></th><th></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><strong>Maximum Size:</strong> <br>512 x 512 x 512 voxels</td><td></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Maximum Faces:</strong> <br>5,000</td><td>Face count tends to affect <a data-footnote-ref href="#user-content-fn-1">GPU</a> usage</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Maximum Nodes:</strong> <br>175</td><td>Node count tends to affect <a data-footnote-ref href="#user-content-fn-2">CPU</a> usage</td></tr></tbody></table>

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Face Count tends to affect your GPU usage. A GPU is a graphics processor built into your computer's graphics card, used to accelerate graphics rendering. It functions side by side with your CPU, or central processing unit.
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Node Count tends to affect your CPU usage. A CPU is the central processor built into your computer's motherboard, which performs basic operations on your device.
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**CUMULATIVE EFFECTS**\
Nodes, faces, and colliders are constantly calculated in the game engine, so **it is highly recommended to strive for the most efficient design with most voxel art**.

Assets that are intended to be used frequently such as trees should be simpler for a lower cumulative effect on play performance.
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A compound entity rigged in the Animator with no motion keyframes added is calculated as having one node.
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## Best Practices for Optimal Performance

{% content-ref url="../creative-guides/art-techniques/3d-design/optimize-with-texture" %}
[optimize-with-texture](https://docs.sandbox.game/en/creator/voxedit/creative-guides/art-techniques/3d-design/optimize-with-texture)
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{% content-ref url="../creative-guides/art-techniques/3d-design/trim-all-volumes" %}
[trim-all-volumes](https://docs.sandbox.game/en/creator/voxedit/creative-guides/art-techniques/3d-design/trim-all-volumes)
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{% content-ref url="../creative-guides/art-techniques/3d-design/create-smooth-angled-lines" %}
[create-smooth-angled-lines](https://docs.sandbox.game/en/creator/voxedit/creative-guides/art-techniques/3d-design/create-smooth-angled-lines)
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## When You Need to Revise

If you exceed our guidelines, simplify the geometry of your design without losing your concept.

{% content-ref url="../creative-guides/art-techniques/3d-design/need-to-simplify" %}
[need-to-simplify](https://docs.sandbox.game/en/creator/voxedit/creative-guides/art-techniques/3d-design/need-to-simplify)
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## Quality Assurance Testing

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*Ask these questions when testing assets in* **Game Maker:**

* *Does the colour look like you intended, including emissive colours?*
* *Does it look good with all ambient lighting settings (Global Parameters menu)?*
* *Is colour clashing on the same layer (z-fighting), or is there clipping?*
* *Are all animations working correctly?*
* *Are all keyframes closed?*
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[^1]: A GPU is a graphics processor built into your computer's graphics card, used to accelerate graphics rendering. It functions side by side with your CPU, or central processing unit.

[^2]: A CPU is a central processor built into your computer's motherboard, which performs basic operations on your device.


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