Kodama basic workflow
0. Choose CGTrader service:
1. Login using CGTrader email and password or via CGTrader webpage:
1b. If you choose "Log In via Browser", a browser window will open, in which you should log in to your CGTrader account using your preferred login method.
2. When logged in, you will see a verification dialog. Open or create a model that you want to verify. The name of the file will be used as the name for the asset you are about to publish.
3. Choose requirements to work with:
PBR validation - set of PBR requirements
Standard validation - set of non-PBR requirements
Warning: if you change requirements after checks have been run, check results will reset
4.Click 'Validate' button to verify your model against CGTrader Quality Standard requirements (you can read more about those requirements in other articles in this section):
5. If errors (displayed as pink) are found you will not be able to publish your work, fix the issues and revalidate the model. Warnings (displayed as orange) and check crashes (displayed as grey) do not block publishing:
6. You can click on any check and see it in more detail, click "Open check's documentation" for detailed explanation of the check:
7.You may also allow checking of unsaved changes:
8. If after checking there are no errors, the model can be packaged and uploaded to CGTrader. Package will contain model exported to chosen formats(see next step) alongside properly named textures and other resources. Marketplace Kodama's texture collection mechanism gathers textures from the scene by examining textures connected in the material node tree. Textures in the package are renamed to match specification, based on both the material name and the specific slot to which they are connected.
9.You can change the output formats of your package. Currently fbx and two native formats (.blend and .3dsmax) are supported. At least one export format must be chosen.
10. Packaging may take some time because at that step full report is generated for your model:
11. Confirmation that model was uploaded successfully:
12. Model has been uploaded to the marketplace draft page. If possible, the draft page was chosen from drafts existing for your account, if not, a new draft was created. To publish your model use the “Finish publishing” button that will redirect you to that marketplace draft page.