Meshes from text recipes

Build a Static Mesh from a short .pwmodel text recipe, so the shape stays easy to tweak and rebuild.

What it’s for

This area builds a Static Mesh from a short text recipe, a .pwmodel file. Your assistant writes the recipe, keeps it next to the asset, and builds the mesh from it. One file makes one mesh.

Ask for it when you want a shape you can keep changing. A finished mesh does not remember how it was made. With the recipe beside it, widening the third of eight holes is a one-line edit and a rebuild, and the change shows up as a readable diff in version control. If you only want to adjust a mesh once and do not need the recipe, use Mesh modeling.

Your assistant can check a draft recipe before it creates anything and fix its own mistakes from the errors it gets back. Each mesh records which recipe it came from, and a rebuild will not throw away hand edits to the mesh unless you tell it to.

Things you can ask

Build a crate from a recipe

You get a crate mesh and a small recipe file you can edit and rebuild later.

You: Make me a simple crate mesh from a source file.

SM_Crate is built from Source/Models/SM_Crate.pwmodel, a single 80 × 50 × 40 box.
Edit that file and ask me to rebuild it to change the shape.

Change the shape before saving the recipe

Your assistant checks the new recipe first, so only a clean version gets written and built.

You: Put a scooped dent in the end of that crate before you commit it.

The recipe now cuts a sphere out of one end of the crate, and it checks clean.
I’m writing it to Source/Models/SM_Crate.pwmodel and rebuilding the mesh.