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The Synty Timeline

A history of Synty Studios. A timeline of their pack launches from Simple Town through to today. Below you’ll find a journey of Synty’s packs with a brief outline of each and major milestones marked along the way.

Jul 2014

Synty Founded

Synty was founded over a weekend in July 2014 when it’s two creators Andrew Stairs and Mike Clephane created Simple Town.

It was a neat, clean ultra low poly set of assets, the first of the SIMPLE Series. It had a lot of variety and personality. Showcasing their combined experience in game dev, cinema pre viz and art skills. At the time they thought it was a nice chance for some side income. The big question is, did they ever think Synty would become what it is today? Did they foresee the powerhouse they would become on the global indie scene?

Interestingly the Simple Town created over that weekend is no longer available. They expanded and rebuilt some of the pack in 2015 and replaced it everywhere. 

2014 Simple Series

Simple packs

2014 saw Mike and Andrew working part time alongside their fulltime jobs and releasing a slew of content to live alongside Simple Town.

 2014 saw the release of

Simple Town
Simple People
Simple Car
Simple Cars

 

2015 Simple Series

More simple packs

2015 saw the team expand with Justin joining. Simple packs continued to expand, and we got a whole new range:

 

Simple Zombies
Simple Buildings
Simple Roadworks
Simple Citizens
Simple Military
Simple Props
Simple Items
Simple Airport
Simple House
Simple Farm
Simple Port

 

2016 Simple Series

More simple packs

2016 saw the rise of some larger simple packs with the new expanded team.

Simple Office Interiors
Simple Apocalypse
Simple Icons
Simple Shop Interiors
Simple Racer
Simple Apocalypse Interiors
Simple City
Simple Celebrations
Simple Fantasy
Simple Dungeons
Simple Fantasy Interiors
Simple Farm Animals

 

2017 Simple Series

More simple packs

2017 saw the SIMPLE series come to an end. But it continued alongside POLYGON for the first half of the year. The first Simple pack dropped January 13, and they continued until mid July with Simple Space Characters bringing the series to a close. 

Simple Temples
Simple Forest Animals
Simple Space
Simple Dogs
Simple People 2
Simple Cats
Simple People 3
Simple Trains
Simple Space Interiors
Simple Space Characters

19 January 2017

POLYGON Adventure

2017 saw the launch of a brand new world for Synty Studios – POLYGON.

A new higher detailed, higher definition series built around a unique style, a modular approach where possible and a texture style focused on flat colours, letting the models do the work to define shape.

It introduced us to the “Synty Dent” and their unique take on the faceted style that would take over asset stores over time.

POLYGON Adventure is a semi modular chunk based village and town system of stone/adobe buildings in multiple stories, a landscape of mountains, hills and rivers, along with a small marketplace. 

17 March 2017

POLYGON Knights

POLYGON Knights expanded on the chunk based building system from Adventure and broke buildings into more distinct pieces, Buildings came in pieces representing floors just like Adventure, but also added in towers, roof pieces, even doors and windows as separate modular attachments. Buildings are assembled from overlapping pieces and come without interiors.

It contains medieval houses, a castle and wall system, graveyard, tents and a selection of characters.

April 7 2017

POLYGON Vikings

A rich viking themed pack containing snow and non snow versions of the assets. Vikings continues the chunk based building system like Adventure with buildings and their roofs being separate components. There’s an included wall and tower system, boats, trees and a large selection of terrain pieces from mountains and ground tiles, to ice floes and icebergs.

16 May 2017

POLYGON Samurai

A pack set in feudal Japan with modular block based structures for both houses and temples. It contains a range of characters, weapons, props and snow covered versions of many assets. There’s an extensive number of landscape props, cherry blossom trees and a Mt Fuji to use as a background element.

16 June 2017

POLYGON Pirates

An extensive pack containing 3 distinct sets of pieces for buildings. With the pirate/wooden structures, the ornate stone structures for the opposition and a modular fort style. All 3 styles come in modular chunks and have texture variants. There’s a variety of ships/boats with modular pieces like cannons, props etc, including broken versions as shipwrecks. 

There’s a variety of flora, modular terrain pieces including cliffs and a skull cave, and a fully rigged shark (no animations).

26 June 2017

POLYGON City

A modular exterior city made of block sized chunks (each floor of a building is a single mesh). It comes with an impressive number of road tiles to cover a huge number of grid based possibilities and a couple of non modular buildings. You’ll find residential apartments in different styles (and corner blocks), a city hall, office buildings, modular roads and footpaths/sidewalks, a path system to build parks and a small section of flora. All the expected props are present from traffic lights, bins, large building signs, even a hot dog cart and a large range of vehicles.

3 August 2017

Synty Store

August 2017 saw Synty launch their own store for the first time. Originally a subdomain on the SyntyStudios website instead of it’s own domain, the Synty store offered the Unity, Unreal and source files in one purchase.

 

17 August 2017

POLYGON Fantasy Characters

Syntys first character based pack. Focused on expanding out characters for an existing theme, and a few props/accessories, but no buildings etc. Fantasy Characters added in 12 brand characters in the theme ranging from a witch and bearded wizard to peasants and an adventurer, with a bunch of colour variants for them (including skin tones). There are 15 props included ranging from weapons to a book (open and closed states) and a lute.

1 September 2017

POLYGON Heist

A single locations modular pack, and the first to use separate walls, floors and ceilings. Contains props and interior elements to build a bank or jewellery store including vaults, counters and display cases. Building exteriors are included with exterior walls and windows in different styles, along with some footpath/sidewalk pieces and stairs.
Characters are non modular, but the villian characters have modular hairpieces allowing their hair to be disabled and use masks/helmets.

This pack tested and tried out a bunch of new ideas not seen in the packs before it.

26 October 2017

POLYGON Dungeon

Dungeons is a large modular pack with an incredible range of content. The core of the pack is a modular wall and floor system with a large range of stone patterns and layouts. Modular pieces use a different pivot point and contain many detailed elements including doubled sides walls with thickness, and stairs for verticality. Separate modular systems enable modular cave layouts (with crystal variants), collapsed mines, forges and tool making, a system of bridges and wooden structures.

It contains goblin enemies, ghosts (with a custom shader), a range of weapons, a tonne of bonus goodies like mushrooms, flora, enormous skeletons, stones with runes, pillars, dungeon traps and more.

For the 9th pack launched, POLYGON Dungeon was a massive pack for Synty and was their second foray into fully modular structures and sub themes within a pack. It exceeded the previous POLYGON packs in leaps and bounds.

10 January 2018

POLYGON City Characters

Syntys second step into a character pack. This time much more specific and pairing with the CIty pack. It contains 19 characters with the same texture and skin tone variants as the fantasy characters.

These non modular characters dont allow any customisation of hats/hair etc but have a small amount of variety in body shapes. Pack contains both male and female presenting characters and a huge amount of range in personal style. Fast food workers, fireman, gamers, hipsters, punks, and a fast food mascot.

13 January 2018

POLYGON War

A world war 2 pack covering both battlefields and a French countryside town. It contains non modular buildings in damaged and non damaged versions, with several buildings existing in both states. It also contains modular chunk based buildings to add further range. Bunkers, pillboxes and military tents are included. Along with a large variety of terrain pieces, including roads and modular trenches.

Vehicles cover the range from ships and landing boats, through to a selection of aircraft and ground vehicles (armoured and unarmoured).

Characters cover generic soldiers and civilians and several specific characters from WWII including 3 major world leaders (Allies and Axis).

9 March 2018

POLYGON Western

A wild west pack featuring a small western/gold rush town and an extensive desert environment including arches, mesas etc.

There’s a moderate selection of buildings covering all the standard western tropes, all with full interiors. A large corner block saloon with a multi story interior is the star of the show. Additionally modular pieces are included to make additional buildings, matching the style/scale of the Heist pack.

Props cover everything from the saloon to a small market stand. And a range of characters are included for both men and women, including the sheriff. Male characters come in both standard western varieties (moustache or glasses).

 

 

20 March 2018

POLYGON MINI – Fantasy 

This was a brand new pack, in a unique style. POLYGON Mini represents a new style closer to the SIMPLE series, but in POLYGON style. It’s lower polycounts and exaggerated features are more aimed to be cute.

Mini Fantasy is a bit of a misnomer as it contains elements from Knights, Adventure, Pirates, Vikings, Western and Samurai. All of the themes are represented in a world of cute tiles that lock together. It’s designed to be used for mobile titles, virtual board games and minimaps.

The texture variants have a unique approach here with a set of “team colours” that leave most of the texture sheet unchanged and alter the colour of select elements to each of 5 teams.

20 April 2018

POLYGON Sci Fi City

Sci Fi City brought in a new level of detail not shown in the previous packs. Whether it was a deliberate shift, or just a consequence of the theme remains to be seen. There’s an extensive range of buildings in 3 styles. 

Non modular structures to use as is (no interiors), modular block based pieces in a uniform size (including 3 ground floor variants with interior), and semi modular block based pieces for background buildings. A couple of “hero” buildings are present with interiors, two of which contain a full interior layout. 

The pack includes a large variety of vehicles, with moving parts (doors, thrusters etc) and a modular wall system. There’s a large range of characters included and the pack makes extensive use of emissive masks for the materials, and an innovative shader utilising UV scrolling to make neon elements flash in various sequences. 

1 June 2018

POLYGON Fantasy Rivals

Syntys next character pack, and the introduction of the BigRig.

BigRig is a modified Synty skeleton with broader shoulders and an overall change in dimensions to make sturdier looking characters.  Fantasy Rivals contains 20 unique characters, each with their own weapon. They run the gamut from multi armed gods, to mechanical monstrosities and stone golems. Texture variants for each allow a lot of variety, and there’s lots of smart trickery to animate additional “limbs” such as on an Indian god, or snakes on Medusa’s head. 

These “hero” characters contain a large amount of detail and provide an extensive range of characters to add to a game. All of them are humanoid in shape.

21 June 2018

POLYGON Nature

Polygon Nature was a brand new approach for a bunch of things from Synty. It’s the first appearance of the hybrid trees (textured transparent planes instead of solid blobs) and of the terrain textures. It contains both hybrid and blob trees, along with bushes, flowers and textures to use for grass and reeds (with and without normal maps/shading baked into them).

It contains modular polygon ground pieces if a terrain isn’t being used, and a selection of “bonus” props in the form of a bridge, fences, stone ruins, signposts and crates.

A custom vegetation shader was supplied to handle the double sided leaves, along with colour tinting and wind effects.

24 July 2018

POLYGON Mini Fantasy Characters

Inheriting it’s misnamed title from the Mini Fantasy pack, this character pack contains MINI versions of selected characters from Dungeon, Western, Knights, Adventure, Samurai and Pirates.

The mini characters have 30-40% less polys than their POLYGON counterparts, exaggerated proportions and oversized heads. This unexpectedly large pack contains 60 characters in total, with alternative texture colours, and the same team colour system as the MINI Fantasy pack. 

A selection of weapons and handheld props is included.

 

10 August 2018

POLYGON Town

Polygon Town was the first fully modular pack with a detailed building system, It uses a consistent grid for fully modular houses including internal and external walls, and separate walls for upper and lower floors allowing to build on a consistent grid size with foundations included (the foundation sits below the pivot point). These buildings include interiors with staircases, and an extensive suburban prop library. A gas station/service station is included and a selection of vehicles and characters. 

A small selection of prefabbed non modular buildings is included. Ranging from houses, to suburban shops and a church. Outdoor props include pools, plants and trees (blob style), and a comprehensive path and park system. Roads are more limited, but include a gentle corner with matching footpath to fill a 2×2 section of grid.

Fun Fact: Street signs exist for all 3 team members. Mike Way, Justin Blvd and Andrew Ave.

20 September 2018

POLYGON Battle Royale

The Battle Royale pack is a neat little “kit” style pack that contains a bunch of elements that pair perfectly together. The core of the pack is 15 unique characters with distinct appearances (soldier, woman in a bra, man in business suit) and 60 helmets/masks to decorate them with.

There’s 10 combat/military vehicles included, along with damaged versions of them.

19 ranged weapons are included, unwrapped differently to the normal synty style to allow weapon skins to be applied. 28 skins are included, and more can be easily created.

Rounding out the pack is a sample of wooden structures, simplified buildings, shipping containers etc to build a small course ala paintball.

A standard “battle royale death zone” is included with a custom shader.

5 October 2018

POLYGON Explorer Kit

The first of the kits released by Synty. A style of pack with just a few elements in it on a small theme. Each of them is intended to be a small addition to one or more previous packs.

Explorer Kit is a little miniature pack of 2 characters, a vehicle (with several colour schemes) and a small sea of props. The explorer kit lets you easily transform older packs like Adventure or Dungeon into a tomb being explored in a modern world.

The little vehicle in this kit is unwrapped flat instead of compressed UVs, allowing a muddy version to be used. With each of the 4 colours having clean and muddy versions. 

The characters have modular hair with modified meshes provided to use when their hat is on.

13 October 2018

POLYGON Western Frontier

Western Frontier was Synty’s first official “sequel” pack with a clear link to the Western pack. It adds in a new set of non modular buildings, two modular wall/fence systems and characters representing Native Americans as well Mexican characters to extend the Western theme into both of its major groups of “locals”. 

It also adds in a large number of carts and an extensive mine system including tracks for carts.

Environment elements include more cliff faces for quarries, modular desert roads and a variety of trees, cactuses and desert flora.

30 October 2018

POLYGON City Zombies

Synty’s next character pack brings to undeath, all of the characters from both the City pack and City Characters pack (50 in total). With undead zombie versions of those characters, and new undead characters not included in packs previously. The first pack to include a jaw bone allowing characters to open their gaping maws, it also includes a custom shader allowing the characters to be covered in blood, slime etc.

A small selection of weapons is included as well as unrigged limb parts to use as debris/gibs.

11 December 2018

POLYGON Snow Kit

Synty rounded out 2018 with their second kit, taking everyone to the snow.

The pack included 2 characters, a range of snow accessories like a toboggan, sleds, snow mobile and a range of helmets, goggles and sports cameras.

Skis and snowboards are included, with a detailed skin system like Battle Royale allowing you to mix it up easily.

No terrain tiles are included as per the Explorer kit, but several ski jumps are supplied to embed in a terrain or use with other kits. A modular ski lift system is included ready to use with splines for cables.

16 January 2019

POLYGON Prototype

The prototype pack came out to help gamedevs get started and contains a comprehensive set of primitive shapes, prefabbed elements like doors and walls, along with cubes, hud icons and even 3d post it notes to mark points in the level needing work, at pass etc.

It includes several vehicles, models for things like cameras, FPS hands, and “naked” mannequins to represent characters. These come in rigged and ready to pose options, along with preposed mannequins to simply place in the world.  A bunch of weapons and small props are included to use as placeholders.

The star of the pack is a set of worldspace grid shaders used to render a universal grid over everything to make prototyping seamless.

30 January 2019

POLYGON Mini City

The next addition to the MINI series brought in POLYGON City and Town with scaled down extra cute versions of a bunch of it’s key buildings, including the city hall. It has a bunch of cute scale props and street items (including the hot dog cart and food signs) as well as square and hex tiles of the roads and streets.

All of the vehicles have been turned MINI and it includes MINI specific elements like coins and 3d minimap markers.

This pack contains no characters.

31 January 2019

POLYGON Mini City Characters

Coming just a day later, the MINI city characters brings 37 characters from both the Town and City packs to life in mini style with their texture alts, comically sized heads and lower detail frames. It’s a comprehensive pack of people with that distinct MINI style.

14 February 2019

POLYGON Sci Fi Space

Synty has left the atmosphere with Sci Fi Space taking you off into space with an incredible level of detail. The pack includes large capital ships and space stations with a huge level of detail, a bunch of custom shaders for POLYGON style distant planets, or even ships with gorgeous rim lighting.

There’s several separate modular systems including a modular wall and floor system reminiscent of POLYGON Dungeon to build interiors, and a modular parts system to build ships and vehicles with. 

It includes a large number of turrets (20 all up), a range of missiles, shields and melee weapons and a bunch of FX including particle system asteroid fields, holograms and warp effects.

A large selection of characters is included, all humanoid, but containing aliens, power armour and several BigRig characters for extra bulk.

A first person cockpit is included for FPS/VR use and a large comprehensive starship bridge. The capital ships and space stations have no interiors and are intended to use a cut scene/fade to enter the modular interiors.

6 April 2019

POLYGON Dungeons Map

The Dungeons Map was a whole new pack type for Synty. Map packs add a small number of additional assets and provide new demo scenes. They contain no textures and require the original pack for the textures to appear and to populate the demo scene.

Dungeons map adds in a bunch of bookcases, books, loose papers and suits of armour along with a small circular balcony area.

The pack also provides a bunch of newly designed rooms showing what you can do with the Dungeons pack, including an enormous library, a new arena for a boss fight and an elaborate multi story staircase maze.

12 April 2019

POLYGON Spy Kit

The Spy kit feels like a revisiting of the Explorers kit in great detail.

Both packs feature a vehicle with a unique twist, a male and female character and a selection of props (including a podium).

The Spy Kit features one of Synty’s most elaborate vehicles at this point in the timeline with opening doors, hidden weapons behind the headlights, inside the hood, the roof, and even a rotating number plate system that really works. Tossed in to round out the pack are some spy gadgets, a handful of weapons including explosives and a quad copter camera drone.

16 April 2019

POLYGON Modular Fantasy Heroes

Modular Fantasy Heroes is a pack that launched with a huge amount of work behind it.  It consists of a complex set of body parts separated into torso, lower body, lower legs (left and right), upper and lower arms, and head.

It has modular hair, helms and hats, with the latter divided into categories to indicate whether you need to disable the hair, or facial hair when using it.

It came with a mask based shader allowing realtime modification of the colours, with all assets divided into texture properties for the primary surface, leather, metal etc

With over 700 pieces there’s a huge number of combinations covering everything from armour to fur to peasant clothing. A small selection of weapons and shields was included as well. All the pieces are designed to fit together and any torso can be used with any arms etc.

Additionally, all of the pieces are supplied as unskinned versions ready to use for inventory systems, generating icons etc

4 June 2019

POLYGON Farm

Polygon Farm consists of a small set of non modular buildings, a large selection of roads and terrain tiles, and a range of farming equipment. From a tractor with a bunch of accessories to a functional combine harvester.

A bunch of fruits and vegetables are included including plants, seedlings, trees (blob style) loose fruit and veg, and crates and barrels full. All of the plants have at least 2 stages present, all ready for a farming sim.

There’s a modular fence system in 3 different styles, and a surprisingly large collection of mailboxes and horse jumps. Buildings included cover off a barn, several roadside stalls along with silos, sheds and a couple of greenhouses.

1 August 2019

POLYGON Gang Warfare

Gang Warfare is a fully modular pack containing pieces to build industrial warehouses and sheds. The building system mimics the texture style and pivot points of POLYGON Town.

A range of vehicles included covers everything from forklifts to vans, trucks and pimped out classic cars.  It contains a large number of props, including a lot of types of cash, science equipment and drug paraphernalia.

A variety of characters are included to represent gangs, people manufacturing chemicals and law enforcement along with a small number of weapons.

Included toys as props are unrigged versions of Mini Fantasy characters.

 

27 September 2019

POLYGON Apocalypse

Synty’s first MEGA pack smashed out of the gates with parts of it a piece for piece recreation of the much loved SIMPLE Apocalypse. POLYGON Apocalypse contains an enormous number of pieces ranging from houses, shops, industrial and office buildings, all with enterable interiors (non modular). It’s an enormous pack with more buildings than anything before it. From there it continues with a modular bunker system (perfect for sideview colony sims), a completely modular quarantine wall system, and a modular weapons system made of a huge number of junk parts, with perfectly placed pivots ready to join together in many different ways.

There’s a large selection of vehicles and a completely modular weapons and attachment system to decorate them, and the vehicles from any other pack.

It contains a large number of ground tiles effectively covering damaged and broken down versions of tiles found in Town and City. A wrecked ship, highway overpasses, military tents/refugee compounds and a couple of custom shaders (including triplanar grime for the first time) round out an extraordinary pack.

And, this is the pack with the bear in it.

6 November 2019

POLYGON Starter Pack

The starter pack is the first free POLYGON Series pack. It contains a small selection of pieces, mostly from Prototype, and a house from POLYGON Town with the UVs changed, and a few custom created ones, including some unique people from POLYGON MINI turned into capsules.

9 January 2020

POLYGON Office

 POLYGON Office is a pack absolutely bursting at the seams with props (over 600 of them) covering almost everything you’d want in an office environment. It’s the perfect companion for something like POLYGON City to provide the interior of the buildings you’d transition into.

POLYGON Office introduced a new modular building system that placed pieces on the inside edge of a 2.5m grid instead of overlapping it. The two opposite sides of a wall are placed as separate game objects allowing them to be combined in tens of thousand of combinations.

It contains everything you’d want to place onto desks as well as all the expected office props, including foliage, a particle driven fish tank, and things for parties, pool tables and multiple xmas trees. Some exteriors are included so you can slot right in. There’s a bunch of characters in both sexes, from office workers to security staff and cleaning crew.

The pieces in POLYGON Office are used in the interior shots of POLYGON Kids to create the school

 

20 March 2020

POLYGON Fantasy Kingdom

Coming just 6 months after Apocalypse, Syntys next mega pack set a whole new standard in modularity and laid the groundwork for systems and changes they would improve later on.

Fantasy Kingdom contains an incredible array of modular pieces in 2 different grid sizes for both castles/keeps and medieval houses. An incredible variety of each covering everything from doorways to windows to mix things up. Castles fit together in an elaborate structure that covers seams, adds verticality and 3d depth, decoration and detail. Textures in Fantasy Kingdom included some of the first full sheet images to wrap around parts (stone walls and roof tiles) with normal maps to support them. It included a rich variety of props and accessories from a marketplace, to crafting and professions, housing, army training and more.

To date it’s the only Synty pack to get any additions post launch. With a bunch of content produced on a livestream to celebrate the packs nomination on the asset store.

It was later used as the technical showcase for Unity 6’s new features with a modified and expanded demo scene.

20 May 2020

POLYGON Construction

POLYGON Construction is a smaller pack that hides all of the detailed work that went into it. The props are often more detailed than in other packs with a lot of detail into small pieces like tools to make them look like the real thing. It comes with a lot of varieties of many props. Things like multiple stacks of lumber and bricks etc.

The peek behind the curtain look creates complex geometry for interior frames on walls, concrete rebar etc.

The piece de resistance of the pack is the sampling of construction vehicles all in a “ready to use” state. With interiors, wheels and levers ready to move, complex interlocking parts with pivot points and separated pieces ready to control, this pack is one of the most complex Synty had built to date. 

It included a secondary demo scene that referenced the prefabs in POLYGON City to add a construction site into that demo map if both packs were installed.

 

25 May 2020

POLYGON Particle FX

The particle effects pack came out of nowhere as a bit of a surprise and treading new ground for Synty. All of their previous packs had included a few particle effects to show smoke, fog, sparks, fire etc but people had asked for more. So Synty stepped up and made this complex, expansive pack to meet people’s needs.

The pack contains 180 different particle effects (including a couple of slightly reused ones) that run the gamut from environment and weather effects, weapons, damage, powerups, complex magical effects that trace across the ground, to portals and magical powers that react to the environment.

Showing off their expertise in Unity Shuriken and their background in VFX the Particle FX pack is a master class in complex particle systems and how far Unity’s particle effects can push in talented hands.

Whether it’s smoke, fire, rain, gunfire, artillery or magic, there isn’t a unity user out there who shouldn’t buy this pack and dismantle it piece by piece to learn from.

10 June 2020

POLYGON War Map WW1

The next map pack to come out expands on POLYGON War. This pack adds in a small set of additional vehicles (ground and air) and a whole new set of modular trenches. 2 characters are supplied with a selection of hats and helmets for them. Like the Dungeons Map pack, this requires it’s parent pack to function in any way as it contains no textures, and the majority of the demo scene uses pieces from the other pack.

Much like it’s dungeon predecessor, War Map WW1 provides a nice additional set of functionality to an existing pack at an incredibly cheap price. 

 

29 June 2020

 POLYGON Boss Zombies

The next character pack is a spiritual successor to POLYGON Fantasy Rivals with 4 epic scale zombie bosses included. All 4 characters carry a higher polygon count than characters in packs traditionally do, with a large set of props and accessories included. 3 of the characters use the BigRig for the broad shoulders and solid stature, and all of them have a large amount of detail and intricate folds, attached accessories etc. 

A custom shader is included to add blood splatters to the zombies on demand.

4 August 2020

POLYGON Military

Continuing the streak of MEGA packs coming out in close succession, POLYGON Military brings the war series into the modern age with a pack focused on modern warfare and the Middle East. It takes pages from the book of Polygon Apocalypse and once again contains a large number of non modular buildings with full interiors for each. A large number of military vehicles (ground and air) are included as well as everything needed to build bases and outposts. 

It includes a large array of weapons parts for a comprehensive modern day modular weapon system to be snapped together on demand and recreate many weapons.

An oil refinery is included with modular pipes and a large number of terrain tiles and polygon blob flora for a desert environment.

POLYGON Military brought it’s own semi modular character system with an extensive set of snap on facial hair, hair, accessories and props, masks and helmets etc

27 October 2020

POLYGON Kids

The Kids pack is the most comprehensive character pack Synty have released to date. It contains 100 unique kid models on a new sized rig, to cover off all of the existing themes and packs Synty had released to date. Everything from medieval to sci fi, modern day, kids in costumes.

Additionally it included a huge number (literally hundreds) of hair styles, hats and accessories (including clip on tails and backpacks).

The pack rounded out with a tree house, modular skate park and playground equipment.

POLYGON Kids introduced a facial expression and emotion system based on textures and a transparent faceplate. Synty supplied a range of emotions, and phonemes for speech. A later free pack supplied adult sized faceplates to use these textures on characters from other packs.

16 February 2021

POLYGON Dungeon Realms

Slightly smaller than the other MEGA packs, and priced to match, Dungeon Realms expands on the POLYGON Dungeons theme with 3 new factions/styles included in a single pack.

A rich Dwarven area of carved stone and machinery, a terrifying hellscape, and the surface dwelling desert nomads.

Each of the factions has unique elements and environment props with personality and detail, and characters to match. Characters have a large variety of attachments and accessories, including helms, hats and hairdos. Included are a couple of BigRig characters (sturdy dwarves and a large demon boss). 4 comprehensive demo scenes are included showing how the different factions and pieces fit together.

10 May 2021

POLYGON Street Racer

Street Racer was the first pack to feel like it covered off two related but unrelated themes in one.

It contains a whole new approach to cars with Synty introducing a whole new style of modular and customisable vehicles made of many pieces. Cars and motorbikes are both included with optional accessories, replacement panels, alternate wheels etc.

The environment supplied is a port/loading dock including multiple ships, industrial vehicles, containers and large stacks of logs and barrels.

A small set of buildings is included, all of them detailed with full interiors. The pack is worth it for people looking for either the vehicles or the industrial port, and incredible value for anyone using both.

FX included for the pack include things like boosters and powerups for a racing game.

5 July 2021

POLYGON Shops

POLYGON Shops introduced Synty’s all new modular building system Build 2.0 (details here) with a comprehensive new system designed to optimise performance and cross compatibility between future packs. It’s consistent grid, baseline pieces and full sheet textures allowed for a huge range of pieces and variety. 

Polygon Shops is an enormous expansive pack with pieces covering both indoor and outdoor structures, ranging from a mall to fast food restaurants. It contains an absolutely enormous number of props for a huge variety of stores, multiple caravans/food trucks for an outdoor area and a bunch of food props for modularity from burgers, to tacos and pizza.

On top of introducing Build 2.0 Shops is a MEGA pack with it’s sheer prop count, enormous number of textures and high level of detail ready for VR.

1 November 2021

POLYGON Sci Fi Worlds

The MEGA pack that tops them all. Sci Fi Worlds drifted away from the modular style to instead focus on style. It contains 3 entirely separate factions, each with a distinct visual style that carries across props, vehicles, buildings and the environment.

A staggeringly large pack, Sci Fi Worlds contains a custom colour changing shader, modular systems for pipes (in 2 styles), fortress walls, and habitats.

It contains a phenomenal range of movement with some of the most complex pieces Synty have ever built. Vehicles, drills, satellite dishes and more are made of separate pieces ready to move, adjust, scale and rotate. There are drills made of 30+ pieces ready to adjust their modular feet, align to terrain and rotate on 4 different axes at once.

The pack includes 4 extensive demo scenes to showcase each of the 3 factions and an incredibly detailed “Black Market” built into an enormous asteroid.

Sci Fi Worlds makes extensive use of normal maps and a rich texture style to bring in microdetails across models. It has a large number of buildings that could not exist in a modular system, all with full interiors, ranging from small habitats to enormous control towers. Sci Fi Worlds had a long development process, and was the first pack to be heavily concepted before production.

14 February 2022

POLYGON Horror Mansion

 Horror Mansion was our second Build 2.0 pack, coming shortly after shops and the first real step into the horror theme. It expanded on the texture range for Shops and brought in new pieces like damaged walls. It included a modular house in wooden Victorian style, a modular greenhouse system and pieces to build a hedge maze. It introduced a new decal style system similiar to the POLYGON Kids faceplates and triplanar shaders for grunge on the walls. It has a large range of characters covering off a whole 1940s/50s horror movie vibe including the high school jock, and a sampling of various movie monsters to use. There’s a bunch of mansion style furniture in elaborate detail, with a lot of doors and drawers to open.

The decals include splatters, cracks and tears in walls, along with graffiti and creepy messages. Horror and plain versions are included for most of the textures making Horror Mansion suitable as a Build 2.0 Victorian Manor pack too. There’s an extensive range of flora included with more trees than any pack outside the nature range.

And the first (only?) pack to include a light cookie. (for a flashlight).

 

29 March 2022

POLYGON Nightclubs

The Build 2.0 packs continued with Nightclubs. A pack that felt like it could have been simple but was absolutely knocked out of the park.

There’s a broad range of themes and pieces covering everything from a rooftop glamour club, to a whiskey bar, and a Hawaiian themed Tiki Bar complete with wooden carvings.

Nightclubs contains a large number of bars, tables, chairs, and accessories ranging from lighting setups, speakers and DJ equipment.

Pack contains bottles, neon signs, booths and everything from the entrance to the bathrooms, including the back office to run things. There’s a large selection of background buildings with lower res models and textures (with emission) to fill out an entire city in the background.

A UI nameplate system for Unity is supplied as a template making this pack a quick entry into digital collaboration spaces.

8 June 2022

POLYGON Ancient Empire

Ancient Empire is Syntys first foray into the world of ancient Greece/Rome with an extensive Build 2.0 system covering off both houses, commercial areas and even temples. A range of stone pillars, marble roofs and a set of detailed decals to decorate the walls lets you create an incredible range of content. 

The demo scene shows off everything from a farming region to an enormous temple, marketplaces filled with props scattered around staircases and beautiful houses ranging from small adobes to complex mansions covered in ivy. The build 2.0 texture system is used extensively to create everything from tiles to stone, to clay, to intricate mosaics, and a huge range of banners, decals, shields and decorations. 

A modular ivy/plant system is included to snap onto pillars, railings, build 2.0 walls and more.

11 July 2022

POLYGON Dog

The first animated pack in the POLYGON range and the first animal pack. (we’ll forget about the shark in pirates for the moment).

POLYGON Dog is a hand animated pack containing 18 different dogs (including Shiba, robots and zombies) in 5 different body type groups.

There’s 28 different attachments ranging from Dogmeat style goggles, high vis vests in various designs and saddles for scaling the dogs up into Hound mode. A bunch of props are included for both toys, tricks and general dog ownership.

A large range of animations are included covering walking, running, turns, jumps, death, and additive animations for leaning, head movements, ears and the tail.

It’s a complex set of well designed, hand built animations that covers a huge range of genres. An example character controller is supplied that demonstrates how many of the animations can be layered and blended together.

 

4 October 2022

POLYGON Nature Biomes
Season 1

Nature Biomes was a new style for Synty expanding on their hybrid tree designs from POLYGON Nature 4 years earlier. Nature Biomes consists of a core set of shaders, materials and design principles to bring to life a range of new biomes.  A complex shader utilising vertex colours to separate parts of the mesh allows full resolution textures to be used separately to render leaves and trunks.

The nature biomes use a slightly more cartoony texture style than older packs and provide full LODs for trees, bushes, and detailed prefabs for ground clutter and grass coverage.

Season 1 consists of 3 packs, each covering two side by side themes and a broad range of content.  The Nature biomes is rich, stylised and incredibly beautiful. 

4 October 2022

POLYGON Nature Biomes
Meadow / Forest

The Meadow/forest pack is reminiscient of the English country side with rolling hills, lush grasses and tall branching trees. A pack filled with rich vibrant colours, lush grass and ground textures.

Additionally it packs in a modular fence system, terrain tiles covering off little rock walls and hills, and a small collection of abandoned old houses, water wheels and some random sci fi props.

It contains a bunch of FX from butterflies to flying kites and flora for a lake/streams as well.

4 October 2022

POLYGON Nature Biomes
Swamp / Marshland

The swamp/marshland pack switches the trees for weeping willows and mangroves along with reeds, weeds and surface slime. Twisting vines, old logs and fallen trees are provided in abundance. 

Props are included for docks and walkways, old abandoned houses rotting in the swamp along with some voodoo/cemetery props to round things out.

A fan boat is included and a bunch of FX including leaping particle frogs to provide ambience.

4 October 2022

POLYGON Nature Biomes
Tropical / Jungle

The Tropical / Jungle pack provides for both a lush forest and a tropical island, including the beach and underwater. There’s a range of trees ranging from beach palms to broad canopies and two toned frangipani like trees to fill out the lush island areas. An extensive number of bushes, flowers and smaller flora is included. 

Underwater areas have multiple ground textures for different kinds of sand, corals, and a bunch of props for seaweed, corals and underwater life.

FX particles included provide ambience in the form of falling leaves, wind, schools of fish and even crabs that scuttle around the beach.

Additional props include an abandoned shack, rafts, a small temple ruins system, along with a native canoe and a turtle that swims.

Finishing out the pack are a sampling of rocks, shipwrecks and pieces of a whale carcass/skeleton.

 

22 February 2023

POLYGON Elven Realm

Coming 8 months after the last Build 2.0 pack Elven Realm is a rich detailed pack with rich detail, much like Ancient Empire. It contains the expected range of Build 2.0 walls and floors, but adds in a complex multi part roof system with both convex and concave pieces, high peaks, towers emerging from roofs, along with modular circular towers in the build 2.0 grid and elaborate multi panel pieces with tall archways, intricate doorways etc. 

Bundled in is some of the most intricate furniture and props we’ve ever seen, with dozens of pieces sporting intricate details and elaborate colour schemes. A raft of hero pieces is bundled in, including a spirit tree, wishing well, telescope made of moving parts, intricate boat and a complex multi pivoted moving planetarium system with a wooden walkway around it.

Environment pieces include a whole new skybox and moon system, aurora shaders and a bunch of modular cliff pieces with a triplanar ground shader.

A modular bridge system is included and the first characters to have normal maps for their hair. Elven Realm is a complex, elaborate pack that was slowly revealed with a sea of concept art. It remains one of the most visually impressive and unique packs, justifiably winning a Unity Award for best content. 

19 April 2023

POLYGON Casino

POLYGON Casino contains far more than the label would suggest. The expected casino floor is there in all it’s opulence and extravagance with usable tables ready for a bunch of casino games, including tables for roulette, cards, craps, pool and more. Slot machines with separated textures are present allowing developers to easily make them functional. A full deck of cards is present in high res textures preparing you for a functional Synty casino in no time.

As a Build 2.0 pack it snaps right in with the others, and above the casino itself are pieces for hotel rooms, elevators and a bunch of hotel furniture. Background buildings are included for distant shots, including a large scale motel and Build 2.0 pieces for an entire wedding chapel.

The casino includes back room offices and vaults, along with a sushi bar and an animated train. From the rotating door at the front, the intricate roof systems and over a dozen textures, POLYGON Casino is a complex detailed pack with a lot to offer for casinos, clubs and any type of commercial area.

10 July 2023

POLYGON Sci Fi Cyber City

Cyber City is an impressively detailed, complex Build 2.0 pack set in a cyberpunk city. It’s a rich set of complex textures, wall and floor pieces and an army of greebles and addons. It includes 45 degree Build 2.0 panels for the first time, and elaborate decorations for walls ranging from fans, modular pipes and other sci fi greebles. The demo scene uses these greebles at half size up to double.

There’s an impressive array of vehicles with multiple skins converting them from taxis to police cars to food etc, a suspended hover rail system and an incredible number of interior props.
A secondary demo scene outlines these props into groups designed for specific purposes such as a hackers den, robot chop shop etc.

A huge number of decals is included ranging from neon graffiti to posters and a teaser for the (at the time unseen) Mech pack.

FX include lots of neon, holograms and an elaborate hologram dragon that swims through the city. 

Background buildings are provided using a custom built interior shader that allows you to customise the appearance of rooms for fake geometry.

7 August 2023

POLYGON Mech

The mech pack is effectively a character pack with a set of 5 different humanoid mech robots along with pilots and support crew.

The mechs all have unique decorations, limbs and addons with interchangeable parts and 5 colour schemes provided. The mechs come armed with a range of different armour and snap on weapons. Handheld weapons are provided too at both mech and human scale ranging from swords and hammers to assault rifles.

Human sized characters/pilots have optional helmets and some minor customisation in the colour scheme and pouches attached to the body.

11 September 2023

POLYGON Dark Fantasy

Inspired by Souls like games, Dark Fantasy is a Build 2.0 pack containing pieces for both an elaborate mega cathedral as well as crypts and a cemetery. 

It contains an impressive variety of characters ranging from skeletons in various states of armour, to witches, vampire hunters, and several massive size demons (all humanoid).

Environment pieces provide for modular granite cliff faces, dead trees, vines and moss covering surfaces, and a bunch of accessories and decorations for a medieval siege against the cathedral, either containing what’s inside or keeping it out. An enormous pipe organ and a series of gargoyles and statues are major hero assets, with a dark alter as a centrepiece.

Much like Horror Mansion, the Dark Fantasy can be turned into the “good” version with the removal of some dark props and some texture swaps.

A large number of FX are included, ranging from fire, smoke and an impressive swarm of bats to circle your cathedrals.

A brilliant particle system design uses simple vertex based meshes to add flickering flames to large arrays of candles at little cost. Synty once again demonstrating their willingness to find amazing solutions.

31 October 2023

POLYGON Horror Carnival

Horror Carnival fits the bill as a Build 2.0 pack with it’s small count of modular pieces, but forges it’s own path with an elaborate and complex set of carnival rides. The pack contains a bunch of carnival rides, ready to use, including a bunch of scripts for the first time, a modular system for prize booths allowing you to easily change colours, signs, structure, tent style and accessories. There’s thousands of combinations ready to use from ring toss, to duck shooting.

There’s a big top, a bunch of flora, fencing, posts, lighting, along with food vans and caravans. There’s a small army of plushies to use as prizes or long lost friends.

There’s a large variety of characters with over the top elaborate styles and a lot of personality. Like Cyber City and Elven Realm, Synty are at their absolute best when they’re having the time of their lives and Horror Carnival delivers. Much like it’s earlier horror brother, a few texture swaps and removing some props can turn Horror Carnival into just…. carnival.

20 November 2023

POLYGON Nature Biomes
Arid Desert

Arid Desert forms a part of Nature Biomes Season 2 combining both a generic desert with a toxic wasteland. There’s a number of dead trees, groundcover for desert flora, along with a huge array of ground tiles covering cliffs, dunes and various rock formations like a large arch and some jagged pieces taken straight out of Vasquez Rocks in LA, preparing you for your own virtual Star Trek set.

Adding onto the desert content there’s toxic pools, lava flows with animated textures, and a chunk of sci fi props from walkways to wind and solar panels, survey equipment.

Like all biomes packs it contains it’s own set of ground textures. This time focusing on lava, basalt, dried/cracked earth and other plain barren surfaces.

20 November 2023

POLYGON Nature Biomes
Alpine Mountain

Packed with pine trees, high elevation rock formations and cliff structures, Alpine Mountain prepares you for high elevation areas. Sparse low level ground cover is provided in a bunch of different forms along with survey and camping equipment for the snow. A bunch of character props are included, an alpine hut, along with a canoe and lookouts.

To round out your high altitude adventures there’s a modular ice cave system including stalactites and a custom shader. There’s a bunch of pebbles and loose rocks and the supplied textures are an impressive number of ice walls, rocks, leaf litter, various fungus/rock surfaces and snow and ice. 

 

20 November 2023

POLYGON Nature Biomes
Enchanted Forest

The final piece of Nature Biomes season 2 is an elaborate enchanted mushroom forest. Amongst the tall trees and hidden temples supplied in the pack there’s an impressive number of ground cover options. Crystals, mushrooms, ferns, grasses and assorted plants.

Carved stone steps, abandoned temples, intricate archways, modular cliff pieces and eroded dry river beds round out the pack. The Nature Biomes packs have frequent use of emission maps to lean on their custom shader, but the Enchanted Forest takes it to a higher level, outdoing even the impressive Tropical Jungle from season 1.

A smaller number of terrain textures is included to include leaf litter and stones, mycelium along with moss/slimy surfaces.

 

4 December 2023

INTERFACE Apocalypse HUD

Synty stepped into all new ground with the Apocalypse HUD pack as their first foray into the world of UI. It’s a HUD focused pack and not for generic UI.

It’s a comprehensive, incredibly well thought out pack that contains on screen HUD elements in the distinctive Synty style. Elements cover off everything from weapon wheels to quest trackers, compasses, health and ammo counters, damage indicators, mini maps, location markers and more.

All of the elements have various versions included in completely different shapes and styles, with a large number of detail greebles to mix and match and combine to make it your own.

HUD elements are included for icons and weapons, along with icons for keys and buttons on an impressive range of controllers from Xbox to mouse etc

 

The focus on HUD instead of general UI has allowed Synty to deliver an impressive range and an exceptional set of demo scenes showcases every HUD element, including complete HUD designs for multiple different game genres.

 

12 February 2024

ANIMATION Base Locomotion

The base locomotion pack contains a humanoid mannequin, and a large library of locomotion animations for a huge range of movement.

Separate masculine and feminine animations are provided for a lot of the animations and it includes everything from a slow walk through to jogging and sprinting, leaping, sliding, crouching etc.

The pack is focused on basic locomotion and getting around.

There’s a detailed and complex set of animation controllers included to use or dismantle and see an expert structure on blend trees, animation parameters, states, layers and more.

Synty’s first foray into an animation pack (we’ve not seen any humanoid animation since the simple series) is an impressive product with complex, highly polished hand keyed animations that drip with personality while feeling natural. While designed on Synty’s characters/skeleton, these mecanim compatible animations will work on any humanoid character in Unity.

11 March 2024

INTERFACE Sci Fi Soldier HUD

The second entry into the INTERFACE family is the Sci Fi Soldier HUD. Following in the APOCALYPSE HUD’s footsteps we see the same broad range of content here focused on the sci fi theme and foot soldiers this time.

This rich pack contains an impressive array of HUD elements, from varied compasses, world space markers, ammo and progress bars, various ways to indicate health, power and limited use items, full screen effects, reticles and aiming targets and hundreds of detailed icons from the existing sci fi packs.

The same huge range of input icons is included for Xbox, pc etc in the sci fi style.

 

8 May 2024

POLYGON Apocalypse Wasteland

Apocalypse Wasteland sees the Apocalypse theme get another MEGA pack, this time leaping into the future after the fall of society. Apocalypse Wasteland sees a return to the chunk based building systems of earlier packs with a huge variety of buildings made out of junk, buses, shipping containers and even a wrecked plane. The pack is dripping with details and includes hero assets like a massive skull gate made out of many moving pieces and a mechanical octopus boss suspended from a crane and loaded with an impressive array of moving parts and weapons.

 The pack contains several distinct factions with flora, terrain, characters and even vehicles for each section of the wasteland.

There’s a huge number of cobbled together vehicles covering the gamut from boats, suped up monster trucks to armoured trains converted for road use and a portable car crusher.The vehicles have optional accessories and can have their apocalypse spikes/weapons switched on and off. 

Terrain pieces include mesas, sections of broken highway, a massive suspension bridge fragment and hills and plateaus.

Included is a huge number of modular weapon pieces to build apocalypse weapons from. There’s a huge range of parts from actual weapons and junk/props repurposed for various reasons. This wasteland/dieselpunk pack is the largest pack in years and filled to the brim with props, characters and detail.

It sees the return of the Apocalypse bear. This time kitted out and ready for war.

7 August 2024

Animation Sword Combat

The Synty animation range continues to expand with Sword Combat landing with a flourish. There’s 105 hand built animations with an incredible feeling of weight and so much personality.

They’ve included light, medium and heavy attacks, flourishes, idles, and sheath and unsheath animations arming you with everything you need to get moving with a sword.

The sword pack brings a wide range of flexibility and freedom include root and non root motion versions of relevant animations.

15 August 2024

INTERFACE Fantasy Warrior HUD

Fantasy Warrior slides into place as the third INTERFACE pack to join the range. Bringing in a medieval vibe with decorations and greebles to the HUD party.

Bars and meters range from swords and potions to ornate arrangements of glyphs, sworls and carvings. With a huge range of hearts, character portraits, ornate minimaps and selection wheels the Fantasy Warrior HUD brings in decoration and style to every element.  Distinct and overlapping “factions” appear in the HUD elements with organic vine like pieces, carved dragons and angels, and elaborate dwarven looking runes and embellishments

22 August 2024

POLYGON Ancient Egypt

The Ancient world series expands with a journey to the land of tombs and pharaohs. This is a modular Build 2.0 pack with 3 separate build systems in. All 3 involve thicker walls than normal, but still snapping into the Build 2.0 grid.  Separate pieces allow the building of mud brick houses, stone temples and large pyramids.

There’s a large variety of flora to fill out the desert biome and a set of broken/worn down statues and pillars to integrate into a more modern world. A Synty version of the Sphinx is included, along with boats, food and a large number of decorative greebles and decorations. The pack makes heavy use of normal maps for ground textures and a lot of texture work for carvings, murals and decoration.

An absolutely gorgeous pack with a huge range of build options.