One prompt box, the whole asset list
3D models get the headlines, but a game needs sprites, voices, and sound effects too. How HawkeForge covers the full asset stack — and the workflow that keeps it cheap.
By Nathan
Open your game's asset folder. Count what's in there. Meshes, sure — but also UI art, sprite sheets, barks and dialogue lines, footsteps, impacts, ambience. The mesh generator you subscribed to covers exactly one of those folders.
HawkeForge started as a 3D tool and grew into the rest of that folder, because we were building a game with it ourselves and kept needing the next thing.
What comes out of the box
3D models. Fast mode (10 credits) for blockouts and props in under a minute; Quality mode (20 credits) for hero assets with PBR materials and baked normal maps in a few minutes. Rigged characters (40 credits) arrive ready to animate in Unreal — Chris covered how.
Images and sprite sheets. Concept art and textures at 2 credits a shot. There's a pixel-art mode, and — the part I use most — a frame-consistent animation mode: it generates a sprite strip where frame 3 is actually the same character as frame 1, using a shared palette and a base-anchored pipeline instead of hoping the model stays on-topic for eight independent generations.
Voices. Text in, spoken line out, 5 credits. The voices are synthetic blends built from studio-licensed recordings — no celebrity soundalikes, no cloned YouTubers, nothing that can come back to haunt your store page. You can also describe a voice ("gravelly older woman, slight drawl") and get something matching.
Sound effects. "Single revolver gunshot, sharp crack with a short bass thump" → a stereo WAV at the length you asked for, 5 credits. Trimmed of silence, ready for your audio middleware.
The workflow trick: iterate cheap, bake once
The feature that actually changes your spend is image_ref. Instead of
rolling 20-credit quality generations until the design is right, you iterate on
the image at 2 credits a try — tweak the prompt, regenerate, ten variations
for the cost of one quality mesh. When the concept is right, you pass that
exact image to the 3D generator and bake it once.
Design exploration at image prices, final assets at 3D prices. On the Studio plan's 3,500 monthly credits, that's a real production month: dozens of props, a cast of rigged characters, and all the sprites and barks around them.
Why one tool instead of four subscriptions
Not just the bill (though: one bill). It's consistency of workflow — same prompt box, same job queue, same export flow, same license terms across every asset type. Your character, their voice, their footsteps, and their portrait all come from one place that knows they belong to the same game.