The Picture to Game Ready Asset Claude Code Skill is a written procedure with working scripts, not a program with a button. It covers the whole way: which image model gives a usable reference at what resolution, how the mesh comes back from Tripo, how to find and remove the artefacts it brings, how to decimate without tearing the trunk apart, and how to write a GIANTS i3d by hand when there is no exporter for your Blender version.

The part that took the longest is the part that is worth the most: every dead end is in there, with the log lines that proved it. Two decimate bugs cost a night — they are written up so the next person loses ten minutes instead.

This is the honest part, and it belongs here rather than in the small print: the PGA 3D Game Claude Skill is not a click-and-done product. You need Claude Code (an Anthropic account), Blender (free, tested with 4.0.2 and 4.5 LTS), the GIANTS Editor with its Texture Tool (free), Farming Simulator 25 for testing, and Python 3 with Pillow, numpy and lxml. On top of that come two paid API accounts of your own — Tripo AI for the mesh, roughly 40 cents per asset without a rig (the free Tripo plan is not for commercial use), and Together AI or another image model for the reference, roughly 24 cents for a 4K image. Linux with Wine is the default path; Windows works once the GIANTS_TEXTURE_TOOL variable points to your install.

So it pays off for someone who wants to build assets regularly, not for one bonsai.

Every asset built this way comes out twice from the same decimate pass, at no extra effort: a package for any 3D software and a package tuned for the game, fitted to the vertex limit. Target size, resolution and decimate ratio are parameters, not something welded to FS25 — the same run serves a web viewer or a channel render.

You can see both halves on the Cascade Bonsai page. That is the whole argument: not a description of what the PGA 3D ASSET Claude Code Skill could do, but the thing it did.

Version 1.0.0 is one zip with a German and an English edition of the same skill — install one of them, both are called pga. Each holds the SKILL.md, three references (i3d export, choosing the Tripo model, characters with rig and animation clips) and 36 Python scripts. You copy the pga folder to ~/.claude/skills/ and set a handful of environment variables for your API key, the GIANTS Texture Tool and your own brand logo. In the English edition the comments inside the Python scripts are German.

It covers the whole way from a reference image to a game asset: the Tripo AI mesh, Blender cleanup and decimate, the GIANTS i3d with its vertex limit, specular channels and RGB normal map, an engine-independent package with Blender file, FBX and glTF, and a small GLB for a web viewer. Decals, labels, glass and colour variants are in there, and so is a chapter on characters and NPCs with rig and animation clips.

What is not in it: no API keys and no Tripo or Together credit. No finished 3D models or textures — the eleven assets on this site are downloads of their own. No character models and no purchased animation clips; for those there are recipes and scripts, the clips you have to own yourself. No Blender add-on, no click-through interface, and no promise of support. And you may use the skill for your own projects, commercial ones included, but not pass on or sell the skill package itself.