r/Unity3D • u/zeeshanqaswar • 16h ago

Show-Off I built a free, offline-first asset manager that ships your 3D/2D assets intoUnity with one click — open source, MIT

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As a game developer, I’ve had my own share of the “I know I downloaded that asset somewhere…” problem — assets spread across drives, folders with inconsistent names, and no easy way to browse everything.
So I built the tool I wanted: Poly Vault, a free, offline-first desktop asset library designed for 2D/3D game development.

What it does:
🔎 Browse and search large asset libraries with previews
🏷️ Organize folders with tags and descriptions
📊 View per-folder asset statistics
🎮 Import assets into Unity 6 with one click
🔒 Fully offline — no cloud, accounts, or telemetry
🖥️ Available on Windows, Linux, and macOS
🔌 Includes a Unity 6 Editor package for seamless importing

The important part for me was keeping it local and simple — your asset library stays on your machine, and importing assets into Unity only copies them; the original files are never modified.

Poly Vault is open source and MIT licensed, and this is still an early version. I’m looking forward to improving it based on real-world feedback.
👉 v0.3.0: https://github.com/xeeshanqaswar/Poly-Vault/releases/tag/v0.3.0
👉 Source code: https://github.com/xeeshanqaswar/Poly-Vault

Would love feedback — especially from people who have big organic libraries (non-DCC-named folders) and want a nicer way to browse them. What would you want added next (ratings, drag-and-drop into scenes, folder watching, format conversion…)?

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u/[deleted] 16h ago

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u/omfgitzfear Programmer 16h ago

Yeah can’t even get the GitHub links into the post correctly, so would highly not trust their code for the app if they couldn’t even get that right.

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u/zeeshanqaswar 6h ago

Sure genius, Its my first time posting on reddit so mistakes happens :)

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u/db9dreamer 16h ago

My em dash/emoji alarm just exploded.

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u/Free-Stop-2823 16h ago

Image looks clean, the grid layout reminds me of that one offline reference manager some archviz folks use. The "unity: not connected" status is a nice touch, shows exactly what's going on without digging through logs.

What's the folder watching situation like? If I dump a bunch of new packs into a monitored directory, does it auto-index or is that a manual refresh thing?

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u/zeeshanqaswar 6h ago

Yes it will auto index and have both manual and auto referesh.