lighting-lod-pipeline

lighting-lod-pipeline is a skill for Claude Code from MRCalderon3D/everything-game-dev-code. It costs 33 tokens per session (735 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A plan for lighting 3D game scenes and reducing the detail of distant objects through levels of detail (LOD). It also defines when objects should stop being drawn, known as culling.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps decide which lights are baked or dynamic, set light and shadow limits, choose indirect-lighting methods, and define LOD and visibility rules.
Why use it?
It prevents scenes from looking inconsistent or using too much time drawing lights, shadows, and distant geometry. The rules are checked against the weakest target device.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the everything-game-dev-code plugin — 29 skills, 67 commands, 42 agents, 3 hooks, 6 MCP servers shipped together

Good fit It helps decide which lights are baked or dynamic, set light and shadow limits, choose indirect-lighting methods, and define LOD and visibility rules.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mrcalderon3d/everything-game-dev-code/lighting-lod-pipeline
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add MRCalderon3D/everything-game-dev-code --skill lighting-lod-pipeline
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MRCalderon3D/everything-game-dev-code

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install everything-game-dev-code, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 29 skills, 67 commands, 42 agents, 3 hooks, 6 MCP servers.

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Per session 33 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 735 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00033 $0.00735
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00367
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00147
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00073

Measured 5d ago against content hash 8377a67ec398, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

lighting-lod-pipeline scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 5d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/art-audio-content/lighting-lod-pipeline/SKILL.md · 69 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 69 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Lighting and LOD Pipeline

Purpose

Define lighting policy, light budgets, LOD chains, and culling rules so 3D scenes look intentional and hit frame budgets on the weakest target.

Use When

  • 3D scenes need a lighting approach and nothing is decided beyond defaults
  • frame cost traces to lights, shadows, or geometry density at distance
  • environments grow and need LODs, culling, and draw-distance policy

Inputs

  • art direction for mood, time-of-day needs, and dynamism (static vs day cycle)
  • target platforms and their lighting capabilities (baking, shadow budgets)
  • scene inventory: interiors/exteriors, scale, density
  • frame budget allocation for lighting and geometry

Process

  1. decide the lighting policy explicitly: what is baked (or faked with blob shadows/light textures), what is dynamic, and which single light owns real-time shadows in a typical scene
  2. budget lights per scene category: dynamic light count, shadow-casting count, and shadow resolution against the weakest target
  3. define the ambient/indirect strategy (baked GI, probes, flat ambient plus tuned materials) consistent with the art direction
  4. define LOD chains per asset category: reduction targets per level, switch distances tied to on-screen size, and whether the last level is an impostor or culled
  5. set culling and draw-distance policy: occlusion strategy for interiors, distance culling tiers for props and detail layers
  6. validate on target: light/shadow cost and LOD transitions measured on the weakest device, with popping checked at gameplay camera speeds

Outputs

  • lighting policy sheet (baked/dynamic split, shadow ownership, ambient strategy)
  • per-scene light and shadow budgets
  • LOD chain conventions per asset category with switch-distance rules
  • culling/draw-distance policy and the on-target validation checklist

Quality Bar

  • every scene states which lights are dynamic and which cast shadows — defaults are decisions, not accidents
  • lighting cost is measured within its frame-budget allocation on the weakest target
  • LOD switches are not visible at normal gameplay camera distance and speed
  • distant or occluded content is demonstrably culled, not just unlit

Read the full file on GitHub · 69 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 5d ago First seen · 69 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A 8377a67ec398

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lighting-lod-pipeline is a skill published in the GitHub repository MRCalderon3D/everything-game-dev-code (81 stars, last pushed 18d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 735 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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