MAYFLYThe first ephemeral 3D asset database
Mayfly gives each 3D asset a lasting identity and a representation that keeps improving. As models and pipelines advance, so do its geometry, materials, articulation and simulation setup.
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A different kind of asset library
Most asset libraries treat a model as a finished file. Mayfly treats it as a living record. A stable identity holds the history, while each layer can become richer as the systems behind it improve.
Calibrated materials
Every surface in Mayfly comes from one library of calibrated materials. Each package records what it is aiming at and how close it lands, so the same package dresses an asset in Blender, in the browser and in Unreal.
A target colour, and the measured distance of the finished maps from it. Every material shown here lands within ΔE 2.2 of its target.
A tile has a real size, from 2 cm of polished metal to 60 cm of veneer, and surface relief is budgeted in microns.
Glass at its index of refraction, metals as conductors with their own reflectance, tint as absorption through depth.
Surfaces are never flattened into one 0–1 texture bake, which leaves nothing clean to read. Every part keeps its own named material, so software can still tell what each surface is made of.
Each package states what it is. A proxy built from references and photographs is never called a measurement.
Ten of the library's materials, each rendered on the same shader ball in the studio rig every asset is photographed in. The figures under each are read from that material's own calibration record.
Never see the same exact asset twice
Every Mayfly asset is one mesh wearing layered materials. Its tint and its wear sit in separate layers and blend continuously, so the same pair of shears can be new, used, wet or worn through, in any colour. Nothing here was modelled twice.
Blend it yourself
Six of the twelve looks published with these kitchen shears: three tints at four levels of wear. One mesh, one camera, one light; only the material layers change.
Anatomy of an asset
Each layer adds a different kind of usefulness. Select one to see how the asset grows from a record into something ready to move, interact and be understood.
A stable asset ID connects provenance, versions, formats and technical descriptors. Every new representation belongs to the same record.
Mayfly API Coming
Never open the store again. No downloading hundreds of files and opening asset after asset. Let the API do the tedious work: it will search by meaning and measurements, pick the form your scene needs and hand over one asset, dressed and placed.
A dresser under 80 cm wide, articulated drawers, simulation-ready. The API will find it by what it is and how big it is, never by a file name.
The format, the level of detail, the look. One call, and the asset arrives in the engine you named, wearing the variation you asked for.
The same asset id, for good. Call again next year and the newer representation comes back under it.
Articulated, simulation-ready assets with room to become more capable over time.
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