--- title: TOP 10 FREE NEW Assets AUGUST 2026! | daily.dev description: A roundup of ten free assets released on the Unity Asset Store for August 2026, covering an official Unity 3D-in-2D sample called Bunny Blitz, stylized toon... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/top-10-free-new-assets-august-2026--cr3muphfl twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: TOP 10 FREE NEW Assets AUGUST 2026! | daily.dev og:description: A roundup of ten free assets released on the Unity Asset Store for August 2026, covering an official Unity 3D-in-2D sample called Bunny Blitz, stylized toon... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/top-10-free-new-assets-august-2026--cr3muphfl og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/cR3MuPHFL.png og:image:alt: TOP 10 FREE NEW Assets AUGUST 2026! og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # TOP 10 FREE NEW Assets AUGUST 2026! **[Code Monkey](https://daily.dev/sources/codemonkeyunity)** · 8 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A roundup of ten free assets released on the Unity Asset Store for August 2026, covering an official Unity 3D-in-2D sample called Bunny Blitz, stylized toon water shaders, an autosave editor tool, animated low-poly characters, an outline shader, modular road tiles, a vertex animation texture (VAT) baking tool for GPU-driven crowd animation, low-poly engine models, low-poly houses, and a seamless texture generator. The video also promotes the creator's paid Summer Bundle of courses and games. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What is vertex animation texture (VAT) used for in Unity and why would I use it over skeletal animation? Vertex animation texture bakes animation data into a texture so the GPU moves vertices instead of the CPU computing skeletal animation at runtime, drastically reducing CPU workload. This makes it possible to animate thousands of characters at once, such as a large crowd, which is impractical with standard CPU-driven skeletal animation. A tool called Smart VAT performs this baking process directly inside Unity and skips storing data for vertices that don't move. _Developers optimizing crowd rendering in Unity can find similar deep-dive technique breakdowns on daily.dev._ ### What does Unity's 3D S2D workflow do in a 2D platformer? Unity's 3D S2D workflow lets developers combine 3D models with 2D sprites in the same scene so everything reads visually as one cohesive 2D game. The 3D objects can be affected by 2D lights and masks, and the official Bunny Blitz sample demonstrates this alongside tilemaps, sprite shapes, shader graph, and 2D physics in a fully realized platformer with an animated bunny and boss enemy. _Unity developers exploring mixed 2D and 3D pipelines can track workflow deep dives like this on daily.dev._ --- Tags: [#game-development](https://daily.dev/tags/game-development), [#3d](https://daily.dev/tags/3d), [#unity](https://daily.dev/tags/unity) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/top-10-free-new-assets-august-2026--cr3muphfl) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"TOP 10 FREE NEW Assets AUGUST 2026!","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/top-10-free-new-assets-august-2026--cr3muphfl","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/top-10-free-new-assets-august-2026--cr3muphfl"},"datePublished":"2026-08-15T18:16:28.123Z","dateModified":"2026-09-13T19:57:26.317Z","description":"A roundup of ten free assets released on the Unity Asset Store for August 2026, covering an official Unity 3D-in-2D sample called Bunny Blitz, stylized toon...","image":"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/VZCaQSzsGwU/sddefault.jpg","thumbnailUrl":"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/VZCaQSzsGwU/sddefault.jpg","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Code Monkey","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Code Monkey","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--mgoqDIgw--/f_auto/v1727446687/logos/codemonkeyunity","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/codemonkeyunity"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/top-10-free-new-assets-august-2026--cr3muphfl","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":1},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"game-development,3d,unity","timeRequired":"PT8M","video":{"@type":"VideoObject","name":"TOP 10 FREE NEW Assets AUGUST 2026!","description":"A roundup of ten free assets released on the Unity Asset Store for August 2026, covering an official Unity 3D-in-2D sample called Bunny Blitz, stylized toon...","thumbnailUrl":"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/VZCaQSzsGwU/sddefault.jpg","uploadDate":"2026-08-15T18:16:28.123Z","duration":"PT8M","url":"https://api.daily.dev/r/cR3MuPHFL","embedUrl":"https://www.youtube.com/embed/VZCaQSzsGwU"}} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Code Monkey","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/codemonkeyunity"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"TOP 10 FREE NEW Assets AUGUST 2026!"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"FAQPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/top-10-free-new-assets-august-2026--cr3muphfl#faq","mainEntity":[{"@type":"Question","name":"What is vertex animation texture (VAT) used for in Unity and why would I use it over skeletal animation?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"Vertex animation texture bakes animation data into a texture so the GPU moves vertices instead of the CPU computing skeletal animation at runtime, drastically reducing CPU workload. 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