Texturize

Bake stages

1. Source mesh — starter cube, imported STL/OBJ (welded), or a live Mesh Sculptor / Node Sculptor mesh.
2. Place and rotate — Euler XYZ, then drop the lowest vertex onto Z = 0. Place on Face sets that rotation from a clicked triangle.
3. Weld — coincident vertices merge so displacement can stay watertight. Preview does not crease-split faces apart.
4. Adaptive subdivision (export only) — long edges split until they are under the quality edge length (hard cap 2 million triangles).
5. Heightmap — a 512×512 procedural map, or your custom image (longest side capped at 1024 px), optionally box-blurred.
6. World-space sample — triplanar blend or a single UV from cubic / cylindrical / spherical / planar mapping. Scale is in millimetres vs the largest bbox edge (planar / triplanar / cubic).
7. Masks — angle (top/bottom lids, flat face normal), painted faces or a UV stamp, then a feather curve.
8. Watertight displace — one smooth normal and one height per unique position (10 µm grid). Optional invert, symmetric mid-grey, overhang protect, snap-to-bed.
9. Decimate to the quality triangle cap, then T-junction snap when decimation ran.
10. Normals — recomputed on the displaced mesh for lighting and STL.

Source

Load STL / OBJ

Opens a file picker. Accepts .stl and .obj (binary or ASCII STL). Files over 15 MB warn that preview may be slow; files over 100 MB are rejected. Dropping a mesh on the viewport does the same import. Replaces the cube or a previous import and clears face-id paint.

Place on Face

Click a triangle so that face sits on the bed (outward normal down). Works for any orientation — the resulting Rotate X / Y / Z may all change. The tool turns off after one click. Disabled while a live module is linked.

Reset cube

Restores the 50 mm starter cube, clears the imported mesh, Euler, and face-id paint. Texture and mapping settings stay.

Rotate X / Y / Z

Euler degrees (−180 to 180) applied around the mesh centre, then the part is dropped onto Z = 0. 0° next to the fields zeros the Euler. Disabled on a live link.

Live module

Appears only when the project also has a Mesh Sculptor or Node Sculptor module. Choose one to stream its current mesh; choose Off — use cube or STL to disconnect. Live links are never created automatically. Place / rotate / reset cube are locked while live.

Displacement

Texture height (mm)

Peak displacement along the vertex normal. Range 0–10, default 0.5. With Symmetric on, mid-grey is zero and both directions use this amplitude.

Invert

Flips the heightmap (bright becomes inward). Off by default.

Symmetric (mid-grey = 0)

On by default. 0.5 in the map is no motion; darker pulls in, brighter pushes out. Off: black is the surface and white is full height (one-sided relief).

3D Preview

Off by default. When on, the GPU displaces the source mesh along smooth unique-position normals. A 12-triangle cube looks cracked — leave this off. Place on Face stays bump-only so clicks hit the real cube. The overlay always shows the source triangle count (12 for the cube). Turning this off does not CPU-bake into the viewport — export is the only bake.

Projection

Projection

Triplanar (default), Cubic (Box), Cylindrical, Spherical, Planar XY / XZ / YZ. Details on the Mapping page.

Size U / Size V (mm)

Pattern period in millimetres (1–200, default 25). The chain button locks U = V (on by default).

Offset U / Offset V

Shifts the pattern in UV repeats (−5 to 5). Use to park a motif on a face.

Rotation (°)

Rotates the sampled UVs (−180 to 180).

Masking (summary)

Bottom / Top (°)

Skip faces whose normal is within this angle of down / up. Default Bottom 5°, Top 0° so the cube sits flat on the bed.

Transition

Triplanar blend sharpness (0–1, default 0.5). Higher = harder seams between the three planar projections.

Draw / Erase / Fill / Face

Painter. Draw (circle) is the default. Empty include = no texture. All / None / Invert in the HUD. Ctrl or Shift erases. Viewport tints painted faces light green.

Face / Fill details

Face = coplanar flood (1°). Fill = neighbour dihedral up to Crease (30°). Double-click Face/Fill = To crease. Live modules stamp a UV mask.

Grow / To crease / Shrink / Similar / Linked

Edit the painted set. See Masks. Undo last paint is a session snapshot, not Ctrl+Z.

Ctrl / Shift

Erases from the current include list (or paints 0 on a UV mask).

Clear all masks

Removes face-id lists and the UV mask. Angle masks are unchanged.

Feather / Curve

Softens the mask edge (0–10 mm). Curve: Ease-In (default), Linear, S-curve.

Advanced

Overhang protect

Clamps any negative Z component of the displacement so vertices do not punch downward into overhangs. Off by default.

Snap bottom (mm)

After displacement, vertices within this distance of the lowest Z are flattened onto that plane (0–2, default 0). Use a small value if the bed face rumples.

Blur (px)

Box blur on the heightmap before sampling (0–16, default 0). Softens procedural maps and custom images.

Cap blend (°)

Shown for Cylindrical and Cubic only (0–45). Near-horizontal normals switch to a planar XY cap so the lid does not stretch the side mapping.