Modelado 0.2.0

Modelado 0.2.0 adds Blender integration, new textures from a description, more cloud actions from the command line, and much lighter GLB files.

Blender

• Edit in Modelado: opens the selected object in the Modelado window. Each Send to Blender puts the version shown back on the same object, keeping its transform and materials, as one step of Blender's undo.
• Open in Blender: a new button on the window's Export card starts Blender with the model shown, wherever Blender is found.
• Generate from photo: makes a 3D Object or a Relief at the 3D cursor, at the size you set. If the models still have to be downloaded, the add-on says what it will fetch before it starts.
• AI group: upscales the object's texture 4× or puts a material image on it, keeping the rest of its material.
• With a key stored in Modelado's About: generate with Meshy AI, draw a new texture with Ideogram, or remesh and retexture with Meshy AI. Each shows its price first.

Textures

• New texture from a description: on the Edit card, Ideogram draws seamless tiles from a description such as "weathered oak planks". The one you pick is put on the model as a new version, which Undo removes.
• Material image: any photo can be made to tile and put on a model (modelado-cli edit --texture).

Command line

• modelado-cli cloud image-to-3d, texture, remesh and retexture use the key, monthly budgets and spending record from the window's About. --estimate shows the price and what the budget leaves before anything is sent.
• modelado-cli cloud key <service> stores a key, read from standard input.

Lighter files

• A GLB stores a photo texture as JPEG, and keeps PNG where the texture has transparency.
• The Export card's Compact option (--compact) quantizes the geometry, about half the size, for the web and Blender. Standard stays the default, for viewers that don't read the compact format.
• Simplify on a relief with a base takes a second or two, where it used to take up to a minute.

Opening models

• A model's plain material colours (glTF base colour, OBJ Kd, PLY diffuse) now open as its colours instead of grey.
• A model with several textures opens with them packed into one; past four, they are baked into the vertex colours, and the status bar says so.

Models

• About → Model sources: add a repository of ONNX models and choose its depth model on the Relief card (--source and --depth-model on the command line).
• Fix: the app no longer crashes on start when a cloud key is already stored.

Install

Download Modelado-Setup-0.2.0.exe and run it. It installs for the current user and does not need administrator rights; Windows 10 (1903 or later) or 11, x64. Modelado 0.1.1 offers the update from About.

The installer is not code-signed yet, so Windows SmartScreen warns before it runs. Check it against SHA256SUMS. The in-app updater does the same check.