PHOTOMESH

Photograph it. Now it is a 3D model.

PhotoMesh takes an ordinary photo and builds real, textured geometry out of it, right inside MechaPaint. No scanning rig, no photogrammetry pass, no cloud service, no waiting. Here is the entire process, start to finish. It took about a minute.

A slice of pie photographed, turned into a paintable 3D model in MechaPaint

One photo of a slice of pie, in MechaPaint as a 100,086 triangle paintable model, with the original photo pinned beside it as reference.

START TO FINISH

Five steps

This is all of it. Every image below is a real screenshot of the same pie going through the process.

Click PhotoMesh

Open the New Project panel from the top toolbar. PhotoMesh sits in the Starter Objects grid, in the last slot. Click it and the PhotoMesh window opens.

The New Project panel with the PhotoMesh button highlighted in the Starter Objects grid

Choose your photo and press Generate

Press Choose Photo... and pick any PNG, JPG, PSD, TIFF, TGA, or BMP, or click the clipboard square to use an image you just copied. Pick a resolution, 256 is the everyday choice and tells you it is about 49k vertices before you commit. Then press Generate. That is the whole build.

The PhotoMesh window with the pie photo loaded, resolution set to 256, and the Generate button

Dial in the depth

The mesh appears in the viewport, textured with your photo. Drag Height and the relief pushes out live, so you can watch it come off the page. PhotoPBR... turns the same photo into a full material, color, normal, roughness, metallic, AO and height. Convert To Solid closes the back so it is a real object instead of a sheet, and the arrows step through the rest of the folder with the same settings.

The generated pie mesh in the viewport beside the PhotoMesh Settings window, showing the Height slider at 0.45

Rebuild the UVs, and save

Convert To Solid hands off to Rebuild UVs, which unwraps the new geometry cleanly, rebakes the photo onto it, and saves the OBJ. Take the defaults if you are not sure. Fast is genuinely fast, and 2048 is plenty for a photo this size.

The Rebuild UVs window with texture size, island padding, and quality options

Use it anywhere

What comes out is an ordinary OBJ with an ordinary texture. Here it is opened straight into Blender, untouched. It will go into Unity, Unreal, Godot, a game, a render, or right back into MechaPaint to be painted on.