You can insert creator-uploaded meshes or import custom meshes into Studio. Once added to your experience, you can access meshes in the Toolbox or Asset Manager and configure them in the following ways:
- Configure collision fidelity for your mesh object.
- Set the level of detail for your meshes to optimize for performance and visual quality.
- Pose and animate your rigged meshes to add an extra level of visual customization to your models.
Inserting Meshes
Creator Marketplace
You can browse thousands of user-uploaded meshes from the Creator Marketplace through the Marketplace tab of the Toolbox.
Navigate to the View tab and select Toolbox.
From the Marketplace tab, select the category dropdown and choose Meshes.
(Optional) Click the filter button to the right of the search bar to filter meshes by verified creators and/or a specific creator's username.
In the Search field, type anything you'd like to find.
Either click or drag-and-drop a mesh to insert it into the viewport.
Asset Manager
Meshes that you've personally imported or those which were imported by groups you belong to appear in the Asset Manager.
Navigate to the View tab and select Asset Manager.
Open the Meshes folder, then either:
- Drag-and-drop a mesh into the 3D viewport.
- Right-click on a mesh and select Insert, or select Insert With Location if you'd like to preserve mesh location data that was stored during the import process.
Importing Meshes
You can import custom meshes created through other applications through Studio's 3D Importer as .fbx or .obj files. All imported meshes must adhere to Studio's mesh requirements.
If you are part of the UGC program, you can sell your custom meshes as accessories on the Avatar Marketplace. See Selling 3D Accessories for an overview of the uploading and selling process.
Bulk Import
You can bulk import custom meshes directly to your Toolbox or Asset Manager inventory. The bulk import feature doesn't support complex meshes such as those with rigging, skinning, or animation data. To import more than one asset through the Asset Manager:
Click the Bulk Import button.
Select the meshes you want to import from your local machine, then click the Open button.
For each mesh you select, set the applicable options listed below and click Apply, or select Apply All to apply your choices to every mesh.
- Rescale if too large
- Reverse inward-pointing mesh normals
- Import file as single mesh
If any child mesh contains more than 10,000 polygons, Studio rejects the parent mesh. If a parent mesh contains more than 50 child meshes, Studio rejects all of its children meshes.
After a moment, the meshes display with a status icon. Successfully imported meshes enter the moderation queue and are only visible to you within the Meshes folder of the Asset Manager and in the Creations tab of the Toolbox.
Adding Textures
Image Textures
Image textures wrap around a 3D mesh. Most meshes already include textures, although textures can be changed or altered by changing the TextureID field to an appropriate image asset ID.
To apply a mesh texture in Studio:
In the Properties window, select the TextureID field.
Enter a new texture ID or locate a specific texture.
Surface Appearance
You can use the SurfaceAppearance instance to override a mesh's TextureID with advanced PBR textures, including color, normal, metal, and roughness maps. See Surface Appearance for details.
Collision Fidelity
The CollisionFidelity property determines how closely the visual representation of the object matches the physical bounds, or hitbox, of the object. By changing the CollisionFidelity property, you can change how far away a user has to be from a mesh until they collide with each other.
See Detecting Collisions for an approximation of the CollisionFidelity options and outcomes.
Level of Detail
By default, meshes will always display in precise fidelity, no matter how far they are from the camera, but you can dynamically control a mesh's level of detail through its RenderFidelity property. Setting less important meshes to a lower render fidelity will improve an experience's performance if you have many detailed meshes. When it is set to Automatic, the mesh renders at a different level of detail depending on its distance from the camera:
| Distance From Camera | Render Fidelity | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Less than 250 studs | Highest |  |
| 250-500 studs | Medium |  |
| 500 or more studs | Lowest |  |
Posing and Animating
Rigged meshes contain Bone instances that you can rotate and position to articulate your mesh at different points. These bones and their inherited influences are identical to their Blender or Maya counterparts.
To pose a rigged mesh in Studio:
In the Explorer window, select the imported mesh and expand its child instances to access the bones.
Select a bone and rotate it to pose the model along the created bone joints.
You can animate a rigged mesh using the Animation Editor, and the mesh object's Bones display as options you can add to the animation track.
To animate a rigged mesh in Studio:
Open the Animation Editor.
Select the mesh object in the workspace.
In the timeline, navigate to the ⊕ icon and click Add All to add all the created bones to the animation.
Test and animate your new rig by applying transforms to the specific bones you've created. See Animation for additional instructions on animating.