A map’s meaning matters as much as its pixels. Save a typed asset, choose a compatible tool and explicitly apply it to the intended slot. Keep the original file and check the result before publishing another version.
A correctly exported PNG can still be assigned to the wrong channel, convention or material.
Use a simple image or one of the material tools’ original samples. Generate a height or normal map, or paint a deliberate metalness mask. A photograph does not reveal measured roughness, height or metallic composition automatically.
For a repeatable check, use a constant grey roughness patch, a binary black-and-white metalness mask or one known raised feature. Keep camera, light and other material controls fixed while checking one map.
Expand the connected-tools panel, choose the output and use “Save / update asset”. Select a compatible destination and open it. On the destination, inspect the selected asset and input before choosing “Use selected asset”. Opening a page is not permission to replace its content.
Updating an asset creates a new version. An already-open destination announces an available update; apply it explicitly. If the destination changes while an import is being read, reselect the target rather than assuming the old selection still applies.
In the normal-convention mode, an eight-bit green-channel flip uses 255 − G: 64 becomes 191, while red and blue remain unchanged. Flipping twice restores the original stored values. This only changes the Y convention; it does not repair UV seams or a wrong tangent basis.
Use standalone grayscale for roughness and metalness. In a glTF metallic-roughness texture, roughness is green and metalness is blue. A packed image is therefore not interchangeable with a standalone mask. Split or pack channels deliberately, and use data colour-space settings in the destination.
In Render Studio, the connected panel names the selected material and shows how many parts share it. Applying a map affects that material; changing a shared material affects every listed part. Map updates preserve the model and camera.
Connected renderer maps must be opaque PNGs no larger than 2048 pixels per side. Roughness and metalness must be grayscale, and their scalar is set to 1. Height is converted to normal detail, not displaced geometry. A linear emission mask becomes white glow at intensity 1; it is not calibrated lighting. Packed, AO and specular maps are not assigned by this adapter.
Send the selected material map back only when its role is clear. A returned normal map contains the actual assigned normal pixels, including a height-to-normal conversion. Renderer emission exports as a colour image rather than a recovered grayscale mask.
These handoffs use temporary storage in this browser on this origin, not cloud sync. Assets expire after 30 minutes; the tray is limited to 24 assets and 200 MiB total, with stricter limits in individual tools. Download your originals and final outputs. Clearing site data or using another browser will not preserve this workspace.
Use the tools in order, or jump straight to the one that matches the question in front of you.
The sequence keeps the work practical and reduces the usual guesswork before production.
Use a known feature or mask and choose the output’s semantic type.
Open toolUse the connected panel. Keep a downloaded copy for durable storage.
Open toolRead the destination label and, in Render Studio, the named material and shared-part count.
Open toolInspect channels, orientation and dimensions. Save an updated version and explicitly reapply it where needed.
The normal-convention check maps green 64 to 191 while preserving red and blue; a returned height-derived normal contains actual normal pixels.
Based on the current XO3D Labs tools, original synthetic examples and documented format behaviour. Examples demonstrate these workflows; they do not certify every source file. Original tool examples and current workflow checks.
Khronos glTF 2.0: Materials: Source documentation and public production context.
Use the tools to clarify the task. For a product campaign that needs creative direction and production, explore the relevant XO3D programme.
No. Saving creates an updated asset version. The destination requires another explicit apply.
No. It changes shading direction. This connected height workflow also produces normals; it does not add displaced geometry.
No. Split the required channel first. The renderer adapter accepts standalone grayscale masks, not packed ORM data.
No. The connected tray is temporary browser-local storage. Download files you need to keep or move elsewhere.
Open a tool, check the result and use the relevant guide when a question comes up.
Published by XO3D Labs: 2026-10-15
Updated: 2026-10-15
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