One photograph in, one textured model out.
LocalMesh reads a photograph and builds a 3D model from it: the shape, the UV layout and the texture, written as OBJ, GLB or STL. All of it runs on the graphics card already in your machine, so the photograph never leaves it.
What comes out of one photograph
A closed mesh with a texture on it, not a point cloud and not a preview you have to buy to keep. The file is written to the folder you chose and it is finished when it appears.
- The shape A mesh with a clean triangle layout, closed where the photograph shows a surface. You choose how heavy it is before you start, from a draft to a detailed pass.
- The texture A single 4096 pixel atlas carrying colour and roughness. Metalness is written as zero on purpose, because what the model predicts in that channel measures as noise and turns objects chrome in other software.
- The file OBJ, GLB or STL for the mesh. A gaussian splat, if you asked for one, comes out as .ply or .splat.
Four photographs when one is not enough
One photograph can only guess at the back of a subject. If you have four, front, right, left and back, LocalMesh fuses them on a shared grid rather than averaging four separate guesses afterwards. The back of the object is then seen rather than invented.
It does not ask you to shoot a perfect quarter turn either. The angle each photograph was taken from is measured from the image itself, so a turn made by hand still lands on the right pixels.
How long it takes, on a card most people have
Measured on an RTX 4060 Laptop with 8 GB of video memory, over six subjects, four photographs each. Roughly 60 percent of that time is the texture, not the shape.
- Standard 6 minutes 30 to 8 minutes 30.
- Detailed 9 minutes 20 to 13 minutes.
- If a subject overruns the card The job does not fail. It starts again one level down with the same seed and the full recipe for that level, and the note on the card says so.
What it needs
Windows 10 or 11 and an NVIDIA graphics card, because everything goes through CUDA. LocalMesh is built for 8 GB of video memory and is at its best there. Smaller cards install and run it: a subject too heavy is handled one level down instead of being forced through.
The installer is 239 MB. The models it fetches on first launch settle at around 27 GB and want 38 GB free while they land. After that you can unplug the network and keep working.
Why it matters that it runs here
A generator that runs on someone else's servers decides three things for you. Your images go to a machine you do not own. You pay per generation, so experimenting has a meter on it. And the tool works only for as long as the service does.
Running on your own card removes all three. There is no upload, no credit counter, and no account to lose. What you pay for once is a program on your disk.
Try it on your own photograph
14 days free, then $39 once. The key is perpetual and there is no subscription.
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