Projects created in Vectary run seamlessly across all devices and operating systems through WebGL 2.0 in the browser.

Minimum Hardware Requirements for Vectary Studio:

• 2.0 GHz multi-core processor

• 8 GB of RAM or higher

• Graphics card with at least 1 GB of dedicated or shared video memory

We highly recommend using the Google Chrome browser for the best possible experience, due to the limitations on key technologies used by Vectary in other browsers.

Vectary Studio is not optimized or intended for use on mobile devices. However, certain actions can still be performed from mobile devices if the browser is set to desktop mode. Please note that the experience will be significantly limited. It is recommended to use a computer for the best results.

The importing process allows bringing external assets into the project. Supported import options include all popular 3D and 2D file formats, direct integration with Figma frames, and CAD file compatibility.

For more details, explore the following sections:

Initial information about the Vectary platform, helping to get started quickly and efficiently.

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Uses another object as a reference to distribute instances along its surface.

Mirrors an object along a chosen axis, ensuring that modifications on one side are automatically reflected on the other.

Transforms an object’s shape towards a perfect sphere, adjusting its form while preserving the original volume.

Duplicates an object around a central point, allowing control over the number of copies, rotation, and distribution radius.

Determines the base color of a material. It can be set using a solid color, gradient or a texture to add variations and patterns. The final appearance of the color depends on the lighting and other material properties.

• Solid — HEX

• Linear gradient — HEX, RGB

• Radial gradient — HEX, RGB

• Texture — JPG, PNG, SVG

• Animation — Lottie, GIF, MP4

• Figma frame —

Makes a material emit light, allowing it to glow regardless of the scene’s lighting. The effect becomes more pronounced in darker environments.

A custom glow color can be selected to achieve different lighting effects.

Emission textures are often used to make textured objects appear brighter and less dependent on scene lighting. Typically, the same texture used for Color is applied to Emission to enhance brightness and visibility.

Creates multiple instances of an object along a straight line with adjustable spacing and count parameters.

• Group — Ctrl+G

Organizes multiple objects into a single group, allowing for easier management and manipulation.

• Ungroup — Ctrl+Shift+G

Group also has a setting that allows switching between a standard group and

Controls how glossy or rough a surface appears. A value of 0 creates a perfectly smooth surface with high specular reflection, but for a mirror-like effect, the material also needs full metalness. While higher values result in a diffuse, matte finish. A roughness texture can be used to vary the effect across the surface, adding realism.

Multiple cameras can be added to the scene, each with a variety of settings and functions for precise framing and perspective control. The default camera lacks these advanced settings.

Learn more here: Camera

Controls how object normals are smoothed, adjusting the transition between sharp and soft shading across surfaces. The angle setting, which defaults to 40 degrees, controls the transition between sharp and smooth shading. A value of 0 preserves all hard edges, while increasing the value progressively softens them, blending the shading across adjacent faces.

Adds chamfered edges to a model by smoothing sharp corners and refining geometry.

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Generates a grid-based duplication pattern with customizable rows, columns, and depth settings.

The 3D Text tool allows for the creation of editable 3D typography directly within the scene. Font, size, depth, and other parameters can be customized to integrate text seamlessly into a design.

Text can also be dynamic by using expressions and variables -

The 3D text tool provides comprehensive customization options similar to those found in standard text editors.

The design process involves various aspects of creating and refining 3D models. This includes working in design mode, applying materials and textures, configuring cameras, adjusting lighting, adding effects, and managing assets with libraries.

For more details, explore the following sections:

Overview

Primitives are basic geometric shapes that serve as building blocks for 3D modeling. These shapes, such as boxes, spheres, and cylinders, come with adjustable parametric settings, allowing for modifications in size, subdivisions, and other attributes. Primitives are commonly used as starting points for creating more complex models.

Normal maps enhance the visual quality of materials by adding intricate surface details without increasing polygon count. They simulate bumps, scratches, or fabric textures without modifying the actual geometry. This effect relies on imported textures and is achieved by manipulating how light interacts with the surface, enhancing realism and depth.

Invert option flips the texture’s details, which can help correct shading issues or adjust the perceived depth of the surface.

These tools are used to create a 3D configurator.

Overview

Design mode is the primary mode in Studio, where the core project development happens. In this mode, scenes are assembled by creating or importing 3D assets, adjusting materials, and adding interactive elements. Lighting, cameras, backgrounds, and effects can also be fine-tuned to enhance the final composition.

Rotates an object around its axis, creating a spiral effect. The twist effect is controlled by adjusting the Angle parameter, while the Help Direction setting defines the axis along which the deformation occurs.

Vectary utilizes real-time, photorealistic rendering, which is always active and cannot be disabled.

To ensure optimal performance, certain require manual activation when needed:, to maintain good performance, some effects need to be enabled manually when necessary:

Replace geometry

The context menu of mesh objects includes the Replace geometry option. This action allows importing a new object in place of the current one while preserving its position, scale, and rotation.

Supported formats for this type of import: FBX

Shears an object along an axis, shifting its top or bottom relative to the base, creating a slanted appearance.

Defines whether a material behaves like a metal or a non-metal. A value of 100 makes the surface fully metallic, reflecting its environment, while a value of 0 results in a non-metallic look. Metalness maps allow different areas of a material to have varying metallic properties.

An invisible plane that clips objects in the scene, useful for sectional views and precise visualization adjustments.

The effect of the clipping plane can be restricted to specific objects, groups, or .

Multiple clipping planes can be used simultaneously, allowing for more complex sectional views and controlled visual effects.

Applies a curvature to an object, bending it along a defined axis. The angle and direction of the bend can be adjusted to achieve different effects.

Applies randomized displacement to an object's surface, creating an organic, irregular look.

Scales an object along a single axis while maintaining its proportions on other axes, elongating or compressing the shape.

A placeholder object that functions similarly to a group but has a default visual representation in the form of axes or a box. This visual representation can be removed at any time, turning the empty into a standard group.

Applies random transformations to objects, including position, rotation, and scale, for more organic variations.

Divides the geometry into smaller segments, increasing mesh density for smoother deformations.

Reduces the complexity of an object's geometry, optimizing its topology while maintaining overall shape integrity.

The image download option instantly saves a high-resolution PNG file. The image is rendered using the same real-time renderer, ensuring it matches what is seen in Studio. Learn more about the renderer here:

To adjust the aspect ratio of the downloaded image, add a camera, enable the setting, and set the desired ratio. Then, while viewing through the camera, download the image.

For a more convenient image generation workflow, we recommend using the Figma plugin. Learn more here:

Simulates light scattering beneath the surface of an object, creating a soft, translucent effect. This property is crucial for materials like skin, leaves, wax, and marble, where light penetrates, scatters, and exits at different points, producing a natural look. A color can be selected to define the scattering effect. Additionally, a radius parameter controls the depth of light penetration, adjusting the softness and intensity of the effect for greater realism.

The New Object tool adds a new object to the scene, which starts empty and requires manual geometry input.

Use cases

• Creating a new object from scratch – useful for modeling separate elements directly in Edit Mode.

Gradually scales an object along a chosen axis, making one end narrower or wider than the other.

The Ambient Occlusion effect enhances depth and realism by simulating soft contact shadows in areas where surfaces are close to each other, such as corners, creases, and intersections.

A specialized object designed for use as a seamless background, forming a continuous surface that serves as both the floor and the wall simultaneously. The curvature or angle between them can be adjusted to achieve smooth transitions, making it ideal for studio-style renders and product visualization.

The Vignette effect darkens the edges of the scene, adding cinematic depth and guiding viewer attention toward the center to enhance visual focus.

Settings:

• Radius – defines how far the vignette effect extends from the edges toward the center. Lower values create a stronger vignette effect, while higher values keep more of the image unaffected.

The Fit View function enhances scene navigation by adjusting the camera to focus on a selected object or all objects in the scene, making it easier to inspect and manipulate objects from an optimal perspective.

How it works:

• Focusing on an object: select an object and press

Defines how much light is reflected from the surface of a material, influencing its shininess and realism. Higher values make the surface more reflective, while lower values create a more diffuse appearance. A texture can be used to create varied reflectivity across different areas of the material.

The Double-Sided Material option enables rendering of both the front and back faces of a surface, ensuring the material is visible from all angles. This is particularly useful for thin objects like paper, leaves, or fabric, where both sides need to be rendered without requiring additional geometry.

Enabling this feature ensures correct shading and lighting behavior, improving realism in scenes where single-sided rendering would cause visibility issues.

The Smooth Edges effect enhances visual clarity by reducing pixelation and jagged edges on objects. It utilizes MSAA (Multisample Anti-Aliasing) to create smoother, more refined visuals, improving overall scene quality.

The Grain effect adds a subtle film-like noise texture to the scene, enhancing realism, providing a cinematic aesthetic, and creating a more organic visual style by adding texture and reducing banding.

Settings:

• Intensity – controls the strength of the grain effect. Higher values result in a more pronounced grain, while lower values keep the effect subtle.

• Mode:

  • Multiplicative – applies grain based on the scene’s brightness, making darker areas more affected.

  • Additive – applies grain uniformly across the entire scene, regardless of brightness levels.

The Soft Shadows effect enhances shadow realism by creating smoother, more natural-looking shadow edges, reducing harsh transitions between light and shadow.

Overview

Vectary utilizes an internal measurement system that can be defined only when importing/exporting a file or configuring augmented reality settings.

Available units

File Import

In the import settings menu, a preferred unit of measurement can be selected. Imported files will have their dimensions automatically converted according to the selected units. Once configured, this setting will be applied to all new projects by default, without the need for repeated selection.

File Export

When selecting a file format that supports unit information, an additional field for specifying units will appear. Note that OBJ and STL formats do not store real-world unit data.

AR Export

To set units for an AR model, navigate to the Behavior tab and select a preferred measurement unit.

Selection tools allow precise control over object selection in the scene. Different methods provide flexibility depending on the workflow and selection requirements.

Selection tools

These tools streamline the selection process, making it easier to manage complex scenes and make precise edits.

Deep selection

When an object is inside a group or affected by a modifier, it can be selected directly by holding Ctrl/Cmd while clicking on it. This bypasses the group or modifier, allowing for precise selection.

Selection manager

Selections can be saved and then used in various project settings.

Learn more about it here:

Overview

Boolean modifier performs operations between multiple objects to create complex shapes. The bottom object in the list acts as the main object, while all other objects above it participate in the operation with the main object.

Each participating object has an icon next to it that determines which of the three operations will be performed: union, subtract, or intersect. This means that the main object can have different types of operations with different objects simultaneously.

Separate by material

Enabling this option ensures that each object involved in the Boolean operation retains its original material.

Boolean Animation Limitations

Union

Merges objects into a single shape while ensuring that the resulting geometry remains correct.

Unlike a simple merge operation, this method removes internal geometry at intersections, preventing unnecessary overlapping polygons.

Subtract

Cuts the participating objects from the main object, removing overlapping sections and leaving behind the remaining shape.

Intersect

Keeps only the overlapping parts between the main object and participating objects, removing all non-overlapping sections.

Tutorial

Orientation axis

In the bottom left corner of the screen, there is an area displaying the X Y Z orientation axes, the view type name, and geometry statistics.

Geometry statistics

58824 — number of vertices

19608 — number of triangles

25 — number of objects (hidden objects are ignored). more detailed statistics are displayed in Preview mode:

Controls how light bends when passing through a transparent material, simulating effects like glass, water, or gemstones.

This property includes a value range from 0 to 100, which controls the strength of the refraction effect. A value of 0 results in no refraction, while 100 produces the strongest bending of light. Index of Refraction (IOR) determines how much light changes direction when passing through the material. Common IOR values include 1.0 for air, 1.33 for water, 1.52 for standard glass, and higher values for denser materials like diamonds (2.42).

Thickness and Absorption parameters refine how light interacts within the material. Thickness influences the perceived density, while Absorption determines how much light is lost as it passes through. A selectable color defines the absorption effect, adding depth and realism.

Adds an extra transparent layer on top of a material, simulating varnishes, car paints, or protective coatings.

The intensity of the effect ranges from 0 to 100%.

A color can be assigned to tint the clearcoat layer, influencing how it blends with the base material and altering its final appearance.

This layer has its own roughness settings, with roughness adjustable from 0 to 100%, allowing for enhanced surface detail and precise control over the finish.

A Lightmap is a pre-rendered texture that stores lighting information, including environmental lighting, local light sources, and material properties of each object within a scene. Using a Lightmap texture significantly enhances the realism of lighting without compromising real-time performance.

Key features of lightmap:

• Captures detailed information about the environmental lighting, local light sources, and material attributes of objects

• Improves rendering efficiency by reducing the need for real-time lighting calculations

• Provides highly realistic lighting and shadow effects for static scenes

Ambient Occlusion is an effect that simulates soft shadows and shading by calculating how geometry blocks ambient light, adding depth and realism to 3D models.

An Ambient Occlusion (AO) texture is pre-rendered and stored as an image, enhancing realism without negatively impacting performance during real-time rendering. This texture can be generated directly within Vectary Studio or imported from external software

Recommended uses:

• Static scenes

• High-detail objects requiring realistic shading

• Scenes aiming for optimized rendering performance

Tutorials

Learn more about this feature:

Texture remapping allows converting Ambient occlusion (texture) and Lightmap (proprietary material properties) into basic material settings such as Roughness and Emission, which are supported in standard 3D formats like GLB, FBX, OBJ, USDZ. This ensures that the object retains a similar appearance when exported into a file or viewed in AR.

How to run remapping:

• for this feature to become available, the object or group must contain Ambient Occlusion or a Lightmap in any of its materials

• select the desired object or group and right-click to open the context menu

• select the Remap AO and LM

The time required for the remapping process may vary depending on the complexity of the scene.

Result:

• the original object will be hidden

• a copy of the object will appear (If the result is satisfactory, the original object may be deleted, they are not linked)

• the copy of the object will include Roughness and Emission maps instead of Ambient Occlusion and Lightmap

The Bloom effect enhances bright areas by creating a glowing halo around them, simulating realistic light scattering and adding depth to the scene.

Settings:

• Intensity – controls the strength of the glow effect. Higher values produce a more pronounced bloom.

• Threshold – determines the brightness level at which the bloom effect is applied. Lower values make more areas glow, while higher values limit the effect to the brightest spots.

• Size – adjusts the spread of the glow, affecting how far the bloom extends from the light source.

The Color Balance effect allows precise adjustments to the color composition of a scene, ensuring the desired visual tone and atmosphere by modifying different tonal ranges.

Settings:

• Low – adjusts the color balance of the darkest areas (shadows)

• Mid – controls the color balance in midtones

• High – affects the brightest areas (highlights)

• Red, Green, Blue – individually modifies the intensity of each color channel

• Offset – shifts all color values uniformly, affecting the entire image's color cast

The Fading effect simulates atmospheric fog, softening distant objects and enhancing depth perception in the scene.

Settings:

• Start – defines where the fog effect begins. A pipette tool allows selecting an object to automatically set the fog start distance based on its position.

• Intensity – adjusts the strength of the fog effect, controlling how much it obscures objects in the distance.

Overview

Team permissions are available within the Business workspace and ensure that workspace members have access rights that align with their designated roles. We have established several levels of access to guarantee teams confidence in the security and privacy of their projects and information.

The Setup category includes additional tools that do not fit into other predefined categories but are essential for refining and organizing the design workflow. These tools assist in structuring scenes, adjusting visual presentation, and improving workflow efficiency.

Basic material properties define how a surface looks and reacts to light. These properties control essential aspects like color, reflectivity, transparency, and surface details. Each property can be manually adjusted or assigned a texture to create more complex and realistic materials.

Advanced material properties provide greater flexibility in creating realistic surfaces such as high-performance polymers, tempered glass, frosted glass, coated metals, and multilayered composites. These properties allow for precise customization, making it possible to achieve complex materials with layered and dynamic visual effects.

The control bar, located at the bottom of the canvas, provides quick access to various tools for adjusting the scene view and interacting with objects.

Replicates the interference effect seen in thin layers of transparent material, such as soap bubbles or oil on water. The intensity of the effect can be adjusted from 0 to 100%. It creates iridescent color shifts depending on the viewing angle. Thinfilm is controlled through a gradient, allowing precise customization of color shifts.

Additional colors can be added beyond the three default ones, enabling more complex iridescent effects.

The Reflections effect enables surface reflections in the scene, ensuring realistic light behavior.

Overview

Vectary Studio simplifies applying designs onto 3D objects through decals. Decals allow quick and intuitive application of images, animations, or videos directly onto the surface of any geometry.

Overview

The Ground Plane is a virtual surface that helps integrate 3D objects into a scene by providing a base for casting shadows. It enhances realism by ensuring objects appear grounded rather than floating in space.

The Asset Library (Design System) allows importing existing projects into the current scene. It provides a structured way to manage and reuse 2D/3D assets across different projects.

Importing an existing project

To import an existing project into the current scene:

The background setting determines how the scene’s backdrop is displayed.

• Transparent — removes the background, making the scene fully transparent

• Environment — uses the HDRI environment () as the background, blending the lighting and reflections with the scene. -

Libraries provide quick access to pre-configured assets and custom resources for more efficient project creation.

Adjusts the transparency of a material. A value of 100 makes the material fully opaque, while lower values make it more transparent.

A black-and-white opacity texture can be imported, where black represents full transparency and white represents full opacity.

Opacity supports two blending modes: Blend and Mask:

• Blend provides smooth transitions between transparent and opaque areas

• Mask works on a binary principle, meaning it does not produce intermediate transparency levels like Blend mode. It is particularly recommended for AR, as it ensures decals and textures display correctly. Using Mask mode ensures that transparent areas do cast

Overview

Snapping enhances precision by automatically aligning objects and elements to specific points, grids, or surfaces. This ensures accurate placement, alignment, and transformation adjustments in both Design and Edit modes, making object manipulation more efficient and consistent.

Snapping can be toggled on and off using the S hotkey.

Overview

Viewport display modes control how objects appear in the scene, allowing adjustments to visibility to provide additional visual information while working on a project.

By default, in Design mode, objects are displayed with their assigned materials and textures

To view an object's mesh or change its appearance, switch the display mode from the list or cycle through the modes by pressing Z.

The Material Library provides a collection of pre-made materials organized into categories such as wood, metal, cement, glass, fabric, leather, plastic, and more. Custom materials can also be added to this library for reuse across different projects.

To open the material library, select an object and click the book icon next to the material name.

To apply a material from the library, drag it onto an object or click on it, and it will be assigned automatically.

The Adjustments effect provides fine-tuned control over the scene's color and brightness properties, refining the overall color balance and lighting behavior to achieve a more polished and professional appearance.

Settings:

• Saturation – adjusts the intensity of colors, making them more vivid or muted

The HDRI Library offers a selection of high-quality HDRI maps for environmental lighting. These maps enhance realism by providing accurate lighting and reflections.

To open the environment library, click on Environment in the right panel and select the Library tab.

The library contains two categories, which can be found in the dropdown menu: Studio HDRIs and Outdoor HDRIs.

Vectary Studio supports importing animated files such as Lottie, GIF, or MP4 for versatile uses within your scenes. These animations can function as textures, decals, UI elements, or interactive hotspots.

Importing animated files as textures

The UI of Vectary Studio can be described as modern, user-friendly, and intuitive. It follows common design standards, making it easy to navigate without requiring extensive learning.

Overview

Designs from Figma can be easily imported into Vectary as textures or stickers. Any changes made to the frame after its import can be synchronized with a single click.

Importing a Frame as a Texture

Importing a Frame as a Sticker

A Figma frame can be imported not only as a texture but also as a separate object that can be attached to another object (learn more )

To do this, copy the link to the frame () and simply paste it onto the canvas by pressing Ctrl+V.

This creates a separate object (a plane) that can be applied to any surface.

Synchronizing changes

If the frame was modified in Figma, click the synchronization icon next to the frame link in Vectary to update it.

Reusing the frame

To use the imported image in other settings, there is no need to import it again—simply select the texture from the existing list.

Token

A token needs to be generated only once in Figma and linked to Vectary to connect the Figma account.

Done! Frames can now be imported.

Tutorials

Account settings can be found in the dashboard in the bottom left corner:

This link also leads to the account settings: https://www.vectary.com/dashboard/?profile=true

Profile settings

The following actions are available for the account:

1. Change name

2. Set profile picture

3. Change password

4. Check an email linked to the account

Change email

To update the email address linked to an account, contact the support service. Submit a request through the , including the following details:

1. The current email address associated with the account

2. The new email address intended for use

3. Access Token ()

4. User ID ()

Changing the login method (from Google to Email)

• Sign out of your account

• Go to

• Enter your email address

• An email will be sent with a link to reset your password

Billing info

Please note that subscriptions are linked to workspaces, not to individual accounts. Since each workspace has its own subscription, payment settings are located in the .

Overview

Modifiers are tools used to procedurally alter the geometry of objects in a non-destructive manner. They allow for dynamic adjustments and efficient modeling workflows by applying transformations, duplications, and shape modifications without permanently affecting the base mesh. Modifiers can be stacked and combined to achieve complex designs while maintaining flexibility for future edits.

A modifier functions as a group, meaning it can be applied to multiple objects simultaneously. Additionally, one modifier can be applied to another, allowing for complex, layered transformations.

The effect of a modifier can be temporarily disabled without removing it, providing flexibility in testing different configurations:

To remove a modifier without deleting its contents, open the context menu and select Ungroup Ctrl+Shift+G

Converting to geometry

Any modifier can be converted into geometry, preventing the system from recalculating operations each time, which improves performance while working in Studio.

This is especially recommended for modifiers such as Subdivide, Boolean, and Bevel.

Converting Array and Symmetry modifiers into geometry will result in instances rather than independent objects. The geometry of these instances remains linked, meaning they do not increase the overall polygon count while still behaving as duplicated elements of the original object.

List of modifiers

Overview

By default, illumination in a scene comes from environment lighting (Environment). Local light sources provide additional illumination with defined positions and characteristics. These lights can complement environment lighting or completely replace it if environment lighting is disabled. They influence the appearance of objects by casting shadows and creating highlights.

Light sources are very easy to use and configure:

Point light

A point light emits light in all directions from a single point in space.

• Radius – defines the size of the light source, affecting how shadows and highlights appear. A larger radius creates softer, more diffused shadows and broader highlights, while a smaller radius results in sharper shadows and more concentrated highlights.

Spot light

A spot light emits a cone-shaped beam of light. It has a defined direction, angle, radius, and softness, allowing for precise control over illumination. Spotlights are commonly used for stage lighting, flashlights, and focused light effects.

• Radius – defines the size of the light source within the cone. A larger radius results in a bigger apparent source, while a smaller radius keeps the light more concentrated.

• Angle – determines the spread of the light cone. A wider angle creates a broader beam of light, while a narrower angle focuses illumination on a smaller area.

• Softness – controls the transition between the fully illuminated area and the outer edges of the light cone. Higher softness results in a gradual fade, whereas lower softness produces a sharper falloff.

Directional light

A directional light simulates light coming from a distant source, such as the sun. It casts parallel rays across the scene, creating consistent lighting and shadows regardless of object positions.

• Angle – controls the spread of light rays. A smaller angle results in more focused lighting with sharper shadows, while a larger angle creates softer, more diffused shadows, simulating atmospheric scattering.

Rectangle Light

A rectangle light is an area light source that emits light from a rectangular surface. It produces soft shadows and is useful for simulating large light panels, windows, or softbox lighting setups.

• Width & Height – define the physical dimensions of the light source. Larger values result in softer shadows and a more evenly distributed illumination.

Settings

• Intensity – determines the brightness of the light source. This value can exceed 100% if entered manually, allowing for higher light emission levels.

• Shadow – by default, local light sources do not cast shadows. Enable this setting to allow shadows to be visible. Note that a surface is required for shadows to appear (e.g. ).

Dynamic

1. Non-Dynamic mode – objects with a do not receive diffuse reflections from the light source but still contribute to specular reflections.

2. Dynamic mode – light influences all objects in the scene, including those with a . However, dynamic light sources are ignored when baking the Lightmap.

Retain AO

1. Retain AO disabled – objects with an map do not receive diffuse reflections but still contribute to specular reflections.

2. Retain AO enabled – light influences all objects in the scene, including those with an map.

Effects enhance the visual quality of the scene, improving realism and aesthetics. Some effects influence rendering quality and require manual activation for performance optimization, while others purely enhance the visual appearance.

To ensure optimal performance, some effects must be enabled manually when necessary. These effects can improve rendering quality but may impact performance.

Most effects have adjustable parameters. To modify them, click on the effect's name after adding it:

Effects can be hidden or removed:

Overview

Environment in 3D scenes defines the lighting and reflections of the scene. This is achieved using an HDRI (High Dynamic Range Image), which provides realistic lighting by capturing a wide range of luminance values, from deep shadows to bright highlights. The lighting in your scene primarily comes from this HDRI environment, making it crucial for realistic rendering.

Materials can look dramatically different depending on the selected HDRI, directly influencing the final appearance of your project. You can find various HDRIs online and easily import them by dragging and dropping the files directly onto the canvas (in HDR or EXR format).

Settings

Adjusting HDRI settings is essential, as they influence the appearance of materials, reflections, shadows, and even the project size by modifying resolution. Proper attention to these settings is recommended for achieving the best results.

• Intensity — сontrols the overall brightness of the HDRI environment, affecting how much light is cast onto objects in the scene. The intensity value can be manually set beyond 100 for stronger lighting effects.

• Rotation — сhanges the orientation of the HDRI, altering the direction of lighting and reflections.

• Hue — adjusts the overall color tint of the HDRI, shifting the color balance of the environment lighting.

Library

Read more about this here:

Tutorials

Overview

Vectary supports STEP/STP , IGES/IGS

Overview

Deformers are procedural tools used to modify the shape of objects without altering their underlying topology. They allow for flexible transformations that can be adjusted dynamically

A deformer functions as a group, meaning it can be applied to multiple objects simultaneously. Additionally, one deformer can be applied to another, allowing for complex, layered transformations.

Overview

Vectary Studio allows importing custom textures into almost every material property, providing extensive customization options to enhance visual fidelity and achieve desired effects.

Overview

By default, scene are viewed and edited using a default camera without specific settings. However, multiple custom cameras with various settings can be added, offering enhanced control and visual customization options:

• Perspective

Overview

The Gizmo and Origin (pivot point) are essential tools for manipulating objects in the 3D scene. They control how objects are positioned, rotated, and scaled, ensuring precise transformations and alignment. Understanding and adjusting the Gizmo and Origin allows for greater precision when working with 3D models, ensuring efficient object manipulation and alignment.

Overview

Selecting geometric elements is one of the most frequent actions when working with geometry. Before using any tool, the necessary geometry must be selected first.

Using hotkeys significantly streamlines the selection process, making workflow more efficient.

In Edit mode, only one type of geometry - vertices (hotkey -

Overview

Vectary provides a flexible and intuitive workflow for managing materials. Users can create custom materials by adjusting key parameters such as metalness, roughness, refraction, and emission, among many others. Additionally, textures from external sources can be imported to achieve highly detailed and realistic surface effects.

A built-in material library offers a collection of ready-to-use materials, while also allowing users to store and reuse their custom materials for streamlined project management — Materials library

Sections

Settings

To access material settings, select an object. Once selected, the right panel will display the object's material list and material properties.

Material settings overview

Managing materials

Each object can have multiple materials, each defining its own set of properties and textures. Materials can be freely added, removed, duplicated, and adjusted, allowing for comprehensive control and customization throughout the project.

How to add a material

To add a new material, select an object and click the plus icon in the material list on the right panel.

This allows multiple materials with different settings to be assigned to a single object.

How to duplicate a material

To duplicate an existing material, select an object and click the duplicate icon next to the material name in the material list on the right panel.

How to copy a material from another object

To copy a material from another object, select an object and click the eyedropper icon in the material list on the right panel. The cursor will change to a crosshair, indicating that you need to click on an object in the scene to copy its material. Clicking on the object will apply the selected material to the current object.

Overview

Edit Mode allows direct manipulation of an object's geometry, enabling polygonal modeling by working with vertices, edges, and faces.

Entering Edit mode

There are three ways to switch to Edit mode:

• Select an object and press Enter

• Double-click on an object

• Shift+2

Display and Visibility

• Objects in Edit mode are displayed in mode by default. This can be overridden using the Z key to switch display modes.

• Only one object can be edited at a time. Other objects remain visible in their Design mode appearance or can be displayed as semi-transparent by enabling X-ray Mode in the menu.

Edit Mode Tools

In Edit Mode, tools are specifically designed for working with geometry. Some tools may be inactive if no geometry is selected, as they only apply to specific element types.

A dedicated Control bar at the bottom of the canvas provides options to switch between editing vertices (hotkey - 1), edges (hotkey - 2), or faces (hotkey - 3). In Edit Mode, only one type of geometry can be selected and modified at a time, meaning vertices, edges, and faces cannot be selected or manipulated simultaneously.