Shapelab

Shapelab 2025 is the latest annual release in the Shapelab series, delivering powerful and intuitive 3D sculpting tools for PCVR. Built on years of refinement, Shapelab offers a professional yet accessible workflow for artists of all levels. All versions receive updates until the end of their release year, meaning Shapelab 2025 will continue to be improved with updates throughout 2025 before the next version arrives in 2026. Shapelab is a highly efficient 3D sculpting application optimized for virtual reality devices. Shapelab takes advantage of VR technology to provide an immersive and intuitive interface that allows you to sculpt in 3D space, giving you a new level of control and creative freedom over your designs. With Shapelab, you can easily create organic shapes, from simple forms to complex designs. Visualize your creative ideas and print them in 3D or sculpt high-quality props, characters, and concepts for applications, games, and virtual worlds, as well as digital concept art and storyboards. Using virtual reality for 3D modeling offers numerous advantages. It allows you to work with your creations in a more natural way as if they were physical objects right in front of you. This provides a level of immersion and depth that is simply not possible with traditional 2D modeling tools. Additionally, virtual reality modeling can increase productivity, as it allows you to work faster and more efficiently, even with greater precision in certain cases. Shapelab’s usage of polygons instead of voxels makes it stand out in the creative VR tools market. Polygonal mesh modeling gives you the ability to sculpt stunning, well-detailed, and realistic 3D assets and allows users to import and edit large and complex 3D scans. With Shapelab's dynamic topology mode and support for industry-standard features, you can create detailed models with ease. Join our community of artists and unleash your creativity with Shapelab today! Please note that although you can register a Shapelab account after downloading Shapelab, an account is not needed to access the application. To create an account you only need to provide an email address and a password, or you can choose to sign in with your existing Google or Facebook account. Tick the 'Remember me' checkbox to stay logged in. You can provide additional information and manage your email preferences in your account settings. CORE FEATURES: VR and Desktop mode Run Shapelab on PC in desktop mode, or use a VR headset tethered to your PC to run the app in VR mode There is an experimental feature for switching between desktop and VR modes to enhance efficiency for tasks that are faster with a classic mouse and keyboard setup Sculpting Tools with alphas Clay, Draw, Inflate, Surface Stamp, Smooth, Snakehook, Flatten, Trim, Pinch, Mask, Regularize, 3D Stamp PBR Vertex Paint Features Painting 4 different properties in total: Color, Roughness, Metalness, and Emission. Optional dynamic topology sculpting The feature allows for real-time tessellation of the mesh based on the level of detail needed locally. It also makes some brushes more usable and effective in creating certain shapes. Multiresolution, subdivision levels Subdivide your mesh to create multiple 'resolution levels' Detail Transfer (Projection) Transfer detailed features from a high-resolution model with a less organized topology, including triangles, to another, potentially quad-based object Texture export Generate and export texture maps (normal maps, pbr properties, and colors) for your vertex-painted creations during the export process. Remeshing and mesh transforms Voxel remesh,Quad remesh Mirror and weld, Merge vertices Subdivide, Decimate, Regularize Multi-object handling Import, Export, and manipulate objects separately Clone, Mirror, Merge, Subtract, Intersect, Join objects Multiselect and group objects Parenting: Organize objects in a hierarchical manner Environments, materials and shading Various environments to choose from PBR materials, MatCaps and built-in procedural textures Ability to import custom matcaps Flatshading File support and Import/export Import/export FBX, OBJ, STL, and GLB files