FoliageLab - Cutter

Pick your opacity map. Pick your mode and generate the right mesh for every stage of your pipeline.

LODs

• Draw a hull polygon per actor directly in the Image Editor
• Add inner Steiner points to guide triangulation - control edge flow from the inside
• Edge direction configurable per hull - Vertical for straight branches, Horizontal for bending geometry
• Pivot, angle and per-actor vertex count configurable per hull
• Save manual LOD snapshots - as many levels as you need
• Auto-generate a full LOD chain from any saved hull, with control over the number of levels and reduction percentage per step
• Build Other LODs - generate all manually saved LOD levels in one click after LOD0 is built
• Exploded view for easy inspection of the full LOD chain - spread levels along Z or on a 2D grid

Cross Mesh

• Add Cross Meshes - duplicate any LOD mesh and rotate the copy 90° for billboard-style crossed geometry
• Consolidate Meshes - merge each LOD mesh with its cross companion into a single object, organized into per-actor collections

HighPoly

• Texture Cutter - traces a pixel-perfect outline from the opacity map using Marching Squares. Full control over outline precision and cleanup. Quality presets: Draft, Standard, Cinematic
• Mesh Cutter - cuts existing card or plane meshes in the viewport to follow the opacity silhouette directly
• Separation (px) - controls how aggressively distinct elements on the opacity map are detected as separate islands
• Edge Smoothing (px) - simplify the traced contour before triangulation
• Tris Density and Vtx Limit - control mesh density and cap the vertex count per island

All modes

• Source from external file or any image already loaded in Blender - including render results and procedural textures
• Read from Mask, Alpha, R, G or B channel
• Working resolution up to 8K
• Full PBR viewport preview
• Holes and transparency regions inside your silhouette are detected automatically and excluded from the mesh, no manual cleanup needed

Want the full pipeline? the FoliageLab bundle saves you 30% on the complete suite.

Requirements

• Blender 4.2+. This tool is not compatible with Blender 5.0+

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Version 1.07 is now available !

Addition:

• Alt+Click inside a closed hull now adds an inner point, in addition to the existing edge-insertion behavior.
• On-screen shortcut reminder displayed as an overlay directly in the Image Editor while drawing/editing a hull.

Updates:

• The pivot now only moves via Shift+Click 
• Plain click inside the hull no longer creates an inner point (replaced by Alt+Click, to avoid accidental additions).
• Version displayed in the panel: v1.07