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Adding Material

OverviewMaterials are an essential part of building realistic and production-ready garments in VStitcher. You can import fabrics, trims, s...

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Overview

Materials are an essential part of building realistic and production-ready garments in VStitcher. You can import fabrics, trims, seams, and artworks from your local files or from cloud asset libraries and apply them directly to your 3D Garments.

Adding a Material from File Browser

  1. Open your garment in VStitcher.

  2. In the Resource pane (left side of the screen), go to the Materials section.

  3. Click the hamburger menu

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    in the section where you want to add a material (Fabric, Seams, Artwork, or Trims).

  4. Choose Add Fabric, Add Seam, Add Artwork, or Add Trim.

  5. In the file browser, select a supported file type:

    • Images: PNG, JPG, TIFF, TGA, PSD, GIF, SVG, AI

      • If you add an image as a fabric, it will use default fabric physics.

    • U3M file

    • 3D files: FBX, OBJ, U3M, SBSAR

      • This is only applicable for Trims.

  6. Click Open.

  7. The material will appear in the resource pane and can be assigned to pieces in your garment.

Adding Multiple Materials (New in 2025.2)

In VStitcher 2025.2 and newer, you can import multiple materials at once, streamlining your workflow.

  1. Follow the instructions 1-4 from Adding a Material from File Browser.

  2. In the file browser, use Ctrl (Windows) or Cmd (Mac) + click, or Shift-click to select multiple files.

  3. Click Open.

  4. All selected materials appear in the resource pane.

Adding Materials from an existing BW File

Version 2025.1 and older:

  1. Follow the instructions 1-4 from Adding a Material from File Browser.

  2. Select a BW file.

  3. A dialog box is displayed with the available materials.

  4. You can select multiple materials from any section. Click OK.

  5. The materials added will be auto sorted to the respective material sections in the resource pane.

Version 2025.2 and newer:

  1. In the Materials Resource Pane, Click on the Hamburger icon

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    .

  2. Select Add from a BW file.

  3. A dialog box is displayed with the available materials.

  4. You can select multiple materials from any section. Click OK.

  5. The materials added will be auto sorted to the respective material sections in the resource pane.

Notes & Limitations

  • BW files are excluded from multi-select import.

  • 3D Trim files (OBJ/FBX): multiple files skip the orientation dialog and default orientation applied.

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