feat(gen3d): Pixal3D backend across UI, CLI and MCP - #1072
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TRELLIS.2 is weak on humanoids; the user confirmed on the HF demo that
Pixal3D (TencentARC, SIGGRAPH 2026, MIT code AND weights) is visibly
better on them. Pixal3D is a FORK of TRELLIS.2 that swaps the global
DINOv3 cross-attention for view-aligned projection conditioning:
out = cross_attn_block(x, global) + proj_linear(proj)
Everything else — samplers, decoders, 1536 channels / 30 blocks / 12
heads / rope — is identical, so it rides the SAME trellis-cli runtime.
**No ggml work was needed.** The implementation started here, then a
`git fetch upstream` showed pwilkin/trellis.cpp had already shipped
Pixal3D in v0.8.0, more completely than the in-progress version: it
carries a FlashAttention V-range fix that proj mode depends on,
Pixal3D's own HR coord quantizer, cross-resolution conditioning checks
and `--extend-pixel`. The duplicate was dropped and upstream adopted.
Lesson recorded: fetch upstream before writing against a vendored dep.
cmake/TrellisCpp.cmake now points at fernandotonon/trellis.cpp
@qtmesh-pixal3d = upstream main + the three macOS commits QtMeshEditor
depends on (Metal backend, direct CONV_3D in the SS decoder,
--dump-post). Merged with no conflicts; the MinGW patch still applies to
the new pin (verified by running PatchTrellisMinGW.cmake against it).
Surface: `--backend pixal3d` (alias `pixal`), plus `--pixal-fov DEG` and
`--no-naf`. FOV defaults to 0 = "leave trellis-cli on its own 49.13",
Pixal3D's training value — guessing here would silently mis-place the
projection camera the whole backend depends on.
`isTrellisRuntime()` replaces the scattered `== Backend::Trellis2`
equality checks, so both families share the sidecar path, the game-ready
pass and the native PBR bake rather than duplicating the gate.
Trellis2 stays the DEFAULT: Pixal3D needs its own ~11 GB of flow
weights, so preselecting it would point most users at models they have
not downloaded.
Verified end to end on this machine: weights converted (all three
decoders byte-identical to ours, all four flow models differing by
exactly the +300/-240 proj delta with zero shape mismatches), and a real
`--model pixal3d` generation completes — 2.2M verts / 4.4M faces.
Model directory layout (src/trellis_cli.cpp:175,
`FP = pix ? "/pixal3d_" : "/"`): flow weights AND naf take the
`pixal3d_` prefix, decoders are shared unprefixed, so one directory
serves both families.
Known limitation, reported by the runtime itself: Pixal3D ships no
res-512 texture flow, so `--res 512` writes geometry only. Textures need
--res 1024.
UI, MCP and AIModelCatalog entries follow in the next commits.
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Completes the surface parity: the backend is now reachable from the Inspector picker, the CLI (previous commit) and `generate_mesh_from_image`. **MCP**: `backend: "pixal3d"` (alias `pixal`), plus `pixal_fov` and `no_naf`. Two gates that were equality checks against Trellis2 now use `isTrellisRuntime()` — the non-ONNX guard and the runtime-availability check — because both trellis-cli families run out of process and neither needs ONNX. Without that, a Pixal3D request on a non-ONNX build would have been refused for a dependency it does not use. **UI**: "Pixal3D (best humanoids)" in the backend picker. The QML needed a structural fix first. The picker hardcoded `currentIndex === 0` / `=== 2` in 14 places, so inserting an entry would have silently rewired every one of them — `currentIndex === 2` meant TripoSG before and TripoSR after. Two live examples were already caught this way: the quality-tier snap and the progress-stage selection. All of it now keys off a `backendIds` array and named predicates (`t2Selected` / `pxSelected` / `sgSelected`), and the combo hands its `backendId` straight to the controller instead of reconstructing the string from indices. `t2Selected` deliberately covers BOTH trellis-cli families: they share the sidecar path, the game-ready pass and the progress stages, so every trellis-only control applies unchanged to Pixal3D. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds the download entry so the backend is reachable without manual file placement, pointing at the pre-built MIT GGUF set the upstream trellis.cpp docs recommend (vegax87/Pixal3D). Those GGUFs are byte-size-identical to converting TencentARC/Pixal3D's own safetensors with tools/convert.py, and the set also carries naf.gguf, which is NOT in TencentARC's repo — NAF ships as a torch .pth and is the one component converted through torch rather than safetensors. The files install into the EXISTING trellis2 directory rather than one of their own: Pixal3D is a fork that reuses TRELLIS.2's decoders byte-for-byte, and trellis-cli resolves the two families out of one directory by prefixing only the flow weights (src/trellis_cli.cpp:175, `FP = pix ? "/pixal3d_" : "/"`). Filenames verified against that loader and the URLs confirmed to resolve. The description states the res-512 texture limitation up front, since that is the one surprise a user would otherwise hit as a silent geometry-only result. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Four cases, following the file's convention that exit 2 means the
argument was rejected and exit 1 means it parsed and the run then failed
on the missing image.
- --backend accepts pixal3d / pixal / PIXAL3D (case-insensitive)
- an unknown backend is STILL rejected, so adding one did not turn the
enum into a catch-all
- --pixal-fov rejects 0, negatives, >=180 and garbage. 0 is reserved
for 'leave trellis-cli on its own 49.13 default', so an explicit 0 is
a caller error rather than a silent no-op — otherwise it would look
like it set something and do nothing
- --no-naf is a bare switch and must not swallow the next argument
21/21 in this suite, 76/76 across the ImageTo3D suites.
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Names the three things a reader would otherwise have to rediscover: that Pixal3D reuses TRELLIS.2's decoders byte-for-byte out of ONE models directory (flow weights prefixed `pixal3d_`), that there is no res-512 texture flow so 512 silently yields geometry only, and that --pixal-fov defaults to 'leave trellis-cli alone' because a guessed FOV mis-places the projection camera the whole backend depends on. Also records the measured material comparison — on the same image and seed, metallic came out ~0.00 on yellow plastic vs TRELLIS.2's false 0.52 — since that is evidence the win is not only geometric. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughPixal3D is added as an image-to-3D backend that uses the TRELLIS runtime. The changes add Pixal3D model weights and FOV and NAF options, update CLI and UI labels, and add runtime handling. The MCP tool also adds a texture-baking density warning. Status displays become selectable, and the render timer uses a 16 ms interval. ChangesPixal3D image-to-3D backend
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participant CLIPipeline
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CLIPipeline->>MeshGenPredictor: Submit Pixal3D backend and options
MeshGenPredictor->>Trellis2Predictor: Dispatch Pixal3D prediction
Trellis2Predictor->>trellis.cpp: Invoke with Pixal3D model and applicable FOV and NAF arguments
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| if (opts.pixal3d) { | ||
| // Same runtime, same model directory — only the flow weights differ | ||
| // (trellis-cli prefixes them with `pixal3d_`; the decoders are shared). | ||
| args << QStringLiteral("--model") << QStringLiteral("pixal3d"); |
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With the documented installation of the TRELLIS.2 base card plus the Pixal3D card, the preceding hasCascade() check recognizes only the unprefixed shape_flow_1024.gguf and tex_flow_1024.gguf, not the installed pixal3d_shape_flow_1024.gguf and pixal3d_tex_flow_1024.gguf. Consequently the default balanced Pixal3D run is downgraded to --res 512 before this block adds --model pixal3d; because Pixal3D has no 512 texture flow, the normal/default path produces geometry without the promised texture unless users also install the unrelated TRELLIS.2 cascade card. Make the cascade check and merge use the Pixal-prefixed files when opts.pixal3d is set.
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Confirmed and fixed in fed4374 — good catch, this was reachable on the DEFAULT path.
Verified before acting: hasCascade() probed only the unprefixed shape_flow_1024.gguf / tex_flow_1024.gguf, so a correctly-installed Pixal3D setup (files are pixal3d_*_1024.gguf) was reported as cascade-less and downgraded to --res 512 — where Pixal3D has no texture flow at all. The balanced default therefore produced an untextured mesh unless the user also installed the unrelated TRELLIS.2 cascade card.
Everything that resolves model files is now family-aware through one flowPrefix, mirroring trellis-cli's own FP = pix ? "/pixal3d_" : "/":
- the cascade probe and the base-set probe (Pixal3D has no
tex_flow_512, so it is not in its base set) - the merge-copy loop, which also now carries
pixal3d_naf.gguf— a merged dir without it would fail mid-run - the fallback warning, which names the correct download card
76/76 tests pass.
| // Trellis2 and Pixal3D are the SAME runtime — predictTrellis2 passes | ||
| // `--model pixal3d` for the latter and everything downstream is shared. | ||
| if (isTrellisRuntime(opts.backend)) | ||
| return predictTrellis2(image, opts, progress); |
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When a machine has only the supported Python sidecar installed, runtimeAvailable() is true and this dispatch accepts Backend::Pixal3D, but Trellis2Predictor adds --model pixal3d only in its RuntimeKind::TrellisCpp branch; the Python branch ignores pixal3d, FOV, and NAF options and runs ordinary TRELLIS.2. UI, CLI, and MCP therefore report a successful Pixal3D generation after an expensive run that actually used the wrong model. Require the trellis.cpp runtime for Pixal3D (or implement equivalent Python-sidecar arguments) instead of treating every TRELLIS runtime as compatible.
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Confirmed and fixed in fed4374.
Verified the mechanism before acting: every Pixal3D argument is emitted inside the RuntimeKind::TrellisCpp branch (Trellis2Predictor.cpp:465), and the Python sidecar has no --model switch — so on a Python-only machine runtimeAvailable() returned true, the request was accepted, and plain TRELLIS.2 ran while every surface reported a successful Pixal3D generation.
Chose to refuse rather than implement sidecar equivalents, following the --tex-res precedent a few lines below:
trellis2: the pixal3d backend needs the trellis.cpp runtime (trellis-cli);
the Python sidecar has no Pixal3D support and would silently run ordinary
TRELLIS.2. Install trellis-cli, or choose the trellis2 backend.
The whole reason to select this backend is that it differs from TRELLIS.2, so silently substituting the other one after minutes of compute is the worst available outcome — worse than an upfront error.
Guarded on importPath.isEmpty() too, so the QTMESH_TRELLIS2_IMPORT re-bake seam (which reaches neither runtime) is unaffected.
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2241-2246: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winUpdate the stale backend-index comment; it now contradicts the ID-based refactor.
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Index map: 0 = TRELLIS.2, 1 = TripoSR, 2 = TripoSG.and never mentions Pixal3D. After this change,backendIdsis["trellis2", "pixal3d", "triposr", "triposg"], so the real mapping is 0=TRELLIS.2, 1=Pixal3D, 2=TripoSR, 3=TripoSG. The comment directly contradicts the code comment just below it, which explains thatbackendIdexists specifically to stop callers from relying on positional indices.A second instance has the same problem: the section header at line 2297,
// ---- TRELLIS.2 options (only for the TRELLIS.2 backend) ----------, is now inaccurate. That section'svisible: mgBackendCombo.t2Selectedbinding applies to both TRELLIS.2 and Pixal3D.Leaving these stale invites a future author to reintroduce positional-index logic, which is the exact bug class this refactor removes.
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- // Backend: TRELLIS.2 (Microsoft, out-of-process sidecar — the - // highest-quality tier and the DEFAULT whenever its runtime is - // installed), TripoSR (fast, textured, local ONNX) or TripoSG - // (rectified flow — higher-fidelity local geometry, geometry-only, - // slower). Declared BEFORE the Model row so the tier picker can - // react to it. Index map: 0 = TRELLIS.2, 1 = TripoSR, 2 = TripoSG. + // Backend: TRELLIS.2 (Microsoft, out-of-process sidecar — the + // highest-quality tier and the DEFAULT whenever its runtime is + // installed), Pixal3D (TRELLIS.2 fork, sharing its runtime), + // TripoSR (fast, textured, local ONNX) or TripoSG (rectified + // flow — higher-fidelity local geometry, geometry-only, slower). + // Declared BEFORE the Model row so the tier picker can react to + // it. See `backendIds` below for the id-to-label mapping — do + // not rely on a positional index here.- // ---- TRELLIS.2 options (only for the TRELLIS.2 backend) ---------- + // ---- TRELLIS.2-family options (TRELLIS.2 and Pixal3D) -------------Based on learnings: this repository has no specific rule here, but the change's own in-code comment explains the intent ("Everything keys off these rather than a positional currentIndex — the list previously hardcoded
currentIndex === 0/2in 14 places, so inserting an entry silently rewired all of them"), which this stale text undermines.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@CLAUDE.md`:
- Line 170: Update the Pixal3D example in the generate3d documentation to use
the recognized --resolution option wherever it currently uses --res, including
the 512 and 1024 references, so the documented commands select the described
resolution.
In `@src/ImageTo3D/MeshGenPredictor.cpp`:
- Line 138: Update MeshGenPredictor to reject Pixal3D requests before inference
when runtimeKind() selects PythonSidecar, since that path ignores t2.pixal3d;
alternatively, pass an explicit Pixal3D model selector through the Python
sidecar so it cannot silently run TRELLIS.2.
In `@src/ImageTo3D/Trellis2Predictor.cpp`:
- Around line 555-558: Update the `opts.pixal3d` model-selection flow to resolve
or merge Pixal3D files before choosing the `--models` directory, including files
downloaded to the catalog directory. For the balanced preset, check the selected
Pixal3D family’s 1024 flows before falling back to `--res 512`, so installed
Pixal3D flows retain 1024 resolution.
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In `@qml/PropertiesPanel.qml`:
- Around line 2241-2246: Update the backend picker comment to include Pixal3D
and refer readers to backendIds rather than documenting positional indices.
Rename the TRELLIS.2 options section header to indicate it applies to both
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| t2.bakeNormalMap = opts.bakeNormalMap; | ||
| t2.supersample = opts.textureSupersample; | ||
| t2.texVolumeRes = opts.texVolumeRes; | ||
| t2.pixal3d = (opts.backend == MeshGenPredictor::Backend::Pixal3D); |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Reject Pixal3D when the selected runtime is the Python sidecar.
If the TRELLIS.2 Python sidecar is available but trellis-cli is not, runtimeKind() selects PythonSidecar. That branch never reads t2.pixal3d or passes a model selector. A Pixal3D request therefore runs TRELLIS.2 and can return a successful result under the wrong backend. Require TrellisCpp for Pixal3D before inference, or add explicit Pixal3D support to the Python branch.
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In `@src/ImageTo3D/MeshGenPredictor.cpp` at line 138, Update MeshGenPredictor to
reject Pixal3D requests before inference when runtimeKind() selects
PythonSidecar, since that path ignores t2.pixal3d; alternatively, pass an
explicit Pixal3D model selector through the Python sidecar so it cannot silently
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Both Codex P1s, both verified against the code before acting, and both were cases where the backend would have reported SUCCESS while doing something other than what the caller asked. **1. The cascade check was family-blind (Trellis2Predictor.cpp:481).** `hasCascade()` looked only for the unprefixed `shape_flow_1024.gguf` / `tex_flow_1024.gguf`, so a correctly-installed Pixal3D setup — whose files are `pixal3d_*_1024.gguf` — was reported as having no cascade and silently downgraded to `--res 512`. Pixal3D has NO 512 texture flow, so the DEFAULT balanced run then produced an untextured mesh unless the user also happened to install the unrelated TRELLIS.2 cascade card. This is exactly the limitation documented in the PR, reached through a code path rather than a user choice. Everything that resolves model files is now family-aware via one `flowPrefix`, mirroring trellis-cli's own `FP = pix ? "/pixal3d_" : "/"`: the cascade probe, the base-set probe (Pixal3D has no tex_flow_512, so it is not part of its base set), the merge-copy loop, and the fallback warning, which now names the right download card. The merge also carries `pixal3d_naf.gguf`, without which a merged directory would fail mid-run. **2. Pixal3D could silently run as TRELLIS.2 (MeshGenPredictor.cpp:321).** Every Pixal3D argument is passed in the `RuntimeKind::TrellisCpp` branch, and the Python sidecar has no `--model` switch. On a Python-only machine `runtimeAvailable()` is true, so the request was accepted and ordinary TRELLIS.2 ran — reporting a successful Pixal3D generation after minutes of work with the wrong weights. Now refused with a runtime-specific message, following the `--tex-res` precedent a few lines below: the whole reason to choose this backend is that it differs, so quietly substituting the other one is the worst available outcome. 76/76 tests pass. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Review catch (CodeRabbit). The example used `--res 1024`, but `qtmesh generate3d` has no such flag — it is `--resolution`. Verified: `"--res"` appears ZERO times in CLIPipeline.cpp, and running the documented command shows the difference plainly — `--resolution 1024` prints the large-grid warning while `--res 1024` is silently ignored and the run stays at the default 256. That made the example actively misleading for the one setting that matters most on this backend: Pixal3D has no res-512 texture flow, so a user following the doc verbatim would have got an untextured result and no indication why. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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🟠 Major · Merge Pixal3D weights when the families occupy separate directories. · Trellis2Predictor.cpp:549
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy liftMerge Pixal3D weights when the families occupy separate directories.
If the TRELLIS.2 base set is beside
trellis-cliand AI Model Settings downloads only Pixal3D into the catalog, neither directory passeshasBasefor Pixal3D. Line 549 therefore skips the merge. The run falls back to 512 and then passes a model directory without Pixal3D flows, so generation fails. Merge the shared files from the sibling directory with Pixal3D flows from the catalog before selectingmodels2. This is the unresolved split-directory case from the earlier review. (raw.githubusercontent.com)🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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🟠 Major · Reject --tex-res 512 for Pixal3D cascade generation. · Trellis2Predictor.cpp:605
src/ImageTo3D/Trellis2Predictor.cpp:605
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winReject
--tex-res 512for Pixal3D cascade generation.If a caller selects Pixal3D with a cascade preset and
--tex-res 512, this branch selects Pixal3D after the earlier code adds--tex-res 512. The pinned runtime disables its mixed-resolution texture path for Pixal3D and runs the 1024 texture flow instead. The request succeeds without using the requested texture resolution and can incur the higher memory cost the caller sought to avoid. Reject this combination before startingtrellis-cli, or report explicitly that the request will use 1024. (raw.githubusercontent.com)🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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- Around line 587-590: Update the warning message selected by opts.pixal3d to
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- Line 549: Update the TRELLIS.2 model selection around hasBase(models2) to
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catalog when the model families are split across directories, then select the
merged directory as models2.
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Reported from a real failure: trellis-cli rejected an argument and printed its entire usage text into the AI panel, and there was no way to get that out of the app except retyping it from a screenshot. Backend errors are exactly the messages a user most needs to copy — into a bug report, a search, or a message to someone who can help. Four status labels switched from Text to a read-only TextEdit: generation status (the one in the report), image generation, lattice, and motion generation. Read-only with no cursor keeps them looking identical to before; selectByMouse plus persistentSelection give selection, and TextEdit's built-in shortcuts then provide Cmd+C / Cmd+A. activeFocusOnPress is deliberate: selection needs focus, but taking it on load would steal focus from the panel's own inputs, so only a click into the message focuses it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
A run holds ~3-11 GB resident for minutes. Two at once on a shared-memory Mac push the machine into sustained swap while the GPU is saturated: a captured session had TWO trellis-cli processes alive simultaneously (3.2 GB + 4.3 GB, both blocked in Metal) at ThermalPressureLevelHeavy, immediately before watchdogd restarted the graphical session for a missed WindowServer check-in. Nothing downstream serialised these — the GUI generates on a worker thread, and CLI/MCP can be driven concurrently — so the guard goes at Trellis2Predictor::predict(), the single funnel all three surfaces share. An atomic flag rather than a mutex, deliberately: a second request is REFUSED with an actionable message instead of being silently queued behind a multi-minute run, which would read as a hang. RAII release covers every early return. The .qtm3d import seam re-bakes without running inference, so it neither takes nor is blocked by the slot. The test drives a stub trellis-cli that blocks until released, so the first call provably still holds the slot when the second tries. The stub self-times-out: without it, a regressed guard would let both calls block on a release that only arrives after join(), hanging CI forever instead of failing. Mutation-verified — disabling the guard fails the test. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
generate_mesh_from_image defaults target_tris to 0 (keep the original density) while the GUI's mesh picker defaults to Game Medium (25k), so the same request through MCP and through the UI produced very different assets — and the MCP one was unusable. Measured on the same goblin image, Pixal3D @1024: target_tris 0 299,988 tris -> 16,043 UV islands -> black seams target_tris 25000 24,846 tris -> 1,195 UV islands -> clean xatlas cuts a chart wherever it cannot flatten the surface, so an organic mesh at native density fragments into thousands of ~19-triangle islands. At any sane texture size each chart gets too few texels for the dilation gutter to cover its border, and every chart boundary reads as a black line across the model. The baked atlas is visibly confetti rather than recognisable body parts. Warn rather than change the default: flipping it would alter the output of every existing caller that relies on full density (a legitimate choice when not baking a texture). The note fires only when a texture bake is actually requested, and is joined with the predictor's own warning so neither is lost. The tool schema now states the measured numbers so a caller learns this before hitting it. The 25000 run also reproduced the GUI result exactly (21,471 verts / 24,846 tris), confirming the two paths differ only in this default. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two fixes found while chasing an intermittent "trellis-cli exited with
code 1" report.
1. Orientation. TRELLIS.2/Pixal3D output was reused from TripoSG's
"already +Y-up" path, which only turns it 180° about Y, so every
generation came out lying on its back (measured bbox X 1.02 /
Y 0.26 / Z 0.69 — height on Z, depth on Y). They need a further
-90° about X, as reported from the GUI. det +1, so winding and
normals are unaffected. Verified by render: the goblin now stands,
faces forward, Y 0.26 -> 0.69.
NB the up axis cannot be derived from extents alone: an A-posed
character's LONGEST axis is its arm span, not its height, and both
±90° candidates put height on Y while one stands the model on its
head. Mass distribution along each axis (torso peak vs thin limb
tails) is what actually identifies it.
2. Error truncation. collapseTrellisCliStderr kept the LAST 399 chars,
but trellis-cli prints its reason first and then ~2 KB of usage
text — so the reason was discarded and users saw boilerplate
("--gss F --gsh F guidance strengths …") as the error. It now keeps
the FRONT and cuts at the "usage:" banner. That alone turned an
unreadable report into "[trellis] unknown option: --model".
The reported failure itself was then a STALE SETTING, not a code bug:
ai/trellis2Cli in the app's real preferences domain (com.none.*, from
setOrganizationDomain("none")) still pointed at the bundled 22 Sep
/Applications binary, which predates --model. Nothing to change in the
source; recorded here because the symptom now reports itself.
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The previous commit applied it to the whole TRELLIS family, but only the
Pixal3D fork reconstructs on its back. TRELLIS.2 proper was already
placed correctly by the 180°-Y turn alone, so rotating it as well
OVER-rotated every TRELLIS.2 generation — reported from the GUI.
`r.bakeTrellisUprightX = opts.pixal3d` instead of an unconditional true.
Verified by generating both families from the same image and rendering:
TRELLIS.2 bbox Y 0.76 / Z 0.21 — upright (matches output from before
the regression: Y 0.77 / Z 0.22)
Pixal3D bbox Y 0.69 / Z 0.25 — still upright, unchanged by this fix
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The backend was labelled "Pixal3D (best humanoids)" in the model catalog, the GUI picker and the runtime warning, and described as "markedly better on humanoids/characters" in the MCP schema, CLAUDE.md and several comments. That over-promises: in practice it is a reasonable alternative, not a clear winner, and a label a user picks a 11 GB download from should not oversell it. The architectural description stays (a TRELLIS.2 fork that swaps the global DINOv3 cross-attention for view-aligned projection conditioning) since that is factual and explains when it is worth trying. The measured material observation is kept but stated in the past tense as one measurement rather than a general claim. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
m_pTimer->start(0) makes a QTimer fire as fast as the event loop can dispatch, so renderOneFrame() ran unbounded — the render window is created with no vsync and there is no frame limiter anywhere in the chain. On an idle, EMPTY scene that cost ~38% CPU and kept the GPU busy continuously; the same binary headless (--mcp) sits at 0.0% CPU and 7.9 MB. Nothing above display refresh is visible, so the work was pure waste — and sustained heat on a shared-memory Mac is exactly the condition in which this machine hit a WindowServer watchdog timeout. Measured after: ~9% idle, ~9-10% with geometry in the scene. The interval is a named constant so the two start() sites cannot drift; the bare start() calls around export reuse the last interval and inherit the cap automatically. The start(0) dates to the 2021 import, with the comment "when using mRoot->startRendering() there's a flickering effect on the grid" — but that flicker was with Ogre's own blocking loop, not with a throttled timer. Checked explicitly: 11 consecutive viewport frame-pairs are bit-identical (0.00000 mean difference) and the user confirmed visually that no flicker returns. The loop is still live, not frozen — creating a primitive over MCP renders it immediately. Trade-off: 16 ms is a fixed ~60 fps, so on a 120 Hz display interaction is capped below refresh. Render-on-demand (draw when the scene is dirty) would be strictly better and is the natural follow-up. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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When the 1024-cascade weights are missing the run falls back to 512, and the warning reported only that thin structures may be lost. For Pixal3D that understates it: the fork ships NO res-512 texture flow, so the fallback produces geometry with no texture volume at all — a caller would read the successful result as a textured generation that merely lost fine detail. The TRELLIS.2 wording is unchanged; it does have a 512 texture flow. Found by CodeRabbit on #1072; verified against the current code before acting (the fallback is still reachable and still sets res = 512). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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🟠 Major · Recognize Pixal3D weights during runtime discovery. · Trellis2Predictor.cpp:292-298
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If a model directory contains the shared decoders and Pixal3D flows but no TRELLIS.2 flows,
trellisCliAvailable()returns false.predict()then rejects the Pixal3D request before the family-aware model selection runs. Accept either family's required base set during discovery, then validate the selected family before launch. The upstream model list confirms that Pixal3D uses prefixed flows and shared decoders. (raw.githubusercontent.com)🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@src/ImageTo3D/Trellis2Predictor_test.cpp`:
- Line 176: Update the test around the inFlight assertion to release and join
the first worker before asserting, so a timeout reports a test failure without
terminating the process. Also handle the fake /bin/sh setup on Windows by
skipping the test there or using a native fake executable, since
runtimeAvailable() alone does not ensure the executable can launch.
In `@src/ImageTo3D/Trellis2Predictor.cpp`:
- Line 965: Update the assignment to r.bakeTrellisUprightX so import-only
re-bakes use the model family recorded in preserved interchange metadata,
preserving Pixal3D’s upright rotation when default options are used; keep the
existing opts.pixal3d behavior for other paths.
In `@src/MCPServer.cpp`:
- Line 11596: Update the generate_mesh_from_image tool description to include
pixal3d in its backend list, matching the backends exposed by the backend
schema.
- Around line 3186-3187: Update the condition that assigns densityWarning so it
emits the note only when the selected flow actually produces a texture; exclude
the Pixal3D 512 fallback, which produces geometry only, while preserving the
existing bakeTexture and targetTriangles checks where applicable.
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In `@src/ImageTo3D/Trellis2Predictor.cpp`:
- Around line 292-298: Update trellisCliAvailable() to recognize either the
TRELLIS.2 or Pixal3D required flow set alongside the shared decoders; ensure
predict() validates the selected family’s required weights before launch.
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Four findings, each verified against the current code before acting. 1. The concurrency test could ABORT the whole binary instead of failing. ASSERT_TRUE returns from the function, so on a timeout the still- joinable std::thread was destroyed — which calls std::terminate. The worker is now released and joined before every assertion. Re-verified by mutation: disabling the guard still fails the test, and now fails cleanly rather than killing the process. 2. That test also gated only on runtimeAvailable(), which checks that the stub files EXIST — but the stub is a /bin/sh script, so on Windows it would pass the gate and then fail to launch. Skipped there with a reason rather than asserting on a process that cannot start. 3. The MCP atlas-density note could be attached to a result with NO texture: Pixal3D falls back to res 512 when the cascade weights are missing and ships no 512 texture flow, so the run is geometry-only and a note about UV fragmentation is nonsense. The note is now dropped when res.texture is null — checked against the RESULT, not the request, since the fallback is decided inside the predictor. 4. The generate_mesh_from_image tool DESCRIPTION listed only trellis2 / triposr / triposg, so an agent reading it would not consider the backend this PR adds even though the schema enum offers it. Also: an import-only re-bake (QTMESH_TRELLIS2_IMPORT) read opts.pixal3d to pick the orientation, but a caller pointing at a preserved .qtm3d has no reason to set it — the Pixal3D upright rotation would be lost. The model family is now stamped into the interchange meta at generation time and preferred on import; files predating the stamp have no key and fall back to the option, so nothing changes for them. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Minor bump: #1072 adds the Pixal3D image-to-3D backend across the UI, CLI and MCP — a new user-facing capability, not a bugfix. Pinned doc refs synced via scripts/sync-doc-versions-from-cmake.sh (verified with --check, which is what the verify-doc-versions CI job runs). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Adds Pixal3D (TencentARC, MIT code + MIT weights) as an image-to-3D backend across the UI, CLI and MCP. It is a TRELLIS.2 fork that replaces the global DINOv3 cross-attention with view-aligned projection conditioning (
out = cross_attn(x, global) + proj_linear(proj)), so it rides the sametrellis-cliruntime and reuses TRELLIS.2's decoders byte-for-byte — one models dir serves both, with flow weights under apixal3d_prefix.It is offered as an alternative worth trying on characters, not as a better model: an earlier revision of this branch labelled it "best humanoids" everywhere, which over-promised for an 11 GB download, and that wording has been removed.
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--backend pixal3d,--pixal-fov DEG,--no-nafbackend: "pixal3d",pixal_fov,no_nafcurrentIndexmapping made fragile)Constraints worth knowing
--resolution 512writes geometry only (measured PBR = 0 at 512 vs 4,987,138 at 1024). Use 1024 for textures.--pixal-fovdefaults to trellis-cli's own 49.13 (Pixal3D's training value); guessing mis-places the projection camera the whole backend depends on.Fixes found while validating this on a real machine
Orientation. Pixal3D reconstructs on its back and was reusing TripoSG's "already +Y-up" path, so every generation came out lying down. It needs a further −90° about X (det +1, so winding and normals are unaffected). Scoped to the fork only — TRELLIS.2 proper is already placed correctly, and rotating it too over-rotated it. Verified by rendering both: TRELLIS.2 bbox Y 0.76/Z 0.21, Pixal3D Y 0.69/Z 0.25, both upright.
Note for future readers: the up axis cannot be derived from extents alone — an A-posed character's longest axis is its arm span, not its height, and both ±90° candidates put height on Y while one stands the model on its head. Mass distribution per axis (torso peak vs thin limb tails) is what identifies it.
Error truncation.
collapseTrellisCliStderrkept the last 399 chars, but trellis-cli prints its reason first and then ~2 KB of usage text — so the reason was discarded and users saw--gss F --gsh F guidance strengths …as the error. Now keeps the front and cuts at theusage:banner. That alone turned an unreadable report into[trellis] unknown option: --model, which identified a staleai/trellis2Clisetting pointing at a bundled binary predating the flag.Concurrency. A run holds ~3-11 GB for minutes. Two at once pushed a 24 GB Mac into sustained swap with both
trellis-cliprocesses blocked in Metal atThermalPressureLevelHeavy, immediately beforewatchdogdrestarted the graphical session.Trellis2Predictor::predict— the single funnel all three surfaces share — now refuses a second concurrent generation with an actionable message rather than queueing silently behind a multi-minute run. Mutation-verified.Atlas density (MCP).
generate_mesh_from_imagedefaultstarget_tristo 0 while the GUI defaults to Game Medium (25k), so the same request produced very different assets. At native density xatlas fragments the atlas into thousands of charts and every chart border reads as a black seam line:target_trisWarns rather than changing the default, which would alter output for existing callers; the schema now carries the measured numbers.
Viewport render loop.
m_pTimer->start(0)made aQTimerfire as fast as the event loop could dispatch, with no vsync and no frame cap: ~38% CPU on an idle empty scene (headless--mcp: 0.0%). Capped at ~60 fps → ~9%. The 2021 comment blamed a grid flicker, but that was with Ogre's blockingstartRendering(), not a throttled timer — checked explicitly (11 consecutive viewport frame-pairs bit-identical) and confirmed visually.Verification
Generated end-to-end on a real image through MCP with the high-quality matte (BiRefNet): 21,471 verts / 24,846 tris with diffuse + roughness + normal maps, upright, no seams. Both backends re-verified after the orientation scoping. 43/43 tests pass in the affected suites.
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