Tools & features

What each part of LODinize is for and where to find it, grouped by purpose. These pages describe the tools; for ways of combining them see Workflows & guides.

Bring content in and out

Projects, import & export

Projects, Load Mesh, Load Animation (skeleton matching, previews, file details), Export LODs, saving.

Look and measure

Viewing & inspecting

Viewports, camera, shading modes, heatmaps, playback, clips.

Deviation timeline

Error over time, zoom, frame ranges, jumping to the worst frame.

Build and improve the LODs

Generating LODs

Presets, the LOD levels and their targets, fine-tuning options and quality weights.

Animation-aware refinement

Frame source, K poses, surface/silhouette budget, frame ranges.

Selection & mask painting

Selecting triangles and UV islands, mask layers (Protect, Geometry importance, UV importance, Remove), brushes.

Textures

Texture atlas

UV layout per LOD, coverage difference, island contours, solving texture gaps, exporting the padded atlas.

Check the result in context

Performance benchmark

An animated instanced crowd using your LODs, with frame-time and per-LOD statistics.

Configure the application

Settings

Appearance, graphics, navigation, painting and highlight colours, heatmap range, performance and more.

Mouse and keyboard at a glance

Where	Action	Result
3D viewports	Left-drag	Orbit the camera (both viewports move together)
	Right-drag	Pan
	Mouse wheel	Zoom
Deviation timeline	Click	Jump to that frame
	Drag	Mark a frame range
	Drag a range edge / body	Resize / move the range
	`Ctrl`+click	Mark a one-frame range
	`Ctrl`+`Shift`+click	Snap to the highest nearby point (±5 frames) and mark a 3-frame range around it
Selection (when enabled)	Click	Select a triangle or an island (depending on mode)
	`Ctrl`+click	Add to the selection
	`Shift`+drag	Paint a triangle selection
Paint tab	`Ctrl`+`Z` / `Ctrl`+`Y`	Undo / redo painting
Atlas Editor	Mouse wheel / right-drag	Zoom / pan the atlas