Hello ladies and gentlemen! Considering the success of Dream Textures with some of our community artists, we'll be covering this project in our news. And today, we have an interesting update about it: Dream Textures v0.0.7 is the most recent release of Dream Textures's team. For those unfamiliar with it, Dream Textures is a plugin for Blender that uses AI Generative Adversarial Networks to generate realistic-looking concept art, background assets, and more for Blender from a simple text prompt. It allows you to create textures that tile perfectly with no visible seam by using the 'Seamless' option. You can also use it to create quick variations on an existing texture. It requires GPUs with a massive amount of RAM to generate big textures (about 12GB or higher for 512x512 textures). Here are the goodies that come with Dream Textures v0.0.7:
You can learn more about Dream Textures by visiting the Official Website. Download Dream TexturesHere. That's all, folks! Stay tuned at PPM for more news coverage on Dream Textures!
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This version contains some awesome new features:
See the list of guides for more information on every feature of the addon.
If you want to discuss the addon, join the Dream Textures Discord server.
Windows Installation
If you had a previous version of the add-on, click Remove in Blender to delete it before installing the update. Then restart Blender to ensure the old modules are unloaded.
macOS Installation
Other Platforms Installation
Other platforms are not officially supported by this addon. However, you can install it manually by following the steps under Contributing in the README.
What's Changed
Full Changelog: 0.0.6...0.0.7
- AI Upscaling with Real-ESRGAN
- A Dream Textures render pass in Cycles
- Negative prompts
- Prompt import/export as JSON
- and many bug fixes and improvements
See the list of guides for more information on every feature of the addon.
If you want to discuss the addon, join the Dream Textures Discord server.
Windows Installation
If you had a previous version of the add-on, click Remove in Blender to delete it before installing the update. Then restart Blender to ensure the old modules are unloaded.
- Download the file dream_textures-win32-cuda.7z from the Assets section below.
- Due to file size limits on GitHub, the addon .zip file is contained in the 7-Zip archive. Download 7-Zip if you don't have it already.
- Right click the file and select 7-Zip>Extract Here
- Open Blender > Preferences > Add-ons > Install..., then select the file dream_textures-win32-cuda.zip extracted from the 7z previously. The addon may take a minute to be copied into Blender.
- Follow the instructions in the addon preferences window to set up the model weights.
macOS Installation
- Download the file dream_textures-darwin-arm64.zip from the Assets section below.
- Open Blender > Preferences > Add-ons > Install..., then select the zip file. It may take a minute to be copied into Blender.
- Follow the instructions in the addon preferences window to setup the model weights.
Other Platforms Installation
Other platforms are not officially supported by this addon. However, you can install it manually by following the steps under Contributing in the README.
What's Changed
- Fixed context bug "AttributeError: 'SpaceDopeSheetEditor' object has … by @blastframe in #160
- Fix some install issues by @NullSenseStudio in #186
- Subprocess IPC improvements by @NullSenseStudio in #204
- Fix sampler argument by @carson-katri in #230
- Add Real-ESRGAN integration by @carson-katri in #233
- UI Refactor by @carson-katri in #240
- Add "Dream Textures" render pass to Cycles by @carson-katri in #229
Full Changelog: 0.0.6...0.0.7
You can learn more about Dream Textures by visiting the Official Website. Download Dream TexturesHere. That's all, folks! Stay tuned at PPM for more news coverage on Dream Textures!