Shapelab 2025

Shapelab 2025 is now available!  

We’re thrilled to announce the launch of Shapelab 2025, the next evolution of our cutting-edge 3D sculpting software! With enhanced features, refined tools, and game-changing updates, this version takes your creativity to the next level.

• For Shapelab 2024 Users :
  Upgrade to Shapelab 2025 at 50% off through our Shapelab 2025 Upgrade DLC. This offer is valid until April 2025. Ensure you select the Shapelab 2025 Upgrade DLC to take advantage of this discount.

• For new users: make sure to choose the Shapelab 2025 package

What’s New in Shapelab 2025?

• Customizable Environments

• Redefined Parametric Primitives

• Custom Fixed Shapes & Kitbashing

• Cursor Snapping by Angle & Grid

• Dynamic Brush Sizing

• Enhanced Navigation Settings & Scene Alignment Tools

• Improvements & Fixes

Learn more about the new features and improvements in detail in our release note:

What’s More coming for Shapelab 2025 in the next year?

• Voxel-Based Tools for superior 3D stamping and clay drawing.

• Complete Gizmo Overhaul for rotation, location, and scaling.

• Additional Scene Mode Improvements for seamless object selection and context-based tools.

• Sculpt Brush Enhancements for better precision and symmetry.

About the Software

Shapelab 2025 is the latest annual release in the Shapelab series, delivering powerful and intuitive 3D sculpting tools for PCVR. Built on years of refinement, Shapelab offers a professional yet accessible workflow for artists of all levels. All versions receive updates until the end of their release year, meaning Shapelab 2025 will continue to be improved with updates throughout 2025 before the next version arrives in 2026.

Shapelab is a highly efficient 3D sculpting application optimized for virtual reality devices. Shapelab takes advantage of VR technology to provide an immersive and intuitive interface that allows you to sculpt in 3D space, giving you a new level of control and creative freedom over your designs. With Shapelab, you can easily create organic shapes, from simple forms to complex designs. Visualize your creative ideas and print them in 3D or sculpt high-quality props, characters, and concepts for applications, games, and virtual worlds, as well as digital concept art and storyboards.

Using virtual reality for 3D modeling offers numerous advantages. It allows you to work with your creations in a more natural way as if they were physical objects right in front of you. This provides a level of immersion and depth that is simply not possible with traditional 2D modeling tools. Additionally, virtual reality modeling can increase productivity, as it allows you to work faster and more efficiently, even with greater precision in certain cases.

Shapelab’s usage of polygons instead of voxels makes it stand out in the creative VR tools market. Polygonal mesh modeling gives you the ability to sculpt stunning, well-detailed, and realistic 3D assets and allows users to import and edit large and complex 3D scans. With Shapelab's dynamic topology mode and support for industry-standard features, you can create detailed models with ease.

Join our community of artists and unleash your creativity with Shapelab today!

Please note that although you can register a Shapelab account after downloading Shapelab, an account is not needed to access the application. To create an account you only need to provide an email address and a password, or you can choose to sign in with your existing Google or Facebook account. Tick the 'Remember me' checkbox to stay logged in. You can provide additional information and manage your email preferences in your account settings.

CORE FEATURES:

VR and Desktop mode

Run Shapelab on PC in desktop mode, or use a VR headset tethered to your PC to run the app in VR mode

There is an experimental feature for switching between desktop and VR modes to enhance efficiency for tasks that are faster with a classic mouse and keyboard setup

Sculpting Tools with alphas

Clay, Draw, Inflate, Surface Stamp, Smooth, Snakehook, Flatten, Trim, Pinch, Mask, Regularize, 3D Stamp

PBR Vertex Paint Features

Painting 4 different properties in total: Color, Roughness, Metalness, and Emission.

Optional dynamic topology sculpting

The feature allows for real-time tessellation of the mesh based on the level of detail needed locally. It also makes some brushes more usable and effective in creating certain shapes.

Multiresolution, subdivision levels

Subdivide your mesh to create multiple "resolution levels"

Detail Transfer (Projection)

Transfer detailed features from a high-resolution model with a less organized topology, including triangles, to another, potentially quad-based object

Texture export

Generate and export texture maps (normal maps, pbr properties, and colors) for your vertex-painted creations during the export process.

Remeshing and mesh transforms

Voxel remesh,Quad remesh

Mirror and weld, Merge vertices

Subdivide, Decimate, Regularize

Multi-object handling

Import, Export, and manipulate objects separately

Clone, Mirror, Merge, Subtract, Intersect, Join objects

Multiselect and group objects

Parenting: Organize objects in a hierarchical manner

Environments, materials and shading

Various environments to choose from

PBR materials, MatCaps and built-in procedural textures

Ability to import custom matcaps

Flatshading

File support and Import/export

Import/export FBX, OBJ, STL, and GLB files