MeshCache Studio

Whether you’re reviewing cloth simulations, checking facial performance captures, debugging physics caches, or preparing assets for delivery — MeshCache Studio gives you instant playback, professional visualization, and powerful export options without the overhead of a full DCC application.

Drop in your Alembic, OBJ sequence, PC2, MDD, PLY, or USD files and start reviewing immediately.

Supported Formats

• Import: Alembic (.abc), OBJ sequences, PC2, MDD, PLY, USD/USDA
• Export: Alembic, OBJ sequences, PC2, MDD, PLY, USD

Supports both constant topology and varying topology sequences.

Playback & Navigation

• Drag & drop your file to instantly view it
• Fast, responsive playback with intelligent frame caching
• Frame-by-frame stepping, auto-play, and timeline scrubbing
• Variable speed control from 0.01x to 10.0x with smooth frame interpolation
• Linear and Catmull-Rom cubic interpolation for smooth slow-motion on fixed-topology sequences

3D Viewport & Rendering

• Hardware-accelerated rendering
• Configurable front-face, back-face and background colors
• Ambient Occlusion shader
• Soft Shadows
• Wireframe overlay with customizable colors
• X-Ray / Fresnel mode for see-through visualization
• Velocity heatmap coloring to visualize per-frame displacement
• Cinematic post-FX: HDR / ACES tonemapping with bloom, depth of field and vignette
• Screen-space motion blur from per-vertex and camera motion
• Onion-skin ghost trails of neighbouring frames for visualizing motion arcs
• Per-vertex color display (when available in the file)
• UV-mapped texture display (when available in the file)
• Built-in default grid UV texture, custom static texture, texture sequence or video options
• HUD overlay with frame number, FPS, vertex/triangle count and bounding box
• Y-up and Z-up coordinate system toggle

Annotation & Review

• Add text notes and visual markup to specific frames
• Drawing tools: freehand pen, arrows, circles, rectangles and text labels
• Customizable stroke color and thickness with undo support
• Camera position saved per annotation and auto-restored on navigation
• Export annotated contact sheets as PNG or JPG with custom grid layout and title

Sequence Comparison

• Load two sequences side-by-side for synchronized review
• Overlay mode with color-tinted blending
• Displacement heatmap showing per-vertex differences between sequences

Crop Volumes

• Box, cylinder and sphere crop primitives
• Per-volume keep-inside or keep-outside, multiple volumes combined as union
• Direct manipulation in the viewport via translate / rotate / scale gizmo handles
• Sidecar JSON persistence with auto-save and external-edit reload
• Baked into exports for variable-topology formats (OBJ, PLY, Alembic, USD)

Mesh Transforms

• Flip normals, mirror UVs, translation (X/Y/Z), rotation (X/Y/Z degrees), uniform scale
• All transforms baked into exports and instantly applied in the 3D viewport

Video & Image Export

• Export to MP4 (H.264)
• Turntable video export for rotating previews
• Contact sheet export with annotation markup

Mesh Conversion & Export

• Convert between different file formats
• Configurable export of normals, UVs and vertex colors (where applicable)
• Frame range selection and FPS retiming with interpolation
• Sequence numbering options for file-per-frame formats

Command-Line / Batch Mode

• Headless conversion without GUI for pipeline integration
• Automate format conversion across large batches
• Ideal for render farms and studio pipelines

General

• Texture mapping support for meshes with UVs
• Topology graph visualization (number of vertices & triangles) for variable-topology sequences
• Windows shell integration (right-click context menu, default app association)

Privacy & Licensing

• No subscription — perpetual license
• No cloud processing — all data stays on your machine
• No login required
• Free trial — preview the first ~1 second clean (later frames & exports are visually distorted until licensed)

System Requirements

• OS: Windows 10/11 (64-bit)
• OS: MacOS (Apple Silicon (M1 or newer) only)
• GPU: Direct3D 11 capable graphics card on Windows, Metal on macOS
• RAM: 4 GB minimum, 16 GB+ recommended for large sequences
• Disk: SSD recommended for fast sequence loading