We present Text2Tex, a novel method for generating high-quality textures for 3D meshes from the given text prompts. Our method incorporates inpainting into a pre-trained depth-aware image diffusion model to progressively synthesize high resolution partial textures from multiple viewpoints. To avoid accumulating inconsistent and stretched artifacts across views, we dynamically segment the rendered view into a generation mask, which represents the generation status of each visible texel. This partitioned view representation guides the depth-aware inpainting model to generate and update partial textures for the corresponding regions. Furthermore, we propose an automatic view sequence generation scheme to determine the next best view for updating the partial texture. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our method significantly outperforms the existing text-driven approaches and GAN-based methods.

Please also check out the project website here.

For additional detail, please see the Text2Tex paper:
"Text2Tex: Text-driven Texture Synthesis via Diffusion Models"
by Dave Zhenyu Chen, Yawar Siddiqui, Hsin-Ying Lee, Sergey Tulyakov, and Matthias Nießner
from Technical University of Munich and Snap Research.

The code is tested on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS with PyTorch 1.12.1 CUDA 11.3 installed. Please follow the following steps to install PyTorch first. To run our method, you should at least have a NVIDIA GPU with 12 GB RAM (NVIDIA GeForce 2080 Ti works for us).

# create and activate the conda environment
conda create -n text2tex python=3.9.15
conda activate text2tex

# install PyTorch 1.12.1
conda install pytorch==1.12.1 torchvision==0.13.1 torchaudio==0.12.1 cudatoolkit=11.3 -c pytorch

Then, install PyTorch3D:

# install runtime dependencies for PyTorch3D
conda install -c fvcore -c iopath -c conda-forge fvcore iopath
conda install -c bottler nvidiacub

# install PyTorch3D
conda install pytorch3d -c pytorch3d

Install xformers to accelerate transformers:

# please don't use pip to install it, as it only supports PyTorch>=2.0
conda install xformers -c xformers

Install the necessary packages listed out in requirements.txt:

pip install -r requirements.txt

To use the ControlNet Depth2img model, please download control_sd15_depth.pth from the hugging face page, and put it under models/ControlNet/models/.

To make sure everything is set up and configured correctly, you can run the following script to generate texture for a backpack.

./bash/run.sh

The generation and refinement should take around 500 sec and 360 sec, respectively. Once the synthesis completes, you should be able to see all generated assets under outputs/backpack/42-p36-h20-1.0-0.3-0.1. Load the final mesh outputs/backpack/42-p36-h20-1.0-0.3-0.1/update/mesh/19.obj in MeshLab, you should be able to see this (so something similar):

For the best quality of texture synthesis, there are some necessary pre-processing steps for running our method on your own mesh:

1. Y-axis is up.
2. The mesh should face towards +Z.
3. The mesh bounding box should be origin-aligned (note simply averaging the vertices coordinates could be problematic).
4. The max length of the mesh bounding box should be around 1.

We provide scripts/normalize_mesh.py and scripts/rotate_mesh.py to make the mesh preprocessing easy for you.

If you already have a normalized mesh but haven't parameterized it yet, please use scripts/parameterize_mesh.py to generate the UV map. Now, you don't have to parameterize your mesh by yourself thanks to xatlas.

NOTE: we expect the mesh to be triangulated.

A mesh ready for next steps should look like this:

Then, you can generate your own texture via:

python scripts/generate_texture.py \
    --input_dir <path-to-mesh> \
    --output_dir outputs/<run-name> \
    --obj_name <mesh-name> \
    --obj_file <mesh-name>.obj \
    --prompt <your-prompt> \
    --add_view_to_prompt \
    --ddim_steps 50 \
    --new_strength 1 \
    --update_strength 0.3 \
    --view_threshold 0.1 \
    --blend 0 \
    --dist 1 \
    --num_viewpoints 36 \
    --viewpoint_mode predefined \
    --use_principle \
    --update_steps 20 \
    --update_mode heuristic \
    --seed 42 \
    --post_process \
    --device 2080 \
    --use_objaverse # assume the mesh is normalized with y-axis as up

If you want some high-res textures, you can set --device to a6000 for 3k resolution. To play around other parameters, please check scripts/generate_texture.py, or simply run python scripts/generate_texture.py -h.

To generate textures for the Objaverse objects we used in the paper, please run the following script to download and pre-process those meshes:

python scripts/download_objaverse_subset.py

All pre-processed meshes will be downloaded to data/objaverse/.

If you found our work helpful, please kindly cite this papers:

@article{chen2023text2tex,
    title={Text2Tex: Text-driven Texture Synthesis via Diffusion Models},
    author={Chen, Dave Zhenyu and Siddiqui, Yawar and Lee, Hsin-Ying and Tulyakov, Sergey and Nie{\ss}ner, Matthias},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.11396},
    year={2023},
}

We would like to thank lllyasviel/ControlNet for providing such a great and powerful codebase for diffusion models.

Text2Tex is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

Copyright (c) 2023 Dave Zhenyu Chen, Yawar Siddiqui, Hsin-Ying Lee, Sergey Tulyakov, and Matthias Nießner