Templates

Polyhedral tile layouts that split a 360° sphere for diffusion

Last updated: 2026-09-18

A template is the polyhedral mesh that splits the sphere into tiles — camera poses, inpaint masks, and blend masks. Diffusion runs per tile in sphere-space. Output size is a separate setting (new renders default to 8192×4096). The template name is not a 2K / 3K / 4K resolution.

Each pass in a Multipass stack can use a different template.

How to choose

Open the Hextile tab and pick from the template menu. A new render starts on Dodecahedron (12 tiles) unless you picked something else last time.

The menu has four sections:

Custom Templates — ones you generated or imported
Regular — the six factory shapes you use every day (open)
Irregular — six more factory shapes (collapsed)
Legacy Templates — old TILEGEN layouts (collapsed; see the footnote)

Footer actions: Templates (library) and New Template.

Regular factory templates

Start here. Cube for structure, Dodecahedron for daily work, Truncated_Icosahedron when you want hex density, Goldberg when you want a polish pass.

Name	Tiles	Notes
Cube	6	Structure. Preset 6.
Dodecahedron	12	Default. Preset 12.
Truncated_Icosahedron	32	Soccer-ball hex. Preset 32.
Chamfered_Dodecahedron	42	Denser hex.
Goldberg_GP_2_1_72	72	Polish. Preset 72.
Goldberg_GP_3_0	92	Densest shipped (92-face Goldberg GP(3,0)).

Factory tile masks are 1024×1024. Changing output width does not change the template.

Irregular factory templates

Same factory set, collapsed in the picker.

Name	Tiles
Rhombic_Dodecahedron	12
Icosahedron	20
Rhombicuboctahedron	26
Disdyakis_Dodecahedron	48
Pentakis_Dodecahedron	60
Deltoidal_Hexecontahedron	60

Templates and Multipass

Density is the product idea: a coarser template at higher strength, then a denser template at lower strength. Factory Presets name that ladder — 12 → 32 is the daily driver (Dodecahedron, then Truncated_Icosahedron). Geometry templates do not embed a pass stack. See Multipass.

New Template

Factory templates are frozen outputs of the built-in generator. New Template runs that same generator and writes a custom template. No Blender or external tools.

Fourteen shapes. Twelve match the factory dirs above. Two have no factory dir — generate them yourself:

truncated_octahedron (14 faces)
rhombicosidodecahedron (62 faces)

Knobs (as labelled in the form):

Tile Resolution — Draft 512 / Standard 1024 / Production 2048 (256–4096)
FOV margin, overlap, overlap opacity
Inpaint Blur Radius, blend blur, blend clip
Rotation X / Y / Z, up direction
Camera Blender or UnrealEngine
Tile ordering: latitude rings, reverse, spiral, original

A coverage preview shows how the tiles sit on the sphere before you generate.

Manage from the Templates library: Duplicate, import/export ZIP, Delete (custom only), Regenerate (not legacy), Restore Factory (factory override only). Factory and legacy names are locked.

Legacy Templates

Four old TILEGEN layouts still ship, collapsed under Legacy Templates. They are not the product. Prefer the factory polyhedra.

Name	Tiles
Hextile_12_DODECA	12
Hextile_20_2K	20
Hextile_32_3K	32
Hextile_44_4K	44