Setup

Getting up and running is easy. Make sure you have several GBs of storage free, as the model weights and add-on consume a lot of storage space.

In general, all of the instructions you need to setup will be given within Blender. However, if you want to see screenshots and more explanation this can be helpful.

If you have any problems, you can get help in the Dream Textures Discord server.

Installation

See the release notes for the most recent version of Dream Textures. There you will find a section titled "Choose Your Installation". Use the dropdowns to find the right version for your system.

The add-on archive for Windows is compressed with 7-Zip to fit within GitHub's file size limits. Follow the instructions on the release notes page to extract the contained .zip file.

After you have the add-on installed in Blender, check the box in Blender preferences to enable it. Then follow the steps below to complete setup.

If you downloaded a DreamStudio-only version, you can skip to the DreamStudio section.

DO NOT try to install dependencies. Tools for doing so are intended for development. Always download a prebuilt version.

Download a Model

There are hundreds of models to choose from. A good model to start with is stabilityai/stable-diffusion-2-1-base. This is the latest 512x512 Stable Diffusion model.

In the add-on preferences, search for this model. Then click the download button on the right.

Depending on your Internet speeds, it may take a few minutes to download.

Other Useful Models

There are a few other models you may want to download as well:

stabilityai/stable-diffusion-2-inpainting - Fine-tuned for inpainting, and required to use the inpaint and outpaint features
stabilityai/stable-diffusion-2-depth - Uses depth information to guide generation, required for texture projection, the render pass when using depth pass input, and image to image when using depth
stabilityai/stable-diffusion-x4-upscaler - Upscales the input image 4x, used only for upscaling
stabilityai/stable-diffusion-2-1 - Fine-tuned for 768x768 images

Private Models

Some models are gated or private to your account/organization. To download these models, generate a Hugging Face Hub token and paste it in the "Token" field. You can generate a token in your account settings on Hugging Face.

Importing Checkpoints

Dream Textures can also import .ckpt files, which you may be familiar with if you've used AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui.

Click Import Checkpoint File in add-on preferences, then select your checkpoint file. You should also specify what kind of model it is in the sidebar of the file picker.

If you don't see the sidebar, press N on your keyboard or click the gear icon in the top right.

Here's what the various Model Config options are for:

v1 - Weights from the original CompVis/stable-diffusion code, such as stable-diffusion-v1-x
v2 (512, epsilon) - Weights from the updated Stability-AI/stablediffusion code, specifically models with prediction_type="epsilon" such as the 512x512 models
v2 (768, v_prediction) - Weights from the updated Stability-AI/stablediffusion code, specifically models with prediction_type="v_prediction" such as the 768x768 models