TitanMesh

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What is TitanMesh?

This repository hosts public release artifacts for TitanMesh, a commercial 3D viewer for exploring extremely large meshes and point clouds on desktop and in virtual reality.

Desktop compatibility: Windows, macOS, and Linux

Virtual reality: Meta Quest 3/3S support is available as an optional licensed experience. See the release notes for the headset models supported by each release.

The application source code is private. This repository exists only for installer downloads, release notes, and files needed to deliver updates.

Why TitanMesh

Most 3D viewers were not designed for the scale that modern photogrammetry, LiDAR, and large-scale scanning workflows now produce. Files comfortably reach tens of millions to billions of triangles or points, often weighing more than the host machine's RAM, let alone its GPU memory. Loading such a dataset into a general-purpose viewer typically ends in a long wait, an out-of-memory error, or a crawl.

TitanMesh is built around a single idea: no matter the size of the model, it should just work. The result is a viewer that opens multi-gigabyte files quickly, navigates them at interactive frame rates, and behaves more like a video game engine than a 3D editor.

The goal is to make exploration of massive 3D scans feel as natural as flying through a level in a game.

What is TitanMesh

TitanMesh helps inspect, navigate, and measure very large 3D models on a desktop computer. It is a viewer, not a 3D editor or modeler.

Key capabilities:

• Game-style navigation with free flight, sprint, mouse look, orbit, fast approach to distant models, and instant camera reset
• Triangle meshes and point clouds, including billion-scale assets
• Native support for OBJ, binary STL, binary PLY, and GLB / glTF 2.0
• Textures, vertex colors, surface shading, point splats, and point-confidence filtering when the source data provides them
• Adjustable movement speed, detail quality, visual smoothing, model orientation, triangle-face display, point size, and color correction
• Distance measurement with calibration and metric / imperial units
• Persistent landmarks with titles and descriptions
• Minimap display and transparent map export
• Clean snapshots, reusable camera locations, and in-app MP4 recording
• Per-model settings that return automatically when a model is reopened
• Native VR viewing with tracked-controller navigation and synchronized desktop monitoring
• Signed automatic updates

TitanMesh is not a modeling tool. There are no editing, sculpting, retopology, or simulation features.

Feature Overview

Massive datasets

TitanMesh is designed for models that are too large to fit into ordinary system or graphics memory. It prepares supported files for responsive exploration, keeps the visible scene interactive, and adjusts displayed detail automatically as you move. The same large-model experience applies to triangle meshes and point clouds.

Visual quality and model appearance

TitanMesh preserves the appearance information available in supported source files, including textures, vertex colors, and surface direction. Point clouds are presented as points or smooth surface-like splats according to the available data, with adjustable size. Compatible PLY point clouds also offer a minimum-confidence control for hiding low-confidence samples.

The Settings panel includes four detail-quality presets, five visual-smoothing levels, safe two-sided triangle display or optional back-face removal, and model rotation in 90-degree steps. Color Correction provides Temperature, Tint, Vibrance, and Saturation controls with live preview. These adjustments affect the model without altering the source file.

Navigation and display

The default free-flight camera feels familiar to anyone who has navigated a 3D game. TitanMesh supports mouse look, sprinting, vertical travel, 360-degree orbit, a trackpad-friendly orbit gesture, and a one-key return to the initial view. When a model begins far from the camera, TitanMesh temporarily increases travel speed to reduce the wait. A visual tutorial introduces the controls.

Both borderless fullscreen and resizable windowed presentation are available. TitanMesh remembers the display choice and window size.

Inspection, measurement, and annotation

The minimap shows the model footprint and the camera's position and direction. It can be hidden when not needed, follows saved model orientation, and can be exported as a transparent PNG.

The measurement tool uses a known reference distance to calibrate a model. After calibration, users can place multiple measurement tapes, reposition their endpoints, remove individual tapes, clear all tapes, recalibrate, and switch between metric and imperial readouts. Calibration returns when the same model is reopened.

Right-clicking a model surface creates a persistent landmark with a title and description. Landmark cards can be expanded, collapsed, automatically expanded when nearby, or deleted.

Capture and view sharing

TitanMesh can record the application window directly to MP4. It also creates clean, watermarked JPEG snapshots of the 3D view without menus or overlays. A saved snapshot can later restore its camera view.

For smaller handoffs, Save Location creates a lightweight location file that can return TitanMesh to the same view of the same model. Location files and compatible snapshots warn before applying a view to a different model.

Per-model continuity

TitanMesh remembers model-specific choices such as movement speed, quality, visual smoothing, orientation, point-cloud display, minimap visibility, landmark behavior, measurement units, calibration, color correction, and landmarks. Restored choices are applied when the model is reopened. If saved project information cannot be used, the model remains viewable with safe defaults.

Native virtual reality

The optional TitanMesh VR experience brings the active desktop model into an immersive stereo view on a supported Meta Quest headset. Guided connection screens, QR-assisted setup, a controller tutorial, progress feedback, and clear reconnection states help users get from the desktop to the model.

Tracked controllers provide movement, strafing, turning, elevation, a temporary speed boost, and a confirmed reset to the starting location. A headset menu provides synchronized control over movement speed, detail quality, visual smoothing, and point size where applicable, with tactile and audio feedback for interactions.

During an active VR session, the desktop mirrors the headset view for monitoring and makes it clear that the headset controls the camera. Normal desktop and VR preferences for speed, quality, and visual smoothing are stored independently, so tuning one experience does not overwrite the other. TitanMesh is designed to remain responsive through temporary local-network interruptions, and previously received model content can be reused after reconnecting.

VR scene sharing requires the optional VR entitlement, the TitanMesh headset app, and a desktop and headset on the same local network. A built-in VR network speed test helps evaluate the connection before sharing a model and is available without opening a scene. The desktop also provides headset-app download guidance and directs users without the VR entitlement to the available trial or purchase path.

Supported Formats

Format	Triangle meshes	Point clouds	Appearance support
OBJ	yes	yes	Materials and textures when provided
Binary STL	yes	-	Surface shading
Binary PLY	yes	yes	Colors and surface information
GLB / glTF 2.0	yes	yes	Materials and textures when provided

Text-based STL and PLY files are not supported. Re-export them in binary form before opening them in TitanMesh.

Downloads

Download the latest installer from the Releases page.

Other files on the Releases page support the in-app updater. Most users do not need to download them manually.

Installation

macOS

1. Download the .dmg for your Mac (universal: Apple Silicon and Intel).
2. Open the disk image.
3. Drag TitanMesh into Applications.
4. Launch TitanMesh.

If macOS blocks the first launch, open System Settings > Privacy & Security and allow TitanMesh to run.

The first time you start a screen recording, macOS will request screen-capture permission. Grant it under System Settings > Privacy & Security > Screen Recording.

Windows

1. Download the Windows installer.
2. Run the .msi (recommended) or the NSIS setup.exe.
3. Follow the installer prompts.
4. Launch TitanMesh from the Start menu.

The MSI is recommended for most users. The NSIS installer is also available for administrators and per-user installations.

Linux

Choose the package format that best matches your distribution:

• Use .AppImage for a portable build that works across most distributions.
• Use .tar.gz for a manual extraction if you prefer not to use AppImage.

.deb and .rpm packages are not currently provided.

Controls

TitanMesh launches in borderless fullscreen with FPS-style mouse capture.

Input	Action
W A S D	Move forward / left / back / right
Hold Shift	Sprint
+ / -	Move up / down
Mouse movement	Look around
Hold middle mouse + drag	Rotate 360 degrees around the object in view
Hold Alt (Windows/Linux) or Option (macOS) + drag	Trackpad-friendly orbit
Space	Return to the model's initial camera view
Escape / Enter	Toggle between game mode and UI mode
M	Show / hide the minimap
Right-click a model surface (outside measurement mode)	Create a landmark
Cmd / Ctrl + O	Open model file
Cmd / Ctrl + W	Close current model
Cmd / Ctrl + Q	Quit
Cmd / Ctrl + L	Revoke the current license
[ / ]	Decrease / increase point splat size (point clouds only)
Drag-and-drop	Load a model file

The scroll wheel is intentionally unassigned. Movement speed is adjusted in Settings.

Measurement Tool

TitanMesh includes a calibrated multi-tape distance measurement tool for real-world readouts on model surfaces.

1. Open Science > Measure from the top-bar menu.
2. Calibrate once by clicking two points along a known reference distance and entering its real-world value (cm or inches).
3. After calibration, every two clicks place a new measurement tape with a live distance label.
4. Existing endpoints can be repositioned by press-and-hold drag.
5. Switch between metric (cm / m) and imperial (in / ft) at any time from the Settings panel.

Calibration tapes can be re-placed at any time without losing existing measurements.

Screen Recording

Recording captures the TitanMesh window exactly as shown on screen, including the overlay UI, recording indicator, and elapsed time.

• Start and stop recording from the Recording menu in the top bar.
• No separate recording application is required.
• When you stop recording, TitanMesh asks where to save the MP4 and completes the file without interrupting model viewing.

Audio capture is not currently supported.

Licensing

TitanMesh is commercial proprietary software. A valid license is required to use the application.

An internet connection is required for activation and periodic license validation. Limited offline use is available after a successful validation. Expired, revoked, or released licenses return the application to the license screen. VR scene sharing requires the optional VR entitlement on the active desktop license.

Installer availability in this public repository does not grant a license to use, copy, modify, reverse engineer, redistribute, or sublicense TitanMesh. Use of TitanMesh is governed by the commercial license agreement or EULA provided by OpenSpeleo.

Auto-Updates

TitanMesh can check for signed releases from inside the application. Available updates are presented with clear install, retry, and manual-download options. Update authenticity is checked before installation, and a failed check stops the update. Platform-managed installations that cannot be updated in place are directed to the latest manual download.

Hardware Requirements

Minimum:

• 64-bit Windows 10/11, macOS 12+ (Apple Silicon or Intel), or a recent Linux distribution
• A modern supported GPU
• Multi-core CPU
• Enough disk space for the source dataset and TitanMesh's working data

Recommended:

• A modern discrete GPU
• An SSD or NVMe drive for the dataset directory

TitanMesh degrades gracefully on weaker GPUs by reducing displayed detail rather than failing.

Support

For license, installation, or product support, contact OpenSpeleo through the support channel provided with your purchase or license.

When reporting a problem, include:

• TitanMesh version (visible in the top bar)
• operating system and version
• installer type used (DMG, MSI, NSIS exe, AppImage, tar.gz)
• the file format and approximate size of the dataset, if relevant
• a brief description of what you expected and what happened

Do not post license keys, private datasets, or other sensitive data in public issues.

Repository Purpose

This repository is intentionally limited to release distribution.

It may contain:

• release notes
• installers
• files required by the in-app updater

Legal

TitanMesh is proprietary commercial software.

Installer availability in this repository does not grant a license to use, copy, modify, redistribute, reverse engineer, or sublicense TitanMesh except as expressly allowed by a written commercial license agreement.

Third-party components bundled with TitanMesh remain subject to their respective licenses.