# 3D > Models from a picture, rigged, baked and set moving, looked at in a showroom and exported for a game or a shot. *Picture: The 3D bench with Thimble & Clay's hero: an orange clay figure in a thimble hat with button eyes, in a lit room, its nine parts listed on the left, and on the right Bake: a normal map, occlusion and materials from wood grain to concrete, free in Blender on this Mac* 3D makes a model from a picture, rigs it, sets it moving and shows it in a lit room. Ask in the chat ("What are we modelling?"), or open a model you have. **Robin can do this too.** From the chat, Robin opens the Generate panel, rigs a model, decimates or smooths it, bakes a map or a material, splits it into parts, plays its motions, changes a part's colour and finish, and exports it. A paid model, motion or split is priced first. ## Make a model **The Generate panel** takes a front picture, and if you have them, the back, left and right. Pick an engine, or **Best for this**, and a style. It is paid on your own key, and each engine shows its price before anything is sent. **Import** opens a `.glb` or USD file for free. An `.obj`, `.stl` or `.ply` needs Blender on your Mac. ## Look at it The rail's views are **Shaded**, **Wireframe**, **Matcap**, **Normals** and **UV checker**. **Turntable** turns the model slowly on its own. In More, under **Look at it**: the room's light, what to draw over the model (vertices, axes, bones), the room it is lit by (Studio, Sunset, Warehouse, Night), and **Put the camera back where it started**. ## Change it - **Decimate** cuts the model to 50K, 20K or 5K triangles, to half, a quarter or a count you set. - **Smooth** smooths it in five passes and keeps its volume. Both are free, and both need Blender 4.2 or later on your Mac. The Blender add-on ships inside Robin; the first time, macOS asks for Screen Recording permission. Each part's material, colour and finish can be changed on your Mac for free. ## Bake Under **Change it**, **Bake** holds what a game engine or a viewer needs from a model, each a new version that Undo takes back: - **Normal map**: the detail of the fuller version a decimate came from, baked onto the lighter one, so a 20K model reads like the 200K it came from. - **Occlusion**: where light cannot reach (creases, under a hat, between fingers), baked into the model's own occlusion texture. - **Wood grain**, **Stone**, **Marble**, **Rusted iron**, **Brushed steel** and **Concrete**: a material built in Blender and baked down to colour, roughness, metal and a normal map, on the part you picked or the whole model. The bakes are free, in Blender on your Mac. A model with no UVs is unwrapped first. Without Blender, each press says **Needs Blender** and changes nothing. **Split into parts** sends the model to your 3D service, which splits it into its pieces; each comes back as its own part, named from the top down and coloured from the model, as a new version. It is paid on your own fal key, about 45¢, its price said first, and it needs Blender too. A rigged model is split from an earlier version, before its rig. ## Make it move **Motions…** opens a shelf of 79 motions. Idle, walk, run, jump, attack, hit and death are free on your Mac: they play on a mannequin, and Blender carries them onto your model's skeleton. The rest are paid on your own key, priced first. ## Make from it **Use this view** hands the view to the chat: **A picture from this view**, **A short film from this view**, or **Just the frame, in my message**. **A picture of this view, into the library** saves it. ## Export Export to `.glb`, `.obj`, `.stl` or `.ply` for free, and to FBX for a game engine from the clip strip. ## Keys | Key | What it does | | --- | --- | | W E R | Move, turn, size (⇧-drag snaps) | | 1–5 | The five views | | F | Camera back | | K | A snapshot into Stills | | Space | Play or pause the motion | | H / ⌥H | Hide the part / show all | | / | Only this part | | I | Change it | | T | Three tries (with nothing picked, the turntable) | | G B L | Grid, bones, the parts column | | ⌘E | Export | | ← → P X | Step through versions, keep, not this one |