Engine test · ReconViaGen team

ReconViaGen 0.5

A research reconstruction model built on TRELLIS 2, fed all four views at once.

What we saw

  • Takes the four views as one list.
  • Base-colour and roughness-metal maps, no normal map.
  • Proportions drifted in our runs: the pickup truck came back much narrower than the blocks, and on the castle the drawbridge turned into a column of chain and the banner colours showed through on the back walls.

Results

Left to right: the block-out it was given, the result from the front and the back, and the shape without its textures.

839 blocks, cartoon style: a young man in a blue T-shirt, dark grey trousers and black boots. The T-pose shows whether an engine textures both arms.

T-posed character: The block-out
The block-out
ReconViaGen 0.5, T-posed character: Front
ReconViaGen 0.5 · Front
ReconViaGen 0.5, T-posed character: Back
ReconViaGen 0.5 · Back
ReconViaGen 0.5, T-posed character: Shape only
ReconViaGen 0.5 · Shape only
Triangles
149,852
File size
5.4 MB
Texture maps
Base colour · Roughness-metal (2K)
Outline match
72%
front 79% · side 75% · top 63%
Job time
212 s
Art style
Cartoon
Settings
defaults
Generated
Sep 23, 2026

1,896 blocks, comic style: a chunky stylised pickup. The test for hard surfaces, flat panels and wheels.

Pickup truck: The block-out
The block-out
ReconViaGen 0.5, Pickup truck: Front
ReconViaGen 0.5 · Front
ReconViaGen 0.5, Pickup truck: Back
ReconViaGen 0.5 · Back
ReconViaGen 0.5, Pickup truck: Shape only
ReconViaGen 0.5 · Shape only
Triangles
145,578
File size
6.2 MB
Texture maps
Base colour · Roughness-metal (2K)
Outline match
39%
front 24% · side 46% · top 48%
Job time
251 s
Art style
Comic
Settings
defaults
Generated
Sep 23, 2026

4,518 blocks, realistic style: a stone gatehouse with two towers, battlements, a portcullis, banners and a drawbridge on chains. The test for a large building with thin parts and repeated detail.

Castle gate: The block-out
The block-out
ReconViaGen 0.5, Castle gate: Front
ReconViaGen 0.5 · Front
ReconViaGen 0.5, Castle gate: Back
ReconViaGen 0.5 · Back
ReconViaGen 0.5, Castle gate: Shape only
ReconViaGen 0.5 · Shape only
Triangles
148,040
File size
6.9 MB
Texture maps
Base colour · Roughness-metal (2K)
Outline match
67%
front 85% · side 51% · top 65%
Job time
303 s
Art style
Realistic
Settings
defaults
Generated
Sep 23, 2026

Compare ReconViaGen 0.5 with

Head-to-heads on the same block-out.

Other engines

How we test

  1. 1Same pictures. Within a test, an image model repaints the block views once (the way Vox Land always works), and that one set of views goes to every engine, at its default settings; the table lists any that differ. Engines that take a single picture get one three-quarter view, painted from the same blocks in the same style.
  2. 2So every difference inside a test comes from the engine, not from the input. The blocks fix the shape and the proportions; the repainted views add the colours and small details every engine then shares.
  3. 3Numbers are read from the file each engine delivered: triangles, file size, texture maps. Job time is the engine's job in our pipeline (the views were painted beforehand), from a single run.
  4. 4Outline match: we draw the block-out and the model as flat silhouettes from the front, the side and above, and measure how much they overlap (intersection over union; 100% means identical outlines).
  5. 5The renders are ours: the same camera, light and orientation for every file.
  6. 6We make none of these engines. Vox Land sends your blocks to whichever one you pick, so we have no reason to favour one.

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Data updated Sep 23, 2026