Vases

Vases are 3D decorative pieces for the Build/Buy catalog, under Decorations → Sculptures. You shape the silhouette, glaze the ceramic, and optionally wrap artwork around the body; Llama Builder generates the mesh.

Workflow

1. Pick a silhouette preset: amphora, bottle, bud, cylinder, or bowl. These are starting points.
2. Reshape the profile: drag points in the profile editor to sculpt your own silhouette.
3. Set the height: anywhere from a 10 cm bud vase to a 1 m floor vase.
4. Style the surface: choose the base glaze color, an optional pattern, and the interior look.
5. Add artwork (optional): upload or generate an image and place it as a band that wraps around the vase.
6. Add swatches: each swatch can have its own glaze, pattern, and artwork; they all ship in one .package.
7. Fill in details: name, description, price, style tags.
8. Download: click Download and install via the Install in Game guide.

Shape

The preset buttons load a classic silhouette. Dragging any point switches the shape to Custom; picking a preset again resets it.

The profile editor shows the vase from the side. The curve you shape is revolved around the center axis to build the 3D body:

• Drag a point to move it. Points keep their vertical order, and the base point stays on the ground.
• Click anywhere on the outline to add a point.
• Double-click a point to remove it (a vase needs at least three).

The mouth of the vase is always open, and the wall thickness and interior are generated automatically.

The Height slider rescales the silhouette proportionally, from 10 cm to 1 m. Size also decides where the vase can sit in-game: small ones fit end tables and shelves, large floor vases may need sturdier surfaces or the floor.

Surface

The base color is the vase's glaze, the color of the ceramic everywhere no pattern or art covers it.

Patterns paint a repeating design over the base glaze:

• Bands: horizontal rings around the body.
• Stripes: vertical stripes around the circumference.
• Checker: a grid of alternating cells.
• Speckle: scattered glaze dots.

Use one pattern color to alternate with the base glaze, or add a second with + color for a two-tone pattern. Scale (0.5× to 2×) controls how fine the pattern repeats.

The interior is everything you see looking into the vase. Auto uses a darker shade of the base glaze, like fired ceramic; pick an explicit color to glaze it differently, and add an interior pattern to decorate it. The underside always keeps the darkened look, like the unglazed foot of real pottery. Drag the preview up or down to raise the camera and look inside; the vase stays put on the floor.

Art placement

Your art image wraps around the vase as a band:

• Position: where the band sits vertically, from the base to the rim.
• Size: how much of the vase's height the band covers. Cover stretches it rim-to-base in one click.
• Around: how many copies wrap around the circumference (1–8; 1 stretches the image all the way around).
• Stacked: how many copies stack vertically inside the band (1–8), for tiled all-over designs.

Art wraps on top of the pattern, and transparent areas show the pattern and glaze beneath, so PNGs with alpha work like decals.

Stickers

Stickers are extra images wrapped onto the body, each with its own position, size, rotation, and opacity, stacking in list order. Position X runs around the vase and wraps, so 0 and 1 are the same spot and a sticker can straddle the join. Position Y runs from the rim down to the foot. Size is relative to the vase's height, so a sticker keeps its size as it moves up a narrowing neck; it curves with the body, so wide stickers on a slim neck reach further around. Stickers sit over the pattern and the art band, and transparent areas show what is beneath.

Tips

• Artwork is optional. A base glaze plus a pattern is a complete, downloadable swatch on its own.
• Catalog swatch colors are sampled from the finished surface (glaze, pattern, and art), so they match the real vase.
• Use the Head-On and Jaunty camera views to check the silhouette and art band.