Decal's text looks pixelated when rendered

I'm late to the party but whether I used 300dpi jpgs, png or vector at 100% results were completely blurred. Rather than use a Dm object, in this case a cube modified to my dimensions, I created the same thing in Illustrator, extruded and exported as .obj. Fixed the problem immediately. Pin sharp decals.

this will be fixed [i.e, able to be fixed by the user when it pops up] when the software allows some way to take back control over the Uv map... as it stands now, the best you can do is hope a auto-remaping of the Uv allows a clean rendor

as always, fix the model 1st is the best workflow

What I learned. As a really new user of Dimensions I learned that if Dimensions does not like a particular object (don't know the whys) it will render the decal pixelated.

This image I'm including is of a 5 gallon paid from 2 different sources with some minor tinkering from me. The pixelated one I worked on for days with different format, color spaces, resolutions and file types. I went so far as to upgrade my OS to get the latest version of Dimensions. When that failed I found another pail and this is the different results:

We solve this problem by changing the base color on the object's material to a solid color image sized 4096x4096.

This topic should not be marked as answered. Had so much hope for this app but it's a great disappointment that to date after so much time has passed (since 2017) that a fix was promised the problem still remains. Still keeping an eye out and hoping. In the meantime I'm not using Dimension to avoid wasting my time.

Not that this is likely to be of any help, but I would like to add my disappointment as well. Adobe really flogged this program as an easy way for graphic designers to produce presentation-quality 3D images. Nowhere in their promotions did I see the caveat: "oh, but your design better not have a label because it will look like garbage." Now I have wasted hours producing a design that cannot even be imported into other programs that actually work. Maybe if enough people express their frustration on these boards the news will climb sufficiently in the search rankings to actually have an effect.

This product should be marked as beta. I just wasted an entire night of work with an end result I can't show the client. Err that's not true, I did show the client and explained the whole issue with pixelated graphics in the render. While Scripturient1899 's reply was helpful it still isn't a render I can expect to be paid for.

More than a little upset Adobe!

I've been doing some renders for a client and discovered accidentally that if I keep my decals under 1000 pixels in their widest dimension (whether that's height or width) it actually produces SIGNIFICANTLY better results. The decal still isn't super crisp because the render engine has to blow the image back up to high resolution, but at least it eliminates the appalling degree of jaggies. Now I can just export at a bit higher res, run a quick Smart Sharpen in Photoshop, and shrink them to the size I need. Still more steps than ideal, but at least it's producing client-worthy results!

Hi Jenz, It's December now and my decals are still looking blurry. When is this change going into effect?

Justin

same here - load of old tosh, i've just wasted an entire afternoon exporting, re-exporting, increasing quality, checking source images, over and over - the render looks great, but the decal looks S**T. 

I'm now trying to layer my decal in PS via smart object , but am getting problems as the PSD seems to behave differently with the rendered layers, and my smart object is invisible unless i mute the render.

what's the point of releasing "enterprise grade" rendering software, with it's main USP being decal application, when in reality you can't possibly use something like this in the real world - there's no way I'm placing these images on to a website as people will call me out immediately as amateur.