Get the work out
Formats
Take the default unless somebody has asked for something else, and know which two choices actually matter.
Take the default. Images, video and audio come out as what they already are, vectors come out as SVG, and the only place you are asked to choose is 3D, where the choice genuinely changes what the recipient can do. ## What comes out | Kind | Format | Notes | |---|---|---| | Images | As stored | PNG where transparency matters, since JPG has no alpha channel | | Video | As stored | Usually MP4, playable anywhere | | Audio | As generated | MP3 from the effects tools, M4A from the music ones | | Vectors | SVG | Paths intact, editable, scales losslessly | | 3D | Your pick | GLB, GLTF, OBJ or STL, plus the original file if you uploaded one | | Notes and text | `notes.md` | Plain markdown | | Links | `links.md` | The URLs with their titles | | Palettes | `palette.txt` | The colour values | ## The two choices that matter **Transparency.** A background you removed only stays removed in a format that carries an alpha channel. Sending a cutout as JPG puts the background back as white, and it is the most common way a good asset arrives broken. **3D format.** GLB is right almost always: one file, geometry plus materials plus textures, and it carries quad topology. The alternatives exist for pipelines that demand them, and every one of them loses something. [3D export formats](/docs/using-plnty/3d/export-formats/) covers the trade properly. :::caution[Remesh before you export a generated mesh] This matters more than the format choice. A mesh straight from a generator is dense and irregular, and reliably carries non-manifold shells, so whoever opens it has to fix that before working. The local remesher is free. ::: ## Resolution What you get is what was generated. Downloading does not upscale, and nothing is resampled on the way out. If a deliverable needs to be larger, upscale it as its own run first and download the result. Doing it in the other order means asking a client's designer to enlarge something, which they will do badly and blame on you. ## The bundle A mixed selection or a whole board arrives as one `.zip`, organised rather than flattened, with the notes and links written out alongside the media. That bundle is the closest thing to "the project, as a folder", and it is a better handover than a set of individual downloads collected by hand. :::note[Nothing here re-encodes] Assets are stored as they were made and handed over unchanged, so there is no quality loss in the download step. The one place re-encoding happens is the audio and video merge suite, and even there an MP4 source has its video stream copied rather than re-encoded. :::Take the default. Images, video and audio come out as what they already are, vectors come out as SVG, and the only place you are asked to choose is 3D, where the choice genuinely changes what the recipient can do.
What comes out
Section titled “What comes out”| Kind | Format | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Images | As stored | PNG where transparency matters, since JPG has no alpha channel |
| Video | As stored | Usually MP4, playable anywhere |
| Audio | As generated | MP3 from the effects tools, M4A from the music ones |
| Vectors | SVG | Paths intact, editable, scales losslessly |
| 3D | Your pick | GLB, GLTF, OBJ or STL, plus the original file if you uploaded one |
| Notes and text | notes.md |
Plain markdown |
| Links | links.md |
The URLs with their titles |
| Palettes | palette.txt |
The colour values |
The two choices that matter
Section titled “The two choices that matter”Transparency. A background you removed only stays removed in a format that carries an alpha channel. Sending a cutout as JPG puts the background back as white, and it is the most common way a good asset arrives broken.
3D format. GLB is right almost always: one file, geometry plus materials plus textures, and it carries quad topology. The alternatives exist for pipelines that demand them, and every one of them loses something. 3D export formats covers the trade properly.
Resolution
Section titled “Resolution”What you get is what was generated. Downloading does not upscale, and nothing is resampled on the way out.
If a deliverable needs to be larger, upscale it as its own run first and download the result. Doing it in the other order means asking a client’s designer to enlarge something, which they will do badly and blame on you.
The bundle
Section titled “The bundle”A mixed selection or a whole board arrives as one .zip, organised rather than
flattened, with the notes and links written out alongside the media.
That bundle is the closest thing to “the project, as a folder”, and it is a better handover than a set of individual downloads collected by hand.