Use Assets to Control Textures and Materials in FORMAS.AI | Quick Tip with Christopher Noelle
In this Formas Quick Tip, Faculty Instructor Christopher Noelle demonstrates one way to use the Assets panel in FORMAS.AI Freeform Studio to control materials and textures in your AI-generated architectural sketches. In under three minutes, you'll see how placing prepared asset files (from hatching patterns to stone textures to tree silhouettes) directly onto your canvas gives the AI precise visual references for every element of your composition.
What you'll see in this quick tip:
• How to open the Assets panel, browse and search by asset type, and add assets to your canvas using drag-and-drop or the Add Selected Image button.
• How to place asset cards as reference nodes on your sketch board and connect them to specific elements using the canvas linking system.
• How to annotate each asset card with instructions — such as "fill this object with the seamless repeated reference texture" or "fill the entire sky with this repeating sketch pattern" — to guide the AI precisely.
• How to combine multiple asset types (hatching textures, stone surfaces, people silhouettes, background paper) across a single massing sketch before generating.
Beyond serving as a personal library of textures, the Assets panel can also store furniture and references you can deploy across every studio in FORMAS.AI. Save it once. Reuse it everywhere.
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