HoloMapper – Projection Mapping Tool

HoloMapper – Projection Mapping Software

HoloMapper is a real-time projection mapping tool for creators, VJs, digital artists, installation designers, and visual experimenters who want precise control over how visuals are projected onto physical surfaces.

Map visuals onto walls, objects, stages, installations, custom builds, tabletop setups, or room-scale environments. With mesh warping, Bezier curves, flexible surface tools, snapping, media presets, and real-time editing, HoloMapper gives you a focused workspace for building and adjusting projection mappings quickly.

Whether you are creating a small home setup, an art installation, live visuals, or experimental mapped content, HoloMapper helps you align, warp, and transform visuals directly onto the surfaces around you.

Key Features

Real-Time Projection Mapping

Create and edit projection surfaces live while viewing the mapped result on your projector or external display. Move points, reshape surfaces, align visuals, and fine-tune your mapping without leaving the creative flow.

Advanced Mesh Warping

Go beyond basic corner pinning with detailed mesh controls. Adjust edges, internal warp points, and surface deformation to better fit visuals onto irregular, angled, curved, or uneven surfaces.

Mesh warping is supported across multiple layer types, including images, videos, GIFs, and text, giving you more freedom when designing complex projection layouts.

Bezier Curve Mapping

Create smooth curved shapes using Bezier curves. This is useful for more organic mappings, curved visual elements, decorative outlines, abstract projection designs, and surfaces that do not fit simple rectangular layouts.

Multiple Surface and Drawing Tools

Build your projection scene using a growing set of surface tools, including:

• Quad surfaces
• Mesh-warped surfaces
• Circle surfaces with depth and bulge controls
• Bezier curves
• Straight and freehand lines
• Custom filled shapes
• Text layers with mesh warping

These tools make HoloMapper flexible enough for clean technical alignment as well as more artistic and experimental projection setups.

Flexible Media Support

Import and map a variety of visual content, including:

• Images
• Videos
• GIFs
• Text
• MP4 animation presets
• Color and animation presets

HoloMapper is built for both prepared visual content and quick live experimentation.

Animation and Preset Tools

Use built-in preset options to create motion and visual variation faster. Import MP4 animation presets, combine them with mapped surfaces, and build layered projection effects without needing a complicated VJ setup.

Projector Workflow

HoloMapper is designed for setups where you control the software on one screen while sending the final mapped output to a projector or external display. This keeps the editing interface separate from the clean projection output.

Snapping and Alignment Tools

Align surfaces more quickly with side, corner, and rotation snapping. Auto Aspect can automatically match a quad’s aspect ratio to imported media, helping prevent stretched or distorted visuals.

Clean Editing Interface

HoloMapper uses a focused interface built for fast visual work. Adjust surfaces, collapse menus, move handles, duplicate layers, organize groups, and fine-tune properties without unnecessary clutter.

Experimental Input Features

HoloMapper also includes experimental support for additional input types, such as browser / URL layers and external window inputs. These features are still evolving and may vary in performance depending on the source, system, and content being used.

Built For

HoloMapper is designed for:

• Projection mapping artists
• VJs and live visual performers
• Digital artists
• Installation designers
• Stage and event visuals
• Creative developers
• Makers and experimental builders
• Steam Deck projection setups
• Small studio and home projection experiments

From simple wall projections to multi-layer mapped visuals, HoloMapper adapts to a wide range of creative workflows.

Steam Deck and Linux Support

HoloMapper supports Windows and Linux / SteamOS, including Steam Deck workflows. A Steam Deck can be used as a portable control device for projection setups when connected to an external display or projector.

For best results on Steam Deck, Desktop Mode and an extended display setup are recommended.

Early Access Development

HoloMapper is actively evolving with regular updates, new features, fixes, and workflow improvements. Recent updates have added Bezier curves, animation preset support, GIF support, mesh warping for text, snapping tools, improved layer handling, Auto Aspect, and expanded surface editing tools.

Planned and ongoing improvements include:

• More advanced mesh and curve tools
• Expanded media support
• More animation and preset systems
• Improved live performance features
• Community-requested workflow improvements
• Additional support for portable and projector-based setups

Join the Community

Share your projection mapping setups, suggest features, report issues, and help shape the future of HoloMapper through the Steam community.

HoloMapper is built for creators who want a simple, flexible, and affordable way to experiment with real-time projection mapping.