With so much detail and information, ground textures are often one of the hardest parts of your scene to get right. That's why our new 3D ground textures release delivers a grand varsity of photorealistic ground scans that effortlessly enhance your projects with minimal effort and maximum impact.
Read MoreTime for the monthly community roundup! Here’s our favourite renders posted to Artstation last month:
Our favourite render goes to Darko Mitev for this stunning render of a cityscape:
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And if you’re chosen as the render of the month, you’ll win a free 12-months of the Poliigon Freelancer plan.
Time for a monthly roundup! As we skipped last month, this is everything from December to January.
Since it’s two months combined, we have two winners. Both scoring themselves 12 months of Poliigon (Production Plan)!
First up, a chilling crime scene by Mads Lind Nicolaisen
And finally, this cute woodhouse by Janis Posern:
These Hall of Famers weren’t allowed to win again within a 12 month period, but their work deserves to be seen:
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We asked what you’d most like to see next on Poliigon’s release schedule; and what we saw was a widespread call for staple exterior architectural assets. The fact is, it’s been increasingly hard to find roofing & plaster materials that match the elevated design trends of architects in 2021. When we looked into each category to decide which needed our attention the most, we found each had a large gap in high quality, trending options...so we took on both.
Introducing a mega-release of 64 ultra high quality, 8K PBR assets spanning across plaster and roofing textures, including:
19 stucco and plaster materials
5 terracotta roof tiles
6 cement roof tiles
4 copper roof tiles
5 ceramic roof tiles
7 clay roof tiles
2 quarry roof tiles
4 slate shingles
1 wood shingles
4 fiberglass shingles
2 solar panels
5 metal roof panels
Plaster and stucco are some of the most commonly used materials in architectural design for exteriors and interiors alike. Without it, buildings take on a flat, lifeless aesthetic.
These 18 new photorealistic plaster and stucco textures are designed to elevate your next visualization with ease. We’ve also included a range of unique finishes increasingly specified by architects, such as brushed, scraped and swirls, adding interest and movement to plain walls, ensuring it wows at the next design briefs.
We noticed a distinct lack of high quality, tileable roofing assets on the market… until this release. Our selection of textures go beyond the usual ceramic roofing materials, expanding your access to less common roof types such as cement, copper, slate, solar panels and fibreglass roof textures.
The sheer number and scope of assets covered in this release delivers impressive access to a vast range of materials, increasing the likelihood of you finding exactly what has been requested by an architect or interior designer.
No need to modify these textures - they’re ready to go.
Designed to tile over very large surfaces without repetition; especially important with plasters and stucco facades of large buildings. For many of them, we've also made color variants for quick adaptation to the project at hand.
See what our art department created with them:
Introducing a new line of Terrazzo textures for archviz.
Terrazzo has seen a recent resurgence in the world of architecture. With the use of epoxy resin as the binding material, and the option of utilizing recycled aggregate, it has become a versatile material used across a vastness of scenarios including floors, counters, splash backs and product design.
Even with this boost in popularity, we noticed a distinct lack of quality, Terrazzo textures available on the market. Since it’s such a wide-ranging, customizable material, finding existing textures to match your exact needs can be difficult and time-consuming.
So, we built a generator that allows you to create any Terrazzo material you can dream up.
The specs:
Flexible layout options for slab, tiles and ‘in situ’ material modes
Cement and epoxy binders with various colors
Standard, Venetian or Palladiana categories
Two levels of unique controls for chips with a wide range of logical parameters, including shape, color, style and material (Marble or Glass)
Presets available for time-sensitive projects
Highly customizable
As with all of our generators, we aim to provide you with one powerful file that can create a huge range of variants for a particular material type, rather than having to download lots of similar files with a few differences.
So, our new Terrazzo generator provides advanced controls with all the necessary parameters to enable you to match nearly any Terrazzo reference you need for a project. Ensuring we’ve provided materials that are fully scalable, there’s no need to download multiple files; you can switch between slabs or tiles with a single button.
Limited for time? It also comes with a variety of inspiring, trending presets for ease of use and time efficiency, that can be dropped straight into any scene knowing that they will tile and work instantly.
‘Real-world’ workability
Our Terrazzo assets are inspired by real-life designs, meticulously designed to ensure a seamless transition between specification, to visualization, to real world installations.
We did thorough research into the range of options on the market, as well as different manufacturing processes involved, to keep all the parameters logical and relevant.
We then used this information to make a material that reaches far further than other generators on the market, using real-world units to take away the guesswork when working to specification.
How to use the Terrazzo Generator
For all Poliigon Generators, we recommend using the Substance plugins if supported, or the free Substance Player app if you use Blender. The exported textures can then be imported and set up in your software of choice, using Poliigon’s material converters.
The SBSAR format of our generators can also be used in Substance Designer and Substance Painter; however, it’s not generally recommended for use in Painter, due to the complexity of our generators. There are also various plugins for integrating SBSARs directly into different software, but they’re often not kept up to date, so we can’t guarantee compatibility.
Start creating custom Terrazzo today
An endless collection of unique Terrazzo textures, all within one file. Check out the scenes our art department created below and download our new generator today to be blown away by the possibilities:
As artists, we’re always telling a story, and rocks can play an important role in that. Centuries of erosion and lifetimes that reside in the layers and formations play a beautiful impact on landscapes.
As such, they’re an essential asset to have in your library, whether you’re making archviz or a fantasy game environment. Their beauty is in their uniqueness; which means as an artist, you can never have enough rocks.
And that's what inspired this release. We wanted to create not just a set of beach rocks…but a set of beach rocks with unrivaled quality, offering an extensive range of shapes, sizes, surface details and colors. Models that can be used with flexibility and ease, to save you countless hours on your projects.
Welcome to the new gold standard of coastal rockscapes.
40 highly detailed beach rocks, ranging from 14 meters to less than a meter.
16K resolution for all texture maps.
6 LODs (Level of Detail) versions for each rock model.
10 bonus sand scans, available in 8K
Simply load in which LOD you want, the texture resolution, and you're good to go.
As always, our primary goal is ensuring that the quality matches what you’ve come to expect from Poliigon.
Adjacent to that is usability. So we created LODs (levels of detail) variations that allow you to choose which level of detail is needed for a shot or scene.
Tofino, Canada - where the scans took place.
By developing in-house scanning gear and delighting equipment for shadow elimination, we’ve produced sharp, detailed assets that look good and render quickly.
It’s time again for the monthly recap of our favourite artworks posted to ArtStation that use Poliigon assets.
Congrats Bastian Hyldahl! For this brilliant remake of Toy Story 4, you’ve won yourself a year of Poliigon Production.
This rare honorable mention comes from Bill Barber, who made this in his spare time. He wasn’t included in the roundup because he works for us ;)
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And if you’re chosen as the render of the month, you’ll win 12-months of Poliigon Production.
Here’s our usual recap of the top artworks posted to ArtStation using Poliigon assets.
Congratulations Bartosz Domiczek for this stunning series of images made with Poliigon assets. You’ve just won yourself 12 months of Production!
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The quintessential “high-end home” material just got a major upgrade at Poliigon with a brand new marble generator and 85 ready to download materials.
Clients often have such a specific look in mind that you can’t find what you need online. Which is why we created Generators - a dynamic procedural texture that can be customized to exact needs.
We’ve already created a Wood, Brick, Fabric and Leather generator. Now we’re launching Marble, our most complex generator to date. Allowing you to customize:
20 popular marble types like Carrara, Grigio Intenso, Sirio and Empress Green.
33 tile layout orientations like Chevron, Herringbone, Fish scale and Isometric cubes.
Imperfect precision - Simple controls to add pitting, scratches, smudges or mop residue.
Tile and Slab mode - One button to switch between cut tile and continuous slab marble.
Real world scaling - No more guessing the size. This generator does it all.
Here’s a few examples of what you can do with it:
Here’s a breakdown of what it does and how to use it:
If speed is your game, we’ve got you covered with 85 ready to download marble materials created for today’s interior design trends.
Go make something awesome =)
As we enter a new era of 4K as standard, texture detail has never been more important. And as we’ve said in the past, the gold standard for captured detail is photoscans.
So we’re proud to announce a massive drop of ultra-high quality ground photoscans.
While it’s not hard to find photoscans online, many are plagued with problems created through shortcuts.
Repeating texture tiles is a problem most artists are all too familiar with. And while you can disguise it with clever mapping, the root of the problem is often that the captured surface is just too small.
The difference between a 3x3m capture and a 1x1m capture is 66% less tiling. Which is why all of our new scans are 3x3m by default.
Unless you’ve closely inspected the scans you’re downloading, you may not know that many are missing crucial detail due to sloppy capturing.
Sharp captures require expensive camera equipment, more photos per scan and longer processing times. Our methods are far more costly than your typical scan, but create much sharper materials.
Whether you’re making grassy plains, forests, gardens, fields or anything in between you’ll find something to suit your next project.
Here’s a few examples of what you can do with them:
Here’s the cream of the crop from last month:
Congratulations Duy Phan! As our favourite render this month you’ve won yourself a free year of Poliigon!
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Wait till next month to see if you were featured :)
And if you’re chosen as the render of the month, you’ll win 12-months of Poliigon Production.
As per usual, the top renders from last month! Here’s some of our favourites:
Congratulations Paweł Pęcherzewski! As our favourite render this month you’ve won yourself a free year of Poliigon!
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And if you’re chosen as the render of the month, you’ll win 12-months of Poliigon Production.
Here’s the monthly roundup of our favourite Poliigon artworks from Artstation in July 2020.
Our favourite render was this gorgeous project by Ben Eves.
Congratulations Ben! As render of the month you’ve won yourself a year of Poliigon Production.
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Here’s the monthly roundup of the top artworks from Artstation for June 2020.
This month’s award goes to Ilya Galinsky, for this stunningly detailed render!
Congratulations Ilya! As render of the month, you’ve just won 12-months of Poliigon Production :)
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Few assets get as much mileage as a rock. Archviz, environments, sci-fi planets - all encrusted with rock. Like a screwdriver to a tradesmen, a rock is to a 3D artist.
But you’ve probably also experienced your fair share of bad rocks - stretching, lack of detail, uneven lighting etc. So we spent months making a significant investment into our photoscanning workflow to create a collection of rocks that just work.
Introducing 60 insanely-detailed rocks:
Everybody knows photoscanning is king. But there’s miles of difference between a ‘good’ photoscan, and an ‘excellent’ photoscan. Here’s how we made them excellent…
No more rotating the model to find the “good side”. After testing most known delighting techniques, we decided on a combination of high-intensity flashes, polarization, HDR light captures and a bespoke light neutralizing node setup. It wasn’t cheap but it makes for a flawless result.
No more tweaking materials to make them match. By colour neutralizing, reflection removal, and an automated processing pipeline - we ensured each model matches how it looks in the real world.
Enjoy 500,000 poly meshes and 16K textures for ultimate realism.
By doubling the typical photo coverage and calculating extra dense meshes which are then baked into normals, the model reaches a rare fidelity.
We know rocks are just one part of a bigger scene, so we created 5 levels of detail (LODs) with up to 16K textures, so you can use it in real-time gaming or upclose offline rendering.
NOTE: While we update our backend, the only way to access the separate LOD maps is by selecting any extra texture size with your download.
There are 60 rocks available now, and more on the way!
Here’s what our art department created with them:
Here’s the monthly roundup of the top artworks from Artstation for May 2020.
This month’s award goes to Vic Nguyen, for this atmospheric render!
Congratulations Vic! As render of the month, you’ve just won 12-months of Poliigon Production :)
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In November 2018 I visited The Boundary, a leading archviz studio in London, to ask them what assets they needed most and they answered “High quality plants”.
“There’s lots of plant models out there, but very few are high quality” they explained.
Later the artists at Poliigon set out with the ambitious goal to create a physically accurate collection of plants that just work. No matter the lighting or environment, the plants should look realistic.
After nearly a year we believe we’ve achieved that. Here’s how we created our collection of 40 PLANTS, now available for every major software and rendering package.
We investigated the existing market for plants and found that it typically uses just one photographed leaf texture, mapped to a mesh:
A typical plant model - found on BlendSwap.
The problem with this is that it’s missing vital information that can only be guessed from it’s single photo texture.
By comparison, real plants are extensively detailed. Micro-changes to it’s shape, color, reflectivity and translucency play a huge role in how it looks.
Reference photos of a real plant
To match the real world as close as possible, we created a custom photoscanning setup using a rotational light source to capture clean albedo and accurate displacement + a lightpad to capture the raw translucency.
We also added something we’ll call “nature gunk” - dust, dirt, droppings etc. - which was the final piece of the material puzzle.
We then used extensive reference of the real plant to capture the exact shape and leaf distribution, which we then recreated digitally - ensuring optimized, clean meshes.
By combining everything, we were able to create a physically accurate collection of 40 Plants, ready to drop into your next interior.
These are ready to download now. Enjoy!
Here’s the monthly roundup of the top artworks from Artstation for April 2020.
This month’s award goes to Oskar Woinski, for this impressive render.
Congratulations Oskar! As render of the month, you’ve just won 12-months of Poliigon Production :)
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Leather is the go-to material for luxury furniture, but the staggering amount of variety within leather might surprise you. Besides just color, leather comes in a range of species, grade, finish, pigment, patina, age, and much, much more.
So just as generators solved this for brick, wood and fabric, we’ve released a new leather generator, that lets you customize every option:
Perhaps not surprisingly, this means you could generate THOUSANDS of unique leather materials to fill any niche need.
Here’s what it can do:
Here’s a short animation made entirely using the new Leather assets:
If you need something quick, we’ve also uploaded 60 ready-to-use leather assets on Poliigon:
Here’s the monthly roundup of the top artworks from Artstation for March 2020.
This month’s award goes to Daniel Diaz Del Castillo, for this beautiful render.
Congratulations Daniel! As render of the month, you’ve just won 12-months of Poliigon Production :)
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And if you’re chosen as the render of the month, you’ll win 12-months of Poliigon Production!
