This is a list of the best websites to get free textures for Blender.
Different licenses:
- Editorial: you can use the textures, but you can’t resell them in any form. or use them in professional work.
- CC0: 100% free, the original creators hold no rights, you can do whatever you want with the textures!
How do I add textures to models in Blender?
There are a lot of tutorials covering this online, Here is a good one by Jayanam.
Alternatively you can use LilySurfaceScraper to import the textures and setup everything for you. Now without further ado, let us begin:
3D Textures
License: CC0
Download: Clicking the “Download Maps” button brings you to google drive where you can choose which maps to download.
Every Texture
License: Editorial
Every Texture has a very unique library of textures both seamless and non seamless. true to it’s name it has a very extensive archive, images varying in usability and quality.
Downloading: Lets you choose which maps to download, in case you do not want to download all the maps (normal, roughness etc.). It does not however let you choose your resolution while downloading.
Share Textures
License: CC0
Share Textures is another great library with hundreds of free textures, there are some weird obviously procedural textures, but other than that it is a great place for free textures.
Download: Gives you several image resolution options, but does not let you select individual maps.
3Djungle
License: Editorial
3Djungle has a massive texture library, with over 5000 textures! Many seem like there would never be a reason to use them in a 3D scene, but there are just so many that it can be used as a back-up, if textures are not available on other texture websites.
Download: Easy download, The image sizes are random (usually fairly high res) and no map choosing options when downloading.
3DAssets.one
Though this site does not offer textures itself, it is an extremely helpful platform which allows you to search for textures across multiple free texture websites at the same time! After clicking on an image, you will be taken to the website where you can download the files.
Texturer
License: You may not resell these textures
Download: Resolution varies per image
cgbookcase
License: CC0
cgbookcase has just over 500 textures. It also has an awesome search bar allowing you to pick resolution, category and color to filter out the options.
Download: Easily downloaded, allows you to choose resolution, but many textures are only 2k.
Poly Haven
License: CC0
Poly Haven has a small collection of textures, just over 200, but the quality is outstanding, with every image being at least 8k.
Download: Very great download options, lets you choose resolution, which maps to download and what format each map should be (options are PNG, JPG and EXR).
ambientCG
License: CC0
ambientCG is one of the best places to get your textures, It is also compatible with LilySurfaceScraper making it very easy to import textures strait into blender.
Download: lets you choose resolution and format, downloads all maps in a zip.
I hope you find these free textures for Blender as helpful as I have
Thanks for reading this article, if you have any questions feel free to contact me!