Cad64 Posted July 24, 2008 Posted July 24, 2008 Since this question gets asked on a pretty regular basis, Here is a listing of some good sites for free textures & materials: Texture Sites: http://www.cgtextures.com/ http://www.plaintextures.com/ http://www.3dxo.com/ http://textures.forrest.cz/ Materials Sites: (You have to register, in order to download from these sites, but they're free) Mental Ray Materials: https://www.mrmaterials.com/ Vray Materials: http://www.vray-materials.de/ HDRI for Image Based Lighting: http://www.hdrlabs.com/sibl/archive.html
PS_Port Posted July 24, 2008 Posted July 24, 2008 (edited) Here are a few more http://www.accustudio.com/index.php?option=com_phocagallery&view=category&id=1&Itemid=77 http://www.eldoradostone.com/flashsite/ (some nice seamless stone textures) http://www.3dtotal.com/ http://www.sharecg.com/ Edited April 18, 2017 by Cad64 Removed Dead Links
spursnutter Posted December 17, 2008 Posted December 17, 2008 Not quite sure how to use the ones on http://www.vray-materials.de/ I downloaded some and there are various jpgs in there. I assume you have to some how put them together?? A bit lost on that one.
Cad64 Posted December 18, 2008 Author Posted December 18, 2008 The Vray materials are for use specifically with Vray in 3DS Max. I suppose you could just use the .jpg, but the .mat file is the Max material file.
julimor Posted December 17, 2009 Posted December 17, 2009 So you download these images. I got that. But how do you incorporate the images into the MEP tool palette? It's different than the materials tool palette. The one I'm talking about is in the design tab of the Architectural Palette in MEP 2008. Why does Autodesk make this so hard? Sorry, I'm really frustrated. Julie
Cad64 Posted December 17, 2009 Author Posted December 17, 2009 Sorry, I've never worked with MEP so I can't offer any assistance with that. But, does MEP have a Material Editor like plain Autocad? Try typing RMAT or MATERIALS at the command line and see if the Editor opens.
julimor Posted December 17, 2009 Posted December 17, 2009 Typing either just opens the materials palette. In MEP there's a Tool Palette that has Architectural, Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing, etc, palettes within the Tool Palette. Using those 3D design tools creates what they call AEC components, as opposed to 3D objects. Those components don't seem to be affected by anything you do in the Materials Palette. And 3D objects that can be created with plain AC or MEP don't seem to be affected by the Materials Tool found within the Architectural Tool Palette (within the Tools Palette). I'll keep searching. Thank you for your help.
julimor Posted February 15, 2011 Posted February 15, 2011 (edited) These are a bit smaller (1280x960): http://www.boulterplywood.com/product_gallery.htm This is a general texture site: http://free-3d-textures.com/ Edited March 10, 2018 by Cad64 Removed dead links
provas_ce Posted September 3, 2013 Posted September 3, 2013 here also one > http://www.youthedesigner.com/2011/06/23/51-high-quality-free-texture-packs-to-download/
rokkitox Posted December 30, 2013 Posted December 30, 2013 Here is my favorite. High-resolution, No Registration, No Limits. http://my-textures.com/
abhaya Posted June 18, 2014 Posted June 18, 2014 I just found nice site with free CG textures, it seems that it's start-up but they provide really nice and high res textures at texturify.com
DiscoverTextures Posted December 17, 2015 Posted December 17, 2015 Free textures and png http://www.discovertextures.com
cebbi Posted July 28, 2016 Posted July 28, 2016 Hi, in case you are searching for tileable textures with normal, specular and bump maps, grab some freebies from my website: http://pixel-furnace.com/?post_type=product&s=free (filtered to only display free products) It's still growing, but I hope it's useful for someone.
Cad64 Posted March 10, 2018 Author Posted March 10, 2018 I have cleaned this thread and removed all spam, dead links and links to deceptive sites. Due to the amount of spam and other bogus links being posted, this thread is now closed. There are plenty of links to free texture sites posted above. If you can't find what you need at any of those sites, try searching Google Images or maybe consider purchasing textures from a commercial site.
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