Use keywords such as materials and textures, in combination with a descriptive term for the type of texture you’re looking for. The thumbnail looks like a bunch of squares, with a different material applied to each one. If you’re clever about how you search the 3D warehouse, you can find models that are set up for the specific purpose of sharing materials. This makes it a great place to look for textures.

You have the ability to extract one or more of the materials from it, instead of having to download the entire thing. When viewing a model on the 3D Warehouse that has materials in it that you’d like to use, you don’t have to download the entire model. 3D WarehouseĮxtract materials from models on the 3D Warehouse! In this article, I’m going to focus on seamless textures. The drawback is they are more work to apply, and the filesizes are usually bigger than if you used a seamless texture. They look better because there aren’t any unnatural repeating areas, and they look more custom.

Full-cover textures are large images that span the entire face.

The material will tile as many times as it needs in order to cover the face. This let’s you use a smaller image size, and you’re free to apply a seamless texture to any size face. The image tiles blend together so you can’t see where the seam is.

Seamless textures are meant to be tiled multiple times across a face.

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