On-line asset library LotPixel has launched LotPixel Hub, a brand new desktop app for downloading and importing its belongings into Blender.
With the app, which is presently free in beta, Blender customers can obtain over 1,300 units of free scan-based PBR texture maps, at as much as 8,192 x 8,192px decision.
Recover from 1,300 free PBR texture units for visualization and VFX
LotPixel supplies a spread of inventory belongings for architectural visualization, VFX and video games.
On the time of writing, the library incorporates over 6,000 belongings, together with units of scan-based PBR textures, decal textures, and 3D fashions.
Over 1,300 are free, all of them PBR texture units.
They embrace diffuse/albedo, metallic, roughness, specular, glossiness, ambient occlusion and regular maps, in JPEG format, with displacement maps in EXR format, at resolutions as much as 8K.
The free belongings cowl constructing supplies like asphalt, brick, concrete, steel, plaster, stone and wooden; inside and exterior flooring and wall supplies; plus plastic and materials.
New desktop app LotPixel Hub streamlines the method of downloading belongings
We’ve lined LotPixel’s free belongings earlier than on CG Channel, however on the time, it was solely potential to obtain them individually from the web site.
LotPixel has now launched a brand new obtain supervisor, LotPixel Hub, to streamline the method.
The desktop app makes it potential to create default settings – texture resolutions and file codecs – for downloads, then obtain a number of belongings concurrently.
Integrates straight into Blender, with different DCC apps to come back
LotPixel Hub additionally integrates with Blender, making it potential to import the belongings straight into the open-source 3D software program.
For textures and decals, the mixing script routinely creates a shading community, changing regular maps from LotPixel’s DirectX format to the OpenGL format Blender expects.
A LotPixel panel within the sidebar makes it potential to regulate materials properties like shade stability and displacement power utilizing easy slider controls, with out enhancing the nodes manually.
LotPixel plans to launch integrations for 3ds Max, Cinema 4D, Maya, SketchUp, Unity and Unreal Engine in future.
Paid subscriptions present entry to higher-resolution textures and 3D fashions
The free belongings signify round 1 / 4 of the textures in LotPixel’s business library, which additionally consists of decals and 3D scans, together with rocks and small family objects.
The belongings are priced on a credit score foundation: most belongings devour three credit when downloaded.
For artists with income underneath $150,000/12 months, paid subscriptions begin at $14/month, for 45 credit per 30 days, or $120/12 months, for 540 credit per 12 months.
Additionally it is potential to purchase further credit, beginning at $22 for 45 credit.
Value and system necessities
LotPixel’s free texture units are supplied as JPEG and EXR information, at resolutions as much as 8,192 x 8,192px. The information are licensed to be used in business tasks.
LotPixel Hub is accessible for Home windows 10+ solely, and integrates with Blender 4.2+.
The app is presently free in beta. We’ve contacted LotPixel to ask how will probably be priced as soon as it leaves beta, and can replace if we hear again.
Obtain over 1,300 free PBR texture units from LotPixel
(Requires registering on the LotPixel web site)
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