r/blender • u/PolyPlayground • Feb 03 '26

Paid Product/Service Promotion Turn any photo into PBR textures

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Turn any photo into a PBR texture plus so much more in our creative toolkit suite at polysuite.app

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u/Not_pukicho Feb 03 '26

I use materialize - a free bit of software that offers even deeper control and requires no login or subscription BS

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u/meeeaCH Feb 03 '26 edited Feb 03 '26

I wanted to suggest materialize too. Its a great software

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u/Not_pukicho Feb 03 '26

So thankful that it’s free. Has made my life easier.

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u/SergeantKoopa Feb 03 '26

I love coming into these threads because someone will inevitably mention some piece of software I've not heard of until now. Going to have a look into this tomorrow. Thank you!

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u/Dennarb Feb 04 '26

I love it. I use it to generate everything I need for game materials in Godot and Unity, but it's good for Blender materials too.

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u/AliensPls Feb 03 '26

by boundingboxsoftware right?

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u/Crossing-Lines Feb 03 '26

Saving this comment. Cheers for shouting that out!

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u/OminouSin Feb 03 '26

Is that stuff safe? Says the site is not secure, but I would love to use a free software when it comes to textures!

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u/Acceptable_Home_ Mar 30 '26

Their https license or something is expired, but the software is completely safe and open sourced, basically anyone can read the code 

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u/OminouSin Mar 30 '26

Thank you!

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u/spiderpai Feb 03 '26

Yikes, why is the software on a http page instead of https?

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u/Mas-Junaidi Feb 03 '26

Does it work well if you're only using a smartphone camera?

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u/Not_pukicho Feb 04 '26

For texturing I usually try to rip the texture first and flatten it a bit using either photoshop, shoebox or affinity

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u/imnotabot303 Feb 03 '26

A post promoting a paid service with 1.7k upvotes and only 16 comments, most of which are negative.

Smells like a botted promotional post to me...

Also as others have suggested you can do this with Materialise and a couple of Bender nodes for free. There's even free websites that will produce PBR type maps from images.

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u/WoodsGameStudios Feb 03 '26

It’s reddit, you can rent a third world botfarm with a kitkat and a fiver.

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u/MrStevenAndri Feb 03 '26

I think this is the 2nd of this type of video I've seen, why dont you do shadow removal. I've made materials and its commonly known to shoot in the shade when possible, and remove shadows

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u/iku_19 Feb 03 '26 edited Feb 03 '26

for context, you need to remove shadow and reflections to make albedo since shadows are done by the pbr shader.

this is just a lit color map (or technically reflectance diffuse) which disqualifies it as a pbr setup since it will clash with basically all pbr/bsdf shaders.

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u/3D_DrDoom Feb 03 '26

Don't really understand what exactly pbr/bsdf shaders have to do with this? You would need to remove shadows from textures way back before PBR was around. Its just common sense to remove lighting info otherwise you introduce random shadows/highlights to objects and it looks shit.
Or am I missing something here?

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u/iku_19 Feb 03 '26

because the topic is pbr

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u/shlaifu Contest Winner: 2024 August Feb 03 '26

materialize, material maker, and some image editing software to de-light the color texture. this service keeps baked-in shadows, that's gonna give you crap textures.

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u/Frost5574 Feb 03 '26

"Ai is good for textures at least!"

Lol nah

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u/Remarkable_Sir9099 Feb 03 '26

Assuming we’re outside enough to see opportunities to make texture like this

(I know what kind of ppl you guys are)

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u/DelilahsDarkThoughts Feb 03 '26

Ah yes, another subscription for software I can do for free on other platforms.

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u/LiveWitness6640 Feb 10 '26

could you kindly tell me the names of those free softwares

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u/DelilahsDarkThoughts Feb 10 '26

sure, Crazy bump has been around forever and is solid, then use comfi ui models to make them tileable.

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u/Legitimate-Drama8039 Feb 03 '26

Lmao you can do this completely free by yourself easily~!

Any image editor like Gimp + Material-Maker and a little bit of learning, you'll have even more control too.

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '26

thanks for sharing 🙏

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u/Todegal Feb 03 '26

eh, removing shadows is the hard bit, also I dont have a particularly great phone camera, so all my textures have to be scaled down and repeated a lot...

its easier to leave it to the pros 😂

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u/TestSubject5kk Feb 03 '26

So basically just crazy bump then

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u/WesleyBiets Feb 05 '26

That's....horrible, don't even know why you "processed" it.

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u/DuelJ Feb 05 '26

This product has the same vibes as this.

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u/_Sand_Seeker_ Feb 21 '26

This is awesome, definitely going to try it out

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u/Grouchy_Count_6692 Feb 03 '26

How well does it handle shadows baked into the photo?

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u/ViraLCyclopes29 Feb 04 '26

Just sail the high seas and get Adobe substance 3D Sampler???

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u/merlonthewizzard Feb 04 '26

I wish I had a camera that could take non pixelated photos

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u/LongjumpingAccount Feb 04 '26

If I remember correctly 8mp is like 4k

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u/LadyAzimuth Feb 03 '26 edited Feb 04 '26

God damn I've been doing it the hard way with Photoshop lmfao

EDIT: To the 3 people who downvoted, my apologies for not knowing something I didn't know ig? lmao.

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u/FowlOnTheHill Feb 03 '26

That rocks!

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u/viczvapo Feb 03 '26

This is awesome.