Essential Materials & HDRIs is a massive asset library for Blender 3.0+ consisting of nearly 2,400 materials and over 500 HDRIs!

See all of the materials and HDRIs →

Notable features:

* Native Blender asset browser assets.

* Made for Cycles, though most materials (and all HDRIs) work with Eevee too.

* Assets are ready to go right out of the box and most are customizable.

* Easily adjust flake size and opacity for car paint, rust amount and colors for rusty metal, etc.

* 232 hues of select procedural materials (including Car Paint, Anodized Aluminum, Glossy Plastic, and Painted Wood) let you easily add and change between popular colors.

* Browse and search assets quickly thanks to organized folders and sensible tags.

* SD, HD, & UHD resolutions are available for standard materials and HDRIs.

* Nearly every material is PBR and seamless!

and much more, including:

High-Quality Thumbnails

Optimized for usage at any thumbnail size

Beautiful Indoor & Outdoor HDRIs

That can be used as backdrops or just realistic lighting

Transparent Road Lines & Symbols

You can easily place on top of any of the 59 (included) concrete materials

Translucent, Double-Sided Leaves

Allowing for incredibly realistic renders

Simplified Material Settings

Easily adjust materials without digging through irrelevant settings and complex node trees

Videos

Introduction

Material displacement tutorial

Resolutions & Sizes

Materials

HDRIs

Number Of Assets

Materials (standard)

Materials (procedural)

License

You can use any of the assets for personal or commercial use.

For example, if you model a bedroom scene (or just a bed) using the materials in this pack and publish that scene to a website to sell, you're more than welcome to pack the materials with your objects/scenes.

Repackaging them to sell in asset packs or material/HDRI libraries (like this one), is not allowed. Anyone who purchases this agrees to abide by these terms.

Attribution is not required, but if you could link back to this page that would be much appreciated!

Disclosure

All of the standard material and HDRI files (.jpg and .exr files) were downloaded from various websites. Some were free, though many did require a paid account. You could technically go to the same sites, download the raw files, and build a similar library but that takes roughly six months (working roughly sixty hour weeks) to accomplish. That’s how long it took me, with advanced computer skills.

The bottom line is, I don’t want any of my customers to feel swindled if they come across any of these assets elsewhere for free. I’m charging for the significant amount of work I put in after simply downloading the files, including:

• Creating and configuring the node trees and groups

• Marking the materials and HDRIs as assets

• Consistently tagging every asset

• Setting up unique thumbnail scenes and rendering out high-quality thumbnails

I realized that without this asset library, other users would have to do all of this work themselves in order to utilize these assets, which is very tedious work.

I genuinely hope my customers find the assets worth the investment. Please don't hesitate to contact me if you have any questions.