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

	Resolution	Size
Procedural	Unlimited	1.2 GB
SD	Mainly 1k (some 2k)	7.2 GB
HD	Mainly 2k (some 4k)	21.3 GB
UHD	Mainly 4k (some 8k)	62.6 GB
		92.3 GB Total

HDRIs

	Resolution	Size
SD	2k	4.8 GB
HD	Mainly 4k (some 8k)	19.1 GB
UHD	Mainly 8k (some 12k)	64.4 GB
		88.3 GB Total

Number Of Assets

Materials (standard)

Category	Count	Category	Count
Animal Skin	9	Metal	74
Clay	5	Natural Stone	16
Concrete	59	Ocean Foam	3
Fabric	326	Other	20
Floor	362	Roofing	21
Food & Drinks	5	Wall	139
Ground	231	Wood	57
Leaves	73
			1,400 total

Materials (procedural)

Category	Count	Category	Count
Anodized Aluminum	232	Other	2
Car Paint	232	Painted Wood	232
Glass	3	Rubber	2
Glossy Plastic	232	Water	2
Metal	52
			989 total

HDRIs (indoor)

Category	Count	Category	Count
Factory	3	Parking Garage	3
Hall	3	Shop	4
Home	9	Station	3
Industrial	13	Studio	30
Mall	2	Theater	6
Museum	4	Urban	43
Office	1	Workshop	12
			136 total

HDRIs (outdoor)

Category	Count	Category	Count
Building	13	Park	19
Cave	4	Parking Lot	7
City	35	Path	27
Field	46	River	11
Forest	19	Road	26
Garden	6	Rural	33
Lake	18	Snow	14
Nature	38	Underpass	3
Ocean	24	Urban	62
Overpass	3
			408 total

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.

Sales	20+
Dev Fund Contributor
Published	over 2 years ago
Software Version	4.2, 4.1, 4.0, 3.6, 3.5, 3.4, 3.3, 3.2, 3.1, 3.0
Render Engine Used	Cycles, Eevee
License	Royalty Free

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