Question: not only HI RES textures but LARGE textures

[dogdayfear]

In my last exercise (Stairs to heaven) and in general in a lot of my tries texturing, I find a problem that drives me crazy.

I know a lot of sites with HI RES textures including all the maps of a PBR material, free sites, and pay sites.

But is very difficult to me to find large textures to avoid repetition patterns in walls, floors and so on.

Where do you fin )free or paid) large textures? Not seamless textures. Large textures for large walls for instance.

Lets make a list if you wish.

[dogdayfear]

Really nobody has been in this situation like me?

[BigBlend]

I think there is a script for Blender that makes repeating texture not that repeatable. However let’s list our sources here for textures.

Poly Haven • Poly Haven

ambientCG - CC0 Textures, HDRIs and Models

Home - Public Domain Textures

[BigBlend]

Also this:

[CarlG]

@dogdayfear

Really nobody has been in this situation like me?

Sure, but instead of looking for bigger textures which impact memory significantly, I try to work around the problem. Here is one such approach which is suitable for flat projected textures that can survive being mixed and rotated (doesn’t apply to all kinds of textures).

My shading, textures, and material experiments

SSS marble stuff, using a noise generator to randomly mix 4 versions of the same seamless texture (scale and rotation). This group is then called three times with different settings, and using a modified six-planar box mapping node simply projected along xy, yz, and xz. Very versatile way of doing box mapping to very effectively hide texture repeats. [ShaderBall_SeamlessSSSMarbleUsingBoxMappingAndRandomTransforms] The nodes for it, the outside scope is simpler, so snapshot from within the mar…

I recommend having an image viewer open and use its replace functionality to replace the texture rather than editing within the node group several times.

Things get more complex if you do the mirror trick on non repeatable textures, and mix those like shown. And way more complex if you start throwing in support for blended triplanar box mapping with a randomly shifted normal (to better hide where the blending seam is located).

For simple stuff like tiles and floorboards, I base it around brick texture generator (3 off, if you want additional random effects) and use it’s color out routed through a noise to produce random colors per tile/board, and lookup a high resolution texture for the actual pattern.

Some other threads I’ve posted in:

PBR wood shader advice- MindTex Generator?

Step 1: Make a few good seamless wood textures in good resolution and pick a couple of them. Structure in the textures is good, but try avoiding obvious directional structure - that can be added using procedurals. 1-2k resolution should be fine. Figure out a way to blend these two textures together so that repetitions becomes less visible, no matter the scale and rotation. Step 2: Make yourself a brick/floorboard generator texture that also outputs random color per tile. Add that color to the…

Blender or substance painter

Don’t forget you can use external programs to create a complex base texture at high resolution (i.e. marble), and then use cycles procedurals to do trickery to the coordinates to apply it as tiles (or seamless in some cases) where obvious texture repetition (CGI giveaway) is significantly camouflaged. Tiled example: [Bricks_Stones2] Custom box mapped example (non-tiled): [Box_Mapping_Seamless] Closeup of the latter: [Box_Mapping_Seamless_Closeup] Maintaining this kind of detail would r…

Multitexture for Blender? Material for use of floor generator

Here is a setup I did mostly for a marble texture to disrupt repetitiveness for instances using object info/random, but for a flat plane I would use some random color generator instead (bricks texture can do this using the same noise setup) . It uses last noise component to drive random rotation for each tile/plank/whatever, but for wood which is strongly directional in nature I would use it for something else. Multiplying in some darkness for variation maybe? The setup looks like this, with the…

Procedural Texturing using nodes alone can create any materials?

Here is an example of a brick wall and tiled floor using the hybrid approach. They both use the same 6k detail texture. Shown shadeless: [Bricks2a_detailtextureonly] But now I use procedural brick texture and some other generators to break it up. Since brick can output random color per stone, I can use this to look up different parts of the detail texture, color and darken it, apply a hue change, have different scale and rotation - basically no limits. All shadeless, wall is shown without the…

Tile something using real-world dimensions?

Try this: TestTiles.blend (1.5 MB) The result with included texture: [TestTiles] There is an output socket ready if you really want only random 90° rotation. I didn’t include hdr. I also suggest replacing texture with a high res modern one.

Brecht's Principled Volume Shader

I prefer to think of it as being “for dumb artists” If using this for the shading, you’re pretty much set for having it setup correctly. If like before, you downloaded or reused from old downloaded asset or trusted youtube tutorials or did your own guesswork - you’re pretty much setup for getting it wrong. And, it’s only the shading stage. The images below use the principled shader, but for the tiled version there are many nodes doing the tiling. Untiled, a seamless 2k texture s…

In the first link at the very top, I also show one way on how you can utilize 4D generators to setup repeatable generators; one 3D for U repeats, and one 4D for U and V repeats. These are without distortions (like you get on a 3D torus approach) and without mixing generators which produce variations in spatial density (here is one voronoi pattern, whereas here is obviously two mixed). The downside is the coordinate system is not very intuitive. Maybe someone can improve that?

Of course, if you want wood patterns, the best way is probably to use the Bartek Skorupa approach to produce high quality lookup textures, possibly make them seamless in post using the anti seam approach shown above (never tried it).

Manipulate texture coordinates like a boss - Bartek Skorupa

[dogdayfear]

Thank you all for your help.

I already know about the sites with textures. Most of them are seamless textures, that do not fit my needs.

About generating them, its not the case. Too complex work for my skills.

Anyway thanks. Hope somebody can point any site with large textures, if exists.