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Material Library

Free PBR material scans for 3D artists

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Details

External ID
1270299
Source
PH
Company
—
Product
Material Library
Website domain
producthunt.com
Launched
Oct. 6, 2026
Cohort
—
Upvotes
1
Upvotes percentile
0.3252774120744781
Tags
Virtual Reality, Design Tools, 3D Modeling
Fetched at
Oct. 7, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Updated at
Oct. 7, 2026, 1:01 a.m.

Description

Browse and download free PBR textures. Our library is designed for 3D artists who are looking for accurate surface scans. The scans were made using the latest colormass scanner, see more information about it here: https://www.colormass.com/technology/scanning and here: https://youtu.be/eRvvuoCYcPE?si=pHExKjHrvLR2VjCT Join the server at discord.gg/eMN96WkUvx to share your renders, get help, or suggest what materials we should scan next.

Enrichment

Niche
visual design and animation tools
Vertical
Media & entertainment
Function
Content generation
Audience
Prosumer
AI stance
Not AI
Project type
Hobby / open-source project
Normalized one-liner
pbr texture repository for 3d artists
Manually corrected
False

Could you build this?

No The core product requires expensive physical spectrophotometer/PBR scanning hardware and specialized photogrammetry processing to generate accurate physical 3D textures.

What it would actually take: Building this requires custom optical scanning hardware (like Colormass photogrammetry rigs with polarizing lights and sensors) and computer vision pipelines to decompose raw captures into PBR maps (albedo, roughness, normal, displacement). The web portal itself is a standard asset CDN, but the data acquisition cannot be vibe-coded.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one — 198 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #92 of 199 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 337 days after the earliest competitor.

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