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Textures

700+ high-quality image texture maps for adding grunge, imperfections, and realistic area light maps to 3D projects. Send with one click using our free Cargo desktop app.

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Surface Imperfections and Realistic Light Maps

All textures and materials are exclusive to our subscribers.

Featured Textures

Subscribers favorite these the most.
Area Light Maps and Gobos
Shape light and shadows (and add some depth and motion) with hundreds of textures created to help you nail studio looks complete with realistic reflections.
Surface Imperfections
Create perfectly imperfect real-world appeal with 320 textures to scuff, scratch, and smudge your pristine models. Need wear and tear? This is how you get it.
Patterns
80+ versatile patterns to create detail and depth. These alpha maps feature grid patterns, modern surface designs, and much more.

Popular Texture Categories

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Scratches
50 scratches, scuffs, and blemishes designed to make materials feel used and uber-realistic.
Area Light Maps
100+ light maps for illuminating scenes in striking ways. Browse splotches, softboxes, lanterns, reflectors, and more.
Crust
50 gritty, grimy click-and-drag textures to ramp up the messy realism of your models.
Subtle
20 “barely there” blemishes created to give your work a lightly lived-in vibe.
Animated Gobos
20 moving gobos designed to give your compositions life with dancing shadows and light.
Gobos
95+ patterns that break up the light to add drama to your renders. Featuring plants, windows, lines, caustics, and abstract patterns.
Frost
Catch a chill with frost surface imperfection texture maps. Perfect for beer cans, winter windows, and icy landscapes.
Modern Surface Patterns
50+ eye-catching customizable patterns inspired by the iconic mid-century modern aesthetic.

Works wherever great 3D is made.

The Cargo desktop app makes it easy to use
any asset with C4D, Blender, Houdini, Unreal Engine, and more.
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Textures in Action

See the power of Greyscalegorilla textures, materials, and models.
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Textures vs Materials

What's the difference between Greyscalegorilla materials and textures?
Textures
A Greyscalegorilla texture is single image texture map used to add details such as roughness, color, or surface imperfections. Textures can be used on their own, such as gobo lighting textures and area light maps, or serve as part of a material.
Materials
Greyscalegorilla materials create realistic dynamic surfaces. Materials are made of multiple texture maps with physically based rendering (PBR) lighting and shading rules to create believable surfaces with authentic details.

Get Inspired

Working with HDRI? These tutorials will light the way.
How to Create Realistic Interior Lighting
Learn how to set up this realistic room using basic shapes and then bring the room to life with realistic materials and Gobo lighting.
Lighting 3D Products With Area Light Maps
In this tutorial, Chad will show you how to use Area Light Maps to light up a sleek Rolex watch. You’ll even see how to use 3D lights to pinpoint an area light precisely where you want to.

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No. All textures and 3D assets require an active subscription to download.

Yes, you can view our asset library and in the free Cargo desktop app.

Yes. Greyscalegorilla materials are fully assembled PBR texture maps. There are over 2500+ materials in our library.

Yes. You can download the Cargo desktop app, which includes 50+ free assets. You will get a collection of free materials, textures, models, and HDRI.

Using the Cargo desktop app, you can send any texture directly into any compatible 3D app.

In addition, once downloaded to your machine, you can copy and paste texture paths into any 2D or 3D program that accepts texture maps.

Using textures for lighting is an easy, effective way to ramp up the visual interest of your work.

Textures like Area Light Maps allow you to think like a photographer by giving you the ability to illuminate your virtual worlds exactly as you would a real-world set or location. At the same time, Textures like gobos and bokeh let you add a dimension of subtle realism to your scenes through the application of shadows, light, and motion.

Surface Imperfections—textures like frost, dust, scratches, and crust—are VFX designed to make your scenes more true to life by adding realistic wear and tear, while

Patterns—like grids, specks, squiggles, and other geometric shapes— add detail and undeniable depth to compositions.

The Greyscalegorilla library offers 700+ lighting textures for use in compatible 3D apps, including Cinema 4D, Blender, Houdini, Unreal Engine, and more.

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