This seamless 3D texture presents a meticulously crafted chainmail weave composed of large rings made from hammered metal. The base material is a robust metallic alloy, reflecting a traditional forged metal substrate known for its durability and characteristic surface imperfections. Each ring exhibits subtle dents and irregular hammered patterns, resulting from the metalworking process that lends the material its distinct tactile quality. This texture’s surface finish is intentionally uneven, combining slight oxidation with a polished metallic sheen that catches and reflects light variably across the curved, hammered surfaces. The interplay of light and shadow enhances the depth and realism of the weave, making it ideal for heavy chainmail armor or ornamental mail pieces in high-fidelity 3D renderings and game assets.
In terms of PBR composition, the BaseColor channel captures the natural steel-gray hues with hints of darker oxide layers and faint discolorations from wear, providing a lifelike appearance. The Normal map intricately defines the hammered dents and ring overlaps, creating convincing surface detail without requiring additional geometry. Roughness values are carefully balanced to represent the semi-polished metal finish—glossy enough to reveal a pronounced metallic sheen yet retaining enough texture to avoid a plastic look. The Metallic channel is fully engaged, emphasizing the authentic metal characteristics, while the Ambient Occlusion map accentuates the shadows within ring intersections and under overlapping elements, enhancing visual depth. Height and Displacement maps subtly convey the raised hammered patterns and ring edges, ideal for parallax effects or tessellation in compatible engines.
Rendered at an ultra-high 8K resolution, this seamless texture ensures crisp detail even on close camera angles, making it fully optimized and ready for use in Blender, Unreal Engine, and Unity workflows. The large ring scale and repeatable weave pattern adapt well to various UV layouts, allowing for flexible application across armor models, props, and environmental assets. For optimal results, it is advisable to adjust the roughness channel slightly depending on lighting conditions to fine-tune the metallic sheen and to use moderate parallax or height displacement to accentuate the hammered texture without causing distortion.
How to Use These Seamless PBR Textures in Blender
This guide shows how to connect a full PBR texture set to Principled BSDF in Blender (Cycles or Eevee). Works with any of our seamless textures free download, including PBR PNG materials for Blender / Unreal / Unity.
What’s inside the download
*_albedo.png — Base Color (sRGB)*_normal.png — Normal map (Non-Color)*_roughness.png — Roughness (Non-Color)*_metallic.png — Metallic (Non-Color)*_ao.png — Ambient Occlusion (Non-Color)*_height.png — Height / Displacement (Non-Color)*_ORM.png — Packed map (R=AO, G=Roughness, B=Metallic, Non-Color)
Quick start (Node Wrangler, 30 seconds)
- Enable the addon: Edit → Preferences → Add-ons → Node Wrangler.
- Create a material and select the Principled BSDF node.
- Press Ctrl + Shift + T and select the maps
albedo, normal, roughness, metallic (skip height and ORM for now) → Open.
The addon wires Base Color, Normal (with a Normal Map node), Roughness, and Metallic automatically.
- Add AO and Height using the “Manual wiring” steps below (5 and 6).
Manual wiring (full control)
- Create a material (Material Properties → New) and open the Shader Editor.
- Add an Image Texture node for each map. Set Color Space:
- Albedo → sRGB
- AO, Roughness, Metallic, Normal, Height, ORM → Non-Color
- Connect to Principled BSDF:
albedo → Base Colorroughness → Roughnessmetallic → Metallic (for wood this often stays near 0)normal → Normal Map node (Type: Tangent Space) → Normal of Principled.
If details look “inverted”, enable Invert Y on the Normal Map node.
- Ambient Occlusion (AO):
- Add a MixRGB (or Mix Color) node in mode Multiply.
- Input A =
albedo, Input B = ao, Factor = 1.0.
- Output of Mix → Base Color of Principled (replaces the direct albedo connection).
- Height / Displacement:
Cycles — true displacement
- Material Properties → Settings → Displacement: Displacement and Bump.
- Add a Displacement node: connect
height → Height, set Midlevel = 0.5, Scale = 0.02–0.08 (tune to taste).
- Output of Displacement → Material Output → Displacement.
- Add geometry density (e.g., Subdivision Surface) so displacement has polygons to work with.
Eevee (or lightweight Cycles) — bump only
- Add a Bump node:
height → Height.
- Set Strength = 0.2–0.5, Distance = 0.05–0.1, and connect Normal output to Principled’s Normal.
Using the packed ORM texture (optional)
Instead of separate AO/Roughness/Metallic maps you can use the single *_ORM.png:
- Add one Image Texture (Non-Color) → Separate RGB (or Separate Color).
- R (red) → AO (use it in the Multiply node with albedo as above).
- G (green) → Roughness of Principled.
- B (blue) → Metallic of Principled.
UVs & seamless tiling
- These textures are seamless. If your mesh has no UVs, go to UV Editing → Smart UV Project.
- For scale/repeat, add Texture Coordinate (UV) → Mapping and plug it into all texture nodes.
Increase Mapping → Scale (e.g., 2/2/2) to tile more densely.
Recommended starter values
- Normal Map Strength: 0.5–1.0
- Bump Strength: ~0.3
- Displacement Scale (Cycles): ~0.03
Common pitfalls
- Wrong Color Space (normals/roughness/etc. must be Non-Color).
- “Inverted” details → enable Invert Y on the Normal Map node.
- Over-strong relief → lower Displacement Scale or Bump Strength.
Example: Download Wood Textures and instantly apply parquet or rustic planks inside Blender for architectural visualization.
To add the downloaded texture, go to Add — Texture — Image Texture.
Add a node and click the Open button.
Select the required texture on your hard drive and connect Color to Base Color.
