This seamless 8k resolution PBR texture captures the intricate details of single bird footprints delicately pressed into a wet sand substrate, offering a highly photorealistic portrayal of a coastal shoreline environment. The base material is a fine-grained, organic mineral sand layer, with natural moisture acting as a binding agent that subtly darkens and smooths the surface. The wet sand’s beige to light gray color palette is enhanced by natural oxide pigments and fine sediment variations, creating authentic color depth and a softly reflective finish. The texture’s surface finish simulates the smooth yet slightly uneven wet sand, with visible footprint depressions that reveal subtle porosity and depth variation, mimicking natural beach weathering and compaction processes over time.
In terms of PBR composition, the BaseColor (Albedo) channel accurately represents the sand’s natural hues combined with the darker, moisture-rich footprint areas, while the Normal map defines the delicate ridges and depressions of the footprints with precise depth and detail. The Roughness channel balances the wet sand’s semi-glossy reflective properties against the slightly rougher, drier surrounding areas, enhancing realism in lighting interactions. Metallic values remain minimal or zero, reflecting the organic, non-metallic nature of the sand and footprint surface. Ambient Occlusion provides subtle shadowing within the footprint contours, emphasizing depth and form, while the Height/Displacement map delivers fine elevation changes that reinforce the tactile quality of the pressed footprints and sand grains.
Designed for seamless tiling, this texture ensures a continuous natural surface appearance without visible borders, ideal for creating expansive beach or shoreline scenes. Its ultra-high 8k resolution supports close-up renders in Blender, Unreal Engine, and Unity, making it suitable for wildlife visualizations, coastal environment simulations, and realistic 3D asset creation. For optimal results, it is recommended to adjust the UV scale to maintain footprint clarity and to fine-tune the roughness values to achieve the desired wetness and reflectivity balance. Additionally, using parallax or displacement mapping with the Height channel can dramatically enhance the tactile realism of the bird track impressions on the wet sand surface.
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.
