This seamless 3D texture portrays black ice with an intricately rough ice surface marked by numerous detailed ice fissures and fractures. The material composition of this frozen substrate is reminiscent of densely packed crystalline ice, exhibiting natural ridges and scarring formed by prolonged pressure and movement. The base substrate mimics the opaque, dark black tone of natural ice, intensified by subtle variations in pigmentation that simulate depth and translucency. The texture’s surface finish is rugged and uneven, with a tactile roughness that highlights weathering effects and micro fractures, creating a highly realistic frozen environment suitable for photorealistic rendering.
In PBR workflows, this texture excels with its carefully crafted channels. The BaseColor (Albedo) channel captures the deep black ice coloration with nuanced shifts to emphasize embedded fissures and cracked zones. The Normal map enhances the rough ice texture, emphasizing ridges and surface irregularities. Roughness is finely tuned to reflect the natural matte yet slightly reflective quality of aged ice, avoiding overly polished or metallic appearances. The Metallic channel is minimal to nonexistent, reflecting the non-metallic nature of ice. Ambient Occlusion adds depth to fissures and crevices, while the Height/Displacement map provides realistic surface variation, enhancing the cracked and fractured details at close inspection. This texture is optimized at an 8K resolution, ensuring exceptional detail and fidelity for close-up views in 3D models.
Designed for seamless tiling, this black ice texture integrates effortlessly into winter-themed or frozen environment models requiring authentic damaged ice surfaces. It is fully Unreal Engine, Blender, and Unity ready, supporting advanced PBR pipelines for realistic material response under diverse lighting conditions. For practical application, adjusting the UV scale can help tailor the texture density to your scene, while fine-tuning the roughness slider can simulate anything from freshly frozen smooth ice to heavily weathered rough ice. Additionally, using parallax or displacement mapping with the height channel can significantly enhance the perception of depth in ice fissures, providing a more immersive visual experience in any 3D project.
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.
