French Mosaic Tiles Texture | Free PBR free download

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Preview — French Mosaic Tiles Texture | Free PBR

IDfrench-mosaic-tiles-texture-free-pbr
Tile
PNG
Size1k (1024x1024px), 2k (2048x2048px), 4k (4096x4096px), 8k (8192x8192px)
sRGB

This French Mosaic Tiles texture features a meticulously crafted high-quality seamless PBR material designed to replicate traditional ceramic mosaic tiles commonly seen in classic French architecture and interior design. The base substrate consists of finely fired ceramic, providing a rigid and durable foundation with subtle mineral grain orientation visible through the texture’s detailed Normal and Height maps. The tiles are bonded with a mineral-based adhesive that ensures cohesion and adds slight variations in porosity, which are captured in the Ambient Occlusion channel to enhance realistic shadowing within crevices and grout lines. The surface finish is gently polished, offering a balanced roughness that reflects light naturally without excessive gloss, effectively represented in the Roughness map to simulate the authentic tactile feel of aged yet well-maintained mosaic surfaces.

Colorants used in this texture include traditional oxide pigments and mineral-based dyes, creating a rich palette of muted blues, earthy reds, and ivory whites typical of French mosaic artistry. These pigments are accurately depicted in the BaseColor/Albedo map, while subtle variations in color saturation and weathering effects are hinted at through the height and roughness variations, adding depth and realism to the surface. The Metallic channel remains low or neutral, reflecting the non-metallic ceramic nature of the tiles. This texture is crafted at an impressive 8K resolution, ensuring exceptional detail and clarity for close-up renders and large-scale scenes. It is fully optimized and ready for seamless integration in Blender, Unreal Engine, and Unity workflows, supporting physically based rendering pipelines for authentic material representation.

When applying this texture, a practical tip is to carefully adjust the UV scale to match the intended tile size in your scene, as French mosaic tiles typically feature small, repetitive patterns that benefit from precise scaling to avoid stretching or pixelation. Additionally, tuning the Roughness values can help simulate either a newly polished surface or a more weathered, matte finish to suit various environmental contexts. The Height and Parallax channels can be used to enhance the perception of tile depth, adding realism to architectural visualizations, game environments, or virtual heritage reconstructions. This versatile French Mosaic Tiles PBR texture offers both aesthetic appeal and technical accuracy, making it an excellent choice for projects requiring authentic ceramic tile materials with a historic European character.

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)

  1. Enable the addon: Edit → Preferences → Add-ons → Node Wrangler.
  2. Create a material and select the Principled BSDF node.
  3. 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.
  4. Add AO and Height using the “Manual wiring” steps below (5 and 6).

Manual wiring (full control)

  1. Create a material (Material Properties → New) and open the Shader Editor.
  2. Add an Image Texture node for each map. Set Color Space:
    • AlbedosRGB
    • AO, Roughness, Metallic, Normal, Height, ORMNon-Color
  3. Connect to Principled BSDF:
    • albedoBase Color
    • roughnessRoughness
    • metallicMetallic (for wood this often stays near 0)
    • normalNormal Map node (Type: Tangent Space) → Normal of Principled. If details look “inverted”, enable Invert Y on the Normal Map node.
  4. 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).
  5. Height / Displacement:
    Cycles — true displacement
    1. Material Properties → SettingsDisplacement: Displacement and Bump.
    2. Add a Displacement node: connect heightHeight, set Midlevel = 0.5, Scale = 0.02–0.08 (tune to taste).
    3. Output of Displacement → Material Output → Displacement.
    4. Add geometry density (e.g., Subdivision Surface) so displacement has polygons to work with.
    Eevee (or lightweight Cycles) — bump only
    1. Add a Bump node: heightHeight.
    2. 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:

  1. Add one Image Texture (Non-Color) → Separate RGB (or Separate Color).
  2. R (red) → AO (use it in the Multiply node with albedo as above).
  3. G (green) → Roughness of Principled.
  4. B (blue) → Metallic of Principled.

UVs & seamless tiling

  1. These textures are seamless. If your mesh has no UVs, go to UV EditingSmart UV Project.
  2. 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.


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