FREE Texture and Map Generation with Materialize - Easy Texture Creator

This easy to use, free tool allows you to quickly create textures that include height maps, normal maps, and other maps using just an image file!

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For those of you that have worked with maps for rendering, you know that finding and creating those maps can be a little time consuming. It’s definitely do-able, but requires some work in an image editing software.
This tool allows you to create those maps simply by importing an image into the program and adjusting some sliders.
The tool is called Materialize – it’s a free tool designed to create all of those maps that you need to create realistic renderings inside your models. Based on what’s listed on their website, it was actually used on the Uncharted games to help update the materials.
It’s a free tool, so download it and give it a try!
When you first open it up, you’ll get a screen like this one – basically a blank palette. From here, you can load in your images and create your different maps, and preview them using this page.
To start, load in a diffuse map – that being the map that’s associated with the image that’s being tiled to create your material. This will load in your material, and you can start making changes and generating maps. By clicking the edit button, you can adjust different things about your material, like the contrast, shadow reduction, and more.
To preview your material, you can click on the button for “Show full material.”
Now, let’s add a height map to our material. This will create a map that you can load as a displacement map that will displace points inside your 3D rendering, making your material look like it has the natural nooks/crannies/etc that are associated with real life objects. Note that the stronger the contrast between the darks and whites in your material, the stronger the displacement effect will be.
You can also use the tool to generate normal maps, which are good for faking shadows in dent and crevices, at a lower processor usage.
There are several other tools over here (metallic, smoothness, etc) that are similarly easy to use, but I don’t want to focus too much on them in this video. Instead, I want to draw your attention to the “Tile maps” option.
One of the biggest problems with working with textures is trying to make them seamless. Seamless means that when they’re tiled, you don’t want this jarring, ugly edge that makes it obvious that you’re just repeating an image over and over again. This tool allows you to quickly blur the edge between the image tiles, allowing for a more tileable image.
Once you have your texture the way you want it, you can use the “Save Project” button to quickly save all your maps to a location of your choosing.

[Thesketchupessentials]

FIRST! Let me know what you guys think about this tool - so far I'm really liking it! :)

[lauracabrera]

Hi. I installed the Materialize program but could not open any .jpg file. The thumbnails are not visible, they are only blank sheets and I cannot load them. What am I doing wrong?

[gaetanclb]

Hhen i put the image in diffuse map nothing hapenn, help please!

[Thenikolas]

Hi guys, I need a help, when I try to open the file, the image does not appear, nor the "select" button that would open the image. Why is this happening?

Note: I dont not speak English, I can not understand what the guy says in the video (including, I am using Google translator, should have several grammar errors, ignore this please). I am watching the video to understand the procedure visually, because I can not understand what it says (there are no tutorials in my language so far).

If anyone can help me, I thank it.

[TThiele]

i can't save my Materialize Files.


Everytime i click on save; nothing happened.


Am i the only one with this problem?

[MlleVB]

Just downloaded this! Thanks for the tutorial!

[abdelhakyac]

PLEASE, CAN YOU COMBINE NORMAL AND HEIGHT MAPS INTO ONE MAP, BECAUSE SOME SOFTWARE LIKE ENSCAPE ONLY USE ONE MAP FOR THE HEIGHT

[janoscsizmadia]

Help please! I have got windows 64 bit and GTX 1070 with the newest driver. But, for me it doesnt work, to open ANY picture az a diffuse map. It happens nothing! No previews az well.. i dont know, what could be a problem :(

[eduardocastillo]

Hi! What happens if my sketchup and VRAY wont show my .bmp files trying to add them to my material list in sketchup? I tried every format and none shows while trying to load it...

[Lopata]

Sorry bro but your end product looked bad, you didn't even resolve tilling. I mean not really your fault since i didn't find much success in Materialize tilling aswell.

[mintrose]

Incredibly informative, short and sweet, going straight to the point. Love it. Thank you so much for the tutorial!

[lostdeeper]

also download unity or unreal shader pack so it works

[MlleVB]

Would be really great if u make a video about different types of material and apply them as bump, reflection, glossiness etc in skp vray :)

[sherinefaggett]

HI I followed all the steps but now I am at the end it wont save my work. What do I do now that is an issue?

[giorgosdaniilidis]

Could you please tell me if the normal maps is DirectX or open Gl?

[alinamjf]

Great! I love this! Can you do a tutorial applying this materials in Lumion? Thank you!

[melizabeththomas]

why does adding maps change my diffuse color?

[GTAV-qdsk]

Thanks sir This full aturiel Sir this toool avible for 32 bit ?

[miraclecncshop]

Why image is not show up when open image in Diffuse map

[jayshockey]

Hi Justin, just downloaded this texture creator and it looks great! My main focus for this will be to add texture to my wood stains which I apply to my furniture designs in VRAY. I am pretty new to VRAY. I have made the follow inf materialze maps:


Diffuse
height
normal
smoothness


I am not sure how and what order to load these into vray? HELP!! :) Would I start with making a GENERIC material and load these maps? Not sure where they would fit as HEIGHT, NORMAL and SMOOTHNESS maps don't show up in the VRAY slots if this makes sense? Would the HEIGHT map be DISPLACEMENT map in VRAY, The NORMAL map be NORMAL map in VRAY and the SMOOTHNESS map be REFLECTION map in VRAY?


I hope this makes sense?? :) And you might be able to help me??


Thank you!


Jay