Applying TEXTURES in Blender - Tutorial

Customize your Blender 3D models further by learning how to add textures.

Blender is one of the top choices for 3D modeling and sculpting available on the market. The program is free, open-source, and comes with a huge, supportive community that is ready to help you with your modeling needs. With a vast amount of tools and plugins available, making 3D models is accessible to just about everyone - and something you might already know how to do.

However, 3D models are not just about shaping meshes. Instead, materials play a monumental role in the final product - whether you'll be rendering in real-time for something like a game or pre-rendering for a film. Though you can certainly assign colors easily enough to separate mesh areas, depending on the art style you might need something with a lot more "feel" to it to give it a sense of presence.This is not to mention issues where you just want something more than a solid colored area.

In this tutorial, we'll show you how to address that issue by employing textures. Textures come as flat, 2D images that are pre-painted to look like a specific material, such as rocks, clothing, etc. Whatever the texture though, learning how you can apply this to your model is not only useful, but an essential skill in order to be able to expand your modeling knowledge.

Regardless of your goals, learning how to apply textures offers you newfound opportunities to customize your models. Textures can enhance how your model looks & feels, add a sense of realism, and even allow for the addition of complexity without increasing your polygon count.

While we recommend this tutorial for those already somewhat familiar with Blender, these techniques are perfect for any beginner who is looking on how to add more flair to their 3D models.

[ericthecyclist]

I was hitting my head against a wall trying to use blender to replace some texturemaps in an fbx. Your tutorial guided me to the right locations. Thank you!

[kp_ke]

Delete and reload the default cube... OG move right there 😅

[vouvusbovus]

God I love how stright to the point this is, thank you.

[leewilliamson]

Excellent tutorial! Now I can apply textures to my model! Thank you. I will be following your other videos. :) Good Work.

[kijoyes]

Most helpful video I found for my project thank you.

[thatfoxclassictails]

Thanks man! couldn't find any other video!

[JadedJaden]

was tryna import a model that had the materials already assigned, but it never showed because I didn't have the material preview on at the top right

thank you Zenva :)

[passion_proh-jects]

Thank you for sharing your expertise! Much appreciated!

[charusheenu]

The tutorial was much easier to understand than blenders original tutorial.

[_darko__]

Finally my texture problem in Blender is solved thank you

[carloautor]

Thank you for your content. You've earned my subscribe

[GygantisDRullz]

What is an FM Texture, A ROM texture and a SSS Texture, Whare do i put them in the Principal BSDF?

[Shulkern]

im actually so mad, ive been trying to find a tutorial on how to generate a texture-sheet for a single .obx/fbx file because i want a mesh that isnt just 1 color, but theres literally NO tutorials on this and im just so frustrated

[prykli]

I dont have a dot next to image texture, what can i do?

[NovaDelta]

I dont know whats up but the circle you click on at 4:26 just isnt there on my blender for some reason

[Casketkrusher_]

Why can't I just drag and drop like in 3ds max?

[romandavies]

Is there a reason why it won't appear on a non flat surface such as a sphere?

[raellex]

How do you model items that you will put into animal crossing?

[arryunus]

I added my texture and go to material preview but my cube remained invisible :( I can only see its edges

[Hzist]

I tried to do that but It doesnt place the file