Free Brushed Metal Texture Seamless

Download brushed metal PBR ZIP — 568.5 KB (maps, scale README and license).

Color uses sRGB; normal, roughness and height use Non-Color/linear data. OpenGL normals use +Y: invert green only for a DirectX workflow. PNG avoids normal-map JPEG blocks. Some matte normals use reduced channel precision before lossless compression to meet the download budget. These are original procedural materials, not measured scans.

Shader starting values: metallic=1, transmission=0, IOR=1.5. Start anisotropy near 0.55 and align the tangent with the brushing.

This brushed metal texture represents stainless-steel-like directional finishing for appliance fronts, elevator panels and interior fittings. Align the brushing consistently across adjacent sheet panels unless a deliberate change of direction is part of the design; reflected highlights make accidental rotations conspicuous.

Set metallic to one and use an anisotropic shader where available. The grain direction in the maps should agree with the shader's tangent direction, not just the visible color streaks. A bright environment or area light is essential for evaluating the finish; a metal surface in a black environment can appear misleadingly dull or dark.

One full tile is exactly 0.5 × 0.5 m (50 × 50 cm). Set the physical map width and height to 0.5 m. For a surface W meters wide and H meters high, use W / 0.5 repeats in U and H / 0.5 in V. On a 1 m square this is 1 / 0.5 repeats on each axis (approximately 2).

• SketchUp: create a material from the color JPG, unlock its aspect ratio only if needed, and enter 0.5 m for both texture dimensions. Apply it to correctly sized faces. Set normal and roughness in your renderer’s material editor; native SketchUp color mapping alone does not use all PBR maps.
• Revit: duplicate an appearance asset; in the image texture editor set the sample size to 0.5 m × 0.5 m. Match that scale in additional supported image channels. Image scale and drafting/model surface-pattern scale are separate settings; do not assume changing one changes the other.
• 3ds Max / V-Ray: use a box or planar UVW Map gizmo with width and length 0.5 m and bitmap tiling 1, or use matching Real-World Map Size on both bitmap and mapping modifier. Do not apply both methods at once. Use VRayNormalMap for the normal and linear roughness, or invert roughness for a reflection-glossiness workflow.
• Blender: apply object scale, unwrap a known W × H meter face, then set UV extents to W/0.5 by H/0.5. Alternatively, on a 1 m square with UVs 0–1, set Mapping X and Y to 1/0.5. Feed the linear normal into a tangent-space Normal Map node. Use roughness as data, not sRGB.
• D5 / Enscape / Lumion / Twinmotion: load color, normal and roughness in a suitable custom material. Set physical repeat width and height to 0.5 m (or 50 cm); where only relative tiling is exposed, calibrate against a known 1 m reference plane using 1/0.5 repeats. These controls and channel support vary by version; do not use the same arbitrary scale-slider number across applications.

Keep all map UV transforms identical. The preview’s 2×2 swatch does not change the map scale. Rotate the whole mapping for directional wood, fabric and brushing, and recheck visible normal direction after any renderer conversion.

Build your material study in your modeling tool, then use Render a House to turn a sketch, viewport export or architectural image into a presentation render. Describe the intended finishes in your prompt. Render a House works from images; downloading these maps does not automatically import a PBR material into the service.

Free for commercial use, no attribution required — Render a House. These original procedural textures are supplied with CC0-style license text inside every ZIP. You may use and modify them for personal or commercial projects. No third-party texture images were downloaded. Provided as-is without warranty; visual maps are not construction or product-performance specifications.

What shader settings help brushed stainless steel read correctly?

Use metallic=1, the supplied roughness, and approximately 0.55 anisotropy as a starting point where supported. Align the anisotropic tangent with the brushing and provide broad reflected light sources to reveal the directional sheen.

What real-world size does one brushed metal tile cover?

One complete image covers 0.5 × 0.5 meters. Set mapping width and height to 0.5 m; on a 1 m square use 2 repeats per axis. The 2×2 swatch shows 1 × 1 m, not a different-resolution download.

Does the brushed metal download include a height map?

No separate height map is included for this material. Use the supplied normal for surface shading; model actual thickness, silhouette changes and larger construction details independently rather than inventing displacement from the color image.

Can I use these textures in commercial architectural projects?

Yes. These original procedural textures are free for commercial use, no attribution required — Render a House. No third-party source textures were downloaded; the ZIP includes the license and there is no signup requirement.

Which color spaces and normal convention should I use?

Load color as sRGB. Load roughness, height and normal as Non-Color or linear data. Normals use tangent-space OpenGL +Y; invert the green channel only if your renderer requires DirectX normals. Roughness is not glossiness: invert it for a glossiness-only slot.

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