Free Water Texture Seamless

Download water PBR ZIP — 1.97 MB (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=0, transmission=1, IOR=1.333.

This water texture is an art-directed pool surface with visible ripple structure and caustic-like color. It is useful when a pool needs to read clearly in an architectural presentation rather than disappearing into a nearly neutral transmissive plane under soft studio lighting.

The albedo contains an art-directed caustic treatment, not a physically neutral optical water color. For physically clear water, replace it with near-white colour and retain the ripple normal; use transmission=1, metallic=0 and IOR=1.333. Add a pool bed and reflected surroundings, because a normal map alone cannot supply depth, refraction context or actual underwater caustics.

One full tile is exactly 2 × 2 m (200 × 200 cm). Set the physical map width and height to 2 m. For a surface W meters wide and H meters high, use W / 2 repeats in U and H / 2 in V. On a 1 m square this is 1 / 2 repeats on each axis (approximately 0.5).

• SketchUp: create a material from the color JPG, unlock its aspect ratio only if needed, and enter 2 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 2 m × 2 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 2 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/2 by H/2. Alternatively, on a 1 m square with UVs 0–1, set Mapping X and Y to 1/2. 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 2 m (or 200 cm); where only relative tiling is exposed, calibrate against a known 1 m reference plane using 1/2 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.

How do I make physically clear water instead of the colored caustic look?

Use near-white colour in place of the art-directed albedo, keep the ripple normal, and set transmission=1 with IOR=1.333. Model the pool bed below the surface and light the scene appropriately; the painted caustic color is not a physical caustics simulation.

What real-world size does one water tile cover?

One complete image covers 2 × 2 meters. Set mapping width and height to 2 m; on a 1 m square use 0.5 repeats per axis. The 2×2 swatch shows 4 × 4 m, not a different-resolution download.

Does the water 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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