PBR texturing materials that read correctly under any engine's light

PBR stands for physically based rendering. Instead of painting how a surface looks under one light, the maps describe what the surface is. Base colour is the colour with no light on it. Roughness says how sharp or blurred reflections are. Metalness says whether the surface reflects like a metal or like everything else. The normal map adds fine bumps without adding polygons. Ambient occlusion darkens the crevices. Because the maps describe properties, the same material looks right at noon in a game, under a studio light in a render and in daylight through a phone camera in AR.

We texture objects: props, furniture, vehicles, machines, devices and products. The source can be ours or yours.

• Models we have built, as part of a game-ready or hard-surface order
• Your untextured models, from CAD, a scan or an earlier project
• Models with textures that do not match across a catalogue or a set
• Render models being reduced for real time, whose detail must be baked
• Library models that you want in a different finish or colourway

Send the model files, the engine or viewer they are for, the map set and packing your material setup uses, and the texture sizes. Add photographs of the real material if there is one, or references for the look. If you have a style guide or finished assets from the same project, send two or three so the new materials match. Tell us if the models need a lightmap UV set, and whether any surface should wear, scratch or age.

Texturing is quoted per model, or per set when the objects share a material standard. The price depends on the texture resolution, the number of maps and the number of materials on the object. An object with one painted-metal material at 1K is a small job. A cart with timber, rusted steel, canvas, rubber tyres and printed signage at 2K is a large one. Unwrapping is quoted separately when the UVs have to be redone, and baking is included when we have a high-poly source to bake from.

The quote lists each object, its materials, maps, sizes and packing, the revision rounds and the schedule.

If the shape of your model is sound and only the surface is wrong, texturing is the right order and the cheaper one. If the mesh is also too heavy for its target, order LODs and optimisation with the texturing, because the two are done on the same pass. If the model is wrong in shape or scale, texturing will not hide it, and we will say so after looking at the file. A new build is covered on game-ready 3D models.