High-quality textures are a go to for many Cinema 4D users to make their 3D models realistic. The help of free textures will not only save you an enormous amount of time during your project, but can also greatly reduce the expenses associated with it.
Top Sources for Free Textures
CC0 Textures
Objective: CC0 Textures provides free, high quality textures on which you can do anything for any purpose. It has wood, metal & concrete kind of categories.
Ideal For: Cinema 4D Users Who Need Textures for Architectural Visualization, product design and more.
Texture Haven
Texturing: 100% PBR textures are also designed to allow for realistic rendering in Cinema 4D.
Suitable For: Users that want PBR-based textures for the ultimate quality of outputs.
Textures.com
Purpose: Textures.com With all the free textures at textures. As a free user, you are restricted to just four downloads a day and as premium user download limits do not apply.
Suitable for: Architecture, environment design, general Cinema 4D use
Poly Haven
Purpose: Similar to Texture Haven, but these are differentiating from textures; they have free 3D models in case you need a quick solution to put some objects into rendering. The Textures have been provided in both jpg and png formats & come with 4K resolution which makes it compatible with most 3rd party software programs as well.
Ideal For: Artistic endeavors that crave premium, peerless photo textures.
Guidelines to follow when using textures
PBR materials: Make sure that the textures you download are compatible with PBR Materials and Contains some Columns as diffuse, normal and roughness maps for better realistics in your model.
Modeling/UV Mapping: Use the UV mapping tools in Cinema 4D to make sure that your textures are tiled properly across your objects.
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