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23 Assets Published in October
Here are all the assets we published in October! Download them here: https://polyhaven.com/all
Dev Log #25: New Office, Drone HDRIs, and Playtest Progress
The last two months have been very productive for Poly Haven!Last time we announced details about Project Lighthouse, our first proper game project, and things have been moving forward nicely since :)We also moved offices last month, made progress on our marble texture vault, drone HDRI app, and about 254 other things!A while back we started using Notion as a project management tool and communication hub, following a semi-agile workflow and creating tasks for almost everything we do. This means ...
53 Assets Published in September
Thanks to your support, in addition to the 31 fabric textures published in the last vault release, we also published another 22 assets in September :)Download them all here: https://polyhaven.com/allWe're also currently uploading our backlog of regular textures which are published weekly but available to our Patrons immediately, keep an eye on the early-access channel in our Discord for updates!
The Fabric Vault is Out!
It’s been just two and a half months since the Lunar Vault was unlocked, and we’ve already smashed through the next goal unlocking the fabric vault!All 31 new fabric textures are now live and free for everyone! Download them here: https://polyhaven.com/textures/fabricHuge thanks for all your amazing support here on Patreon, we couldn’t do this without you guys <3 I can’t wait to open the next one!
21 Assets Published in August
Here are all the free 3D assets we published in August! Download them here: https://polyhaven.com/all
Unreal HDRI Browser Plugin
Surprise! There is now an (unofficial) Unreal Engine plugin that gives you convenient access to our HDRIs directly in the editor! Exclusive to $5 Patreon supporters and customers on Fab.Much like our Blender add-on, but limited to HDRIs only (for now?), it’s a fast and natively integrated way to browse and automatically set up all our HDRIs.Wouter Weynants, a technical artist from Belgium who has created several popular UE plugins before, took it upon himself to build this tool over the last y...
Dev Log #24: Project Lighthouse, Next Vaults
The last few months have been transformative for Poly Haven, and the future is looking bright!In this long-overdue (as usual) Dev Log, we've got a lot to share:Project Lighthouse: Our atmospheric exploration puzzle game releasing next year.Two new members join the team full-time!The Vaults are out, and the Lunar Landscape collection is already unlocked.What's next, and some updates on current projects...Project LighthouseIf you're out of the loop, Poly Haven is venturing forth into g...
22 Assets Published in July
Here are all the free 3D assets we published in July! Download them here: https://polyhaven.com/all
About the Fabric Texture Vault
UPDATE: On September 5th the Fabric Vault was unlocked! Read the announcement here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/fabric-vault-is-138228343Original post below.----You may remember reading about our adventures in fabric scanning in our dev logs starting nearly two years ago.Ultimately we learned a lot from our experiments and ended up working with Colormass, a dedicated fabric scanning company in Germany, to create a set of 30 fabric materials for Poly Haven:The results of their work exceed what ...
About the Wood Vault
Just like for our Studio HDRI Vault, we noticed that wood textures are in high remand on polyhaven.com, and although we have quite a few already, it's the sort of thing that you always need more of.Downloads per day (Y-axis) in each texture category vs. how many we have available (X-axis). "Raw wood" and "Wood" categories highlighted.In particular we saw the need for "raw wood": scans of unfinished plain wood that can be used as the basis for many kinds of materials w...
About the Studio HDRI Vault
One of the most requested types of HDRIs we hear about are studio lighting setups, and based on our download statistics, they are also some of the most downloaded relative to how few we have available.Downloads per day (Y-axis) in each HDRI category vs. how many we have available (X-axis).While it’s true that for serious projects you probably want to light your shot manually, sometimes you just want a quick lighting preset to make your project look good with very little effort, or to start wit...
19 Assets Published in June
In addition to the Moon Vault that was released, here are all the free 3D assets we published in June! Download them here: https://polyhaven.com/all
MaterialX now available, USD & FBX improvements
Thanks to a sponsorship from SideFX, we've been working on our USD and FBX download options for models, improving compatibility with a wider variety of software including Houdini.This includes the infamous "where are the leaves?!" issue :)As a part of the process, we needed to create separate static variants of all our geometry-nodes-based assets, such as many of our trees and grass scatter systems. So we decided to take the opportunity to improve how they are treated in Blender too...
Lunar Vault Unlocked!
We've reached our first Vault goal already!🌛The moon vault has just been unlocked thanks to the support from 2000 (!) patrons!Recreate the moon with photoscanned lunar regolith simulant from Spaceport Rostock: https://polyhaven.com/collections/moonMore info about the project: https://blog.polyhaven.com/moonDownload the Blender demo scene: https://dl.polyhaven.org/file/ph-assets/Scenes/moon.zip
The Vaults: 175 New Patreon-Exclusive Assets
In our last Dev Log we explained the idea of re-introducing asset vaults, and here we are already!Check out the Vaults: https://polyhaven.com/vaultsThere are currently 4 vaults of assets:55 new wood materials61 new studio HDRIs31 new fabric materials28 lunar assetsAll $3+ Patrons can already access all 175 new assets in the Vaults - simply log in to the site and you’ll be able to download them; or they’re also available through our Blender add-on.The full story is in that Dev Log, and a few ...
22 Assets Published in May
Here are all the free 3D assets we published in May! Download them here: https://polyhaven.com/allThis month, we have a little surprise coming for you guys ;) And it's a big one...
22 Assets Published in April
Here are all the free 3D assets we published in April! Download them here: https://polyhaven.com/all
24 Assets Published in March
Here are all the free 3D assets we published in March! Download them here: https://polyhaven.com/all
Namaqualand now available in UE5!
Check it out on Fab: https://fab.com/listings/295ed897-fe78-4711-a583-d9b80fde554aOr download directly: https://dl.polyhaven.org/file/ph-assets/Scenes/namaqualand_ue5.zipTheBlender version is here: https://dl.polyhaven.org/file/ph-assets/Scenes/namaqualand.zipAs part of our explorations into supporting Unreal for all our assets, we started by porting the Namaqualand collectionto Unreal and making an asset pack out of it. We also recreated the demo scene to prove the real-time capabilities of the...
Dev log #23: Big News, and a 2025 Roadmap
Well hello, and welcome to 2025!Yes, I’m two months late. We’re already 1/6th of the way through the year, but trust me, it’s going to be a good one.Since last we spoke, we’ve made three major decisions regarding the future of Poly Haven, the first one being:We’re getting rid of the adsHoorah!Back in 2020, we made the decision, together with a votefrom you guys, to show ads on hdrihaven.com(prior to the merge into polyhaven.com).Of course, this was a fairly controversial decision, at l...
18 Assets Published in February
Here are all the free 3D assets we published in February! Download them here: https://polyhaven.com/all
15 Assets Published in January
Here are all the free 3D assets we published in January! Download them here: https://polyhaven.com/all
292 Assets Published in 2024!
Thanks to all your generous support on Patreon, and the efforts of our community, Poly Haven published 292 new assets this year!It's been an awesome year of growth and exploration for us, as we highlighted in our year-end live stream, and I look forward to an even more exciting 2025 :)I hope you all have had a restful holiday period, and I wish you all the best for the new year <3
13 Assets Published in November
Here are all the free 3D assets we published in November! Download them here: https://polyhaven.com/all#cc0 #b3d
Poly Haven Q&A 2024!
Join us tomorrow for our yearly Q&A stream! What's next for Poly Haven? What did we do this year? Who the heck are we, and what even is a braai?Live at 10AM UTC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrdXBAtfuS8Ask your questions here: https://discord.gg/aHHFFgETY8
Behind the Scans: A mini documentary about our Namaqualand trip
Want to see how our Namaqualandassetswere captured? What really goes on behind the scans?Watch our new mini documentary! https://youtu.be/nmyKhd-Da6wA bit of context about this video: We invited our friend and HDRI stitcher, Jarod Guest,along with us on the trip last year with the goal of making some kind of video doc about our process of capturing scans.The initial plan was just to share this video with you guys on Patreon, but, after seeing how much work Jarod put into the video, we wanted to ...
Poly Haven 2024 Survey: Help us make more/better 3D assets for you!
UPDATE: The survey is now closed, thanks for all your responses! I'll share a summary of what we learn soon <3It’s crazy to think that our last general surveywas four years ago, just before we merged the old Haven sites into Poly Haven, so it’s about time we hear from you guys again ;)We did an asset surveyin 2021 as well, focusing on what assets you guys wanted specifically, which did indeed guide what we’ve worked on looking back.This time, we’re thinking a little more big-picture,...
We made a little game! Play Splatter Dash now!
Boy did those 5 weeks fly by quickly! If you’re out of the loop, in the last Dev Log we announced that we’re jumping into the deep end of game development with the long-term goal of improving our asset usability and funding diversity - more about that here!I’m happy to say that this experiment was a success! Coming from basically zero game dev experience, in the last five weeks, we created Splatter Dash: an explosive, punchy, momentum-based platformer in which the objective is to cover the...
62 Assets Published in October
Here are all the free 3D assets we published in October! Download them here: https://polyhaven.com/allObviously, this is more than double our usual monthly amount because of the Namaqualand release:)
Dev Log #22 + Project Risotto: We make a game in 5 weeks
Hey all :) I've just posted Dev Log #22, which (apart from the main topic of thispost) shares a bit about a trip to a familiar hilltop JaroHey all :) I've just posted Dev Log #22, which (apart from the main topic of thispost) shares a bit about a trip to a familiar hilltop Jarod and I took recently, so it's worth a read ;)But what I mainly want to tell you about is our current adventure in game design...In a blog postI wrote earlier this year, I explained a bit about the idea of Poly...
