Polycam

What is Polycam?

Polycam is an AI tool that generates lifelike textures for 3D projects. Type a description and Polycam produces up to four seamless, tileable textures you can download and use in popular software like Blender, Unreal Engine, SketchUp, and Unity. Each texture includes essential maps — albedo, displacement, normals, and roughness — making the results useful for video games, AR/VR experiences, digital art, and VFX. You can also apply these textures to your Polycam scans in other 3D software.

The textures are watermark-free and royalty-free, with no restrictions or royalties on commercial use, and no attribution required.

Who created Polycam?

Polycam is the company behind the tool, which launched on December 8, 2022. Beyond the texture generator, Polycam lets you generate realistic textures for 3D modeling, gaming, and animation from text prompts, and it actively seeks user feedback to improve its tools.

What is Polycam used for?

• Creating realistic textures for 3D modeling, gaming, and animation from a text prompt.
• Adding detail to 3D objects in video games, AR/VR experiences, digital art, and VFX.
• Enhancing scans by applying generated textures to scanned objects in other 3D applications.
• Commercial projects — textures can be used without restrictions, royalties, or attribution.
• Downloading texture packs — each result exports as a zip file containing JPEGs for albedo, displacement, normals, and roughness maps.
• Working across tools — textures are compatible with Blender, Unreal Engine, SketchUp, Unity, and other 3D software.

Who is Polycam for?

• 3D Modelers
• Game Developers
• Animators
• Digital Artists
• VFX Artists

How to use Polycam?

1. Type your prompt: Describe the texture you want to create.
2. Generate and download: Polycam produces up to four seamless, tileable textures based on your prompt.
3. Export the files: Export each texture as a zip file containing JPEGs for the albedo, displacement, normals, and roughness maps, then use them in your preferred 3D software.

Availability

Polycam’s 3D texture generator is available on the App Store, Google Play, and as a free web version.