Seven texture libraries are listed and all seven market themselves as free PBR. They are not equally free, and that is the first thing to sort by.
| If you need | Take | Licence |
|---|---|---|
| A default first stop | ambientcg: 1500+ seamless materials, no strings | CC0 |
| The other safe default | poly-haven: also HDRIs and models | CC0 |
| Photoscanned surfaces ambientCG lacks | cgbookcase: 566 sets, 4K/8K, plus decals | CC0 |
| Parameters you can tweak | texturecan: ships SBSAR sources, not just fixed maps | CC0 |
| Extra seamless coverage | threedtextures-me: aimed at Blender, Unreal, Unity and Godot | CC0 |
| Unique photo detail | texture-ninja: you do the tiling cleanup; not seamless out of the box | CC0 |
| To read the terms first | sharetextures: a "Custom CC0" that bans redistribution on other sites, in plugins, or in collections | custom |
| To read the terms first | freepbr: free for games, but the About page is the grant, not the CC0 badge you might assume | custom |
The split that matters: the first six are real CC0 and you can redistribute the maps inside an asset pack. The last two are custom grants that permit shipping a game but restrict passing the textures on. If you are assembling something others will redistribute, stay in the CC0 block.
Two more caveats recorded on the entries themselves: texturecan's site footer still says "All rights reserved" while its terms page is the actual grant, and texture-ninja keeps its licence string inside a JS bundle rather than in static HTML.
Three publishers hold 80 of this catalog's entries, all CC0, all "low-poly", and they are not interchangeable. These numbers were measured on 2026-09-23 by opening the files, not taken from the store pages: every GLB in Kenney's Modular Dungeon and Nature kits (368 models), every model in KayKit's Dungeon Remastered and Adventurers packs (235), and eight Quaternius models.
| Kenney | KayKit | Quaternius | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Triangle budget | Lowest. Nature trees median 166, rocks 52 | Low. Dungeon pieces median 257 | Highest. Trees around 3,600; the base character 13,700 |
| Texturing | Flat material colours (Nature) or one shared colormap.png (Modular Dungeon) |
One gradient atlas across all 203 Dungeon models; one texture per character in Adventurers | Mostly one shared texture per model |
| Rigged characters | None among the catalogued 3D kits: they are environments, props and vehicles | Yes. Five adventurers, 76 animations each, about 6,500 triangles | Yes. Base character with 45 animations |
| Scale | Varies by kit. Nature trees 1.3 m, Dungeon walls 4.2 m | Dungeon walls 4.0 m | Trees 7 to 10 m |
| Typical file | Tiny: 7 KB median (Nature) | Small: 33 KB median (Dungeon) | Large: about 2 MB per model |
| Delivery | Direct zip: GLB, FBX, OBJ, plus DAE and STL in some kits | Official GitHub repos laid out as Godot addons | quaternius.com routes to itch; a paid Source tier sits beside the free one |
How to choose:
- Blockout, prototypes, mobile or web: Kenney. Nothing here is lighter, and the flat-colour kits recolour with a material edit.
- A consistent stylised game with characters that already move: KayKit. The shared
atlas keeps environment draw calls and style coherent, and the adventurers ship with 76
clips. If you build in Godot, the repos drop straight into
addons/. - Finished-looking scenes, especially nature: Quaternius. Roughly twenty times the triangles of Kenney's equivalents, and realistic metric scale.
Mixing them. KayKit and Kenney's Modular Dungeon walls are within 5% of each other (4.0 m and 4.2 m), so those two combine cleanly. Kenney's Nature Kit does not combine with anything at its native scale; see its entry. Across publishers, the triangle-density gap reads as a style clash well before it becomes a performance problem.
The Quaternius figures come from eight models the author uploaded to Poly Pizza. The pack archive is served through itch, which would not hand over a download outside a browser session. Treat those numbers as indicative rather than pack-wide. Triangle counts are geometry and survive re-hosting; file sizes may not.
| ID | Name | License | Commercial | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| kenney | Kenney | CC0 | yes | active |
| kenney-car-kit | Kenney Car Kit | CC0 | yes | active |
| ggbotnet-psx-cars | GGBotNet PSX Style Cars | CC0 | yes | active |
| 3dmodelscc0-melee-weapons | 3dmodelscc0 Melee Weapons | CC0 | yes | active |
| 3dmodelscc0-city | 3dmodelscc0 City Environment | CC0 | yes | active |
| 3dmodelscc0-guns | 3dmodelscc0 Guns and Explosives | CC0 | yes | active |
| kenney-nature-kit | Kenney Nature Kit | CC0 | yes | active |
| kenney-furniture-kit | Kenney Furniture Kit | CC0 | yes | active |
| kenney-city-kit-roads | Kenney City Kit (Roads) | CC0 | yes | active |
| kenney-city-kit-commercial | Kenney City Kit (Commercial) | CC0 | yes | active |
| kenney-city-kit-suburban | Kenney City Kit (Suburban) | CC0 | yes | active |
| kenney-city-kit-industrial | Kenney City Kit (Industrial) | CC0 | yes | active |
| kenney-factory-kit | Kenney Factory Kit | CC0 | yes | active |
| kenney-food-kit | Kenney Food Kit | CC0 | yes | active |
| kenney-graveyard-kit | Kenney Graveyard Kit | CC0 | yes | active |
| kenney-fantasy-town-kit | Kenney Fantasy Town Kit | CC0 | yes | active |
| kenney-modular-space-kit | Kenney Modular Space Kit | CC0 | yes | active |
| kenney-train-kit | Kenney Train Kit | CC0 | yes | active |
| quaternius | Quaternius | CC0 | yes | active |
| quaternius-stylized-nature-megakit | Quaternius Stylized Nature MegaKit | CC0 | yes | active |
| quaternius-fantasy-props-megakit | Quaternius Fantasy Props MegaKit | CC0 | yes | active |
| quaternius-downtown-city-megakit | Quaternius Downtown City MegaKit | CC0 | yes | active |
| quaternius-sushi-restaurant-kit | Quaternius Sushi Restaurant Kit | CC0 | yes | active |
| quaternius-medieval-village-megakit | Quaternius Medieval Village MegaKit | CC0 | yes | active |
| kenney-pirate-kit | Kenney Pirate Kit | CC0 | yes | active |
| kenney-modular-dungeon-kit | Kenney Modular Dungeon Kit | CC0 | yes | active |
| kenney-modular-cave-kit | Kenney Modular Cave Kit | CC0 | yes | active |
| kenney-mini-forest | Kenney Mini Forest | CC0 | yes | active |
| kenney-mini-skate | Kenney Mini Skate | CC0 | yes | active |
| kenney-mini-dungeon | Kenney Mini Dungeon | CC0 | yes | active |
| kenney-mini-arena | Kenney Mini Arena | CC0 | yes | active |
| kenney-platformer-kit | Kenney Platformer Kit | CC0 | yes | active |
| kenney-castle-kit | Kenney Castle Kit | CC0 | yes | active |
| kenney-tower-defense-kit | Kenney Tower Defense Kit | CC0 | yes | active |
| kenney-retro-fantasy-kit | Kenney Retro Fantasy Kit | CC0 | yes | active |
| kenney-retro-urban-kit | Kenney Retro Urban Kit | CC0 | yes | active |
| kenney-racing-kit | Kenney Racing Kit | CC0 | yes | active |
| kenney-watercraft-kit | Kenney Watercraft Kit | CC0 | yes | active |
| quaternius-modular-sci-fi-megakit | Quaternius Modular Sci-Fi Megakit | CC0 | yes | active |
| quaternius-ultimate-space-kit | Quaternius Ultimate Space Kit | CC0 | yes | active |
| quaternius-zombie-apocalypse-kit | Quaternius Zombie Apocalypse Kit | CC0 | yes | active |
| quaternius-cyberpunk-game-kit | Quaternius Cyberpunk Game Kit | CC0 | yes | active |
| quaternius-pirate-kit | Quaternius Pirate Kit | CC0 | yes | active |
| kaykit-restaurant-bits | KayKit Restaurant Bits | CC0 | yes | active |
| kaykit-dungeon-pack | KayKit Dungeon Pack | CC0 | yes | active |
| kaykit-platformer | KayKit Platformer Pack | CC0 | yes | active |
| kaykit-halloween-bits | KayKit Halloween Bits | CC0 | yes | active |
| kaykit-holiday-bits | KayKit Holiday Bits | CC0 | yes | active |
| kaykit-block-bits | KayKit Block Bits | CC0 | yes | active |
| kaykit | KayKit | CC0 | yes | active |
| kaykit-prototype-bits | KayKit Prototype Bits | CC0 | yes | active |
| kaykit-resource-bits | KayKit Resource Bits | CC0 | yes | active |
| kaykit-furniture-bits | KayKit Furniture Bits | CC0 | yes | active |
| the-base-mesh | The Base Mesh | CC0 | yes | active |
| ambientcg | ambientCG | CC0 | yes | active |
| texturecan | TextureCan | CC0 | yes | active |
| texture-ninja | Texture Ninja | CC0 | yes | active |
| cgbookcase | cgbookcase | CC0 | yes | active |
| sharetextures | ShareTextures | custom | yes | active |
| threedtextures-me | 3DTextures.me | CC0 | yes | active |
| 3dtexel | 3DTexel | CC0 | yes | active |
| freepbr | FreePBR | custom | no | active |
| scan-the-world | Scan the World | unknown | no (platform terms) | needs-review |
| blenderkit | Blendkit | varies | varies | active |
| magicavoxel | MagicaVoxel | custom | yes | active |
| smithsonian-open-access | Smithsonian Open Access | CC0 | yes | active |
| charge-materials | Charge materials | CC-BY-4.0 | yes | active |
| fab-megascans-standard | Fab/Quixel (Standard) | custom | yes | active |
| poly-pizza | Poly Pizza | varies | unknown | needs-review |
| sketchfab | Sketchfab | varies | varies | needs-review |
| nasa-3d-resources | NASA 3D Resources | public-domain* | yes* | active |
| textureking | TextureKing | custom | unknown | needs-review |
* Fab Standard vs Epic Content License — verify per asset; Fab/Epic license pages unreachable this harden pass. Poly Haven models are under environment/poly-haven (CC0).