A free Lego material made for Blender. It features adjustable fingerprints, scratch maps, dust, and edge wear, along with subsurface scattering and color randomization, all packaged into an easy-to-use node group that you can link or append into your Blender scene. It comes in a .blend file that includes the material itself, along with a couple objects and some lights so you can tweak it yourself.
(Kinda) Realistic
Although designed to be realistic for the most part, this material is also not an attempt at perfect plastic simulation. I have found over the years that "photorealistic" doesn't always mean "good looking." This material is hopefully a compromise, something that is realistic enough to convince the viewer, while also being aesthetically pleasing.
We've Got the Textures
This material features fingerprint and scratch textures from ambientCG, along with procedural noise textures, dust, and edge wear to give your bricks that extra detail.
Abstract the Complexity
Just link or append the node group into your Blender scene, and your good to go. All the parameters are easily accessible right on the group.
Who doesn't love free stuff?
This material is free. Use it however you want.
What's New in Version 9.0:
- - Major adjustments to the roughness, specularity, and noise parameters -
- - New "Edge Wear" parameter -
- - More options for dust -
- - Improved scratches texture -
- And more! To see the full list, check out the release notes
Credit where Credit is Due
Although the material itself has been developed by me, the concept for randomization of colors came from Ray Mairlot, in his awesome video about how to make a Lego fluid simulation.
The textures for this material come from ambientCG, and I'm able to release this material for free thanks to their permissive CC0 licensing.
I would also like to thank Stefan Müller for the incredible reference and research he has published on his blog. It was incredibly helpful in refining the look of this material.
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Asset Details:
- Title: Lego Material for Blender
- Type: Material
- Original Release Date: 2022-07-14
- Latest Release Date: 2025-03-02
- Current Version: 9.0
- Made Using: Blender