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Join us as we talk about the origins of project lighthouse, why we’re building it and how it’s going. Bring your questions for a casual Q&A at the end. See you there!

It's been almost 5 months since our last Dev Log 😱 This time we're doing a live stream - learn about what's happening with our new course, Project Lighthouse, Japan travel plans, the community project, the vaults, and so much more!

We've just smashed through 3700 active patrons, which means the Wood Works Vault is unlocked for everyone!! The textures were made by Jenelle van Heerden, Charlotte Baglioni, Rico Cilliers, Amal Kumar, Rob Tuytel, Dimitrios Savva and Dario Barresi. Huge props to the team, and the patrons who made th

Learn Production Photogrammetry with Rob Tuytel (Poly Haven co-founder and seasoned Udemy educator) 🎉 Our first course is the full workflow behind the scans in our texture and model libraries: 6 chapters, 62 lessons, 7.8 hours, one real project taken from an empty lot to a finished Blender scene (p

Without a doubt, our latest community project far exceeded our expectations with an incredible 164 submissions from 88 artists, resulting in 108 published assets. To every artist who took part, shared feedback or helped others with their creations, thanks for your contributions! Read more about the

The Project Lighthouse community challenge was our biggest one yet! Over 100 assets were accepted and have already been published on Poly Haven for everyone to download for free. Now it’s time to vote for the winners: https://community.polyhaven.com/lighthouse (sign in with your Patreon account) Ove

We've been teasing our Beach Vault in the last few dev logs, and today is finally the day that it's published! 🔗Browse the Saltwater Skies A collection of South African beach HDRIs.To download them, make sure you're signed in with your Patreon account. As a reminder (since it's been a little while

We've been ploughing full-steam-ahead for the last two months and have a lot to share about our progress in this Dev Log! Lighthouse community project Lighthouse game progress Beach vault Drone HDRIs 5 weeks left in our biggest community project ever The Project Lighthouse Community Challenge is wel

Thanks to all your support here on Patreon, we’ve just passed 3100 active patrons (!), so 60+ studio HDRIs have just been released out of early-access and made available freely to everyone! We did it! 🎉 Next up? The wood texture vault! And after that? Well, you’ll have to read our recent Dev Log to

I hope you've had a wonderful new year and ideally a short break over December like we did :) This year is going to be a fun one, with many new projects kicking off and some existing ones wrapping up :) In this Dev Log, we have a few topics to cover: Community project progress! The Great Trek: A cro

It's been a while but... the Community Challenge is back! And this time it's bigger than ever! Introducing The Project Lighthouse Community Challenge Let's work together once again to create free and CC0 3D assets for everyone! Earn Rewards Win Prizes Publish your work And become a part of Poly Have

Here are all the free 3D assets we published in November! Download them here: https://polyhaven.com/all

I completely forgot to post here, but we're currently running a flash sale for our add-on over on Superhive. It's currently 75% off for the next 4 hours only, after which it will still be on sale for a few days, but at a reduced discount. Get it here: https://phvn.io/flashsale Buying it on Superhive

Here are all the assets we published in October! Download them here: https://polyhaven.com/all

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 a

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/all We're also currently uploading our backlog of regular textures which are published weekly but avail

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/fabric Huge thanks for all your amazi

Here are all the free 3D assets we published in August! Download them here: https://polyhaven.com/all

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 o

Here are all the free 3D assets we published in July! Download them here: https://polyhaven.com/all

UPDATE: On September 5th the Fabric Vault was unlocked! Read the announcement here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/fabric-vault-is-138228343 Original post below. ---- You may remember reading about our adventures in fabric scanning in our dev logs starting nearly two years ago. Ultimately we learned

UPDATE 2026-08: The vault has been released! ---- 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

UPDATE 2026-01: The vault has been released! https://www.patreon.com/posts/studio-hdri-is-149482595 ---- 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 avai

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

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 stat

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/moon More info about the project: https://blog.polyha

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/vaults There are currently 4 vaults of assets: 55 new wood materials 61 new studio HDRIs 31 new fabric materials 28 lunar assets All $3+ Patrons can already

Here are all the free 3D assets we published in May! Download them here: https://polyhaven.com/all This month, we have a little surprise coming for you guys ;) And it's a big one...

Here are all the free 3D assets we published in April! Download them here: https://polyhaven.com/all

Here are all the free 3D assets we published in March! Download them here: https://polyhaven.com/all

Check it out on Fab: https://fab.com/listings/295ed897-fe78-4711-a583-d9b80fde554a Or download directly: https://dl.polyhaven.org/file/ph-assets/Scenes/namaqualand_ue5.zip The Blender version is here: https://dl.polyhaven.org/file/ph-assets/Scenes/namaqualand.zip As part of our explorations into sup

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 ads Hoorah! B

Here are all the free 3D assets we published in February! Download them here: https://polyhaven.com/all

Here are all the free 3D assets we published in January! Download them here: https://polyhaven.com/all

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 a

Here are all the free 3D assets we published in November! Download them here: https://polyhaven.com/all #cc0 #b3d

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=BrdXBAtfuS8 Ask your questions here: https://discord.gg/aHHFFgETY8

Want to see how our Namaqualand assets were captured? What really goes on behind the scans? Watch our new mini documentary! https://youtu.be/nmyKhd-Da6w A 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 makin

UPDATE: The survey is now closed, thanks for all your responses! I'll share a summary of what we learn soon <3 It’s crazy to think that our last general survey was 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 a

Here are all the free 3D assets we published in October! Download them here: https://polyhaven.com/all Obviously, this is more than double our usual monthly amount because of the Namaqualand release :)

After more than a year in the making, we’re finally happy to share our latest asset collection: Namaqualand! A rocky South African Desert, blooming with wildflowers and succulents. Check out the assets Read more about the project Download the scene file

Here are all the free 3D assets we published in September! Download them here: https://polyhaven.com/all

Here are all the free 3D assets we published in August! Download them here: https://polyhaven.com/all #cc0 #b3d

Here are all the free 3D assets we published in July! Download them here: https://polyhaven.com/all - or find them in your asset browser in Blender :)

If anyone is interested, here is our cad/blend file for our handheld cross-polarized scanning rig with the Elinchrom ELB500 kit: https://blog.polyhaven.com/polarized-photogrammetry-rig-for-elinchrom-elb-500-dual-flash/ It's a bit more capable than our AR400 rig, but also much more bulky with some qu