[Metal] Gold Textures

Gold in this library is a finish applied to designed panel patterns rather than a photograph of a gold object. The Metal volumes are built as seamless decorative and technical panels — raised ribs, recessed channels, bolt heads, interlocking plate work — and the gold variants render those forms in warm yellow metal with bright bevel highlights and dark shadowed grooves. That makes them behave differently from a scanned material: the pattern is the point, and the gold surface is what gives the pattern weight.

License

Free for personal and commercial use. No attribution required. Commercial games, film, broadcast, print, product design and client work are all permitted. No credit, no backlink, no permission request needed. You may not resell or redistribute the texture files themselves as a texture pack.

What's in this collection

• Ornamental gold panels — symmetrical raised motifs and interlocking geometry in warm yellow metal, suited to trims, frames and decorative inlay.
• Technical gold plating — circuit-like channels, ribs and fasteners rendered in gold, for sci-fi hardware and machinery.
• Aged and tarnished gold — darkened recesses, dulled faces and dirt collected in the grooves for treasure and artefact work.
• Photographic gold-toned metal — the separate photo-metal volumes include real brushed and worked metal shot under warm light, for surfaces that need scanned rather than designed detail.

All tiles are seamless in both directions and delivered at high resolution.

Where gold panels are used

Game environments and props. Treasure rooms, temple architecture, ornate weapons and sci-fi hardware, where a repeating gold panel does far more work than a plain gold shader on flat geometry.

Motion graphics and titles. Backgrounds and lower thirds where a slowly moving gold relief pattern reads as luxury without any modelling.

Print and packaging. Ornamental gold panels used as backgrounds, borders and pattern fills in premium packaging and editorial layouts.

Architectural and product visualisation. Decorative metal panelling, lift interiors and feature walls where a designed pattern is specified rather than a plain sheet.

How to use these in Blender

1. Connect the colour map to Base Color and set Metallic to 1.0, since these tiles are rendered as metal and a dielectric setting will make them look like painted plastic.
2. Drive Roughness from the supplied map. The raised faces are polished and the recesses are duller, and that contrast is what makes the relief read.
3. Use a Bump or Normal node rather than displacement at normal viewing distance, and switch to displacement only for close-up hero shots where the panel edge is visible.
4. Give the scene something to reflect. Gold takes almost all of its appearance from its surroundings, and in an empty grey environment even a correct material renders as flat mustard.

How to use these in Unreal Engine 5

1. Import colour with sRGB on and roughness, normal and height maps with sRGB off.
2. Set Metallic to 1 and feed roughness from the texture, then expose a tarnish scalar so one material instance covers clean and aged versions of the same panel.
3. Place a Reflection Capture or rely on Lumen with real geometry nearby, since reflection is doing most of the work.
4. Keep the tile scale honest to the architecture. These are designed panels with a real-world size implied by their detail, and over-scaling turns a decorative trim into an unreadable pattern.

How to use these in Unity

1. Use URP/Lit with Metallic at 1 and a smoothness map inverted from the supplied roughness texture.
2. Add a Reflection Probe in every space where the panels appear, and give it something interesting to capture.
3. Use Detail Maps at high tiling for fine surface grain so the panel holds up at close range.
4. Rotate and offset tiles across a large wall so the symmetrical motifs do not line up into an obvious grid.

Tips for gold panels specifically

Light it, do not colour it. If gold looks like yellow plastic, the problem is almost never the base colour but that there is nothing in the environment to reflect. Adding a bright card, a window or even a simple gradient environment transforms the result in seconds, whereas adjusting the hue will not.

Let the recesses go dark. These are relief patterns, and their legibility depends entirely on the shadow inside each groove. Flattening roughness or lifting the shadows to make the tile look brighter destroys the pattern and leaves a shiny yellow blur.

Use it sparingly. Ornamental gold panelling reads as valuable precisely because it is a small proportion of a scene. Covering large surfaces with it removes the contrast that makes it work, and the same tile used as a trim or an inlay against plain material carries far more impact.

Browse the collection

Metal is organized into volumes, each containing multiple packs, alongside separate photographic and lettering volumes. New volumes are added continuously.

View the full Metal collection →

Related: Crystal textures, Stone textures.