Add Textures and HDRIs in Blender's Asset Browser (Tutorial)

[@catlord8568]

Absolutely amazing timing, like right on point. Every time I'm trying to figure something new out, something of yours that's new pops up in my recommended!

[@RyanKingArt]

Haha thanks! I hope its a helpful tutorial. : ) Happy Holidays!

[@finn3721]

Thats a lot of effort for adding a texture to the browser... Hope they make it more user friendly in the future

[@RyanKingArt]

yeah hopefully. thanks for watching! 👍‍

[@MRUStudios]

I love the asset browser. It's fantastic! Awesome video my friend! Happy Saturday

[@RyanKingArt]

Yes, Saturday! Thanks 😃

[@frankb4793]

Thank You Ryan for creating these great videos. It' amazing how simple creating Procedural Galvanized Steel can also be in your other video, have a great day!

[@RyanKingArt]

Thanks for watching!

[@lescineastesfousproduction3105]

Great ! With your tutorial, it works. THANK YOU !!!

[@RyanKingArt]

Thanks for watching!

[@Blendergrid]

Awesome Ryan! Happy Holidays 🤗

[@RyanKingArt]

Hello Blendergrid! Thanks for sponsoring my video! Happy Holidays 😃

[@Nicomedia1]

Saves a lot of time. Asset browser really amazing :)

[@RyanKingArt]

Yeah it is!

[@Drums712]

Outstanding! Thanks Ryan!

[@RyanKingArt]

Thanks for watching!

[@Drums712]

Your tutorials have taught me so much. Love it! Thank you sir!

[@Tiki_Media]

Another well done video, very thorough. Thank you Ryan. Organizing my materials and HDRIs is a top priority. I feel like there might be a need to share your thoughts on workflow and best practices, like for a small at-home studio or workspace. How would you recommend people store their assets? The advantages and/or disadvantages of assets on network attached storage. What are some tried and true folder structures for digital assets? Topics like that might be helpful. Anyways, thanks for listening, just a suggestion…

[@RyanKingArt]

Thanks for the tutorial idea!

[@mr.lunatic3157]

Your brother's channel is awesome btw 😍🥰

[@RyanKingArt]

Thank you! Yeah his videos are fun to watch.

[@UnknownGuest220]

Thank you

[@RyanKingArt]

Thanks for the comment! Happy Holidays!

[@UnknownGuest220]

@@RyanKingArt you to

[@Dexter101x]

I hope your views have gone up considerably, I've been trying to do this all day long, no success until now

[@RyanKingArt]

thanks : )

[@Danielcommenter]

Thanks for Another one! 😊

[@RyanKingArt]

You're welcome!

[@maxyelacevedo5133]

Thank you so, so, so much for this! GAME CHANGER!!!

[@RyanKingArt]

glad you like it!

[@fusion1203]

do you have to save an entire blend file just to be able to have textures in the asset library? can you just like download the textures and thats it without downloading an entire save file?

[@kentjensen4504]

Fantastic tutorial. Will these libraries and saved preferences carry over when you update to a newer version of Blender?

[@RyanKingArt]

Yes, it should always update to new versions now that its an added feature.

[@kentjensen4504]

@@RyanKingArt Thanks! And Merry Christmas!

[@RyanKingArt]

@@kentjensen4504 Merry Christmas!

[@nicholaspatton3797]

Ryan King, will you ever do a tutorial to create a procedural gemstone material in order to create rubies, sapphires, etc. in the latest Blender?

[@RyanKingArt]

That's a great idea! I will consider it. Thanks!

[@nicholaspatton3797]

@@RyanKingArt Glad you liked the idea. I wanna create somewhat realistic materials for gemstones in order to create assets for games I might wanna make, such as a jade dragon or a diamond ring. The problem I have is the fact the tutorials I can find for creating some of the materials is for versions older than 3.0 and I don't have money for addons that need to be purchased

[@RyanKingArt]

@@nicholaspatton3797 I see. I will consider doing a tutorial on that.

[@omidtaghipoor4334]

خیلی فوق العاده

[@RyanKingArt]

Translation: Wonderful Thanks!

[@KatLovelandVoiceActor]

Love it!! Woohoo!

[@RyanKingArt]

Hello Kat! Thanks 😀

[@brennt501]

Thanks! :)

[@RyanKingArt]

Thank you for watching! 🙂

[@marcapouli7805]

I still don't know how to mark textures as assets, but many thanks for the hdri !!

[@RyanKingArt]

thanks for watching!

[@euclois]

fuck this is a tedious task. i dont know why people are praising the asset browser. it's so convoluted. should have been simpler. but thanks to the uploader for breaking it down.

[@Jakommo]

8:40 is it better practice to set up individual libraries for each category vs simply having a single one?

[@salvadormarley]

Hi Ryan. Can procedural materials be put in the Asset browser, like the grippy metal you recently made?

[@RyanKingArt]

yes materials can be used in the asset browser.

[@salvadormarley]

@@RyanKingArt thanks Ryan I’ll try it

[@CGcelestial]

Awesome!

[@RyanKingArt]

Thanks!

[@andrewsanders7636]

I was just searching for how to add textures to asset browser lol is it coincidence

[@RyanKingArt]

Well I'm glad I made this video then. Thanks for watching, and I hope its helpful!

[@RyanKingArt]

@@andrewsanders7636 You're welcome!

[@gerdsfargen6687]

So good.

[@RyanKingArt]

Thanks!

[@_Shinique]

Am I not allowed to save textures (alphas) for sculpting in the asset browser?

[@RyanKingArt]

Hmm, I have not tried that before. But I don't think the asset browser supports that.

[@_Shinique]

@@RyanKingArt Aw, darn. Hopefully it's added in the future. Thanks.

[@RyanKingArt]

@@_Shinique Yeah hopefully they will add that in the future.

[@manuelhofmann1950]

Can you save somehow single textures (not materials) in asset browser?

[@RyanKingArt]

Not that I know of. you could add a texture into a blank material, and then save that as an asset, but I don't think you can save textures on there own as assets.

[@aspidiske]

Hi there, what if the zip file doesnt have a color file? I only see AO, bump, disp, normal, spec, but not the color. And when I applied it, the texture is still gray even if I was on viewport shading. The files for the textures I downloaded are also from Polyhaven.

[@RyanKingArt]

Whats the name of the texture that you downloaded? All of the textures should have a color map.

[@aspidiske]

@@RyanKingArt Never mind, I got it. Haha. Thanks, I had to rewatch it around 5:17

[@RyanKingArt]

@@aspidiske Oh ok Glad you fixed it. : )

[@brunolibano6513]

Hi i just got it. Thanks. But if you have subcataloges índice you file paste how you import to asset browser? Thanks again.

[@RyanKingArt]

sorry, I'm not sure what your question is. Would you mind explaining in more detail?

[@jwills8822]

Useful tips .. have you (or anyone else) found any way to auto build an asset library from a directory of textures? This process is manually intensive and a bit time consuming. I'd be happy to have it auto generate asests that I could sort into folders.

[@RyanKingArt]

Not that I know of. Yeah that would be really nice if it could auto setup your textures folder.

[@EpicProSep]

There is a free plugin called "AssetLibraryTools" that can do it, it not being updated anymore but worked for me as of blender 3.5. The creator of the plugin has some videoes about it.

[@ckat609]

So, this shows hot to add materials, not textures. Is there a way to save individual textures?

[@RyanKingArt]

You could add a texture into a material, and then save it as an asset.

[@wyattcurtner1922]

Omg thank you so much! I've done something wrong, objects I apply the texture to turn pink as if they are missing something, did I save the asset wrong?

[@RyanKingArt]

Hmm, sounds like Blender doesn't know where the texture data is. If you moved the blender file, or moved the textures, that can happen. I made a video on this problem. you can watch it here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eZnKoHqobrtgqsU

[@wyattcurtner1922]

@@RyanKingArt Thank you so much this fixed it !

[@slick3d392]

The title is misleading. I was looking for information on how to save only the textures, not the materials. Unfortunately it's not possible to create textures assets, only the material assets. Then, there's no way to have a collection of alpha textures in the asset browser, for example.

[@RyanKingArt]

sorry about that

[@Peter25Z]

Why don't you use the height or ambient occlusion?

[@RyanKingArt]

You can use those maps if you want. but usually I only need color, normal, and roughness.

[@antoniopezzella2174]

how to import multiple texture at once? I have a folder with 200 alphas i want to store at once

[@RyanKingArt]

hmm, I wish there was a way add them into blender all at once, but I don't know how.

[@phalhappy8612]

Do I need to pack external files in the .blend file that contain texture?

[@RyanKingArt]

No you dont need to do that.

[@mcan-piano4718]

It would be better to say how to add Materials and HDRI World to Asset Browser, because it misleads like we just add textures as image files or HDRIs as image files as well.

[@RyanKingArt]

Thanks for the feedback! I will consider renaming it.

[@OoonoTv]

There's gotta be a less painful way than this right?

[@RyanKingArt]

not that I know of.

[@ttyuel8299]

how did you turn save preference to a quick button?

[@RyanKingArt]

the auto save preferences is turned on on default, but I turned the auto save off, because I like manual control.

[@ttyuel8299]

@@RyanKingArt so what i need to do is turn off the auto save?

[@Dhruv_1275pro]

Thank You! I was trying to make a Fortnite animation.....

[@choo_choo_]

If anyone is looking to see if you can add individual textures (as in a single image) you're not going to find that information here. Say you had a bunch of images to use as overlays like fingerprints or scratches and you wanted to add those to the browser, this video isn't how to do it.

[@RyanKingArt]

Well you could add a material, and then just place a single image texture in that materials nodes, and then add it as an asset.

[@nottnice6441]

@@RyanKingArt when i do this mine comes up in the asset browser unlabeled and no color on the icon

[@xoticpa4470]

My mats go pink when i click on the object?

[@RyanKingArt]

hmm, did you move the texture to a different location on your computer? That would cause it to loose the file data.

[@xoticpa4470]

ah yes thank you very much I have anotherr question, my computer is awfully slow and doesn't even allow me to make big objects and if i do it will force quit?

[@xoticpa4470]

do you know how to make it work fast and wont lag at all?

[@FlowerPower3000]

add one by one??? ))) not fun

[@RyanKingArt]

yeah I wish there was a way to do it automatically.

[@xrosshair26]

FUCK THIS CTRL SHIFT T it's not working

[@castletransport]

I know it's not the main point of your videos but you seem to get whiter each time you make a video lol

[@RyanKingArt]

Oh it must be the lighting. Lol. I mostly film in the morning, so its brighter, but sometimes I film my videos in the afternoon or evening. : )

[@castletransport]

@@RyanKingArt it's fine. I still learn a lot from your videos anyway. It's not about that, it's about blender :P

[@RyanKingArt]

@@castletransport Thanks!

[@danielfilipepro]

cool stuff

[@RyanKingArt]

thank you!

[@ilaughatgaypeople8760]

it does not work :[

[@RyanKingArt]

hmm, sorry its not working for you

[@sithumsriisankabandara1373]

Thank you

[@RyanKingArt]

You're welcome!