Packed earth for the lanes, yards and market places of a medieval village. Two worn wheel ruts run along the path, the ground is soft and slightly bumpy, it dries out and cracks in places, and small pebbles are pressed into the earth. The colours are painted in flat organic zones of normal, dry and damp earth, with the damp earth gathering in the ruts; the forms come from a real height map, so the path reads well from close up and from far away. The ruts run along U; one texture tile covers 3 x 3 metres and repeats without seams.

In Blender, the included add-on "Stylized Material Generator" generates the material from 31 parameters. Change the clods and dry cracks, the depth and width of the wheel ruts, the bumps, how many pebbles there are and how big, the three earth colours (any colour, e.g. dry clay or dark mud) and the pebble colour, and grow grass tufts along the cracks. Press Generate, and all maps are rebuilt, so the shape changes, not only the colours. Live Preview updates a 512 px version while you drag. Export writes ready texture sets for Unreal Engine and Unity.

For Unreal Engine and Unity you get the default material as texture sets at 2048 and 1024 px with the packed maps each engine expects (Unreal: ORM and DirectX normal; Unity: .unitypackage with URP and Built-in materials).

What is included

• Blender: Stylized Material Generator add-on (Blender 4.2+, tested in 5.2), material library with slider node group (scale, offset, rotation, colour, edges, roughness), showcase scene ready to render
• Unreal Engine: Base Color, Normal (DirectX), ORM, Height, Masks at 2048 and 1024 px
• Unity: .unitypackage with URP Lit and Built-in Standard materials and a demo scene
• All maps as PNG in both normal map conventions

This material is part of the Stylized Medieval Village Materials pack.

Texture origin

Every texture is generated procedurally by our own Python generator in Blender (no texture libraries, no scans, no AI image generators). Preview lighting uses the CC0 HDRI Studio Small 09 from Poly Haven (not included).

Licence: the add-on code is GPL, the textures and materials are royalty free for your projects.

Designed with Claude, made procedurally in Blender and Python, art directed and checked by a 3D artist.