Documentation

Overview

Poly lets you quickly generate customized, 8K HD, and seamlessly tile-able textures with 32-bit PBR maps using a simple text and/or image prompt in seconds. Create new materials, convert from existing images, generate variations, or explore thousands of stunning seamless PBR textures made with Poly AI.

Welcome to Poly's documentation! Poly is an AI-enabled texture creation tool that lets you quickly generate customized, 8K HD, and seamlessly tile-able textures with up to 32-bit PBR maps using a simple prompt (text and/or image) in seconds. It's perfect for use in 3D applications such as 3D modeling, character design, architecture visualization ("Arch Viz"), game development, AR/VR world-building, and much more. We're thrilled to share the result of our team's research work with the community, and hope you will find it useful and fun.

If you're interested in the power of AI-driven texture creation, join us on our Discord server, where you can find us working, chatting, and learning from a rich community of creative professionals.

Understanding Poly

Poly has a simple and accessible web-based UI that requires no installation or GPU, and it's totally free to get started. In fact, you don't even need to sign up for an account or log in at all. We'll also never limit the amount of textures you can generate.

Poly's full AI texture generation editor view

Within seconds, you can:

  1. Generate any seamless textures with 32-bit PBR maps from scratch by describing it to our AI in a simple text prompt.
  2. Convert any image into an HD seamless texture complete with AI-generated 32-bit PBR maps.
  3. Generate unlimited variations for your existing textures.
  4. Browse and get inspired by thousands of stunning textures generated by AI. Explore how they were generated and customize them yourself.

Using this documentation

Most users shouldn't need to read this documentation in order to get started. But it's useful to understand the way we laid out this tool, and what the color scheme represents. You'll find some tips and how-tos to help you maximize your effectiveness, from basic to advanced techniques. If you have any questions this is not answered in this manual or if you have any problems creating certain types of textures or PBR maps, please free to email hello@withpoly.com, ask us on our Discord server.