Materialize

GPL-3.0 commercial OK Credit: Not required verified 78d ago Go to source

Standalone Bounding Box Software tool that builds a PBR set from a photo: height, metallic, smoothness, normal, occlusion, plus seamless tiling. Used on the Uncharted Collection remaster for metallic/smoothness/AO. The application is GNU GPL v3. The pages fetched on 2026-08-24 do not spell out ownership of maps you generate. Treat output like other GPL editors: the program is copyleft, the bitmaps you export from your own photos are not automatically GPL, and photos you did not take keep their own licenses.

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Licence: GPL-3.0 what it means shipping to stores
Commercial use: commercial OK
Credit: Not required
Status: active: Licence spot-checked at the source; the entry carries dated evidence.
Verified: 2026-08-24 (78d ago)
Formats: PNG, TGA

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Source: github.com/BoundingBoxSoftware/Materialize. Unity project in-repo
Download flow goes through getkey.php. Still GPL; not a paid EULA
Clipboard/XML automation exists for batch open/save. Useful for folder dumps, easy to accidentally process third-party textures whose licenses you do not have
Prefer this when you already own a photo. Prefer ambientCG / cgbookcase when you need a ready CC0 stack
FAQ fetched on 2026-08-24 is install troubleshooting only. No output-ownership FAQ line
Version left as bare GPL-3.0 deliberately. The repository ships the stock GPLv3 text with no election of its own. Checked 2026-09-22.

Evidence

Live homepage, Open Source (2026-08-24): "Materialize is open source under the GNU GPL v3"
Live GitHub LICENSE (2026-08-24): "GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 3, 29 June 2007"

Materialize

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