HARD SURFACE ART

art by Jake Woodruff, Alex Khaliman, & Ben Armstrong

Master Props, Vehicles, and Weapon Art

Toolbag’s baking, texturing, and rendering tools empower you to create your best art, from intricate mechanical designs to realistic weapons and props. Get instant feedback as you fine-tune geometric details and achieve impressive surface definition under any lighting condition with Toolbag’s physically accurate material system.

Bake With Precision

Bake flawless, detailed texture maps in real time using Toolbag’s Bake Projects. Need to fix errors? Toolbag’s intuitive skew and offset painting tools let you paint away projection issues and sculpt your cage to fit each mesh perfectly.

Gone are the days of creating complex, time-consuming subdivision models. Leverage the power of Toolbag’s revolutionary bevel shader to smooth surfaces and bake bevels into texture maps.

Advanced Texturing Methods

Save countless hours with Toolbag’s Texture Projects. Add your mechanical and geometric fine detail in the texturing phase, allowing for non-destructive and iterative creative control.

Vector Layers and brush presets make it easy to draw panel lines, rivets, and nuts & bolts on the fly.
Carve Groups allow swift control over weathering effects by blending layers using a single, adjustable height-style gradient.
Sync Points generate the height and normal data from painted geometric detail to influence other layers in your stack.
Forgot to bake a few maps? Autogenerate missing Input Maps in Texture Projects.

Capture Your Aesthetic

Create compelling compositions using ray-traced depth of field, filmic tone mapping presets, and post effects such as bloom and film grain.

Make your artwork interactive, and present 3D assets on the web with Marmoset Viewer to give your audience a closer look at your art.

art by Dan Kenton, Alexander Khaliman, Pavlo Kazanovskyi, & The Vertex Guild.

Photorealistic Rendering

Showcase every detail of your hard surface models with Toolbag’s advanced ray-traced rendering. Source pre-configured lighting setups and a variety of time-of-day HDRI skies from the Library to instantly immerse your assets in stunning, photorealistic environments.

From crisp reflections on metal surfaces to lifelike shadows across complex geometry, Toolbag ensures your designs look as sharp and precise as they were meant to be.

Quality Materials & HDRIs

Toolbag’s free integrated Library helps you rapidly achieve a professional finish.

Explore hundreds of organic and mechanical textures and materials, or try out Smart Materials for natural wear and tear that adapts seamlessly to any mesh.

The Library also offers a wide range of HDRI skies to set the perfect mood, time of day, and environmental reflections.

Hard Surface – Quality Materials & HDRIs

Alex Khaliman

Tech/Art Director

“Toolbag is perfect for every workflow stage, with built-in tools for real-time texturing and lighting. It sets the standard for texture baking, and the Bevel Shader has revolutionized my workflow—delivering high-quality bakes without the need for high-poly models, cutting down days of work to mere hours, and optimizing file sizes.”