Questions about Matelume

Matelume is a Windows app for interior designers that turns flat images into PBR materials at real size: fabric, marble, wood veneer, wall art, wall paint and metal. You set the real size and choose the surface. Your 3D program renders the scene.

Matelume does this on Windows. It turns a flat photo, scan or catalogue image into a seamless PBR material at real size, with maps for Blender or for 3ds Max with V-Ray or Corona. The full answer.

Matelume. It is made for interior designers and has its own steps for fabric, marble and wood veneer, working from your own flat images at real size. The full answer.

Not yet. Matelume 2.0 is for flat images, not camera capture. Use a scan, a catalogue swatch or a digital design: straight on, flat and evenly lit. Matelume is not a 3D scanner.

Fabric, Marble, Wood, Wall art, Wall paint and Metal. Wall paint and Metal are new in 2.0.

Your image is the starting design, and you choose how the surface is built around it. Enlarging and seamless preparation can change pixels or crop the repeat, so check the result. An exact measured reconstruction from one image is not promised.

No. AI only enlarges your image, when it is smaller than the quality you pick, and helps read its shapes. The maps are computed from your own image, on your PC, with the choices you make at each step. Enlarging estimates detail; it can’t recover detail the image doesn’t have.

No. Your images, your projects and your maps stay on your PC. A picture goes with a problem report only if you tick it. Matelume goes online for your account (to sign in, check your plan and link your PCs), to check once a day for a new version, and to send the few things the Privacy Policy describes, such as a problem report or your answer to the one-question rating.

Real size is the physical width of the area your image shows. You set it in centimetres and the height follows the image; the exported .json records it in millimetres. It is separate from pixel resolution. Check the size on the object in your 3D program.

Yes. With the Matelume add-on installed in Blender 4.2 or later, Send to Blender puts the material on your selected objects at real size, or on a ready sphere, cushion or plane. The add-on builds the material nodes for you.

Matelume exports maps named and packed for 3ds Max with V-Ray or Corona. For Autodesk® 3ds Max® 2025 or later, with V-Ray® or Corona. The Matelume 3ds Max package can set the material up on your objects, or you can follow the how-to sheet in the export. We don’t claim renderer-specific test results for V-Ray or for Corona, and we show no 3ds Max render as proof. Wood in 3ds Max has not been verified for this release.

The Your software step offers six choices: Blender; 3ds Max + V-Ray; 3ds Max + Corona; Cinema 4D (Redshift); Unreal Engine 5, with a packed ORM map; and Other software. Unity, SketchUp, Enscape, D5 Render, Twinmotion and Lumion take the standard set of eight maps under Other software. The Cinema 4D and Unreal sets have not been tested inside those programs yet.

2K, 4K, 6K or 8K on the long side; 4K is marked Usual. An 8K fabric needs a PC with 32 GB of RAM. More pixels take more time and memory. They do not add detail the source does not have.

Start from a colour or a photo, then choose Metal as the material type. A photo is first set to its real size and made seamless. At the Metal step, pick a metal sphere or keep your own colour or photo; then Shine, Effect, Imperfections and Export.

It is computed, not scanned. The Shine slider sets the base, and the effect and imperfections you choose add their own grain. The metal colours come from measured optical data; bronze, rose gold and green gold (18k) are labelled estimates.

No. In 2.0, metal’s exported normal maps are 16-bit, and every material’s Displacement map is 16-bit. That does not apply to every map or to the live preview.

Yes. With an active plan, you can use Matelume for personal or commercial design work, and the materials you export stay yours to keep, subject to the rights in your source image.

Yes. The trial runs for 14 days from your first linked PC, with every Pro tool, full-size exports and no watermark. It needs an account and an internet connection, fur and other Max plan features are not included, and it does not start a paid subscription.

Pro is US$15 a month or US$150 a year. Founder is US$50 a year for the first 50 buyers, and that rate stays while you keep renewing. Studio is for teams, from US$125 to US$150 a seat a year depending on the number of seats. Every plan is a subscription, and taxes appear at checkout.

No. Matelume is a Windows desktop app. Exporting maps for another program does not provide a Matelume app for macOS or Linux, or a browser version.

Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit. 16 GB of RAM is recommended, and an 8K fabric needs 32 GB. An NVIDIA graphics card is recommended but not required: without one, the heavy work runs on the processor and takes longer. Allow about 4.5 GB for the program. An account and an internet connection are needed while you work.

Matelume is made for interior designers, with guided steps per material from a flat image. Sampler is a broader app with 3D capture and HDR lights, on Windows, macOS and Linux. The full comparison.