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Overview

This asset combines an optimized mesh with 16K physically accurate equirectangular textures, seamlessly mapped without polar distortion. Designed for film, games, VR, AR, and fulldome environments. Ready to import and render immediately, with all materials embedded. Extra 23K texture pack included for high resolution workflows.

Scientific Background

This 3D representation of the Moon is based on high resolution topographical and albedo data from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and Clementine missions. The physically based textures incorporate surface detail and displacement derived from the LOLA dataset.

Technical Features

  • Textures 16K 16384 × 8192 px Color, Roughness, Normal, Displacement
  • Icosahedral mesh with continuous spherical projection, seam and pole free
  • Calibrated PBR materials for high fidelity rendering

Included Formats

  • Blender 4.5 .blend with Cycles and Eevee materials and embedded 16K JPG textures
  • Unity 2022 URP .unitypackage with embedded 16K JPG textures and optimized lunar surface shaders
  • 3ds Max 2022 with V Ray zip including embedded 16K JPG textures
  • Uncompressed 16K PNG texture set for maximum visual fidelity
  • Extra 23K PNG texture pack included

Key Benefits

  • Production ready with no need to assign materials or tweak shaders
  • Ideal for VFX, VR, AR, scientific visualization, matte painting, and cinematic lunar scenes
  • Free lifetime updates including future improvements and variations

Current Version 5.16

Created for professionals who need reliable assets with minimal setup time.

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alexdigitalBuyer of this model
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It looks good with prefab , bump map looks good in prefab easy drag and drop only I dont know why im getting lag.....
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jorger83Buyer of this model
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Great model ! thank you for your help!
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travisrogersBuyer of this model
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The texture detail in this model is incredible! Definitely worth the price if you’re looking for a photo real moon.
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paddyvanchBuyer of this model
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Very nice and detailed model. Took me a moment to prep it for 3D printing, but with the given resources the result does look amazing.
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andreromanReturning buyer from this seller
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Excellent work! Opened perfectly. Looks fantastic.
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ZhenyuanopterusReturning buyer from this seller
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I'm a fan of caraesarpro's work, however in this moon product I'm seeing a small misalignment of the textures in my Blender 2.79 renders. It appears that in some places the moon surface diffuse texture is not properly aligned with the bump texture, causing a double-image on some craters and mountains. I'll need to use Photoshop to fix the misalignments, something I was hoping I would not need to do with a payware product.
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Cablob13Community member
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Great work with the displacement
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CodeName3DCommunity member
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You do a great job for a month, all the details are perfectly visible.
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zeus123Community member
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Isn't this just using free Nasa textures you can find from their website? I checked them out before and put it onto a sphere which made something seemingly identical to this for no cost at all, full CC0 (no problem using it commercially) and took me 10 minutes. I'm just asking what the difference between this and mine is and how it's worth the $40? :)
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Hi Zhenyuanopterus, this problem has been solved in this version, thank you a lot.
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Moon 16K Photorealistic Low-poly 3D model

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Native file format
BLEND2 files
Size: 284 MB
Cycles | 4.5
Eevee | 4.5
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MAX
Autodesk 3ds Max<br />Version: 2022 - Renderer: V-Ray<br />File Size: 211 MB
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JPG<br />File Size: 211 MB
PNG
PNG | 3 files<br />File Size: 1.93 GB
STL
Stereolithography<br />File Size: 300 MB
UNITYPACKAGE
Unity 3D<br />Version: 2022 - Renderer: Default<br />File Size: 73.4 MB
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