Behind the Scans: Namaqualand

Polyhaven shares an amazing library of HDRis, Textures and 3D Models - all for free under a CC0 license. For their latest project, Namaqualand they traveled to the desert for a week to capture as many assets and environments as they could. See how they did it in this video!

In September 2023, the Poly Haven team embarked on a journey to an arid desert near the West coast of South Africa: Namaqualand.

The goal? Build a free 3D asset collection to recreate what we saw there.

It took more than a year to process all the data we captured and turn it into high quality 3D assets for everyone. Support more trips and assets like this by joining our Patreon!