Viking shield Low-poly 3D model

Game/VR/AR-ready low-poly model of a somewhat worn Viking-age shield. The model has 4K PBR-textures and is built to real-world scale (metric system).

Round wooden shields with metal bosses were widely used in central and northern Europe during a long period from the Roman Iron Age to at least the end of the Early Middle Ages (AD 200-1100). The wooden parts of the shields were relatively fragile and the edges were often strengthened with leather or (rarely) metal. The centrally placed wooden grip allowed the user to quickly pivot the shield to block and control incoming blows.

The model and PBR-textures are prepared for use with Unity and Unreal Engine, but can easily be adapted to other game engines, or for other uses. The model was created using Blender and Substance Painter. Preview images were rendered with Iray.

Polygon Count
4058 vertices
4118 faces
8108 triangles

File Formats
FBX 7.4 (.fbx)*
OBJ 3.0 (.obj and .mtl)
Collada 1.4.1 (.dae)
Blender 4.0.2 (.blend)
* There are three different FBX-files, one standard PBR MetalRough, one for Unity and one for Unreal.

Materials & Textures
The model is UV-mapped and has a single material and three sets of physics based textures, one for PBR MetalRough, one for Unity (metallic workflow) and one for Unreal Engine. The textures are not baked into the model, but are saved as png-files with a resolution of 4096 x 4096 pixels (8 bits) in the zip-file PBR textures in the subfolders PBR textures, Unity textures and Unreal Engine textures:

PBR textures
Viking shield_Shield_AO.png
Viking shield_Shield_BaseColor.png
Viking shield_Shield_Height.png
Viking shield_Shield_Metallic.png
Viking shield_Shield_Normal.png
Viking shield_Shield_Roughness.png

Unity textures
Viking shield_Unity_Shield_AlbedoTransparency.png
Viking shield_Unity_Shield_MetallicSmoothness.png
Viking shield_Unity_Shield_Normal.png

Unreal Engine textures
Viking shield_Unreal_Shield_BaseColor.png
Viking shield_Unreal_Shield_Normal.png
Viking shield_Unreal_Shield_OcclusionRoughnessMetallic.png