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ActionVFX recently released 15 free burn-mark textures, which can be found in its free catalog. The textures come in .PNG format with an alpha channel. You can use the stock materials for commercial projects; more precise licese terms can be found here. So do not hang about:
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A collection of further free assets, plug-ins, scripts and tools can be found on this page, which we update continuously.
