Texel

Spec sheet

What it does

Texel is a browser-based collaborative 3D texturing studio for VFX and game teams.Read 15 Oct 2026 · texel.art

Product

Texel is a collaborative 3D texturing studio for VFX and games that runs in the browser.Read 5 Oct 2026 · texel.art

Integrations

The site describes live links to Blender, Maya, Houdini, and ZBrush, and API workflows for Houdini, Maya, Nuke, and Blender.Read 5 Oct 2026 · texel.art

Security

The privacy page states that Texel uses TLS, scoped presigned uploads, per-project access checks on WebSocket and API calls, and Cloudflare secret storage.Read 5 Oct 2026 · texel.art

Support

The terms page lists an email address for general questions and another for security reports.Read 5 Oct 2026 · texel.art

AI data use

Texel says it does not use project work to train AI models and that heavier AI processing runs in a region the user selects.Read 5 Oct 2026 · texel.art

AI features

AI graph nodes include mask-aware upscale, normal extraction, semantic fill across UDIMs, and smart edge wear; nodes preserve inputs, parameters, and seeds.Read 5 Oct 2026 · texel.art

AI nodes

AI operators include mask-aware upscaling, normal extraction, semantic UDIM fill and edge-wear generation.Read 15 Oct 2026 · texel.art

AI processing location

Light AI nodes run in the browser GPU, while heavier processing runs in a region selected by the user.Read 15 Oct 2026 · texel.art

AI training policy

Texel says project work is not used to train its models or third-party models.Read 15 Oct 2026 · texel.art

API use

The site says assets can be pulled into Houdini, Maya, Nuke or Blender through an API.Read 15 Oct 2026 · texel.art

Collaboration

Artists can paint together in real time, branch scene states, review and merge changes, and set permissions down to nodes, channels, or UDIMs.Read 5 Oct 2026 · texel.art

Company identity caveat

A Crunchbase profile named Texel, Inc. describes a separate Dubai-based body-scanning and virtual-try-on company with founders Andrey Poskonin, Maxim Fedyukov and Sergey Klimentyev.Read 15 Oct 2026 · crunchbase.com

Data residency

Project state is pinned near the team and enterprise customers can discuss strict regional or on-premises requirements.Read 15 Oct 2026 · texel.art

DCC integrations

The site lists live links to Blender, Maya, Houdini and ZBrush.Read 15 Oct 2026 · texel.art

Deterministic AI

AI nodes retain their inputs, parameters and seeds so results can be reproduced.Read 15 Oct 2026 · texel.art

Early Access limitation

Early Access has no service-level agreement and Texel may rate-limit usage or restrict regions while it ramps up.Read 15 Oct 2026 · texel.art

Early Access limits

Early Access is invite-only, and the terms say service-level agreements do not apply during this period.Read 5 Oct 2026 · texel.art

Export formats

Channel-packed exports are provided for Unreal, Unity, USD and glTF.Read 15 Oct 2026 · texel.art

Infrastructure integrations

Operational vendors named in the terms are Cloudflare, WorkOS, Loops and Stripe.Read 15 Oct 2026 · texel.art

Input limits

The site lists USD, FBX, glTF, and OBJ model uploads up to 4 million triangles, with multi-UDIM support.Read 5 Oct 2026 · texel.art

Legal registration

The Texel site identifies the maker as Texel Labs Ltd, registered in the United Kingdom under company number 16256594.Read 15 Oct 2026 · texel.art

Limit: baking depth

Wifitalents says Texel's baking and projection tools are less deep than full texture suites.Read 15 Oct 2026 · wifitalents.com

Limit: channel packing

Wifitalents reports that advanced texture channel packing is limited.Read 15 Oct 2026 · wifitalents.com

Limit: large scenes

Wifitalents advises careful resolution management because large scenes may require responsiveness tradeoffs.Read 15 Oct 2026 · wifitalents.com

Limit: UDIM scale

Wifitalents says managing many UDIM tiles can feel slow.Read 15 Oct 2026 · wifitalents.com

Material graph

The graph engine supports masks, blends, generators and custom HLSL or WGSL nodes.Read 15 Oct 2026 · texel.art

Materials

It supports PBR channels including albedo, roughness, metallic, normal, height, ambient occlusion, and emission, with channel-packed exports.Read 5 Oct 2026 · texel.art

Model input

Texel accepts USD, FBX, glTF and OBJ models, with a stated limit of four million triangles and multi-UDIM support.Read 15 Oct 2026 · texel.art

Operation history

A timeline allows users to replay or branch from individual operations such as strokes.Read 15 Oct 2026 · texel.art

Ownership of work

The terms say users retain rights to meshes, textures, masks, strokes, node graphs, comments and exports they create.Read 15 Oct 2026 · texel.art

Paint engine

Its paint engine uses tile-based virtual texturing for high-resolution work.Read 15 Oct 2026 · texel.art

Painting and graphs

Features include projection painting, non-destructive node graphs, baked maps, tile-based virtual texturing, and custom HLSL or WGSL nodes.Read 5 Oct 2026 · texel.art

PBR channels

Supported channels include albedo, roughness, metallic, normal, height, ambient occlusion and emission.Read 15 Oct 2026 · texel.art

Permissions

Permissions can be set at UDIM, channel and node level, including view-only access for reviewers.Read 15 Oct 2026 · texel.art

Praise: non-destructive editing

Wifitalents highlights layer and mask controls for iterative, non-destructive refinement.Read 15 Oct 2026 · wifitalents.com

Praise: viewport workflow

Wifitalents praises viewport painting for keeping brush placement aligned with the final look.Read 15 Oct 2026 · wifitalents.com

Rating on Wifitalents

7.0 out of 10 from 0 reviewsRead 15 Oct 2026 · wifitalents.com

Real-time collaboration

Artists can paint, mask and edit the same scene simultaneously in the browser.Read 15 Oct 2026 · texel.art

Review workflow

Users can branch scene states, compare channels, comment on polygons and merge approved changes.Read 15 Oct 2026 · texel.art

Security controls

The privacy notice describes TLS, scoped presigned uploads, per-project checks on WebSocket and API calls, Cloudflare secret storage and project operation history.Read 15 Oct 2026 · texel.art

Service licence

Texel receives a limited, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to host, transmit, store and render user content only to operate the service.Read 15 Oct 2026 · texel.art

Trademark record

The UK Intellectual Property Office lists TEXEL owned by TEXEL LABS LTD in software and online-service classes 9, 35, 41 and 42.Read 15 Oct 2026 · ipo.gov.uk

UDIM support

Texel lets users paint across UDIM tiles with seamless edges.Read 15 Oct 2026 · texel.art

Plans and prices

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Where Specifiction places it

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