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Texel

Ch 195.9of 28 3D Texturing Software
  1. 1Runs onAPI, Web
  2. 2CostsFree plan
  3. 33D texture paintingYes
  4. 4Procedural materialsYes
  5. 5Texture bakingYes
  6. 6PBR workflowYes
  7. 7Node-based authoringYes
  8. 8Supported platformsWeb
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Overview

Texel is ranked #19 of 28 in 3D texturing software on Specifiction. It runs on API, Web. There is a free plan.

Texel plans and pricing

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Early Access Free Free while in Early Access Invite only · Access released in small batches texel.art · 5 Oct 2026

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3D texture painting
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Procedural materials
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Texture baking
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PBR workflow
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Node-based authoring
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Supported platforms
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Facts

Product
Texel is a collaborative 3D texturing studio for VFX and games that runs in the browser.texel.art · 5 Oct 2026
Materials
It supports PBR channels including albedo, roughness, metallic, normal, height, ambient occlusion, and emission, with channel-packed exports.texel.art · 5 Oct 2026
Painting and graphs
Features include projection painting, non-destructive node graphs, baked maps, tile-based virtual texturing, and custom HLSL or WGSL nodes.texel.art · 5 Oct 2026
Collaboration
Artists can paint together in real time, branch scene states, review and merge changes, and set permissions down to nodes, channels, or UDIMs.texel.art · 5 Oct 2026
Input limits
The site lists USD, FBX, glTF, and OBJ model uploads up to 4 million triangles, with multi-UDIM support.texel.art · 5 Oct 2026
Integrations
The site describes live links to Blender, Maya, Houdini, and ZBrush, and API workflows for Houdini, Maya, Nuke, and Blender.texel.art · 5 Oct 2026
Export formats
Channel-packed exports are listed for USD, glTF, Unreal, and Unity.texel.art · 5 Oct 2026
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.texel.art · 5 Oct 2026
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.texel.art · 5 Oct 2026
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.texel.art · 5 Oct 2026
Data residency
Texel says project state is pinned to a region near the team and heavier AI compute runs in the selected region; it says enterprise plans have hooks for strict residency needs.texel.art · 5 Oct 2026
Support
The terms page lists an email address for general questions and another for security reports.texel.art · 5 Oct 2026
Early Access limits
Early Access is invite-only, and the terms say service-level agreements do not apply during this period.texel.art · 5 Oct 2026

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