Poliigon vs SketchUp Texture Club

Poliigon provides 3D artists with a library of photorealistic textures, models, and HDRIs. The homepage describes more than 7,000 3D assets for architectural visualization, product rendering, game design, VFX, and animation. Other listed asset types include generators and Substance Designer files, with download formats such as JPG, PNG, TIFF, EXR, FBX, BLEND, and MAX. The site lists support for tools including Blender, SketchUp, 3ds Max, Cinema 4D, Maya, Houdini, Rhino, Revit, AutoCAD, Vectorworks, D5 Render, Lumion, KeyShot, Enscape, Unity, Unreal Engine, Twinmotion, and Substance tools. Polydex organizes local asset folders, identifies PBR textures, models, and HDRIs, and groups related files into single assets. Its Core plan costs nothing, billed Forever, and provides automatic identification, local search, and drag-and-drop import. Unlimited plans include premium and free library access and commercial licenses for assets downloaded during the subscription. Those plans prohibit mirroring large portions of the library or automating downloads; excessive use can restrict downloads for up to seven days.

SketchUp Texture Club is a portal for finding material textures used in graphic design, visual effects, computer games, and other image-based work. Its emphasis is visualization and rendering for architecture and interior design, with resources for students, professionals, and people learning 3D visualization. The library is divided into architecture, materials, nature elements, and backgrounds and landscapes. Users can search, browse categories, view enlarged previews, save favorites, and filter categories to show only PBR textures with maps. A free account permits up to 15 low- and medium-resolution downloads per day, though some textures are unavailable. Club Member costs $17 a year and allows up to 50 high-resolution texture downloads per day, mapped textures where available, and unlimited daily 3D model downloads. Files come as compressed.RAR archives; the site names WinRAR for Windows and The Unarchiver for Mac. Textures can be used commercially without royalties or usage fees, but cannot be resold or redistributed as a competing product, and some rendering uses are restricted. The nonprofit portal is managed by Image Promotion Association.