Poly Haven vs SketchUp Texture Club

Poly Haven is a curated public library of HDRIs, textures, and 3D models for visual effects artists and game designers. Its assets use a CC0 license and can be used commercially. The library describes its HDRIs as 16k+ resolution and unclipped, and its photoscanned seamless PBR textures as at least 8k. The public collection costs nothing, with no paywall or signup required. A Blender add-on brings assets into the software's asset browser and provides organized catalogs, resolution switching, automatic texture scaling, and one-click displacement setup. Poly Haven also offers an API whose default endpoints are free for personal, academic, and commercial use without login or an API key. Live API users must provide clear attribution and a unique User-Agent header. The organization says its assets are made by humans, avoiding generative AI and overreliance on procedural methods. Optional paid offerings include Vault access for $3 a month, a Blender add-on via Patreon for $5 a month, or an identical add-on via Superhive for $49, paid once.

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.