6 High-Quality Textures Sites (Free & Paid)

Textures are an important part of the materials that make up the final scenes in your games or still renders.
It is possible to make your own textures using your own photos a, but it is almost always easier to find a repository online to get your textures.

This is especially true if you don’t have access to a good quality(and often expensive) camera.Below is a comprehensive list of sites where you can & download good textures.

Most of these sites have a mixture of both free and higher-quality paid textures, but you can use all of them in your projects.The licencing is usually very lenient as well which allows you to use them on both personal and commercial projects.

Can you use Texture in any 3D Software?
Yes, pretty much.

A texture is just an image or photo of an imagined or real-world surface. It’s meant to be plugged into Material Channels to simulate things like color, roughness and reflectivity of that real-world object onto your 3D Object.

Every 3D Software has a very similar implementation of Materials and the way Textures are used in Material channels, so you’ll have no problem using Textures from these Sites in Cinema 4D, Blender, 3ds Max, SketchUp, or any of the other popular 3D Packages out there.

What To Consider When Picking A Texture Site?
Price and affordability.
How do they charge for the texture?
Credit, subscription, free?

Here 6 Texture Sites

#1Textures.com

Formally CGTexture, Textures.com is quite possibly the most prolific and well-known texture site on the internet.

If you’ve searched for any texture at all, you’ve probably run into some search results from this site.

Boasting a collection of over 100,000 images, it is one of the world’s largest texture repositories and has supplied countless studios and projects.

It also has a sizable collection of high-quality Substance materials that you can customize to your heart’s content.
Pros:A modern, clean website that is easy to navigate and use.
You can pick and choose what files exactly you want to download.
There are no shady links or ads to deal with.

“Pay for what you use” system:
Offers discounts for larger credit purchases.
Credits only expire 3 years after the purchase date.

Cons
No refunds.
Having to individually download each texture is very annoying.

#2CC0 Textures (Free)

Possibly the largest collection of free texture assets on the internet, CC0 Texture provides a variety of great textures at the low, low price of free.

They have over 1000 photos scanned and procedurally generated materials available and their roster grows every month!They’re the first place I go when I want to quickly grab some good textures to prototype something.Go throw them a dollar or two if you got it. They provide an invaluable service to the community and they could use every cent.

Pros
A payment system so generous, they allow you to take any texture for free!
All texture and other resources are allowed to be used on any project, period.
A modern, clean website that is easy to navigate and use.
No cons

#3Texture Haven (Free)

Supported completely through Patreon donations, Texture Haven (Poly Haven in the future) is a site that strives to offer high-quality CC0 PBR texture for free, forever, for everyone.

They already have a sizable collection of high-quality texture and are expanding every month.

Pros:A payment system so generous, they allow you to take any texture for free!
All textures and other resources are allowed to be used on any project, period.
A modern, clean website that is easy to navigate and use.
You can pick and choose what files exactly you want to download, and they get them to you in a nice and organized zip file.
There are no shady links or ads to deal with.

NO cons because free

#4Sketchup Textures

Sketchup Texture is a lesser-known—but still very useful—site that offers a large collection of well-made textures with PBR maps.

It might not have the highest quality 24k textures or specially made assets, but it’s still quite useful.
Pros:Subscription system:
$14 a year to access all textures and maps.
You will be able to download 50 texture in full quality with all available PBR maps.You can’t accumulate texture downloads, but it resets every day.
They offer 15 low to medium-quality texture without any PBR maps per day for free.

With a $14 subscription, you can expect to get about 18,000 textures per year at all available resolutions.All texture and other resources are allowed to be used on any commercial project.You get to keep your textures even after your subscription has expired; including the right to distribute projects using them commercially.
Cons:Slow and outdated-looking website.

#5Quixel Megascans
Touting over 15 thousand assets, Megascans by Quixel is one of the largest photo scan libraries in the world.

Offering incredible quality and consistency, its library of models, texture, decals, imperfections, brushes, and more are used by industry professionals from all over.

Megascans truly shines when paired with Quixel’s own Quixel Bridge software that allows you to easily import all of their assets—and your custom ones even—into a large number of applications with one click.
Pros:All textures and other resources are allowed to be used on any commercial project.
You get to keep your textures even after your subscription has expired; including the right to distribute projects using them commercially.A modern, clean website that is easy to navigate and use.

Has a material converter and manager that allows you to instantly create a full material from your textures with just a couple of clicks and send them to a wide variety of 3D packages with just a couple of clicks.
You can pick and choose what files exactly you want to download, and they get them to you in a nice and organized zip file.
All assets are completely free to use in any sort of project if they’re used in Epic’s Unreal Engine game development engine and Twinmotion archviz software.
Cons:No refunds.
They offer no credit packs or “pay for what you use” service, but you can top up the credits their subscriptions offer if you run out.

#6Poliigon

Offering textures, models, HDRIs, and even sculpting brushes, Poliigon is one of the highest quality sites I’ve found to get any sort of material that I might want.

They offer resolutions all the way up to 8k, and provide 16bit TIFF bump and displacement maps on most textures they have on offer.

They also offer graphic designs and seamless repeating patterns!
Pros:Has a material converter addon for Blender, Maya, 3DSMax, and Cinema4D that allows you to instantly create a full material from your textures with just a couple of clicks.
Cons:No refunds.

In Summary

Things sure are a lot better these days than they used to be when it comes to textures.

No longer do you have to settle for low-quality textures when professional quality textures are only a couple of clicks away—not to mention at incredibly affordable prices.And you don’t even have to pay a cent for some!