CGTextures B.V.

Who owns Textures.com?
Textures.com is owned and operated by CGTextures B.V., a private Dutch company founded by Marcel Vijfwinkel and headquartered in Rijsbergen, Netherlands.

Is CGTextures publicly traded?
No. It is a private limited company with no outside institutional investors disclosed.

When was Textures.com founded?
The site launched in 2005 as CGTextures.com; the B.V. was registered in October 2007 and the service rebranded to Textures.com in the mid-2010s.

What does CGTextures sell?
Subscriptions granting download credits for its library of photo textures, PBR materials, photogrammetry scans, 3D objects, foliage and HDRI environments used in games, film, and design.

Is Textures.com free?
Partially. Registered free accounts receive a limited daily download quota; full access and larger files require paid credit subscriptions.

Who founded CGTextures?
Marcel Vijfwinkel, a Dutch digital artist who began photographing textures and sharing them with the computer graphics community in 2005.

Marcel Vijfwinkel launched CGTextures.com in 2005 as a side project, photographing surfaces around the Netherlands and offering the images free to computer graphics artists. The site filled a genuine gap: before it existed, texture artists photographed their own source material or worked from tiny commercial CD-ROM collections.

Word of mouth spread the library through game development and VFX communities, and studios including major film and game houses began relying on it. Vijfwinkel registered CGTextures B.V. in October 2007 as usage grew, converting the free service into a freemium business: registered users downloaded a daily quota free, while heavy users bought credit subscriptions.

The mid-2010s brought a professionalization push. The site rebranded from CGTextures to Textures.com, investing in systematic photogrammetry scanning: capturing real surfaces and objects at high resolution and processing them into tileable, calibrated PBR materials. This moved the library from photo reference into production-grade physically based rendering assets for engines like Unreal and Unity.

Through the 2020s the catalog expanded into 3D scanned objects, foliage, decals and HDRI skies. By 2026 the site reports more than 140,000 photo textures, 2,500-plus PBR materials and scans, and over 1,100 3D objects, adding new assets weekly. The company briefly pursued a texture-generation tool trademarked TextureLab in 2023, though the application was abandoned. It remains independent, competing against Quixel (Epic Games' Megascans), Poliigon and Adobe's Substance asset ecosystem.

CGTextures has no documented controversies, recalls or regulatory actions. Its public record is limited to routine terms-of-service and licensing matters common to stock content businesses, including occasional community debate over license restrictions on redistributing source files.