VFX Texture Lab

What VFX Texture Lab is

VFX Texture Lab is a free, MIT-licensed application for building procedural textures, animated flipbooks, reusable PBR materials and lightweight geometry for real-time visual effects. Its node-based graph offers tools for noise, shapes, blending, distortion, blur, terrain and surface analysis, with 8-bit and 16-bit output handling. Materials can be previewed in 3D with HDR environment lighting, displacement, bloom, shadows and different meshes. Animation tools include timeline controls, curve-driven parameters, temporal blending, frame delay and reaction diffusion. For geometry work, it can generate meshes, import Wavefront OBJ files, process and UV unwrap meshes, bake texture maps, and export indexed UV-mapped OBJ data. Image outputs include PNG, TGA and raw R16, alongside texture-set templates, channel packing and portable graph packages. It runs on Windows and Linux; its GPU rendering and compute use WebGPU, and available features depend on the graphics adapter and driver. The project is in public beta, so graph behaviour may change. Windows builds are unsigned, and the project advises checking the official release and its published SHA-256 file.