Filter Forge Alternatives

Filter Forge is described as 'Software with over 6700 free photo and video effects plus seamless textures, supporting up to 30,000 variations, PBR maps, node-based editing, and 3D export' and is an app in the photos & graphics category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Filter Forge for Windows, Mac, Linux, Java Mobile and Steam. The best Filter Forge alternative is InstaMAT. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try InstaMAT or Patternshop. Other great apps like Filter Forge are PixPlant, NeoTextureEdit, Imogen and FilterJS.

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  1. InstaMAT icon

    InstaMAT

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    InstaMAT offers a comprehensive solution for procedural material and asset creation, scalable texturing, and data-driven asset pipelines where instead of texturing a specific asset, you're now texturing an entire class of assets using a previously established workflow.

    18 InstaMAT alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
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    • InstaMAT is the most popular Windows & Mac alternative to Filter Forge.

    • InstaMAT is the most popular free alternative to Filter Forge.

    • InstaMAT is Free Personal and ProprietaryFilter Forge is Paid and Proprietary
  2. Patternshop icon

    Patternshop

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    Patternshop is a tool to create textures for fabric design.

    It functions in a simple and intuitive way.

    Import your images into the software and they will repeat instantaneously, adjust proportions, while you arrange them and work in real time.

    Preview your work in real time,.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    • Patternshop is the most popular Linux alternative to Filter Forge.

    • Patternshop is the most popular Open Source alternative to Filter Forge.

    • Patternshop is Free and Open SourceFilter Forge is Paid and Proprietary
  4. Adobe Substance Designer icon

    Adobe Substance Designer

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    Substance Designer is a node-based non-destructive application for material authoring. Edit complete texture sets fast with the non-linear workflow and see your changes apply simultaneously to all your outputs.

    17 Adobe Substance Designer alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once or Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    • Adobe Substance Designer is the most popular commercial alternative to Filter Forge.

    • Adobe Substance Designer is Paid and ProprietaryFilter Forge is also Paid and Proprietary
  5. PixPlant icon

    PixPlant

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    PixPlant is a smart texturing app with the best tools to quickly transform a photo into seamless repeating textures and 3D maps.

    20 PixPlant alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
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  6. NeoTextureEdit icon

    NeoTextureEdit

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    NeoTextureEdit is an open source (GNU LGPL v. 3) easy to use graph-based procedural seamless texture editor. Using continuous basis functions it can generate arbitrary resolution images without quality degradation.

    13 NeoTextureEdit alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Java Mobile
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  7. Imogen icon

    Imogen

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    Imogen is a GPU-based Texture generator using dear imgui for UI. Not production ready and a bit messy but really fun to code. This is an hybrid project that can run natively or on the web (thanks to emscripten).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  9. FilterJS icon

    FilterJS

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    FilterJS is a node-based procedural texture generator, meaning that you will compose your filter, generator, or algorithm to make a texture ­– you name it – out of special blocks. Each filter has two unique blocks: an input image and an output image.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  10. Patternodes icon

    Patternodes

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    Patternodes is a tool for creating graphical vector patterns, animations or illustrations. This is done using a node-based interface where you define a sequence of connected nodes that describe the design, each representing graphical elements, changes or repetitions.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  11. Texture Studio icon

    Texture Studio

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    Texture Studio is all you need to produce professional quality textures for use in games and tiled backgrounds. Texture Studio includes a set of integrated tools, all extremely useful for creating high quality seamless textures.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  12. TexGraph icon

    TexGraph

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    TexGraph is a procedural texture creation tool that let you create textures by connecting nodes in a graph. It is designed to be similar to other tools in the market but at the same time be very simple and easy to use and extent by users.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  13. TextureWorks icon

    TextureWorks

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    TextureWorks is an Artificial Intelligence Based easy texture generation and texture maps generation tool for preparing PBR materials in your 3D/2D Games! It has everything you need to build a complete texture from small patches or samples of images of your desired size.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Steam
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  14. Texture Maker icon

    Texture Maker

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    Texture Maker is a seamless texture generator and designer. The application contains everything needed to create seamless textures for use in 3D rendering packages, game development, web graphics, image and video editing.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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