InstaMAT Alternatives

InstaMAT is described as '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' and is an app in the photos & graphics category. There are more than 10 alternatives to InstaMAT for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Steam and Adobe Photoshop apps. The best InstaMAT alternative is Adobe Substance 3D Painter. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Material Maker or TextureLab. Other great apps like InstaMAT are MARI, Adobe Substance Designer, PixPlant and Adobe Substance 3D Sampler.

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  1. Comprehensive 3D texturing tool offering advanced brushes, smart materials, real-time rendering, and versatility for both photorealism and stylized designs, making it an ideal choice for artists and designers to create lifelike, detailed assets with lighting and shadow effects.

    16 Adobe Substance 3D Painter alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Steam
     
  2. Material Maker icon
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    Material Maker is a free and open-source, procedural texture authoring tool based on Godot Engine. Its user interface is based on Godot's GraphEditor: textures are described as interconnected texture generators and operators.

    11 Material Maker alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Godot Engine
    • itch.io
    • Chocolatey
     
  3. MARI icon
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    MARI is a creative texture-painting tool that can handle extreme projects. MARI was developed at Weta Digital to handle the massively complex, highly detailed look development work demanded of the texture department by projects such as District 9, The Lovely Bones, and Avatar.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  4. PixPlant icon
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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.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  5. Substance 3D Sampler is at the heart of your 3D workflow. Easily transform a real-life picture into a photorealistic surface or HDR environment.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Adobe Creative Cloud
     
  6. TextureLab icon
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    TextureLab is a tool designed to make procedural texture generation fast, simple and free. It is the first in a line of tools dedicated to make the process of making beautiful textures easy and artist-friendly.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Electron / Atom Shell
     
  7. Quixel Suite icon
     9 likes

    Quixel was founded in 2011 by Teddy Bergsman and Waqar Azim, based on the vision of substantially speeding up how creators build digital environments, by giving them access to a vast and ever-expanding library of 3D building blocks, and easy-to-use tools to greatly simplify the...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Epic Games Store
     
  8. PixaFlux icon
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    PixaFlux is a node based image processing application. PixaFlux creates and edits images in a non destructive way, using a node graph to organize the workflow without restrictions of size, position or color mode.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. Imogen icon
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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 (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. FilterJS icon
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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

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  11. JSplacement icon
     5 likes

    JSplacement is pseudo-random 8K displacement map generator made with JavaScript on Electron. It generates grayscale height maps that can be used for dispacement (and many other things) in various 3D packages and reders. Or even with 3D fractals or various 2d works...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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