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, Epic Games Store and Electron 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, PixPlant, Adobe Substance 3D Sampler and Quixel Suite.

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    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.

    14 Adobe Substance 3D Painter alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once or Subscription
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
    • Adobe Substance 3D Painter is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to InstaMAT.

    • Adobe Substance 3D Painter is the most popular commercial alternative to InstaMAT.

    • Adobe Substance 3D Painter is Paid and ProprietaryInstaMAT is Free Personal and Proprietary
  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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Godot Engine
    • itch.io
    • Chocolatey
     
    • Material Maker is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to InstaMAT.

    • Material Maker is Free and Open SourceInstaMAT is Free Personal and Proprietary
  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

    • Pay once
    • 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

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  5. 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
     
  6. Quixel Suite icon
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    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...

    25 Quixel Suite alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Epic Games Store
     
  7. 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
     
  8. 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

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. 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

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  10. Filter Forge icon
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    Graphics tool offering 6700+ free photo and video effects, procedural seamless textures, resolution up to 65000x65000px, 30,000 effect variations, PBR map export, node-based filter creation without coding, full preset management, and instant 3D compatibility.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Adobe Photoshop
     
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