Material Maker Alternatives

Apps similar to Material Maker include Adobe Substance 3D Painter. It's paid, but TextureLab and NeoTextureEdit are free. Other options are InstaMAT, Adobe Substance Designer, Patternshop and Texture Studio. You can choose from more than 10 Image Editors like Material Maker for Windows, Mac, Linux, the web and iPhone.

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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.

    20 Adobe Substance 3D Painter alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Steam
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  2. InstaMAT icon
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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.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  3. 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
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  4. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Java Mobile
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  5. Patternshop icon
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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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  6. 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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  7. FxGen icon
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    FxGen is a procedural texture generator for composing high resolution textures that can be embedded into other applications.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  8. Graphics editor for composing textures, buttons, logos, icons. Uses a building block idea for putting together filters/generators. A rather unique feature is it's vector filters.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  9. Texturing icon
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    Create fantastic textures/wallpapers. Optionally enhance created texture in ART section. Export texture up to 4000x4000 in size in full sharpness.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
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  10. TrimSheetFast is an AI-powered trim sheet generator built for modern game development pipelines. It allows game developers, environment artists, and 3D professionals to generate structured, production-ready PBR trim sheets and texture atlases in seconds.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
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  11. TexturesFast is an AI-powered platform for generating high-quality textures and complete PBR materials in seconds. It allows artists, developers, and studios to quickly create ready-to-use materials without relying on traditional texture libraries or manual creation.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
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