Quixel Suite Alternatives

Quixel Suite is described as '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' and is an app in the photos & graphics category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Quixel Suite for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Web-based and GIMP apps. The best Quixel Suite alternative is InstaMAT. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try InstaMAT or Laigter. Other great apps like Quixel Suite are Adobe Substance 3D Sampler, AwesomeBump, Adobe Substance Designer and PixPlant.

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  1. InstaMAT icon

    InstaMAT

     6 likes

    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 Quixel Suite.

    • InstaMAT is the most popular free alternative to Quixel Suite.

    • InstaMAT is Free Personal and ProprietaryQuixel Suite is Free and Proprietary
  2. Adobe Substance 3D Painter icon

    Adobe Substance 3D Painter

     26 likes

    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.

    15 Adobe Substance 3D Painter alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Steam
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    • Adobe Substance 3D Painter is the most popular Linux alternative to Quixel Suite.

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

    • Adobe Substance 3D Painter is Paid and ProprietaryQuixel Suite is Free and Proprietary
  4. Laigter icon

    Laigter

     11 likes

    This tool lets you generate normal maps for 2D textures, with little effort. Specially designed for Sprites in 2D games.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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    • Laigter is the most popular Open Source alternative to Quixel Suite.

    • Laigter is Free and Open SourceQuixel Suite is Free and Proprietary
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    Adobe Substance 3D Sampler

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

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    Adobe Substance 3D Sampler

     1 like

    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

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Adobe Creative Cloud
    TWEAK AND MIX EXISTING MATERIALS Bring elements together to create a new, fully parametric material.
     
  7. AwesomeBump icon

    AwesomeBump

     24 likes

    AwesomeBump is an open source program designed to generate normal, height, specular or ambient occlusion textures from a single image. Since the image processing is done in 99% on GPU the program runs very fast and all the parameters can be changed in real time.

    19 AwesomeBump alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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  8. Adobe Substance Designer icon

    Adobe Substance Designer

     20 likes

    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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    Comments about Adobe Substance Designer as an Alternative to Quixel Suite
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    Substance designer is for procedural texture generation

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    Guest
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    Its a generator not a library

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    I mean its basically almost the same

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Adobe Substance Designer is Paid and ProprietaryQuixel Suite is Free and Proprietary
  10. PixPlant icon

    PixPlant

     7 likes

    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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  11. Resynthesizer

     4 likes

    This is a suite of ten Gimp plugins known as the 'Resynthesizer'. The most commonly used is 'Heal selection' but all use the plugin whose full interface is found at 'Filters>Map>Resynthesize.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • GIMP
     
  12. Imogen icon

    Imogen

     2 likes

    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
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  13. Substance B2M icon

    Substance B2M

     4 likes

    Converts a bitmap into a seamless PBR material, including normal, AO, roughness and metallic.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once or Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  14. xNormal icon

    xNormal

     9 likes

    xNormal is an application to generate normal / ambient occlusion / displacement maps. It can also project the texture of the highpoly model into the lowpoly mesh ( complete texture transfer, even with different topologies ).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  15. Crazybump icon

    Crazybump

     5 likes

    Crazybump generates lighting maps from 2D textures. It supports ambient occlusion (AO) maps, bump maps, normal maps, and more.

    18 Crazybump alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
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