Quixel Suite Alternatives

Apps similar to Quixel Suite include InstaMAT, which is free for personal use. Other options are Adobe Substance 3D Painter, AwesomeBump, Adobe Substance 3D Sampler and Adobe Substance Designer. You're spoiled for choice with 3D Painting Apps like Quixel Suite: we list more than 25 alternatives for Windows, Mac, Linux and the web.

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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. AwesomeBump icon
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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  4. Easily convert real-world photos into seamless and photorealistic 3D materials or HDR environments with AI-powered tools, use parametric filters for advanced control, combine multiple sources, access thousands of assets, and export textures for 3D engines.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Adobe Creative Cloud
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  5. 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

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  6. 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
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  7. Laigter icon
     10 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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  8. xNormal icon
     10 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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  9. 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
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  10. 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
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  11. Crazybump icon
     6 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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  12. Substance B2M icon
     4 likes

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

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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