Free Adobe Substance Designer Alternatives for Windows

There are many alternatives to Adobe Substance Designer for Windows if you are looking for a replacement. The best free Windows alternative is Material Maker, which is also Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to Adobe Substance Designer and ten of them are free and available for Windows so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free Windows alternatives to Adobe Substance Designer are InstaMAT, Quixel Suite, PixaFlux and TextureLab.

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  1. 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 (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Godot Engine
    • itch.io
    • Chocolatey
     
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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. 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...

    27 Quixel Suite alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Epic Games Store
     
  4. 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
     
  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.

    11 TextureLab alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Electron / Atom Shell
     
  6. 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
     
  7. 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
     
  8. JSplacement icon
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    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...

    4 JSplacement alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  9. TexGraph icon
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    TexGraph is a procedural texture creation tool that let you create textures by connecting nodes in a graph. It is designed to be similar to other tools in the market but at the same time be very simple and easy to use and extent by users.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. Symbinode icon
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    Symbinode is an easy-to-use material creation program. The program is written in C++ and uses the power of the GPU. It is free and open source.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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