Open Source Adobe Substance Designer Alternatives

The best open source alternative to Adobe Substance Designer is Material Maker. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to Adobe Substance Designer and five of them is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to Adobe Substance Designer are TextureLab, Imogen, FilterJS and Symbinode.

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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.

    11 Material Maker alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Godot Engine
    • itch.io
    • Chocolatey
     
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  2. 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
     
  3. 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
     
  4. 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
     
  5. 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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