Adobe Substance 3D Painter AlternativesTop 3D Painting Apps like Adobe Substance 3D Painter

Adobe Substance 3D Painter is described as 'Advanced software for 3D asset texturing with smart materials and real-time rendering for lifelike results, suitable for both photorealism and stylized art' and is a 3D Painting app in the photos & graphics category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Adobe Substance 3D Painter for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Self-Hosted and Epic Games Store apps. The best Adobe Substance 3D Painter alternative is ArmorPaint. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try InstaMAT or Quixel Mixer. Other great apps like Adobe Substance 3D Painter are 3D-Coat, Autodesk Mudbox, Quixel Suite and MARI.

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  1. ArmorPaint icon

    ArmorPaint

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    Armor paint is a standalone software for 3d texture painting in PBR. It is entirely GPU based, and supports windows and linux.

    9 ArmorPaint alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Open Source

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    Armor Paint is a True Altertative, do almost all of the work of Substance Painter, community supported, Open Source, Blender and Armor integration.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    Guest
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    Most of the Substance Painter features included for free. Nice interface and Open Source. It's not officially released yet so ther binaries are paid for (donation) until it's 1.0 release.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    Open Source, Free, Blender and Armor Integration.

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    • Almost everyone thinks ArmorPaint is a great Adobe Substance 3D Painter alternative.

    • ArmorPaint is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Adobe Substance 3D Painter.

    • ArmorPaint is the most popular Open Source & commercial alternative to Adobe Substance 3D Painter.

    • ArmorPaint is Paid and Open SourceAdobe Substance 3D Painter is Paid and Proprietary
  2. 3D-Coat icon

    3D-Coat

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    3D-Coat is the one application that has all the tools you need to take your 3D idea from a block of digital clay all the way to a production ready, fully textured organic or hard surface model.

    66 3D-Coat alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    3dCoat is sculpting software that also textures. No node-based texture creation here.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Most users think 3D-Coat is a great Adobe Substance 3D Painter alternative.

    • 3D-Coat is Paid and ProprietaryAdobe Substance 3D Painter is also Paid and Proprietary
  4. InstaMAT icon

    InstaMAT

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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.

    18 InstaMAT alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
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    • InstaMAT is the most popular free alternative to Adobe Substance 3D Painter.

    • InstaMAT is Free Personal and ProprietaryAdobe Substance 3D Painter is Paid and Proprietary
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    Autodesk Mudbox

    Autodesk Mudbox offers tools for creating detailed organic and inorganic 3D assets. It features an efficient layer workflow that allows blending, masking, and more, and has a familiar interface for sculpting and texture painting....

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    Quixel Mixer

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    Quixel Mixer is a software allowing to create and modify 3D textures.

    6 Quixel Mixer alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  7. Autodesk Mudbox icon

    Autodesk Mudbox

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    Autodesk Mudbox offers tools for creating detailed organic and inorganic 3D assets. It features an efficient layer workflow that allows blending, masking, and more, and has a familiar interface for sculpting and texture painting. Ideal for professional 3D modeling tasks.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once or Subscription
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    Mudbox is a 3D editor and texturing program. Substance painter is ONLY for PBR texture for 3d models.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Autodesk Mudbox is Paid and ProprietaryAdobe Substance 3D Painter is also Paid and Proprietary
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    Quixel Suite

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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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Epic Games Store
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    Comments about Quixel Suite as an Alternative to Adobe Substance 3D Painter
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    Positive
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    Has a LOT of features but does require a current version of photoshop

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Quixel Suite is Free and ProprietaryAdobe Substance 3D Painter is Paid and Proprietary
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    MARI

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    MARI is a creative texture-painting tool that can handle extreme projects. MARI was developed at Weta Digital to handle the massively complex, highly detailed look development work demanded of the texture department by projects such as District 9, The Lovely Bones, and Avatar.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

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    Agama materials

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    Agama materials is software for creating PBR materials and painting 3d models. You can create materials and use them for painting models, or you can use pre-made textures. Simple creating of procedural materials.

    4 Agama materials alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  12. Paint 3D icon

    Paint 3D

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    Paint 3D is Microsoft's totally rebuilt and enhanced version of Microsoft Paint built for Windows 10 and with extensive 3D support as well as other helpful, long-needed additions like pen support and easier cropping feature.

    17 Paint 3D alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    Comments about Paint 3D as an Alternative to Adobe Substance 3D Painter
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    MS 3d Paint does not have the same feature set as Adobe Substance 3D Painter

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Paint 3D is Free and ProprietaryAdobe Substance 3D Painter is Paid and Proprietary
  14. Nirvana 3D icon

    Nirvana 3D

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    A game engine written in Python, extending support across multiple GPU devices with 3D rendering, PBR Renderer and much more.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Python
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    • Nirvana 3D is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to Adobe Substance 3D Painter.

    • Nirvana 3D is Free and Open SourceAdobe Substance 3D Painter is Paid and Proprietary
  15. Union Bytes Painter icon

    Union Bytes Painter

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    Union Bytes Painter allows the creation of 2D sprite and low res textures with color, normal, height, roughness, and metallic maps. Sprites and textures can be edited using multi-channel mode in the 2D or 3D space.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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