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, Web-based and Self-Hosted 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 Material Maker or Quixel Mixer. Other great apps like Adobe Substance 3D Painter are 3D-Coat, InstaMAT, Agama materials and Quixel Suite.

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  1. ArmorPaint icon
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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.

    12 ArmorPaint alternatives

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    • Paid
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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    ArmorPaint vs Adobe Substance 3D Painter Comments
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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.

    Guest
    Positive
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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.

    alexandredarochacelestino
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    Open Source, Free, Blender and Armor Integration.

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

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    3D-Coat vs Adobe Substance 3D Painter Comments
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    3dCoat is sculpting software that also textures. No node-based texture creation here.

    • 3D-Coat is Paid and ProprietaryAdobe Substance 3D Painter is also Paid and Proprietary
    • 3D-Coat is a 3D Modeler Adobe Substance 3D Painter is a 3D Painting App
  3. Material Maker icon
     25 likes

    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.

    14 Material Maker alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Godot Engine
    • itch.io
    • Chocolatey
     
  4. Quixel Mixer icon
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    Quixel Mixer is a software allowing to create and modify 3D textures.

    9 Quixel Mixer alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  5. 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.

    21 InstaMAT alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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    • Linux
     
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    InstaMAT vs Adobe Substance 3D Painter Comments
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    Being able to texture all my assets procedurally with a single project is a gamechanger

    • InstaMAT is Free Personal and ProprietaryAdobe Substance 3D Painter is Paid and Proprietary
  6. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  7. 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...

    28 Quixel Suite alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

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

    • Quixel Suite is Free and ProprietaryAdobe Substance 3D Painter is Paid and Proprietary
  8. MARI icon
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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

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  9. Paint 3D icon
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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.

    18 Paint 3D alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
     
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    Paint 3D vs Adobe Substance 3D Painter Comments
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    MS 3d Paint does not have the same feature set as Adobe Substance 3D Painter

    • Paint 3D is Free and ProprietaryAdobe Substance 3D Painter is Paid and Proprietary
  10. MagicaCSG icon
     5 likes

    A lightweight signed distance field editor and renderer.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11. 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

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    • Windows
     
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    PixaFlux vs Adobe Substance 3D Painter Comments
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    PixaFlux is more similar to Substance Designer rather than Substance Painter.

    • PixaFlux is Free and ProprietaryAdobe Substance 3D Painter is Paid and Proprietary
    • PixaFlux is an Image Editor Adobe Substance 3D Painter is a 3D Painting App
  12. Nirvana 3D icon
     1 like

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

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    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Python
     
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