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

One of the most popular alternatives to Adobe Substance 3D Painter is Material Maker, which is free and open source. Other popular alternatives are 3D-Coat, ArmorPaint, Quixel Mixer and InstaMAT. You can choose from more than 10 3D Painting Apps like Adobe Substance 3D Painter for Windows, Mac, Linux, the web and self-hosting.

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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. 3D-Coat icon
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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.

    70 3D-Coat alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  3. 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.

    13 ArmorPaint alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Open Source

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  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.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  7. Quixel Suite icon
     9 likes

    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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  8. MARI icon
     15 likes

    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.

    35 MARI alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • GB flagUnited Kingdom
    Quicker start-up and export
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  9. Paint 3D icon
     28 likes

    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

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  10. PixaFlux icon
     12 likes

    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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    Platforms

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

    102 Nirvana 3D alternatives

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    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Python
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