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 Quixel Mixer or InstaMAT. Other great apps like Adobe Substance 3D Painter are 3D-Coat, Agama materials, Autodesk Mudbox and Quixel Suite.

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Adobe Substance 3D Painter alternatives are mainly 3D Painting Apps, but if you're looking for 3D Modelers or Digital Painting Tools you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Free and Linux. You can also filter by region, for example EU-based alternatives if you prefer software developed in the European Union. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to Adobe Substance 3D Painter.
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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.

    10 ArmorPaint alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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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.

    68 3D-Coat alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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    • Linux
     
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  3. 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
     
  4. 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.

    19 InstaMAT alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  5. 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

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. Autodesk Mudbox icon
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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

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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  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...

    27 Quixel Suite alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Epic Games Store
     
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  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.

    33 MARI alternatives

    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.

    19 Paint 3D alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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  10. 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

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    • Windows
     
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  11. 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.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Python
     
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