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

The best free alternative to Adobe Substance 3D Painter is InstaMAT. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try InstaMAT or Quixel Mixer. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to Adobe Substance 3D Painter and eight of them is free so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free alternatives to Adobe Substance 3D Painter are Agama materials, Paint 3D, MagicaCSG and Nirvana 3D.

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Adobe Substance 3D Painter alternatives are mainly 3D Modelers, but if you're looking for 3D Painting Apps or Image Editors 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. 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
     
    • 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
  2. Quixel Mixer icon
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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
     
  3. 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...

    25 Quixel Suite alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Epic Games Store
     
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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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    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
     
  5. 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.

    17 Paint 3D alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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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
  6. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Python
     
    • 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
  7. 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.

    31 PixaFlux alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
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    PixaFlux is more similar to Substance Designer rather than Substance Painter.

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    • PixaFlux is Free and ProprietaryAdobe Substance 3D Painter is Paid and Proprietary
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