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

The best free alternative to Adobe Substance 3D Painter is Material Maker, which is also Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to Adobe Substance 3D Painter and ten of them is free so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free alternatives to Adobe Substance 3D Painter are Quixel Mixer, InstaMAT, Agama materials and Quixel Suite.

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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.

    14 Material Maker alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Godot Engine
    • itch.io
    • Chocolatey
     
  2. 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
     
  3. 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

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • 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
  4. 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
     
  5. 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...

    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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    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
  6. 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 types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • 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
  7. MagicaCSG icon
     5 likes

    A lightweight signed distance field editor and renderer.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. 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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • 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
  9. 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
     
  10. Mixos icon
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    Browser-based 3D texture painting studio for creating and exporting production-ready PBR materials, with no download required.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
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