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

The best open source alternative to Adobe Substance 3D Painter is Blender. If that doesn't work for you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to Adobe Substance 3D Painter, but unfortunately only two of them is open source. If you can't find an alternative you can try to remove all filters.

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Adobe Substance 3D Painter

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Substance 3D Painter has the tools you need to texture your 3D assets, from advanced brushes to Smart Materials that...

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Blender
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152 Blender alternatives
Blender is the free and open-source 3D creation suite. It supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline—modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing, video editing, and motion tracking.
- - Blender is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Adobe Substance 3D Painter.
- - Blender is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Adobe Substance 3D Painter.
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Blender Features
1. 3D SculptingBlender offers tools to push, pull, smooth, grab or pinch to manipulate a 3D model.
2. Keyframe AnimationCompositions can be keyframed in Blender, allowing you to change the parameters over time.
3. Extensible by Plugins/ExtensionsBlender can be extended with add-ons, plugins and extensions.
4. Animation RiggingBlender supports bone structures to manipulate a 3D model like a puppet for animation.
5. Physically-Based RenderingPrecise rendering method for Blender to represent of how light interacts with material properties.
6. Ad-freeBlender doesn't contain any form of external advertising.
7. Node BasedBlender supports node editing, a form of visual programming that gives you full control over the rendering.
8. LightweightBlender consumes less device resources compared to similar apps.
9. Motion CaptureYou can capture and modify/animate faces, gestures, movements or objects within the Blender.
Real time rendering
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3D Renderer
Texture painting
Grease Pencil
2D and 3D physics
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Comments about Blender as a Alternative to Adobe Substance 3D Painter
Some users think Blender is a great Adobe Substance 3D Painter alternative, some don't.
Because they do not do the same thing, blender is a 3d modelling software, substance painter is a procedural 3d texturing program. Most people actually use substance painter as the next step in a workflow after using blender.
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ArmorPaint
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Paid • Open Source
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Digital Painting Tool
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ArmorPaint takes advantage of a render engine found in the Armory project. Armory is an open-source 3D game engine with full Blender integration, turning it into a complete game development tool.
- - ArmorPaint is the most popular commercial alternative to Adobe Substance 3D Painter.
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ArmorPaint Features
1. Physically-Based RenderingPrecise rendering method for ArmorPaint to represent of how light interacts with material properties.
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Texture painting
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Comments about ArmorPaint as a Alternative to Adobe Substance 3D Painter
Almost everyone thinks ArmorPaint is a great Adobe Substance 3D Painter alternative.
Open Source, Free, Blender and Armor Integration.
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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.
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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.
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Open Source Adobe Substance 3D Painter AlternativesTop 3D Painting Apps like Adobe Substance 3D Painter

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