Adobe Substance 3D Painter Alternatives for Linux

There are many alternatives to Adobe Substance 3D Painter for Linux if you are looking for a replacement. The best Linux alternative is Material Maker, which is both free and 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 are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to Adobe Substance 3D Painter are 3D-Coat, ArmorPaint, InstaMAT 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.

    15 Material Maker alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Since

    • Since 2019

    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.

    71 3D-Coat alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Since

    • Since 2010

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  3. ArmorPaint icon
     19 likes

    Armor paint is a standalone software for 3d texture painting in PBR. It is entirely GPU based, and supports windows and linux.

    12 ArmorPaint alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Since

    • Since 2018

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  4. InstaMAT icon
     7 likes

    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

    Since

    • Since 2020

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  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

    Since

    • Since 2014

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Epic Games Store
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  6. 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

    Application type

    Since

    • Since 2010

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • GB flagUnited Kingdom
    Quicker start-up and export
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  7. TextureCraft icon
     3 likes

    TextureCraft: An open-source, 3D texture painting workflow written from scratch in pure Rust.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Since

    • New

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • FreeBSD
    • Flatpak
    • AppImage
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  8. Union Bytes Painter allows the creation of 2D sprite and low res textures with color, normal, height, roughness, and metallic maps. Sprites and textures can be edited using multi-channel mode in the 2D or 3D space.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Since

    • Since 2021

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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  9. Build tileable PBR materials from noises, patterns and filters in a node graph, watch them update live in 2D and on a 3D model, and export the maps for any engine. Open source, offline, and yours.

    Cost / License

    Since

    • New

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flatpak
    • AppImage
    • BSD
    • FreeBSD
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  10. MeshCoat icon
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    A dedicated 3D texture painting application for painting full PBR material channels directly onto 3D geometry with layers, procedural wear, and multi-mesh support.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Since

    • New

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Mac
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