InstaMAT Alternatives

InstaMAT is described as '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' and is an app in the photos & graphics category. There are more than 10 alternatives to InstaMAT for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Web-based and Steam apps. The best InstaMAT alternative is Material Maker, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like InstaMAT are Adobe Substance 3D Painter, MARI, TextureLab and Adobe Substance 3D Sampler.

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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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Godot Engine
    • itch.io
    • Chocolatey
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  2. Comprehensive 3D texturing tool offering advanced brushes, smart materials, real-time rendering, and versatility for both photorealism and stylized designs, making it an ideal choice for artists and designers to create lifelike, detailed assets with lighting and shadow effects.

    20 Adobe Substance 3D Painter alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Steam
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  3. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    Quicker start-up and export
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  4. TextureLab icon
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    TextureLab is a tool designed to make procedural texture generation fast, simple and free. It is the first in a line of tools dedicated to make the process of making beautiful textures easy and artist-friendly.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Electron / Atom Shell
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  5. Easily convert real-world photos into seamless and photorealistic 3D materials or HDR environments with AI-powered tools, use parametric filters for advanced control, combine multiple sources, access thousands of assets, and export textures for 3D engines.

    8 Adobe Substance 3D Sampler alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Adobe Creative Cloud
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  6. 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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Epic Games Store
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  7. PixPlant icon
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    PixPlant is a smart texturing app with the best tools to quickly transform a photo into seamless repeating textures and 3D maps.

    20 PixPlant alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
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  8. 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.

    30 PixaFlux alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  9. Imogen icon
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    Imogen is a GPU-based Texture generator using dear imgui for UI. Not production ready and a bit messy but really fun to code. This is an hybrid project that can run natively or on the web (thanks to emscripten).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  10. FilterJS icon
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    FilterJS is a node-based procedural texture generator, meaning that you will compose your filter, generator, or algorithm to make a texture ­– you name it – out of special blocks. Each filter has two unique blocks: an input image and an output image.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  11. Filter Forge icon
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    Graphics tool offering 6700+ free photo and video effects, procedural seamless textures, resolution up to 65000x65000px, 30,000 effect variations, PBR map export, node-based filter creation without coding, full preset management, and instant 3D compatibility.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Adobe Photoshop
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