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 11 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Epic Games Store
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  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 type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  7. 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.

    30 PixaFlux alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  8. 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
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  9. 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

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Mac
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  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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