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 ArmorPaint. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Quixel Suite. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to Adobe Substance 3D Painter and six 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, Autodesk Mudbox, MARI and Union Bytes Painter.

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Adobe Substance 3D Painter alternatives are mainly 3D Painting Apps, but if you're looking for Digital Painting Tools or 3D Modelers you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Free and Linux. You can also filter by region, for example EU-based alternatives if you prefer software developed in the European Union. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to Adobe Substance 3D Painter.
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  1. ArmorPaint icon
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    Armor paint is a standalone software for 3d texture painting in PBR. It is entirely GPU based, and supports windows and linux.

    9 ArmorPaint alternatives

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    Comments about ArmorPaint as an Alternative to Adobe Substance 3D Painter
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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.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    Guest
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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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    alexandredarochacelestino
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    Open Source, Free, Blender and Armor Integration.

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    • Almost everyone thinks ArmorPaint is a great Adobe Substance 3D Painter alternative.

    • ArmorPaint is Paid and Open SourceAdobe Substance 3D Painter is Paid and Proprietary
  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.

    67 3D-Coat alternatives

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    3dCoat is sculpting software that also textures. No node-based texture creation here.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    3D-Coat icon
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    • Most users think 3D-Coat is a great Adobe Substance 3D Painter alternative.

    • 3D-Coat is Paid and ProprietaryAdobe Substance 3D Painter is also Paid and Proprietary
  3. Autodesk Mudbox icon
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    Autodesk Mudbox offers tools for creating detailed organic and inorganic 3D assets. It features an efficient layer workflow that allows blending, masking, and more, and has a familiar interface for sculpting and texture painting. Ideal for professional 3D modeling tasks.

    51 Autodesk Mudbox alternatives

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    Comments about Autodesk Mudbox as an Alternative to Adobe Substance 3D Painter
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    Mudbox is a 3D editor and texturing program. Substance painter is ONLY for PBR texture for 3d models.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Autodesk Mudbox is Paid and ProprietaryAdobe Substance 3D Painter is also Paid and Proprietary
  4. 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...

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    Has a LOT of features but does require a current version of photoshop

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    • Quixel Suite is Free and ProprietaryAdobe Substance 3D Painter is Paid and Proprietary
  5. 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.

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  6. 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.

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