Alternatives to Material Maker
An open-source node-based tool for authoring procedural PBR materials and textures for game engines. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Material Maker
An open-source node-based tool for authoring procedural PBR materials and textures for game engines.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Material Maker.
ArmorPaint
A stand-alone application for physically based texture painting on 3D models, running on the GPU.
ArmorPaint also uses node-based procedural materials, but its focus is GPU texture painting on models up to 16K, and its compiled builds are paid although the source is open.
Adobe Substance 3D Painter
A commercial 3D painting application for applying textures, materials and masks to 3D models in real time.
Adobe Substance 3D Painter paints materials directly onto models with real-time preview and layers, but it is paid, closed source, requires an Adobe account and runs only on Windows and macOS.
3DCoat
A 3D application for voxel sculpting, retopology, UV mapping, PBR texture painting and rendering.
3DCoat offers a GPU node system for procedural materials alongside sculpting, retopology and PBR painting, but production work needs a commercial licence and the application is not open source.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Blender
The free 3D creation suite: modelling, sculpting, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and video editing.
