Material Maker
An open-source node-based tool for authoring procedural PBR materials and textures for game engines.
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About Material Maker
Material Maker builds PBR materials from node graphs, where each node creates or transforms a texture. It ships with over 200 nodes, and new ones can be made by grouping existing nodes or by writing GLSL. Materials export for use in the Godot, Unity and Unreal engines.
A community library offers hundreds of shared materials, nodes, brushes and environments, and an experimental painting tool textures 3D models with procedural brushes. Releases are published on itch.io and Steam. It suits game developers and 3D artists who want a free procedural material editor.
Strengths
- Over 200 nodes, with custom nodes in GLSL
- Exports materials for Godot, Unity and Unreal
- Large community library of materials and brushes
Limitations
- Texture painting tool is still experimental
- Node-based workflow takes time to learn
Details
- Pricing
- FreeOpen source; releases are distributed through itch.io and Steam.
- License
- Open source, license not stated
- Developer
- RodZill4
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS, Linux
- How it runs
- Downloadable app
- Account
- Not required
- Works offline
- Yes
- Best suited for
- Game developers creating procedural PBR materials without paid tools
- Categories
- Image editors, 3D and CAD
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Facts checked against the developer's own pages and store listings, 1 sources on file.
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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
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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
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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.
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