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Adobe Substance 3D Painter vs Mari
Professional 3D texture painting software for film, VFX and other high-detail digital assets.
Adobe Substance 3D Painter vs Marmoset Toolbag
Marmoset Toolbag combines baking, texturing and ray-traced or raster rendering in one paid application, without needing an Adobe account, but it does no modeling.
Adobe Substance 3D Painter vs ArmorPaint
ArmorPaint is open source, adds a Linux build and live-link plugins for Blender, Unreal and Unity, but has fewer tutorials and a smaller user base.
Adobe Substance 3D Painter vs 3DCoat
3DCoat combines texture painting with sculpting, retopology and UV mapping, runs on Linux as well, and offers a free learning mode, but needs a commercial licence for production.
Adobe Substance 3D Painter vs Material Maker
An open-source node-based tool for authoring procedural PBR materials and textures for game engines.
Adobe Substance 3D Painter vs InstaMAT
A desktop application for procedural material authoring, layer-based 3D texturing and automated asset pipelines.
Adobe Substance 3D Painter vs Blender
Blender is free and open source with texture painting alongside modelling and rendering, though its painting tools sit inside a much larger program with a long learning curve.