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Adobe Substance 3D Sampler vs Materialize: catalog facts
Adobe Substance 3D Sampler	Materialize

Best for: Material and texture artists building realistic surfaces from real-world samples	Best for: Game artists who need normal, height and occlusion maps from photos
Paid Included in the paid Substance 3D Collection plan, with a free trial.	Free Free and open source under the GPL 3.0 licence.
Windows, macOS	Windows
Creates tileable materials from photos and scans Tools for tiling, fold removal and surface details Blends materials with filters Extensive content library	Generates a full material set from a single image Seamless texture tiling Automation through XML clipboard commands Used in a shipped commercial game remaster
Only available through a Substance 3D subscription Requires an Adobe account	Windows only Focused on game textures rather than general image editing
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Not open source	Open source
License: Proprietary	License: GPL-3.0-only
Account needed	No account needed
Not stated if it works offline	Offline features available
Official website Full listing and sources Sources for Adobe Substance 3D Sampler adobe.com/products/substance3d/apps/sampler.html Catalog checked October 1, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Sources for Materialize boundingboxsoftware.com/materialize Catalog checked October 2, 2026

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