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ArmorPaint vs Material Maker: catalog facts
ArmorPaint	Material Maker
Best for: Artists who want an open-source alternative to Substance Painter	Best for: Game developers creating procedural PBR materials without paid tools
Paid Prebuilt releases are offered from the download page; the source code is on GitHub.	Free Open source; releases are distributed through itch.io and Steam.
Windows, macOS, Linux	Windows, macOS, Linux
Node-based procedural materials and brushes GPU painting at up to 16K textures All 4 strengths for ArmorPaint Node-based procedural materials and brushes GPU painting at up to 16K textures Ray-traced baking on Direct3D12, Vulkan and Metal Live-link plugins for Blender, Unreal Engine and Unity	Over 200 nodes, with custom nodes in GLSL Exports materials for Godot, Unity and Unreal All 3 strengths for Material Maker Over 200 nodes, with custom nodes in GLSL Exports materials for Godot, Unity and Unreal Large community library of materials and brushes
Smaller user base and fewer tutorials than commercial texturing tools	Texture painting tool is still experimental Node-based workflow takes time to learn
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License not stated	License not stated
Not stated if an account is needed	No account needed
Offline features available	Offline features available
Official website Full listing and sources Sources for ArmorPaint armorpaint.org Catalog checked September 23, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Sources for Material Maker materialmaker.org Catalog checked September 23, 2026

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