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Material Maker vs Adobe Substance 3D Designer: catalog facts
Material Maker	Adobe Substance 3D Designer
Best for: Game developers creating procedural PBR materials without paid tools	Best for: 3D artists authoring procedural materials and textures for games and film
Free Open source; releases are distributed through itch.io and Steam.	Paid Included in the paid Adobe Substance 3D Collection plan, with a free trial.
Windows, macOS, Linux	Windows, macOS, Linux
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	Non-destructive node-based workflow Procedural materials with unlimited variations All 3 strengths for Adobe Substance 3D Designer Non-destructive node-based workflow Procedural materials with unlimited variations Widely used standard for material authoring
Texture painting tool is still experimental Node-based workflow takes time to learn	Requires an Adobe subscription Node graphs take time to learn
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Not open source
License not stated	License not stated
No account needed	Account needed
Offline features available	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Sources for Material Maker materialmaker.org Catalog checked September 23, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Sources for Adobe Substance 3D Designer adobe.com/products/substance3d/apps/designer.html Catalog checked September 24, 2026

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