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Material Maker vs ArmorPaint: catalog facts
Material Maker	ArmorPaint
Best for: Game developers creating procedural PBR materials without paid tools	Best for: Artists who want an open-source alternative to Substance Painter
Free Open source; releases are distributed through itch.io and Steam.	Paid Prebuilt releases are offered from the download page; the source code is on GitHub.
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	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
Texture painting tool is still experimental Node-based workflow takes time to learn	Smaller user base and fewer tutorials than commercial texturing tools
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License not stated	License not stated
No account needed	Not stated if an account is needed
Offline features available	Offline features available
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 ArmorPaint armorpaint.org Catalog checked September 23, 2026

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