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Material Maker vs Materialize: catalog facts
Material Maker	Materialize
Best for: Game developers creating procedural PBR materials without paid tools	Best for: Game artists who need normal, height and occlusion maps from photos
Free Open source; releases are distributed through itch.io and Steam.	Free Free and open source under the GPL 3.0 licence.
Windows, macOS, Linux	Windows
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	Generates a full material set from a single image Seamless texture tiling All 4 strengths for Materialize Generates a full material set from a single image Seamless texture tiling Automation through XML clipboard commands Used in a shipped commercial game remaster
Texture painting tool is still experimental Node-based workflow takes time to learn	Windows only Focused on game textures rather than general image editing
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License not stated	License: GPL-3.0-only
No account needed	No account 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 Materialize boundingboxsoftware.com/materialize Catalog checked October 2, 2026

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