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Materialize vs Material Maker: catalog facts
Materialize	Material Maker
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Best for: Game artists who need normal, height and occlusion maps from photos	Best for: Game developers creating procedural PBR materials without paid tools
Free Free and open source under the GPL 3.0 licence.	Free Open source; releases are distributed through itch.io and Steam.
Windows	Windows, macOS, Linux
Generates a full material set from a single image Seamless texture tiling Automation through XML clipboard commands Used in a shipped commercial game remaster	Over 200 nodes, with custom nodes in GLSL Exports materials for Godot, Unity and Unreal Large community library of materials and brushes
Windows only Focused on game textures rather than general image editing	Texture painting tool is still experimental Node-based workflow takes time to learn
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: GPL-3.0-only	License not stated
No account needed	No account needed
Offline features available	Offline features available
Official website Full listing and sources Sources for Materialize boundingboxsoftware.com/materialize Catalog checked October 2, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Sources for Material Maker materialmaker.org Catalog checked September 23, 2026

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