alternatives for substance programs?

DJM

ive found material maker as an alternative for substance designer are there linux alternatives for substance painter?

cybereality

I'm not sure, I haven't really looked into it. You can do some basic painting in Blender but it's not Substance level.

TwistedTwigleg

I’ve used ArmorPaint, which is pretty similar though doesn’t support all of the features in Substance Painter. The only issue I’ve had with in the past was getting exports working but that was many months ago so it’s likely fixed now.

newmodels

blender and armorpaint are the only programs I now of. I can't get armorpaint to working for me well enough to use it. I use blender. Blender does have the needed tools. Problem is you might have to make your own brushes and stencils.

newmodels

blender can do a simulation of layers inside the node editor. So you can do layer painting. But it can be pain to use.

newmodels

I didn't try it out yet, but you can look at this project. It was built with Godot.

https://rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker

cybereality

Material Maker is great, but it's more of a replacement for Substance Designer. Substance is a suite of tools, with different programs (similar to Adobe).

DJM

@newmodels said: blender and armorpaint are the only programs I now of. I can't get armorpaint to working for me well enough to use it. I use blender. Blender does have the needed tools. Problem is you might have to make your own brushes and stencils.

armorpaint seems like the best option to me material maker is more for material creation , like designer

Kojack

@cybereality said: Substance is a suite of tools, with different programs (similar to Adobe).

Such as Substance 3D Modeller, which used to be Oculus Medium before Adobe bought it and added it to the Substance family.

newmodels

I checked out 0.98v of material maker. It does have 3d object painting. You import your unwrapped .obj file and you can paint on it. It looks pretty good and is easy to work with. I like it and will give it some more test runs.

I have not tested it with tablet yet. I did have some problems exporting the textures but it's managable. there is a bug when exporting the material as blender material, because the red and blue are inverted in the .exr files.

But I can still get the greyscale textures, and export in another format to get the albedo.

cybereality

Material Maker exports directly to Godot format materials.

newmodels

I've been testing out material maker. I find it hard to use the painting. Maybe it needs more work. No pressure with my stylus either. I think blender is better right now, but would be nice to use material maker, because of the layers.

DJM

material maker is actually pretty good for tileable procedural textures im using 3dcoat on linux now for texture painting

7892

Blender will get some nice updates this year regarding texturing. https://code.blender.org/2022/02/layered-textures-design/?utm_source=www-homepage

newmodels

This is good news. The layer system is what I'm looking at. I downloaded the 3.1.0 beta, but there is not yet layers in it. But it does have the two brush color option. Have to wait till end of year I guess.

cybereality

I found an alternative to Substance Painter, and it's made in Godot. https://www.unionbytes.de/