Based on our record, Quixel Mixer seems to be a lot more popular than Substance 3D Painter. While we know about 20 links to Quixel Mixer, we've tracked only 1 mention of Substance 3D Painter. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
Give Quixel Mixer a go; pretty intuitive and can get great results. Source: about 1 year ago
Quixel Mixer is the texturing system from the makers of Megascans, who are now owned by Epic and so most of their stuff is free for UE users. Really nice for building textures based on the Megascans library. Source: over 1 year ago
To me, the real strength of Painter is the use of its baked maps to control effects like dust or ambient occlusion, and obviously the ability to paint details directly on the mesh with a workflow similar to Photoshop's. If detailing is what you're after, I'd definitely recommend to try it out, or have a look at it's free alternative : quixel mixer. Source: over 1 year ago
If you want to save yourself some hassle with having to work on a 3d texture in purely 2d space, I've heard Quixel Mixer is good, and free. I have not used it, I myself use substance painter. Source: over 1 year ago
Quixel mixer is free and super cool https://quixel.com/mixer. Source: over 1 year ago
Also, when I went to the substance3d.com page which is where allegorithmic.com takes me to I dont see the old forums. Im wondering if they will be kept and if they can be accessed currently or they will be back? Source: almost 3 years ago
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