Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to Substance Designer

Product categories

2D Game Engine 3D 3D Game Engine 3D Modeling 3D Rendering Architecture Art Tools CAD Digital Drawing And Painting Game Development Game Engine Graphic Design Software

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to Substance Designer are Unity, Wings 3D, and Laigter. One of the criteria for ordering this list is the number of mentions that products have on reliable external sources. You can suggest additional sources through the form here.

Unity Landing Page
1

Unity

The multiplatform game creation tools for everyone.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Game Development #Game Engine #3D Game Engine 197 social mentions
Wings 3D Landing Page
2

Wings 3D

Wings 3D is a subdivision modeler inspired by Nendo and Mirai from Izware.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#3D #Digital Drawing And Painting #3D Modeling
Laigter Landing Page
3

Laigter

Normal map generator for 2d sprites.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#3D #Architecture #Design Tools 10 social mentions
Inkscape Landing Page
4

Inkscape

Inkscape is a free, open source professional vector graphics editor for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Graphic Design Software #Digital Drawing And Painting #Art Tools 483 social mentions
Mitsuba Landing Page
5

Mitsuba

Mitsuba is a research-oriented rendering system in the style of PBRT, from which it derives much inspiration.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#3D #3D Rendering #Game Development
Armor Paint Landing Page
6

Armor Paint

Armor paint is a standalone software for 3d texture painting in PBR.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#3D #Digital Drawing And Painting #3D Modeling 18 social mentions
GIMP Landing Page
7

GIMP

GIMP is a multiplatform photo manipulation tool.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Photo Editing #Graphic Design Software #Digital Drawing And Painting 59 social mentions
appleseed Landing Page
8

appleseed

appleseed is an open source, physically-based global illumination rendering engine primarily designed for animation and visual effects.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#3D #3D Rendering #3D Modeling 1 social mentions
FreeCAD Landing Page
9

FreeCAD

An open-source parametric 3D modeler
Pricing:
- Open Source
#3D #3D Modeling #CAD 2 social mentions
GDevelop Landing Page
10

GDevelop

GDevelop is an open-source game making software designed to be used by everyone.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Game Development #Game Engine #3D Game Engine 75 social mentions
Piskel Landing Page
11

Piskel

Piskel is a website where designers online create sprites or pixel art.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Art Tools #Graphic Design Software #Digital Drawing And Painting 13 social mentions
LibreCAD Landing Page
12

LibreCAD

An open source 2D CAD application for Windows, Apple and Linux.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#3D #Architecture #3D Modeling 19 social mentions