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Math Roodhuizen - The Stylized Wilderness.Sady Fofana - Mastering Hard Surface in Blender.Marcin Wiech - Creating a Gothic Horror In Unreal Engine.Pontus Ryman - Summer Archipelago - A Serene Environment.Kayla Kosik - Creating A Stylized Cozy Cottage In Unity.Artem Ostapchuk - Overgrown Jungle Path In UE5.Keltic Vermeersch - Rugged Mountain Path In UE5.Damian Gerrits - Tales of The Adventurers Inn.It’s good enough and i can work around both of those issues so don’t feel the need to shell out for substance anymore. the only downsides is unlike substance you can’t preview subsurface scattering or emmision and you can only have one material on teh whole object and no udim support. In short is has similar layering workflows/smart materials setup to substance and you can use it to blend other materials and generate new ones like you might in substance designer and you can use it to make bespoke maps for individual models. the built in filter systems can give you all the functionality that substance needs additional maps baked for.

I recently tried Quixel mixer and whilst not as feature rich as the substance suite it’s actually very nice! I thought the lack of built in baking would be an issue but to be honest a heightmap(displacment map), maybe a normal (though that can be generated from the height and maybe an ao map are all you need to bake. I really like using both but since i left my last job i’d have to pay for my own subscription licence and that’s a little off putting. Substance designer is also great but probably overkill. smart materials and the brush sets are great. But you need to try a few and see what works best for you and what you are wanting to do. 3D Coat is my main texturing app right now. So you have the option of creating normal or displacement maps from actual sculpted geo. It also has very advanced sculpting UV and retopo tools. But if you are wanting to create hand painted textures from photographic sources or just hand brush painted style textures it’s very hard to beat. It is more of a texture painter app than a procedural texture creator. But it’s very fairly and affordably priced and still offers perpetual licensing. I also would highly recommend giving 3D Coat a serious look as well. I would have been looking into it myself but have been too busy. Which these days especially is an important thing to consider. It’s going to be well worth the modest up front development support cost and no recurring rental cost stresses either. It looks great and it is really coming along leaps and bounds recently. I’ve not tried Amour Paint yet but I have been following it’s progress.

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