Hey Gamesfromscratch, the Layer Paint addon for Blender recently went free and open source. It brings a Substance Painter-like experience to Blender. I'd love to see a video on it.
Seeing all these nice new texture painting programs really makes me want to see blender finally improve it's texture painting support. I've been spoiled by it's controls, workflow and flexability and I find myself getting annoyed at other software (especially substance painter) that does things like camera controlls way differently.
I'm definitely going to try this out. I have a use for software like this but nowhere near enough to justify paying for it and I don't need all the fancy features. So free is ideal and it seems pretty simple to use. Cheers for highlighting it.
I just tested this program under wine, it does work however it does come with some drawbacks with the wine UI such as the file browser for example, and files may not load up properly, but the software itself is perfectly useable.
Yeah, I wonder. Mixer is not really a direct alternative to Substance Painter, so my question is which is better, Armorpaint or Agama Materials. I'll try both out and see
@@manasnagelia Mac user too here, sometimes the backwardness of the Substance suite gets over my nerves. Do you know of anything similar more akin to this Agama material style? Benefits I see on this one: both designer+painter in one shot. Can drive many things via another map, example, normal map intensity or blending modes have an input too (on designer is not that straight forward). Conditionals? On designer gotta go inside weird FX-Maps or weird functions. Using mesh Normals inside your node tree? Good luck with that, has to be pre-baked for the most part, etc
Wine does seem to work, but it's a bit iffy. Program locks up sometimes, but I was able to get to the procedural material editor and do a bit of basic editing/
For me, the most important functions in the Substance Painter are the Edge Filters. So far I haven't found it in any other program. From my point of view, all of these freeware programs are no real substitute.
does it do projection painting? like if I'm say working on a piece of armor, and I want to wrap a chainmail around it. Does i allow to paint in a way where the direction if based on camera view?
Great video. I was wondering if there are any vector-based painting 3D texturing programs? I use ClipStudio Paint for painting, which gives me a lot of control of the brushes and can also use vector layers. But since it's a 2D canvas, seam edges show up. I can try to clean up the edges in Blender, but it doesn't look as nice.
hi, I just want know what is the best programing language to become in. the future a gamedev because im in university and I love programing but I just know java, so I need some help to chose the language and the perfect game engine to the language and preference a 2d game engine I've been thinking in Godot but not sure. thanks.
If substance were to be started from scratch, I believe it should approach more this same mindset. I don’t get why so many things on Designer are so backwards, doing conditionals is through these functions nodes, then there’s these FX-Maps. Pixel Processors are the closest to a reasonable Pixel Shader but the syntax and way to go about it is a whole lot different to any node based shader tool. I like that the material can have embedded ways to react to mesh attributes from the get go without having to pre-bake them every single time.
Just an FYI: WINE isn't an emulator (WINE stands for "WINE Is Not an Emulator"), but a compatibility layer. There's a pretty large difference between the two, and different expectations for the two. Still appreciate the fact you even thought about linux tho :)
To be honest, the vast majority of their customers don't give a damn about the pricetag of Substance... it represents like 2 hours of employee pay and is easy to justify. Tools like this more appeal to the amateur/indie market. The best result you might see is the indie version on Steam getting a slight price reduction, but I doubt that happens anytime soon.
@DustinM83 The sad part about this is not that they will not lower their prices, its that even if they increase their prices people will continue to use them (Paid and pirated). I can't count how many people I have met over the years that use pirated software and will NOT go anywhere near anything that is legally free. Even though the free alternatives can do everything the "big guys" can do. And sometimes they even do it better. I'm a li'bit of an artist and a newbie game developer. Aside from affinity designer (one time fee of $50 and own forever), every tool I use is free. I will NOT pirate anything. I'd hate it if anyone pirated something I made. I even share videos like this one (Free alternatives) on the game dev discord I'm a part of and we still have a massive problem with pirates.
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Hey Gamesfromscratch, the Layer Paint addon for Blender recently went free and open source. It brings a Substance Painter-like experience to Blender. I'd love to see a video on it.
Is it the Layer Painter addon by Joshua Knauber?
@@macz055 I think it is him. There's a Discord server that can be joined too.
I tried looking this up, but I could put find a free version? Just one that costs $20.
Can you give a link
@@emeraldeelentertainment8988 Okay, that's probably Joshua's. Thanks!
Seeing all these nice new texture painting programs really makes me want to see blender finally improve it's texture painting support. I've been spoiled by it's controls, workflow and flexability and I find myself getting annoyed at other software (especially substance painter) that does things like camera controlls way differently.
I'm definitely going to try this out. I have a use for software like this but nowhere near enough to justify paying for it and I don't need all the fancy features. So free is ideal and it seems pretty simple to use. Cheers for highlighting it.
I just tested this program under wine, it does work however it does come with some drawbacks with the wine UI such as the file browser for example, and files may not load up properly, but the software itself is perfectly useable.
Interesting, I wonder how this stacks up against Armorpaint and Mixer.
Yeah, I wonder. Mixer is not really a direct alternative to Substance Painter, so my question is which is better, Armorpaint or Agama Materials. I'll try both out and see
Oh, nvr mind, I use a Mac and this is only for Windows :(
It's certainly a subset of their features, but it covers the majority of features people need and does them well.
@@manasnagelia Mac user too here, sometimes the backwardness of the Substance suite gets over my nerves. Do you know of anything similar more akin to this Agama material style? Benefits I see on this one: both designer+painter in one shot. Can drive many things via another map, example, normal map intensity or blending modes have an input too (on designer is not that straight forward). Conditionals? On designer gotta go inside weird FX-Maps or weird functions. Using mesh Normals inside your node tree? Good luck with that, has to be pre-baked for the most part, etc
@@uusfiyeyh thanks 🙏
Wine does seem to work, but it's a bit iffy. Program locks up sometimes, but I was able to get to the procedural material editor and do a bit of basic editing/
For me, the most important functions in the Substance Painter are the Edge Filters. So far I haven't found it in any other program. From my point of view, all of these freeware programs are no real substitute.
@@uusfiyeyh Yes that is correct. But I have dozens of assets to texturize every day. I would like to have a filter that is easy to use.
This is a must have program for Small Modelers and Game developers and Freelancers.
to bad you need vulkan, my gaming laptop (g14 acrnm) can run it (it doesn't open at all)
does it do projection painting?
like if I'm say working on a piece of armor, and I want to wrap a chainmail around it. Does i allow to paint in a way where the direction if based on camera view?
Does it work without uv maps, something like auto uv map? Or just paint on the mesh
Great video. I was wondering if there are any vector-based painting 3D texturing programs?
I use ClipStudio Paint for painting, which gives me a lot of control of the brushes and can also use vector layers. But since it's a 2D canvas, seam edges show up. I can try to clean up the edges in Blender, but it doesn't look as nice.
hey man, from where did u got the materials?
hi, I just want know what is the best programing language to become in. the future a gamedev because im in university and I love programing but I just know java, so I need some help to chose the language and the perfect game engine to the language and preference a 2d game engine I've been thinking in Godot but not sure. thanks.
Wow, this is really good! Thank you for letting me know about the software! 👍
I'm gonna have to check this out as soon as I can.
have yet to watch this yet but quixel/marmoset dont have mirror...a basic feature thats needed in a good texturing program...DOES THIS HAVE MIRRORING
Maybe 13:51 is what you are looking for.
@@bexplosion Of course this has it lol. ty.
can Agama paint normal map?
This looks great!
If substance were to be started from scratch, I believe it should approach more this same mindset. I don’t get why so many things on Designer are so backwards, doing conditionals is through these functions nodes, then there’s these FX-Maps. Pixel Processors are the closest to a reasonable Pixel Shader but the syntax and way to go about it is a whole lot different to any node based shader tool.
I like that the material can have embedded ways to react to mesh attributes from the get go without having to pre-bake them every single time.
Just an FYI: WINE isn't an emulator (WINE stands for "WINE Is Not an Emulator"), but a compatibility layer. There's a pretty large difference between the two, and different expectations for the two. Still appreciate the fact you even thought about linux tho :)
Good thing I bought Substance Painter when it was on sale on steam, not that I plan on using it since I got Zbrush back but a tool is a tool
Looks like a promising project, but does need to be expanded to Linux and Mac to build up a user base.
Blender need something like this inside it that rivals Adobe!
It looked very interesting but it seems to only work on windows so no good to me I am afraid.
Now that we are getting multiple free alternatives, I wonder if Substance Designer and Painter are going to get cheaper.
To be honest, the vast majority of their customers don't give a damn about the pricetag of Substance... it represents like 2 hours of employee pay and is easy to justify. Tools like this more appeal to the amateur/indie market. The best result you might see is the indie version on Steam getting a slight price reduction, but I doubt that happens anytime soon.
You should do standup :D
But in all seriousness, no, as if that were the case, photoshop and all other Adobe software would become cheaper.
The opposite... free programs will become paid once they get enough traction and features
@@gamefromscratch although that is very true, substance painter and designer on steam get a sale every year during the legendary steam summer sale
@DustinM83 The sad part about this is not that they will not lower their prices, its that even if they increase their prices people will continue to use them (Paid and pirated). I can't count how many people I have met over the years that use pirated software and will NOT go anywhere near anything that is legally free. Even though the free alternatives can do everything the "big guys" can do. And sometimes they even do it better.
I'm a li'bit of an artist and a newbie game developer. Aside from affinity designer (one time fee of $50 and own forever), every tool I use is free. I will NOT pirate anything. I'd hate it if anyone pirated something I made. I even share videos like this one (Free alternatives) on the game dev discord I'm a part of and we still have a massive problem with pirates.
No windows 7 ?
Awesome video!!
What's the min requirement to use it?
Doesn't seem to be open source. Cool project but I'll stick to Armor Paint.
thanks for reccomending me armor paint
4:38 this is me with pretty much every 3D software I use.
Thank you! Have a nice Weekend 😉👍👍👍
amazing, what I need right now
Looks very promising :D
Agama Materials does seem to work under Wine Staging 6.16 . not sure if it has Pen pressure input support though.
livery creators would love this tool, it's kinda like forza but not ...
no linux verson ? :(
It's funny that they list Ctrl + Z as a feature.
It's not a "Porsh" car. "Porsche” is pronounced as a two-syllable word with a stressed vowel on the “e”. More like "Porsheh".
This might not interest you, but outside u.s.? No one gives a shit about how you say a certain word. No one cares.
@@hani-qw4gx I care.
@@hani-qw4gx Many seems to care how he says "foliage" for example.
@@hani-qw4gx just meant as constructive feedback. Not losing sleep over how he pronounces stuff.
I got kinda used to "foil-age", too.
I normally say prosche with a hard C as in Por schah mostly to troll people so... :)
i like you work. thanks ;)
I had to switch to 1080p for this. lets see.
Seems to just crash on creating a new project, not even leaving any crash log behind, oh well.
By the name alone, this is a religious kind of 3D painter software.
(look up Indonesian definition for "agama")
Funnily enough, Agama in my mother language means religion lol
His Proc Materials
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Windows only :/
Too bad I didn't see this BEFORE spending a couple 100 dollars on Substance Painter lol
do you know why's this cool? Because you can use layers AND nodes, Substance Painter cant do that
As a linux usr me be like: " wwwwwwwwW 👁️👄👁️"
Perfect for replacing substance.
agamangus
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Its like a straight up rip off of Substance Painter, I`m surprised Adobe hasn't tried to sue them.
Free tool without Linux support? Em... yeah... thanks.
DAY 13 of commenting till mike makes a video on g'mic...
just a friendly reminder that Wine Is Not Emulation (it's literally in the name).
What the heck is Al-bidoe. It's pronouned Al-BEE-doe,
lol
installed
run
open new project
NOPE
lol
uninstall
Talking too fast.