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Add to SafariWhen comparing MapZone vs Quixel Mixer, the Slant community recommends Quixel Mixer for most people. In the question“What are the best programs to create procedural textures?” Quixel Mixer is ranked 5th while MapZone is ranked 9th. The most important reason people chose Quixel Mixer is:
Its freaking free.
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Pros
Pro Resolution independent
All maps will be resolution independent because of procedural techniques which MapZone uses. So you can work at a decent resolution, resize when done and you have a higher resolution texture immediately.
Pro Map focused
MapZone focuses on maps which are the core components of any texture. Your diffuse and normal maps created with it match perfectly. And because it's not linear and all are related to each other, if the diffuse is modified then all the other maps will sync automatically.
Pro Free
Its freaking free.
Cons
Con Discontinued
MapZone is a discontinued procedural texture creator for windows. (Web page is discontinued but you can download from Dropbox or Google Drive.)
Con Seems to still be in beta
Many features missing, like layer deletion.
Con Free version is technically non-commercial only
But, uh, "exporting" is as easy as opening up the file locations.
