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Substance Painter vs Quixel Suite 2

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When comparing Substance Painter vs Quixel Suite 2, the Slant community recommends Substance Painter for most people. In the question“What are the best 3D texturing tools for game development?” Substance Painter is ranked 1st while Quixel Suite 2 is ranked 2nd. The most important reason people chose Substance Painter is:

Since Substance Painter allows users to paint in full 3D, it can be used not only to paint full textures, but can also paint masks which can then be used in other tools (like Substance Designer) for material filter generators (like the ones used to make edge wear and dirt)

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Pros

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Allows you to paint in full 3D

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Painting and procedural editing of textures

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You don't have to leave Photoshop

If you like Photoshop so much, Quixel Suite is for you as you never have to leave any tools behind.

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Massive material library

You never have to download textures off the internet ever again as it comes with a very large material library to work with.

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Ability to paint directly on 3d models

The included 3Do viewer allows you to both view and paint on your models so you don't have to guess where that one spot is within your UV unwrap. Note that this is limited to painting masks, you cannot project textures.

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Cons

Con
Expensive and impossible to run without an expensive graphics card

The free trial is the only thing free. You'll have to pay a lot of money for the full version, and even if you do get it, you will have to pay for an expensive graphics card to use it, which means a lot more money flying out of your wallet and/or bank account.

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Cannot export in a procedural format

You can not export substance (sbsar) files in Painter.

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High hardware specs for smooth performance

This loads alot of texture data during typical use and comes with a fancy 3d viewer. If your hardware isn't up to spec, you will experience some major slowdowns when using it.

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Obviously isn't free

It's the price of the full version of PixPaint plus $10

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Only Works with Adobe Photoshop

Lack of options when it comes to Image Editing Software, especially since Photoshop is.not even free.

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No longer supported

The development has stopped.

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Doesn't always play nice with manually added layers

Quixel Suite basically takes over Photoshop in terms of layer creation and management. While you can still create layers manually, Quixel isn't always aware of it and may confuse the software.