When comparing Mudbox vs Substance Designer, the Slant community recommends Mudbox for most people. In the question“What are the best 3D texture painting softwares?” Mudbox is ranked 12th while Substance Designer is ranked 14th.
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Pros
Pro True 3D and projective painting
Pro Supports UV-less PTEX painting
Pro Subscribe for as little as $10/month, $80/year
Pro Artist-friendly tools
Mudbox offers intuitive, easy-to-learn and use sculpting and painting tools that are a joy to use.
Pro Easy to use
Pro Unlimited 8K paint layers
Pro Academy Award-winning toolset, originally developed at Weta Digital.
Pro Native integration with many game engines
It has the ability to export sbsar files, these can be put into most game engines allowing in engine tweaking of procedural content.
Pro Ability to create custom substance files
Substance designer allows users to create custom substance files, it offers a lot of power with a mix of workflow of working with procedural textures and bitmaps.
Cons
Con Its from Autodesk
Nobody should use Autodesk derived products.The 3d industry is really contaminated with Autodesk monopoly and abuse of inflated prices that everybody seems willing to pay. Enough is enough.
Con Expensive
The pricing starts at $20 for the indie license and $100 for the pro license.
Con Not good for painting textures
Substance designer is not very powerful when it comes to painting textures, while there are 2D painting tools, they are not very good.