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3D-Coat vs Quixel Mixer

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When comparing 3D-Coat vs Quixel Mixer, the Slant community recommends 3D-Coat for most people. In the question“What are the best 3D texture painting softwares?” 3D-Coat is ranked 3rd while Quixel Mixer is ranked 5th. The most important reason people chose 3D-Coat is:

3D coat is also known in the game industry to be a great app to preform retopology.

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What are the best 3D texture painting softwares?

Pros

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A known app for retopology

3D coat is also known in the game industry to be a great app to preform retopology.

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Link to Photoshop, or any app that can open PSD files

You can save and open your texture work in apps like Photoshop, work on them and send them directly back to 3D coat. It will remember your layers and update.

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Professionals recommend 3D Coat for Handpainted textures

You can texture in many styles with this app, but when it comes to Handpainting, as seen in World of Warcraft and Torchlight, 3D Coat is the one that many professionals will advice you to as their top choice.

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PBR materials

3D Coat supports the creation of your own PBR materials that are ready to be used in the PBR workflow.

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Voxel sculpting

Voxel sculpting is entirely free from the bounds of polygons and topology.

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A fast and fun way to UV

3D coat has made UVing my work go super fast and it's actually quite fun because you're finished in a breeze.

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Free

Its freaking free.

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Cons

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Not a voxel program

This is a paid texture program. Why is it in this list?

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Voxel sculpting hits your system

Voxel is quite heavy on your computer, if you intent to use this as your main model and sculpt app do enough research to see if your computer can handle it and if you have the right graphic card for it. If you really have doubts , just go ask in the forums.