• MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
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    13 hours ago

    Blender 3D Artist here:

    If you already use Blender and want Inkscape-like functionality, grease pencil has gotten REALLY impressive! Worth checking out! But let’s talk about materials real quick:

    I personally got burned when I dropped hard-earned cash on Substance and they sold out from under us.

    It might not be 1:1 for the most powerful features found in Alegorithmic’s traitorware, but the PBR Painter add-on has been AWESOME for painting materials in Blender.

    There are some other add-ons for materials and advanced effects too.

    (For designing, I’m glad fo see Material Maker mentioned! It’s impressive and legit! I hope that project goes far!)

    I honestly think a majority of that stuff is totally doable in Blender right now, add-ons just make it easier and/or a bit more efficient, and these devs are worth supporting.

    Armorpaint looked pretty cool, but is it still being developed? Seems like it’s been awfully quiet, which is a shame because it seemed very promising!

    It’s sad because Substance was the ONE time I relented and said “Hey, maybe this commercial software will be really worth it.” Fool me once.

    • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      I’m still using the 2018 Substance, which is the last one for which there was a proper license (which I have). Then Adobe bought the Allegorithmict and turned that suite into a subscription application.

      Still works fine and apparently the software hasn’t significantly improved ever since it turned into a subscription.

      By the way, cheers for mentioning PBR Painter - I added it to my list of possible replacements.