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Substance Designer vs xNormal

A side-by-side look at Substance Designer and xNormal. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

Substance Designer

Substance Designer

Photos & Graphics

Substance Designer is a texture creation tool that allows artists to quickly build complex and customized materials. It uses a node-based workflow to create a wide range of textures like metals, fabrics, nature elements and more for use in 3D rendering and game development.

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xNormal

xNormal

Development

xNormal is a free and open-source 3D mapping software used to bake high-quality normal, ambient occlusion, curvature, and other maps for texturing 3D models. It has an intuitive interface and advanced tools for automatically generating optimal maps.

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