Which 3D Texture Program Is Best?

Armor paint also import blend file directly...

I mean, looking from any perspective you choose, try to be fair at least ;) Blender can do lot of the things ZBrush can, and it can do lot of the things Maya can, and it can do some stuff Nuke can... Does the fact, that Blender does some of that stuff worse, matter? You said nothing really about 3DCoat's features, what it can do when it comes to texturing, and so on. I literally learned nothing, about the first soft, mostly nothing about the second one... And then bam. Advertising your own render farm. Stopped watching then. How can you title your video like that, when saying nothing significant about soft your video should be about? And, I'm not really 3DC or Armor Paint user, used them once each ;)

I am a Concept designer and slowly entering the world of 3D to speed up my workflow. I want to work with high poly presentational 3d pieces which I just want to use for showcasing my artistic full capacity as a high poly sculptor character concept artist. So looks like free version of Mari suits me well. Since I want to show off to the potential studios to hire me with some acknowledged and accepted software without breaking the bank. And since I never work over complex just straight up sculpt and paint methodology. Why not blender, because I am just using it to create environmental renders for now, which I find blender so powerful in that topic combined with the tutorials here and there and creating cinematic things with it just a breeze. But when it comes to my characters I want a dedicated program because of dedicated interface and ease of use and ability to focus that way. For instance Zbrush is cooler in sculpting than blender but for hard surface precision, blender seems more on point and direct. I don't know if hard surface modeling is an easy task with Zbrush either though since I just started to use it. I love how large of a 3D workflow can be and how small it can get either. One modeler works with just blender and calls it a day, and the other combines whole set of 10 programs mixing their dedicated powerful topics. Amazing world of 3D... If Mari still is not compatible with the m1 I might go for Quixel too I will chase jobs for the game industry already...

It's coat for the win. Then mixer , then inside blender fluent materializer, honestly I'm an envy artist and do another of different tasks and for me node's such, take too long to learn and you forget how to use them. Nodes are great if you do the nodes all the time.

Wdym you can't get substance painter as a standalone program anymore? It's sold separately on Steam.

This is incorrect about Substance Painter (currently) you can get a perpetual license through Steam. It has been posted that support will only be updated thru 2023

DO NOT LISTEN TO THIS GUY. He is uninformed and misinformed.

3d coat is great, it has much better sculpting, retopo, texture painting than blender, there is an add on for sending 3d coat textured model to blender with all material nodes set up. I am very interested in armor paint too.

Its funny from your video i gathered marmoset toolbag 4 being the better program

What do you mean you shouldn't be be looking at 3D Coat as a Blender user. The sculpting in 3D Coat is far better than Blender, the UV mapping is better, the texturing is WAAAY better, the retopo tools are better. The boolean workflow is super cool and can yield some really cool things you can't easily do in Blender. I'll still use Blender for a lot of things personally, but 3D Coat is becoming a super important tool for me now, especially in character sculpting/retopo/painting.

There is also a free one called "Agama Materials", I have not used it, just want to provide an example here

Very useful video, thank you very much :⁠-⁠)

Left out Armor Paint's biggest PLUS for Blender users:

DIRECTLY IMPORT BLENDER FILES

Graded Blue render farm sounds very cheap but how fast and reliable is it?