But you can easily project textures in tri-planar space, and painting with brushes works well, so by using Painter you can generally get away with 'less than perfect' UV mapping as well. The way you can paint directly on the model is nice(but not unique).

It seems that more recent versions removed a lot of that headache, but I don't think it will compare yet to Painter for the more complex stuff. Blender used to be a little more unwieldy, as you couldn't paint multiple layers at once, and you couldn't even start without doing a few steps first, including creating the texture, saving it to disk possibly, and something else I can't remember. I've used both Blender and Painter for texturing. And as pointed out, on some of them, you can export all the elements you need like spec, norm, etc. Filter forge has insane depth of options and community filters for just about everything. The company and community are pretty annoying though. The product is useful for generating texture, especially if you are going to do it a lot. (though they do have a sub now, but is basically the same price as photoshop itself.) I typically only use it couple of times a year, and often need to upgrade, it's a hassle. It's basically an ongoing series of payments (and changing tiers). They regularly upgrade, which are paid upgrades, and contain new feature that newer filters require, and often when PS upgrades, you need a paid upgrade to FF.

They constantly push their 'sales' which are not sales, since they are always on, there is never not a sale. Also, there is a lot of junk there.Ģ) their upgrade/marketing/monetization is incredibly annoying. Yea, not a downside in a real sense, but if you need a nice rock texture you can spend hours looking through the options (at least I do). There are only two downsides to FF in my opinion:ġ) soooo many filters.

Free textures for unity 3d