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    Node-based procedural 3D material authoring (Adobe), for reusable textures.

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    Substance 3D Designer

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    Very good

    Substance 3D Designer makes sense when creating reusable procedural materials is core to the pipeline; otherwise, direct texturing (Painter) or another tool suffices.

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