Blacksmith3D vs LigidPainter
Blacksmith3D
posersoftware.com
LigidPainter
ligidtools.comSide by side
| Figure | Blacksmith3D | LigidPainter |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | — | Yes |
| Linux | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 1 |
| Spec score · 3D Texturing Software | 7.9 (#12) | 7.8 (#16) |
| Integrations | The page lists compatibility with 3D Studio Max, Maya, Lightwave, Cinema 4D, Photoshop, Poser, and Daz Studio, plus applications that import and export OBJ files and use standard texture maps. | The maker's pages opened describe LigidAPI as a separate rendering and image processing library, but do not state that it integrates with LigidPainter. |
| Purpose | Blacksmith3D provides 3D painting and morphing tools for artists. | LigidPainter is a free 3D model texturing application. |
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In their own words
Blacksmith3D
Blacksmith3D has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.
LigidPainter
LigidPainter is free 3D texturing software for Windows, macOS, and Linux. It generates seamless materials and textures for selected material channels or processes all channels automatically. Artists can paint directly on models or in a 2D scene with custom brushes, normal-map and filter painting, vectoral painting, and XYZ mirroring. Its material workflow includes albedo, roughness, metallic, normal, height, and ambient-occlusion textures, with procedural materials, PBR workflows, and node-based authoring. Projects are stored as folders, allowing saved textures to be retrieved there or exported. The itch.io listing identifies version 3.0.0 and describes the application as in development; its download page offers a 194 MB Windows 64-bit MSI. The maker’s build guide describes Windows and Unix-like builds and lists OpenAL, Freetype, and zlib as required binaries. The license permits unchanged binary redistribution with attribution but prohibits selling it and restricts source-code use.