Forge Material Studio

7.0easy start · #9 of 28
in 3D Texturing Software

Free to practise onyes
Free trialnot on record
Well documentedyes
Runs where you worknot on record

Runs on Web, Windows.

Forge Material Studio is ranked #9 of 28 in 3D texturing software on The Geeks Club. It runs on Web, Windows. There is a free plan.

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Free and open-source Free MIT licensed · use, copy, modify, and distribute, including commercially, with copyright and license notice github.com · 3 Oct 2026

Compared on 3D texturing software

Free plan: Yes
Procedural materials: Yes
Texture baking: Yes
PBR workflow: Yes
Node-based authoring: Yes
Maximum texture resolution: 2,048 px
Supported platforms: Windows, Web

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The record

Purpose: Forge Material Studio is a local-first tool for authoring procedural PBR materials.
Node graph: It builds tileable materials from nodes including cloud noise, Voronoi, gradient, brick, math, blend, and normal nodes.
Image maps: It can turn PNG, JPEG, or WebP albedo images into editable base-color, height, normal, roughness, metallic, and ambient-occlusion maps.
Preview: Materials can be inspected in a live Babylon.js preview on a sphere, cube, plane, or production-style model, with beauty and individual-channel views.
Resolution: The tool supports 512, 1024, or 2048 pixel work while preserving the source aspect ratio.
Projects: Projects are saved in IndexedDB with recovery, generated-map caching, undo and redo, and keyboard save shortcuts.
Exports: It exports individual PNG maps or validated .mmpack packages containing baked maps, the source graph, a manifest, and an export report.
Viewer: The standalone viewer opens .mmpack files entirely in browser memory.
Privacy: The application runs on the user's computer and has no account system, telemetry, material upload service, D1 database, or R2 bucket.
Windows launcher: The Windows release includes an unsigned open-source launcher; the maker says it does not upload projects or textures, install a background service, or continue running after its window closes.
Requirements: The Windows launcher requires Node.js 22.13 or newer, .NET 8 Desktop Runtime, and Microsoft Edge or Google Chrome.
Image workflow limit: When generating maps from an image, metallic defaults to a dielectric value because metal cannot be identified reliably from color alone.
License: The project is released under the MIT License, which permits commercial use provided the copyright and license notice remain with the software.
Price from: Free

Where it ranks on The Geeks Club

Best 3D Texturing Software in 2026#9 of 28

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Sources

github.com/kizergraphics/Material-Maker· checked 3 Oct 2026