The industry standard for creating custom materials, Substance Designer gives you complete authoring control.
Design tileable textures and patterns, and edit complete texture sets.
Use pre-made resources or create materials from scratch in this non-destructive, node-based environment, and take advantage of Designer’s ever-expanding scripting capabilities.
Material creation with absolute control
Non-destructive workflow
Edit materials instantly with the procedural non-linear workflow.
Want to change something or adjust the look of a material after the fact? Make changes at any time; never lose any of your work.
Material authoring
Create materials with full control and infinite power of expression.
Edit full sets of textures in real-time and produce tileable Substance materials and MDL materials that are will be directly compatible with your renderer or game engine.
Powerful generators, tools and filters
Combine a large number of preset filters and tools for procedural and hybrid workflows.
Access and modify the sources of any resource or filter: you have absolute editing control.
At the core of the Substance ecosystem
Substance Designer powers material creation for Substance Source, and provides Substance Painter and Substance Alchemist with ongoing new features and capabilities.
You can also reuse materials across channels, as well as propagate modifications through the graph. Substance Designer features four graph types: Tiling textures, MDL materials, Math Functions, and Noise Editor.
State of the art rendering
Our real-time viewport coupled with NVIDIA’s Iray renderer gives you amazing previews and renders.
The bakers include: AO, normal, ID, height, curvature, position, polypaint, Bent Normals, Color Map, UV to SVG, Opacity Mask, Thickness, Transferred Texture, World Space Direction, and World Space Normals.
The nodes include: HDR Merge, Nadir Patch, Nadir Extract, Color Temperature Adjustment, Straighten Horizon, Physical Sun & Sky, Plane Light, Line Light, Sphere Light.
Pipeline automation
Create tools and utility graphs to supercharge your pipeline.
Scripting API
Build and share powerful plugins with the integrated Python scripting interface.
The Substance format works with every tool of your 3D creation workflow.
Our team develops and maintains integrations with all the major 3D apps. And the Substance format is an industry standard, readable and useable in every tool dedicated to 3D.
Substance Designer and Substance Painter are must-have tools in the game dev stack. But if you work as a product designer or 3D generalist, you can still benefit a lot from these tools, so I’d definitely recommend checking it out.
Mike Voropaev3D generalist
Art by Mike Voropaev
Early on I was really taken with the power and flexibility of Substance Designer and its ability to create endless iterations of surfaces with the same level of fidelity as scan data.
