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Image: Artwork by Damien Guimoneau
Image: Artwork by Damien Guimoneau
Artwork by Damien Guimoneau
Image: Artwork by Damien Guimoneau
Texture your 3D Assets
All the tools you need to texture your 3D assets in one application.
Substance Painter has smart materials, smart masks and integrated bakers, and a state of the art real-time viewport.
Paint in 3D in real time.
Your painting habits, now in 3D
Tech that augments your art
Immersive texturing
When you paint, the viewport shows all your artistic decisions in real-time.
Move around your asset as much as you like, undock windows to create the best workspace for you, and enjoy an immersive texturing experience.
Try everything, lose nothing
Substance Painter’s workflow is non-destructive. You can experiment as much as you like, then jump back to previous stages if you don’t love what you create. You can always find your way back.
Key Features
Powerful paint engine
Paint using smart brushes, projection tools and even particles.
Smart Materials / Smart Masks
Wear and tear, scratches and dust adapt to your asset.
Learn how to leverage Smart Materials here.
RTX accelerated bakers
Extract and bake any material from a 3D object in a few seconds with our GPU accelerated baker.
State of the art rendering
Our real-time viewport coupled with NVIDIA’s Iray renderer gives you amazing previews and renderings
Features include SSS, anisotropy, tesselation, displacement, and others besides.
Export to anything
Export to any game engine, platform or renderer with just a click.
Multiplatform
Optimized for PC, Mac, and Linux.
VFX ready
UDIM support, alembic, camera import, and more. Work effortlessly on film-quality assets.
An amazing community
Learn and share with passionate artists.
Substance is built for you
An Industry Standard
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.
Images courtesy of Playground GamesWe used Substance Designer to create almost all of our tileable textures. […] Almost every environment art asset in Forza Horizon 4 had some part of it run through Substance Designer or Substance Painter.
Don Arceta Lead Environment Artist | Playground Games
Image courtesy of DNEG © 2019 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All rights reserved.Substance improved our texturing workflow by allowing us to see a ‘closer to final’ result in the viewport and to help eliminate any values that were incorrect through a PBR workflow.
David Crabtree Build Lead | DNEG Vancouver
Image Courtesy of The MillIt’s important in advertising to work fast and to a very high standard, and Substance is the perfect helper here. It’s definitely a package that should be in any texture artist’s toolkit
Edward Shires VFX Supervisor | The Mill
Courtesy of NVIDIASubstance definitely helped us to achieve such a high-quality look very quickly, as well as giving us the ability to adjust to a new art direction if necessary.
Jacob Norris Environment Artist | NVIDIA
