Substance Painter

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Art by Hannu Koskinen

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.

Screen_Painter — Artwork by Nikie Monteleone

Your painting habits, now in 3D

If you’ve ever used Photoshop, you’ll feel at home with Substance Painter.

Take your skill beyond the 2D canvas and expand your artistic possibilities. Breathe life into your art with Substance Painter.

Pure Cycle-SP1 copy — Courtesy of Shopify

Tech that augments your art

You can use smart materials that adjust to any object to show realistic wear and tear; explore mask presets that adapt to any shape, and paint with brushes you can modify on the fly.

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.

Art by Zhelong Xu

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.

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

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

Games

Whether you need to put together a quick prototype, dive into an Indie project or power a massive AAA production, Substance is the reference toolset for 3D materials.

Film

The Substance toolset is on its way to become an integral part of every film creation. From commercials to feature films and TV shows, Substance tools and materials have already been used on two Academy Award winners for best special effects.

Design

Take your product visualization to a new level of realism. Whether you need quick, iterative, inspirational tools and content, or massive production engines, Substance is the leading toolset for 3D materials.

Transportation

As real-time design, including VR and AR, is becoming the new immersive way to present projects, more and more artists are adopting Substance.

Architecture

As real-time architecture visualization is becoming the new immersive way to present projects, more and more architects and designers are adopting Substance.

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.

More integrations

We 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

Images courtesy of Playground Games

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

It’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

Image Courtesy of The Mill

Substance 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

Courtesy of NVIDIA