Substance Painter

 

 

Automated Texturing

Use and reuse presets and integrated bakers to speed up texturing.

Smart Materials

Create and reuse your own mesh-adaptive materials

Smart Masks

Create and reuse your own mesh-adaptive mask presets

Integrated 8K Bakers

Bake all your maps (AO, normal, ID, height...) directly within Substance Painter, in square or non-square ratios.

Premium Content

The updated material library contains scan-based Substance textures and grunge maps, plus hundreds of alphas and brushes.

Find a library full of physically based materials and .sbs source files in Substance Source, and freely download community-created content on Substance Share.

Scan-based materials

Scanned grunge maps

400+ alphas

Smart Materials

Smart masks

 

VFX-Ready

Support for Linux, 8K export, color management, UDIM management and Scripting API make integrating Substance Painter into VFX workflows easier than ever.

Real-Time Physically Based Viewport with Iray Path Tracing

Use the real-time PBR viewport to preview your work exactly as it appears in Unity and Unreal Engine. Match any other game engine via custom shaders.

Create photo-realistic renders with Iray path-trace technology while working, embellish your work with Yebis post-production effects, and share portfolio-ready materials directly on ArtStation.

Industry Praise

Here are just a few of the accolades Substance Painter has received from industry leaders:

Polycount Greentooth Awards

2017 Winner

Exceptional Software and Exceptional Polycounters

Develop Awards

2016 Finalist

Best Design & Creativity Tool

CG Awards

2014 Winner

Best New Application

3D Artist

4.5/5 stars

“Allegorithmic’s newest release offers several tools to help you create stunning, industry-standard texture art.”

Texturing

• Multi material painting
• 2D & 3D view
• Seamless painting
• 8k export
• Non-destructive tools: Paint, Smudge, Clone, and more
• Select channels for Smudge, Clone, and Eraser tools 
• PopcornFX particles
• Smart materials
• Smart masks
• Support for smart masks creation and usage 
• Height to Normal conversion with Sobel filter 
• High-quality Stencil and Projection preview resolution 

Rendering

• Iray renderer with view mode and screenshot export
• Yebis 2 post-effects
• PBR metal/rough & spec/gloss
• Custom shader import
• Plug Substances into other Substance image inputs
• Switch between perspective and orthographic mode in viewport
• Control field of view in perspective mode
• Drag and drop environment maps in 3D view
• Iray: MDL material support
• Iray: Physically based lighting
• Iray: X-Rite Appearance exchange format (AxF) support

Content

• Compliant with metal/rough & spec/gloss
• Specular/Glossiness shader
• Scan-based Substance materials and grunge maps
• Smart materials
• Smart masks
• Specular/Glossiness support of older smart materials
• New "Mask editor" mask generator
• 400+ alphas and brushes
• New alphas, textures and shapes
• Hard surfaces shapes
• New skin textures
• Finish filters for metallic surface simulation
• Dozens of HDRIs
• Reworked and clean materials
• Updated interface with new icons, colors and layout
• Up/download to/from Substance Share

Workflow

• UDIM import
• Integrated Bakers
• Normal map & height map workflow
• Support for Specular/Glossiness workflow with new "diffuse" channels
• Improved normal workflow available by default on new projects
• Templates
• Direct exports to Substance Share, Sketchfab and Artstation
• 1:1 Export for Unity, Unreal Engine, Lumberyard and Marmoset Toolbag
• Export to Photoshop
• Preset export for V-Ray, Corona and Arnold

 

• Scripting support with custom plugins
• Available for Windows, MacOS and Linux (CentOS & SteamOS)