Abstract unveils InstaMAT 2025
Promising 3D texture painting and material authoring tools come out of early access next week. Check out the features due in the update.
Wednesday, July 16th, 2025
Substance 3D Sampler
Adobe releases Substance 3D Painter 11.0
Check out the new features in the 3D texture painting app, including an Auto-update system, and more path tools, filters and texture generators.
Monday, March 17th, 2025
Adobe to raise the price of Substance 3D subscriptions
Cost of Substance 3D Texturing, Collection and Teams subscriptions to rise from 9-25% in March 2025. Read our FAQs about the changes.
Friday, February 21st, 2025
Adobe releases Substance 3D Sampler 5.0
Check out the new features in the 3D capture software, including path tracing in the 3D View and support for HP's Z Captis scanner.
Friday, February 21st, 2025
Adobe launches unmetered access to Substance 3D Assets
Substance 3D Texturing and Substance 3D Collection plans now include unlimited access to 19,000+ materials, 3D models and HDRIs.
Thursday, January 30th, 2025
Adobe releases Substance 3D Sampler 4.5
Material authoring and 3D capture software can now send materials directly to 3ds Max, Blender, Maya, Unity and Unreal Engine 5.
Thursday, July 18th, 2024
Sneak peek: Vector Displacement Maps in Substance 3D Painter
Get a glimpse at some of the new features in development for the 3D texture painting software, from Substance 3D Painter 10.1 onwards.
Friday, June 7th, 2024
ASWF, Adobe, Autodesk launch OpenPBR 1.0
New open shading model intended to supersede both Adobe and Autodesk's standard materials reaches its milestone 1.0 release.
Wednesday, June 5th, 2024
Adobe releases Substance 3D Sampler 4.4
Material-authoring app gets new generative AI features for creating textures or patterns from text prompts and refererence images.
Friday, May 24th, 2024
Adobe releases Substance 3D Connector
Open-source framework should help devs write plugins to send files between Substance 3D apps and tools like Blender and Maya.
Friday, April 5th, 2024
Adobe adds Firefly generative AI features to Substance 3D tools
Substance 3D Sampler and Substance 3D Stager get new AI-powered Text to Texture and Generative Background features.
Monday, March 18th, 2024
Adobe releases Substance 3D Sampler 4.3
Material authoring and 3D capture tool gets new Texture Generators to add procedural noise to materials. Perpetual licenses discontinued.
Friday, January 26th, 2024
InstaMAT Studio is now available
Promising new app combines 3D texture painting, node-based material authoring and AI features. Free if you earn under $100k/year.
Thursday, January 25th, 2024