Adobe unveils Substance Designer 2019.3
Material-authoring software to get new colour management tools, new curvature baker, and UX updates.
Thursday, December 19th, 2019
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Epic Games acquires Quixel
All 10,000-plus Megascans assets to be made free to Unreal Engine users; Quixel Mixer and Bridge to be released free for everyone.
Tuesday, November 12th, 2019
Adobe ships Substance Alchemist 2019.1
Next-gen material authoring tool now out of beta. First official release adds new delighter filter.
Tuesday, November 5th, 2019
Adobe ships Substance Designer 2019.2
Material authoring software gets new set of tools for creating photo-based and synthetic HDR maps.
Friday, August 30th, 2019
Adobe releases Substance Alchemist 0.8
Next-gen material-creation tool gets new features for organising materials, including file tagging and syncing to local disks.
Saturday, August 10th, 2019
Adobe releases free trial version of Substance Alchemist
Upcoming material-creation tool now free to all, not just people with existing Substance subscriptions.
Tuesday, July 30th, 2019
Quixel releases Mixer 2019.2
Free-in-beta material-authoring tool gets new Scatter modifier, updated Pattern modifer, layer blending modes and undo/redo system.
Monday, July 22nd, 2019
Discover how to create stone walls in Substance Designer
Master industry-standard material authoring workflows with veteran games artist Josh Lynch's new Gnomon tutorial.
Saturday, July 6th, 2019
RandomControl launches Maverick Studio
Updated: new visualisation tool from the creators of the Arion renderer gets perpetual licences.
Tuesday, June 18th, 2019
Adobe releases Substance Alchemist 0.7
Next-gen material creation tool gets 12 new filters, plus option to animate material sliders in the UI.
Friday, June 14th, 2019
Allegorithmic releases Substance Alchemist 0.6
Latest beta of the next-gen material creation tool adds option to create collections of material variations.
Tuesday, April 23rd, 2019
Quixel releases Mixer 2019
Big update adds parametric authoring and image-to-PBR-material conversion to the scan blending tool, now in free beta.
Friday, March 15th, 2019
Check out Mesh Importer for Substance Designer
Neat add-on imports meshes into Substance Designer as 3D nodes for use within Substance materials.
Saturday, February 9th, 2019