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material creation

Free material-authoring app gets opacity and emissive map support. Release 'may be one of the final updates' to Mixer in its current form.

Monday, November 7th, 2022

Latest update extends the free material creation software's handling of UDIMs and texture sets. See all of the new features here.

Thursday, September 2nd, 2021

Free material authoring tool gets system for exporting layer masks to DCC apps and game engines, plus 65 new bundled Smart Materials.

Thursday, November 26th, 2020

Neat AI-trained tool for generating 3D materials from single source images due in Substance Alchemist and Adobe Capture.

Thursday, April 9th, 2020

Megascans to get new 'modular' assets and drone scans; Mixer to get new tools for authoring stylised, painterly materials.

Tuesday, April 7th, 2020

AI-driven tools developer's material-processing tech to be integrated in Unity, but will remain available for other game engines.

Wednesday, March 11th, 2020

Next-gen material authoring tool now out of beta. First official release adds new delighter filter.

Tuesday, November 5th, 2019

Next-gen material-creation tool gets new features for organising materials, including file tagging and syncing to local disks.

Saturday, August 10th, 2019

Upcoming material-creation tool now free to all, not just people with existing Substance subscriptions.

Tuesday, July 30th, 2019

Free-in-beta material-authoring tool gets new Scatter modifier, updated Pattern modifer, layer blending modes and undo/redo system.

Monday, July 22nd, 2019

Next-gen material creation tool gets 12 new filters, plus option to animate material sliders in the UI.

Friday, June 14th, 2019

Latest beta of the next-gen material creation tool adds option to create collections of material variations.

Tuesday, April 23rd, 2019

Eagerly anticipated next-gen material creation tool now in free beta for Allegorithmic subscribers.

Wednesday, March 20th, 2019