Design Connected releases Connecter 1.7
Free standalone 3D asset browser with tight links to 3ds Max and Cinema 4D adds support for Substance materials.
Thursday, July 11th, 2019
SBSAR
10bit FX ships Notch 0.9.22
Real-time VFX and motion graphics tools get new GPU-agnostic hybrid ray tracing system, plus native support for Substance materials.
Friday, June 7th, 2019
Adobe ships Dimension CC 2.2
3D app for graphic designers gets support for cloud rendering and Substance materials, but the old V-Ray render engine has gone.
Wednesday, April 3rd, 2019
Allegorithmic ships Substance for 3ds Max 2.0
Free plugin for editing Substance materials in 3ds Max now supports animation and network rendering.
Friday, August 10th, 2018
Allegorithmic updates Substance Source library
Updated: Online library hosts 1,000+ materials in Substance format, designed for PBR workflows. Download some for free.
Thursday, June 7th, 2018
Allegorithmic ships Substance for 3ds Max 1.0
New free Substance integration plugin for 3ds Max now out of beta and ready for use in production.
Friday, April 13th, 2018
Download 90+ free PBR textures from CC0 Textures
Get free tileable metal, concrete, wood and fabric textures at up to 8K resolution. Commercial use.
Sunday, April 8th, 2018
Check out this neat Substance Designer hair generator
VinÃcius Cortez's $6 add-on creates good-looking texture maps for characters with strand-based hair.
Tuesday, March 27th, 2018
Download Jaakko Saari's free rock heightmap generator
Neat tool for creating realistic rock surfaces comes as a Substance Designer scene or .sbsar file to use in other DCC apps.
Wednesday, February 21st, 2018
Unity Technologies releases Unity 2018.1 in beta
New C#-scriptable render pipeline and node-based shader editor, but no more native Substance support.
Thursday, January 11th, 2018
Crytek releases CryEngine 5.4
Now officially released. Free game engine gets support for Substance Designer materials, new Vulkan renderer, and terrain blending.
Thursday, September 21st, 2017
Reallusion releases Character Creator 2.0
Free(ish) tool for creating rigged 3D human characters gets support for PBR shading, image-based lighting.
Friday, March 24th, 2017
Get the new Substance plugin for Houdini
Allegorithmic's free add-on lets users edit textures in Substance format using Houdini's native tools.
Thursday, May 26th, 2016