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Substance 3D Designer

See what's new in this major compatibility-breaking update to the Substance plugin for Blender.

Tuesday, August 16th, 2022

Open-source version of Material Definition Language to include the MDL Distiller and GLSL backend for real-time and viewport rendering.

Friday, August 12th, 2022

Create a game-ready magic attack using UE5's Niagara toolset with The Gnomon Workshop's tutorial.

Saturday, August 6th, 2022

Hotly tipped open-source material authoring and 3D texture painting app gets its milestone 1.0 release. Check out all of its new features.

Sunday, July 24th, 2022

Material authoring app gets native M1 support. See what else is new, and what has been deprecated.

Wednesday, July 20th, 2022

Neat add-ons generate textures for use inside game engines like UE5, complete with flow and ID maps.

Monday, July 11th, 2022

Updated: see the UI and feature list for the Substance plugin available in the new beta build of Photoshop.

Wednesday, June 15th, 2022

Edit .sbsar materials inside the latest versions of the game engines with Adobe's new free plugins.

Wednesday, June 15th, 2022

Texture painting app gets support for ICC colour profiles, physical size in materials, new texture bakers.

Wednesday, June 8th, 2022

Material-authoring software gets USD import and export, new nodes to create and render 3D textures.

Wednesday, April 27th, 2022

Option to use renderers like Cycles, OctaneRender and V-Ray inside Omniverse apps due soon.

Saturday, March 26th, 2022

Neat Photoshop-style feature automatically removes unwanted details from all channels of a material at once.

Thursday, March 24th, 2022

Cost of renting Adobe software rises by up to 6.3% in April, but only some countries and plans affected.

Wednesday, March 23rd, 2022