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Substance material

3D modeling and animation tool gets updates to the ML Deformer and liquid simulation in Bifrost. Check out all the new features here.

Wednesday, March 26th, 2025

Check out the new features in the renderer, including native OpenPBR and 3D Gaussian Splatting support, and improvements to V-Ray GPU.

Thursday, January 16th, 2025

3ds Max, Blender, Cinema 4D and Maya renderer gets motion-graphics-friendly new Distance shader, plus updates to Redshift RT.

Thursday, July 18th, 2024

Check out the new features in the 3D animation software, from updates to LookdevX to a sneak peek at character rigging in Bifrost.

Wednesday, May 22nd, 2024

Motion graphics and 3D animation app gets better workflow with ZBrush and Substance 3D materials, expanded glTF and USD export.

Thursday, February 22nd, 2024

Update boosts performance in real-time render engine Redshift RT, including support for async shader compilation and DLSS upscaling.

Tuesday, December 12th, 2023

3D animation and motion graphics tool gets new options for rigid body and Pyro simulations, new Key Reducer for mocap data.

Tuesday, December 12th, 2023

3D clothing design tool gets option to edit, blend and retime simulation caches, plus improved retopology.

Tuesday, November 15th, 2022

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

Wednesday, June 15th, 2022

GPU-based terrain generation app gets new Fast Render mode, plus bridge tools for Unity and UE4.

Tuesday, April 12th, 2022

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

Saturday, March 26th, 2022

Latest version of Maya adds new options for retargeting facial animation. Bifrost, USD, Substance and Arnold plugins all updated.

Wednesday, December 8th, 2021

Open source plugin now converts Substances to RenderMan's new Lama materials, for use in Blender, Houdini or Maya.

Wednesday, August 4th, 2021