Adobe Substance 3D

The industry standard

• Substance 3D Painter is widely used in-game and movie production as well as in product design, fashion, and architecture. It’s a go-to 3D texturing app for creative professionals everywhere.

Full creative freedom

• Painter helps you achieve the look you want, from product design to realistic games and visual effects to projects such as stylized animation.

Smart tools for enhanced artistry

• Use Smart Materials that adjust to any object to show realistic surface detail or wear and tear. Explore mask presets that adapt to any shape, and paint with efficient, dynamic tools.

What you see is what you get

• The state-of-the-art viewport in Painter shows all your artistic decisions in real-time. Iterate on complex materials with advanced lighting and shadows, making texturing even more creative and painless. You can even preview your model in the included path tracing mode.

It’s nondestructive

• In Painter, every action and stroke is recorded and can be recomputed at any time. This means you can change the resolution of your project at any time without ever-decreasing quality, or even modifying existing paint strokes.

The industry standard for material authoring

• Substance 3D Designer is used across many industries and is at the center of most video game and visual effects material pipelines. Substance parametric materials are supported in most 3D creation tools and will integrate seamlessly into any workflow. Send your materials directly to Substance 3D Painter and Stager.

Nondestructive, nonlinear

• The node-based workflow allows you to use a wide range of approaches. Any step of the process can always be modified later. Try everything, adjust anytime.

Endless possibilities, infinite combinations

• Designer comes with a rich node library to create your assets from scratch. Build upon and learn from thousands of materials from Substance 3D Assets and Substance 3D Community Assets.

Go beyond materials

• Generate dynamic 3D models, or combine existing elements like curves and kitbash models. Create parametric environment lights to use in any app supported by Substance 3D.

Transform real-world pictures into 3D materials

• Easily import a reference photo and transform it into a high-quality 3D material with features powered by Adobe Sensei. Closely match the original real-life surface and create seamless tileable materials from your captures.

Combine and mix materials

• Combine multiple materials and parametric filters to create more advanced surfaces. Access thousands of materials on Substance 3D Assets and Substance 3D Community Assets. The possibilities are endless.

An extensive content library to get you started

• Drag and drop your image, add a couple of prebuilt filters, and voila — a library of one-click generators, filters, and effects lets you quickly experiment and get results in just a few clicks. Send your assets directly to Substance 3D Painter and Stager.

Lighting made easy

• Enhance your lighting with the environment light editor or add physical 3D lights to your scene for advanced lighting design.

Diverse format support

• Enjoy support for an array of formats from CAD (for enterprise customers) to USD and glTF, as well as parametric Substance materials, lights, and models.

Physics awareness

• Set up realistic collisions between objects during positioning and transformation.

Project showcase

• Import your Painter projects into Stager with a single click and pick up where you left off.

Interactive workspace

• Switch between real-time rendering and interactive path tracing while keeping high visual quality.