Adobe Substance 3D

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Adobe Substance 3D brings you an ecosystem of apps and content that empower you to design 3D.

Adobe Substance 3D Painter

Substance 3D Painter has the tools you need to texture your 3D assets, from advanced brushes to Smart Materials that automatically adapt to your model. Breathe life into your art. 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.

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

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.

Adobe Substance 3D Designer

With Substance 3D Designer, create seamless materials and patterns, image filters, environment lights, or even 3D models. Each asset can output infinite variations. 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.

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.

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.

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.

Adobe Substance 3D Sampler

Substance 3D Sampler is at the heart of your 3D workflow. Easily transform a real-life picture into a photorealistic surface or HDR environment. Easily import a reference photo or snap one on the go with Adobe Capture 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 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.

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.

Adobe Substance 3D Stager

Build and assemble 3D scenes in this intuitive staging tool. Set up assets, materials, lights, and cameras. Export and share media, from images to web and AR experiences. Substance 3D Stager lets you make creative decisions in context. Refine and adjust your composition in real time. Visualize and edit advanced materials with complex lighting and shadows.

Build your realistic 3D scenes with quick and efficient smart tools. Block out shapes, snap elements, activate physics to avoid collisions between models, and generate simple lights.

Stager comes with models, materials, and lights to get started. Or explore and use the thousands of high-end assets made by our 3D experts and included with your Substance 3D Collection plan.

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Adobe Substance 3D Modeler

Adobe Substance 3D Modeler makes modeling in 3D feel as gestural and natural as drawing. Encourage your creative flow in this flexible and powerful 3D shaping tool. With an intuitive design, Modeler frees you from the technical constraints of traditional 3D modeling. Focus purely on the creative process and create simple 3D models or complex, fully conceived 3D scenes.

Modeler is a flexible tool for creating concept art, sketching and prototyping, blocking out game levels, crafting detailed characters or props, or sculpting an entire scene. All in one app.

The powerful tools in Modeler work seamlessly across both desktop and VR. Create with the hardware that empowers you best at each step of your creative workflow.

Substance 3D Assets

Access over 15,000 customizable models, lights, and materials created by world-class artists, for every industry. The Substance 3D Assets library has what you need for each part of your creative workflow.

Adobe Substance 3DRecent articles

Making Layered Water VFX Inspired by Avatar: The Last Airbender

Daniele Ellimah breaks down a water-bending VFX inspired by Avatar: The Last Airbender, discussing layering shades of blue, adding foam and dark patches, and creating a smooth dissolve effect.

Terraforming The Alters: Last Variable with Blender, ZBrush & UE5

Artem Ostapchuk of 11 bit studios shared how the team built the terraforming pipeline for The Alters: Last Variable, visualizing alien flora over a barren planet with opaque Nanite cutout geometry, PCG scattering and a global HISM system so every level worked in both its scorched and terraformed states.

Building an Abandoned, The Last of Us-Inspired Mediterranean House with Custom Materials

Barış Kılıç explains how he blended Mediterranean architecture with The Last of Us aesthetic in his Mediterranean Echoes scene, shares his trick for distributing polygons wisely, and reflects on the challenge of making a set of custom materials in Substance 3D Designer.

Substance 3D Painter 12.2 Lets Artists Paint Baking Cages Directly on Models

Substance 3D Painter 12.2 introduces cage painting, smarter Polygon Fill selections, texture-set highlighting, and improved real-time rendering for overlapping transparent materials.

Creating Realistic Textures on an Old Woven Basket Decorated with Seashells

Shubham Vijay talks about the meticulous process of recreating an intricate pattern on a woven basket in 3D, breaks down the process of texturing several different surfaces, like rope and seashells, and explains how he integrated 3D scans of real-life objects into the project.

Gunfire Reborn's Dragonchaser Reimagined as Painterly 3D Asset in Wayfinder's Style

Max Osta showed us the workflow behind the Dragonchaser project, discussing recreating the gun from Gunfire Reborn in a painterly, Wayfinder-inspired style, sculpting wood planks and jade in ZBrush, building ropes with Blender modifiers and procedural textures, and rendering in Eevee.

Making Realistic Tileable Forest Floor Material Using Substance 3D Designer's Nodes

Zeqi Mu explains how he crafted the intricate, true-to-life forest floor texture in Substance 3D Designer, comments on how he achieved a believable root growth pattern, and shows his lighting and rendering setup for the Unreal Engine scene.

This Tool Speeds Up Texturing Workflow Between Painter & UE5

Moss3D's TexBridge handles the repetitive work of reimporting maps and rebuilding texture connections between Substance 3D Painter and Unreal Engine 5.

Sculpting Scales & Simulating Clothes for Creature Chef in ZBrush & Marvelous Designer

Yuriy Barchuk walked us through the workflow behind the Breakfast – Chef Extraordinaire project, discussing clothing simulation for a non-human character in Marvelous Designer, sculpting scales in ZBrush, and rendering in Unreal Engine 5.7.