Substance Designer 2018

Allegorithmic / Nov 22, 2017 / Animation & Modeling, Design & Illustration

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Substance Designer is the industry's reference Material Creation and Scan Processing Tool. More than 95% of AAA game projects currently in development use Substance as well as the most prestigious visual effects and animation studios.

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What's new

Substance Designer 2018.3.4

2019-04-16

A new update has been released for Substance Designer: Changed: • Normal Transform/Material Transform: add an option to enable Scale and Skew transformation Fixed: • Swirl filter does not work correctly when random functions are used in parameters functions • Normal Transform/Material Transform: Normal is not normalized after a scale transformation • Swirl gives incorrect results when amount is random • Crash when shift-dragging an output then switching to ctrl-dragging • Crash while manipulating split points • Performance drop when displaying node badges • Using custom actions could crash after 30secs • Enabled scripts from all projects should be executed (in the 'Scripting' section) • crash when linking a MDL graph into another MDL graph • Nodes do not update after setting the graph random seed to an exposed parameter

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• Assigning colour node changes layer thumbnail size, assigning a grayscale node does not • Unhandled exception with SDNode.getPropertyValueFromId()

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What players say

Mostly Positive

79% positive, 24 reviews

Recommended75 hrs played

This is an upgrade of the previously known "substance designer 6", before sh*tstorming allegorithmic for making a new version each year, first realise that they offer you to use the software forever, they just stop updating after a year. Hey they gotta eat too. I could go over all the things i've enjoyed about this software, but the fact that i keep upgrading means i personally find it really useful. This is an...

22 found this helpful, 2018-01-09

Recommended142 hrs played

Well for me the price isn't really worth it as I just want to create some assets for an copyleft open source game. But coming from GIMP for making textures -which I rarely do- this is an upgrade that makes me wanna make textures. It's easy and fairly intuitive to use. If you have a basic workflow in GIMP you would just create nodes for each step you did in GIMP to let it create the texture for you and inserting...

8 found this helpful, 2018-05-12

Not recommended293 hrs played

A good suit of softwares. Unfortunately... Allegorithmic's entire database of users are bound to magically morph into milking cows. Substance suit is now owned by greedy Adobe, and we all knew about the next step: Landmark releases now require to repay the product in full, as it has already begun with Substance Designer 2019. Students and non profit users should appreciate. Allegorithmic was a just another Startup,...

3 found this helpful, 2019-07-12