Substance Materials Plugin in Photoshop: This joins an existing plugin for Illustrator, which Adobe says is already used by hundreds of thousands of Illustrator users. A new Substance 3D Automation Toolkit provides features for automating Substance files-based tasks. Substance 3D Materials SDK: Adobe says this allows developers to write their own plugins and use the Substance 3D Material and Model engines inside other applications. Native Apple M-series chips support for Substance Painter, Designer and Sampler: Adobe says this enables 3D content creators to work faster than ever. 'These innovations provide new superpowers to the rapidly growing number of creative people using Substance 3D.'Īdobe says Substance SD tools have seen a strong 100% year-over-year growth, with hundreds of thousands of monthly active users.

'That means that creative artists with expertise in 3D have a wealth of opportunities,' he says. It takes a lot of money and time to shift that, and its unlikely to come around anytime soon at the same quality level.Adobe has announced major updates to its Substance 3D suite of tools and services, including a 3D Materials SDK for developers and native Apple M-series chips support for Painter, Designer, and Sampler, while also taking further steps into the metaverse.Īdobe Creative Cloud chief product officer and executive vice president Scott Belsky says smart brands are getting metaverse-ready by growing their 3D and immersive content creation capabilities. People looking for alternate software, can do so with the suggestions, but if people are hoping to suddenly get an alternative to an industry standard then think again. Regarding your comment on them being the standard, thats absolutely the case they are - I agree, just like photoshop is the standard. Some are some are not - this is even pointed out on substance source Hence my choice of words originally )

Its the same thing, I dont think on an international forum it really matters to be that pedantic about choice of words But in case it was not clear, yes I meant prodedural materials (Although if we are being pedantic, I should point out not all substances are procedural.

Saying 'fully procedural' is no different than a material that adapts, through procedures etc, to the surface/model at hand.

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