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What is Adobe Substance 3D Painter?

Substance Painter gives you all the tools you need to texture your 3D assets.

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Substance Painter gives you all the tools you need to texture your 3D assets.


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Adobe empowers everyone, everywhere to imagine, create, and bring any digital experience to life. From creators and students to small businesses, global enterprises, and nonprofit organizations — customers choose Adobe products to ideate, collaborate, be more productive, drive business growth, and build remarkable experiences.

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Verified User
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Verified UserSmall-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"A Powerful Tool for Texturing"
The real-time rendering and the extensive library of materials and smart masks make the texturing process incredibly efficient and creative.The abi...
mohit  t.
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mohit t.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Best ever software for texturing and baking."
baking and texturing also for somw beginners it is really good for rendering and creating there portfolios ,for me as a 3d artist it is the second ...
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Verified UserSmall-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"This is one of the best software out there for texturing.It is easy to learn and worth a try."
the biggest advantage of substance painter is that it is very easy to learn, I got the hang of it in a day only but there are many things you will ...
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Kamal K.
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What do you like best about Adobe Substance 3D Painter?

Since I work in 3D industry, I find it veryhandy while painting in 3D. The best thing I like is I can change the lighting while texturing to see how light effects the materials Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Adobe Substance 3D Painter?

I dont quite understand the different UV projections that are available in texturing. Some of them are too confusing to visualize mentally. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Adobe Substance 3D Painter solving and how is that benefiting you?

The GPU TLD issue is annoying mostly. It also crashes during long computations which is very annoying to me personally. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Alok K.
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What do you like best about Adobe Substance 3D Painter?

Any texture we want to create in 3D models ,this adobe painter helps to create that model so realistic Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Adobe Substance 3D Painter?

For using this software high configuration system is required Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Adobe Substance 3D Painter solving and how is that benefiting you?

This software is full of high quality materials and procedural texturing that helps to create so many high quality textures we want in 3D models Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Gourav J.
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What do you like best about Adobe Substance 3D Painter?

The Interface is very nice & user-friendly. It is very easy to use & easy to learn. There are enough tutorials to learn Substance from their official website. The Workflow is too nice. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Adobe Substance 3D Painter?

I can't say I don't like anything. I like everything about substance. Everything is so nice; I like it very much & easy to use. If you want to try please download & install trial version. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Adobe Substance 3D Painter solving and how is that benefiting you?

Any type of Texturing you can do here. I tried realistic and semi-realistic cartoonists. Currently, I am using it for my professional work & freelance as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Matt A.
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What do you like best about Adobe Substance 3D Painter?

I have been using Substance Painter for several years now from before Adobe's acquisition of Allegorithmic, since I've delved into this piece of software I can say it makes quickly creating your base textures a breeze as well as allowing you to finely detail each aspect of your texture with layer and layer blending you'd find in Image Editing software like Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, and GIMP. This ability to take my expertise in Raster image editing software and applying to in 3D rather the just editing flat 2D texture maps allows for placing detail the way you want it to look directly on your 3D model and with its sister program Substance Designer you can author PBR files and use them directly between each program. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Adobe Substance 3D Painter?

I dislike that Adobe has turned it into another Software as a Service element creative professionals need to shell out money each month for continued use. I was fortunate enough to have bought a perpetual license from Allegorithmic before Adobe's acquisition so I'm not paywalled out of just using the software. I also found some aspects like opacity mapping and some blending options to not work how they should and it sometimes made making transparent or semi-transparent elements to be more difficult to create. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Adobe Substance 3D Painter:

If you want a powerful tool for quickly designing your textures or to update or improve on existing textures in your 3D workflow I'd recommend this and Substance Designer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Adobe Substance 3D Painter solving and how is that benefiting you?

It allows me to more quickly create my textures and to directly paint them onto my 3D meshes compared to the old way of exporting UV Maps into Photoshop and designing them somewhat blindly there and updating my models to tweak them. The connectivity with Substance Designer also allows for material authoring and using those created PBR's directly in Painter. This greatly boosts my texture workflow in my opinion. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Adobe Substance 3D Painter?

It speeds up the asset preparation workflow, and makes it so easy to paint realistic custom graphics on a model. The export process has been refined to help export the correct maps for the correct modelling software/render plugin. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Adobe Substance 3D Painter?

Sometimes if you have a directional pattern, it can be tricky to paint to the model, but this can help if you set up your UVs as best as possible to account for this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Adobe Substance 3D Painter:

If you struggle making professional/realistic looking textures for 3d models, this is definitely a huge help in doing this...and in a super fast way. Make sure that your UVs are good (Painter can do them, but they're not always as useful as laying them out yourself), and you will be able to get stuck right in with the painting and using the huge numbers of textures available.

This is pricey overall, but definitely worth the investment if you have a lot of models to produce, short time frames and it is your business to make high quality assets. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Adobe Substance 3D Painter solving and how is that benefiting you?

It solves painstakingly creating lots of hand made (photoshop) maps, by automating the export process and making the painting part simple. If you understand Photoshop layers, you're half of the way to finding your way around the UI. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jignesh M.
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What do you like best about Adobe Substance 3D Painter?

Like the simple user face and so many things to do with a single tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Adobe Substance 3D Painter?

It takes too much to render the final result, which is so hectic and time taking. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Adobe Substance 3D Painter solving and how is that benefiting you?

No need to buy 3D illustrations from another website. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Zikar P.
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What do you like best about Adobe Substance 3D Painter?

Very perfect, easy to use, next generation works, current trends Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Adobe Substance 3D Painter?

But slow, still in beta version request you to rollout asap Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Adobe Substance 3D Painter solving and how is that benefiting you?

Easily convert image with perfect color combination Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Biplob C.
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What do you like best about Adobe Substance 3D Painter?

I use the Adobe Substance 3D Painter painting tool for a long time and it is my favorite tool. I am very happy using the tool and give them 5 out of 5. Hope they update their tool more. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Adobe Substance 3D Painter?

It seems to me that the price is too high. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Adobe Substance 3D Painter solving and how is that benefiting you?

When I use the tool my computer runs a bit slow they will work on this. But I'm not tested, maybe it's a problem with my computer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Adobe Substance 3D Painter?

In a few seconds I can transform a generic material into something unique. The details Substance Painter can add are impressive, especially using Smart Materials. Corrosion, dust and imperfections are examples of details that are easily added to your model using this tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Adobe Substance 3D Painter?

Integration with the main 3D software on the market can be improved. Beginners will have trouble exporting work done within Substance Painter to their 3d software. Export Presets require some manual care to have the desired effect. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Adobe Substance 3D Painter:

If you want to make your materials look realistic, you definitely need Substance Painter. Give it a try and you will quickly realize that it is essential to take your projects to the next level. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Adobe Substance 3D Painter solving and how is that benefiting you?

I work with mechanical parts in general, and details like corrosion and imperfections take the model to another level. With Substance Painter it is possible to create a new material that can be used in many projects easily. With a bit of experience my workflow has improved significantly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Adobe Substance 3D Painter?

Easy to color change, Pattern, style really excellent Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Adobe Substance 3D Painter?

Still not link with Adobe illustrator and beta verson Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Adobe Substance 3D Painter solving and how is that benefiting you?

Easy to make creative images in 3d Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.