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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
Year Founded
1982
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$19,410
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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 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 ...
Verified User
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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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Taufiq S.
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What do you like best about Adobe Substance 3D Painter?

multiple brush options, 3D Patterns very useful Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Adobe Substance 3D Painter?

Beta Version with Multiple software, Integrate with Illustrator Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Creative designs, More advance level work Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

this tool widely used in game and film production. i like brush tools in this product, i can make a senario whit realistic effect with this tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Adobe Substance 3D Painter?

Not yet i seen like that things, Most of things are looks like good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

it remove realistic surface detail like sunspot, and black dots in the skin, it was doing that one clearly comparing others. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Smart materials are impressive and add unique details to any type of object, in just a few clicks you can preview the final result. The application of textures is intuitive, being able to just drag the material to the object and change it quickly, doing the same until reaching a satisfactory result. In no time you learn to customize your own texture by adding relief and other important properties in just a few clicks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Adobe Substance 3D Painter?

You need a little experience to export the material to the 3d software and get the expected result. Export presets don't work correctly in some software, a native integration would make the workflow much easier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Adobe Substance 3D Painter:

Absolutely if you want to add detail to the materials of your projects you will need Substance Painter. In just a few minutes you can add real details to the surface of any object Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I use it in all my engineering projects, adding details to the materials of objects that are not easily done in any 3d software. Dirt, dust, corrosion and many other object details are quickly added in Substance Painter. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I have used this for some projects, the key point of it is that the models and graphics designed are generated of such high quality and are unbelievably realistic. other than that it is better in things like texturing, rendering, exporting designs, integration with other tools etc than its competitors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Adobe Substance 3D Painter?

Nothing much to dislike though I will point out that new users may get confused because of the all the features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I use it to convert my 3d designs to much more realistic assets, download and use directly from adobe, and for texturing and rendering purposes for my designs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Substance Painter is user-friendly and easy to use. As a 3D artist, substance painter is the best option for digital painting and texturing 3D models. The texturing process is very efficient for us, plus it has excellent features. I use substance painter for texturing game assets; I used to bake low poly mesh with High poly, which painter nicely does also provides lots of features to make looks more realistic 3D models. Substance Painter offers free materials, plugins, filters, smart materials, etc., which save time for us, which i like the best. Moreover, it is PBR-based texturing, which means models will be rendered in real-time raytracing, ensuring more realistic textures. Substance Painter can export maps to 8K resolution, which is excellent. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Adobe Substance 3D Painter?

The license pricing of Painter is a little bit costly for freshers or newbies, but it is worth giving a shot. Also, for realistic texturing, substance painter is best, but in some cases, like human texturing or skin texturing for animals. Substance painter can be more significant; I mean, for skin texturing, I still use other software for better output. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Substance Painter provides me with realistic textures under real-world lighting, which is great we can relate or compare our textures with real-life things.

My texturing skills are enhanced a lot because of the substance painter. I use Substance Painter for 3D game assets, characters, structures. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The upside of working with substance painter is its simplicity. It is easy to learn, and even when you are a beginner, you can easily and quickly start modeling your models. Another great feature of substance painter is its support for multiple platforms, It offers multiple channels that you can configure to export you textures for different platforms. The rendering works with iray and offers good quality rendering of your textured models out of the box. If you need to export specific texture channels it allows you to customise your export to setup the formats you want making it easy for it to support even future modelling platforms that might come through. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Adobe Substance 3D Painter?

It would be great to have direct integration between substance painter and 3D modelling platforms like blender to make it faster when exporting from substance painter and importing to blender. There can also b ean improvement on the process of exporting a model from substance painter to formats like fbx and obj. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Substance painter has helped in making sure we have quality texturing of 3D models that we develop and in a simple, fast and efficient way. Texturing with substance painter allows you to improve your productivity in your workflow when developing 3D models.We have used substance painter to texture from 3D clothing, 3D characters, and even 3D wall structures. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The substance painter is easy to learn; just like photoshop, you are painting on your 3d models. The most significant benefit of substance painters is their work on real-time renters. I have used substance painter for the past few years. Another most prominent feature is it works on multiple platforms, and we can export our textures on numerous platforms such as vray, Arnold, unreal engine, etc... The smart materials helps my work ever faster and easier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Adobe Substance 3D Painter?

I work for texturing my hard surface models into realistic by adding details on them, and I'm 100 percent satisfied. I couldn't find any mistakes on substance painter. As a 3d artist, I'm so happy with it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

As a 3d artist, substance painter helps my work into realistic touch; It provides a real-time preview that makes it easier for texturing under real-world lighting.

The generators make my work even faster and more accessible. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Adobe Substance 3D Painter is the reference texturing app for 3D professionals and enthusiasts. I used past few years during texturing. It's too flexible and easy to use . all tools are too good, and so many options to flexible my texturing process, .and the most liked part are Real-Time Render Preview. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Adobe Substance 3D Painter?

There are no cons to describing. There are a lot of features that can be used for texture and also 3d real-time render view.

The entire software is good. There is no doubt about to do for dislike. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Nowadays who are all from the animation field can easily use this software. It's too flexible and user-friendly. I strongly recomend Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The most valuable part is Support for third-party plug-ins and deep brush customization, and the more exciting part is Integration with Unreal Engine 4. Substance 3D Painter has an extensive list of cool features. Users especially like a live viewer, rich format support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Substance painter is an excellent piece of software for adding materials and color to your 3D models. It's resource management for your assets is very easy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Adobe Substance 3D Painter?

At its core, Substance Painter is clunky. It's very resource-heavy for the average user and can be challenging to work in if the computer's hardware wasn't built for 3D work. Additionally, Adobe's render engine is still terrible. On an average PC or Mac, you can expect long wait times during renders, and you'd better hope you did it right the first time, or you'll be waiting even longer to re-render a project. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Again, Adobe's asset management is excellent. Other 3D software like Blender and C4D struggles a bit in this area. Unfortunately for Adobe, I'd rather plow through unorganized assets to avoid the awful rendering engine Adobe offers at this time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It's the go-to texturing application at the moment. Fast and userfriendly. Smart-materials and masks makes the texturing process incredibly procedural. With each update, it's getting closer to become industry standard for asset development. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Adobe Substance 3D Painter?

There are some limitations like resolution limit, and no API support which prevents it from being included in complex high-fidelity project pipeline and asset development. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It handles most of the texturing and shading for 3D assets. The mesh baking system is fast. Pre-loaded smart-material and smart-masks library helps in reaching the first stage early. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.