Adobe Substance Collection

Software Review:

- Mike Griggs

PRICE £200 Per Year subscription | COMPANY Adobe | WEBSITE substance3d.com

FEATURES

The definitive Texture and Material creation suite

AI and Machine Learning simplifies a wide range of complex tasks

Substance 3D Designer gains procedural modelling

Substance 3D Stager comes with GPU-powered Ray Trace Render engine

Integrates well with other Adobe applications

A COLLABORATIVE COLLECTION

While the Substance 3D Collection is paid for separately from the Adobe Creative Cloud collection of applications, the various Adobe applications play well together. This is especially true for the new 3D apps. For example, a procedural model created in Substance 3D Designer can be rendered in Substance 3D Stager, while having artist-selected attributes such as the number of copies available without the need to round trip.

Ever since Allegorithmic was purchased by Adobe in early 2019, the writing has been on the wall that the industry-standard texturing Substance suite for 3D artists would become part of the Adobe Creative Cloud. Well, that time has come… kind of!

The new Adobe Substance 3D Collection ‘Adobifies’ the existing core creation apps into Substance 3D Painter and Substance 3D Designer, while reinventing Alchemist as the new Substance 3D Sampler and adding the new Substance 3D Stager into the mix.