Adobe Substance 3D Painter Reviews & Product Details

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.

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.

one of the best things i like is the seamless integration it has with blender, the normal maps are easy to edit, and the real time ray traced views work very well, although you need a good graphics card to appreciate all the potential. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

sometimes small errors are generated in the triangular plots, I understand that this has always been a modeling problem, but one hopes to be able to solve it with the uv map Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

With the new functions added in the last version, the tool is easy to handle, the realism that you can achieve in 3D models is impressive, and more than that, the software can generate the UV maps of the 3D models without the need to do them in third party programs and the ease of communication between the different software that are called plugins Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The truth is that there is very little to talk about the bad of this digital painting tool since it is practically a professional software but the only thing that I did not like was the replacement of the icons of the suite of these programs managed by ADOBE Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is so much easier painting in 3d rather than doing paint over 2d and going back and forth in different programs to check the texture. It has become so easier working like this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I feel environment light that rotates horizontally could be better. I wish I could rotate it anywhere like unreal engine upside down or vertically. And then there is lack in number of fonts for texturing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There's a lot to appreciate when it comes to Substance Painter. It's easy to load your pre-existing high-res or low-res meshes, maps, and custom materials into the app and get right into developing high-quality textured assets. The tools are simple enough to engage with, and there's quite a bit of nuance to each one. You can also download assets from both Adobe and the strong community of users that upload their custom generators, materials, brushes, alphas, and so on. Substance Painter can perform well even on a mid-range machine, so you won't need to worry about having the absolute best hardware to do the job. Still, you will find that texture resolution will be clamped to a level based on your graphics card's abilities, likely for stability purposes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I've had some stability issues since moving to the Adobe version, but I'm hoping that's just a transitional thing that will sort itself out over time. Crashing while exporting isn't entirely new to Substance when you're working at high resolution but it does seem to happen more frequently since the changeover was made. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The learning curve seemed to be relatively short on Substance Painter. I was able to watch some videos (even the outdated ones) and still learn how to use a function. If something seemed hard to find based on outdated tutorials, a quick search seemed to do the trick in seeing what I wanted. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

With the software having so many options and functions, it does make it difficult trying to navigate around and find the right tool or a setting from time to time if you don't use it daily. If I took a break for a couple of weeks or more, I would spend a good fifteen minutes trying to remember how I did something. Another feature I dislike isn't strictly linked to Substance Painter but more the practice of subscription licenses instead of being able to buy a license once and have it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

So much user friendly, very much optimized, we can quickly see our textured objects with great HDRI lighting in so much less time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There's isn't anything much to dislike about the software. But it's hard to get good tutorials on them, like sidefx have a great library of tutorial. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The ambient occlusion generator saves me so much time, I used to have to bake it myself in blender ,

All of the layering options is really convenient too, adding edge wear easily makes productivity alot better Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I don't really like the lack of option for adding normal map detail, of I project a logo onto something and try to layer it onto normals I can't control the strength of it. This would be a cool addition and save me doing it post in Photoshop Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I love this new version, and it really is way above its competition. It has many points in its favor, nothing compares to Substance Painter, and this is because it is a much more complete and easy-to-use program, especially with its new user interface. Highly recommended if you want speed and excellent results Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I know it is an excellent program for design but I would like the prices to be a little lower. I understand that quality costs but they would be great if it cost less, it's the only bad thing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like that it follows the setup and user aspects of most Adobe software - if you are familiar with Adobe, this program is relatively easy to use with little training, which is nice! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Not much. I am not a fan of the 2D view, I always turn it off as the program is used for 3D (for my purposes). I also wish some of the macro commands (shortcuts) were different, it's annoying to go back and forth as I use this on both a mac and a pc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.