Substance Designer Reviews & Product Details

Substance Designer is a great software. I am a programmer so I don't normally spend a lot of time on the artistic side of the business. It's something I know how to do but it's just not my strong suit. Nonetheless, I decided to try out Substance Designer. I fell in love with it instantly. Substance Designer makes it incredibly easy and fast to make AAA-quality materials. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The subscription model it's not easy to justify if you are a casual artist and solo programmer like me.

Unity has a license model that only charges royalties if your game/app sells over a certain threshold. A model like that would make it more accessible to casual artists.

The learning curve is a bit steep, but it's doable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Intuitive node based experience without limits. My main work in Substance Designer is in creating fabrics that do not exist or not possible to photo is high resolution. It is great that once the fabric is creating, I am able to produce additional variations from it, creating numerous different variants. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Сomplete inability to export in vector format! I would be great to have a bridge between Substance Designer and Adobe illustrator. It is easier some things to do in illustrator or vise versa. Bridge between them will resolve a lot of problems, it will laso bring to market graphic designers, because they will be able to create vector images in Substance Designer. Right now there is no ability to export anything from Substance Designer in vector formet (eps, ai, svg), this means, that it only can export raster graphics. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The procedural, node based work flow is extremely powerful once you get your head around it. There's a wealth of content and teaching resources to help with that. The flexible workflow means it's extremely easy to adjust textures you've made, IE, number of bricks in a wall, number of stones in a gravel texture.. Overall it's just the most powerful tool for the job when it comes to creating tiling textures.

The workflow between Designer and Painter is also nice, where you can use your procedural materials easily in Painter.

Creating variables also allows you to easily adjust parameters that you expose. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The learning curve can be quite steep for people who are new to node based work flows. However, as mentioned, there is a wealth of teaching resources and the Substance Designer community is huge, and always open to answering questions.

Sometimes it can be difficult to find the node you need. You know what you need to do, but the node may have a name that is difficult to find. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The ease of use and the quality of the end result. I can literally paint right on the screen like painting a clay model. I especially love how I can quickly paint normal map and height map details. It means I don't need to bother with actually sculpting it in Blender and baking it out. It saved me so much time when creating models for my client. I also love smart materials that let me reuse the texture I made for other things. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I hope that it will be able to natively support Blend file so that I can get started right away from Blender instead of spending time prepping it. I mainly use Blender, so it would be important for me to be able to jump right into texture design in SP to speed up my work flow. Although I only had chance to use it because my client let me use it, I had great time learning and making use of it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

in the projects I liked to use the nod system easily and clearly . The intuitiveness of the whole system is for me . . It is easy to integrate the program into various projects, with the ability to train teams in a short time with minimal resources as there is a large base of initial material and an excellent system of assistance documents . . this is the best program for creating tiles and different environments that I have ever seen and it really reduced the time to create assets for our projects . . It was easy to edit customers and art directors . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like everything in the right direction , in which you are moving except for the design and visual content of the program , which is cumbersome and takes up a lot of screen space , I do not like the time it takes to run and the ability to optimize the catalog of textures and presets . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I love precision in texturing workflow that gives me that software, thus it helps me to improve time efficiency in my production line. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometime it feels very laggy and overloads my computer a bit, but it's more about how I construct my node setup. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Substance has helped me improve the quality of work and the speed of which it is produced. The workflow is very non-destructive, which is great for working in a large team of artists. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Substance designer can be a quite intimidating for beginner learners who haven’t used node-based graphs. Luckily, algorithmic has a great selection of free tutorials and guides which can be found online for free. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Having this procedural nodes workflow with Substance Designer has become a game changer in my texturing pipeline. You really can do whatever it's what you need to do. Everything it's endless inside Substance Designer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Might get a little time to understand the node workflow but once you get it, you can literally do whatever you want. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Very simple and intuitive tool, easy to use and very flexible.

Process is very fast and great preview PBR viewport Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Adding nodes is sometimes a bit confusing since you can't always see the nodes in the browser but only in the quick menu, would be nice to have a simpler way to quickly add nodes (similar to the visualt scripting features of Unreal Engine 4) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

node based way of creating materials because it's very clear to understand and very easy to work with substance designer Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

sometimes I feel if the UI can little bit improved, then that would be better Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.