Create materials with full control and infinite variations.
Edit complete texture sets instantly and produce Substance textures and MDL materials that will be directly handled in your renderer or game engine.
Substance Files (.sbsar)Create Substance files tweakable in-contextTileable texturesProduce tileable textures up to 8K size with 32 bits floatingMaterialsProduce MDL materials for Iray, V-Ray and Adobe FelixSCAN PROCESSINGProcess scans thanks to filters and tools in an adapted to photogrammetry workflow.

Substance Designer features a complete set of tools and filters including: Crop Tool, Color Equalizer Tool, Extract Channels filters (Multi-angle to Albedo, Multi-angle to Normal, Normal to Height), Smart Patch Clone Tool, Smart Auto Tile Tool.

Import

Crop

Clean with Color Equalizer

Extract Channels

Tile with Smart Auto Tile

Add Procedural Effects

Add Vector Graphics

IMPORT A WIDE VARIETY OF CONTENT

Import procedural sbs and sbsar files, hand-painted images, photographs, scans and geometry (.fbx & .obj). No need to worry about tiling, either – Substance Designer handles it automatically.

REAL-TIME PHYSICALLY BASED VIEWPORT WITH IRAY PATH TRACING

Use the real-time PBR viewport to preview your work exactly as it appears in Unity and Unreal. Match any other game engine via custom shaders.
Create photo-realistic renders with Iray path-trace technology while working, embellish your work with Yebis post-production effects, and share portfolio-ready materials directly on ArtStation.

NODE-BASED NON-DESTRUCTIVE WORKFLOW

Substance Designer features 4 graphs types: Tiling textures, MDL materials, Math Functions and Noise Editor. Edit complete texture sets instantly with the procedural node-based non-linear workflow. Want to change something while you’re working? Make changes to any previous step while keeping your current work intact.