Substance 3D Painter

Substance Painter is a powerful application for 3D and texture painting, which offers you comprehensive tools for designing materials and brushes. The program supports high-resolution painting, mapping brush strokes and editing individual parts of a model. Your workflow is improved thanks to the layer-based painting process.

Substance Painter allows you to create and manage 3D paintings in a short time, thanks to its intuitive interface. The program features several workspaces, including the brush selector, texture control panels, materials pick and properties editor.

A powerful previewing area allows you to load your painting in a Physically based (PBR) viewport for accurate feedback on materials and textures. Moreover, you can separate your painting into segments and map the textures or materials to them.

The materials are specialized layers that replicate previously made settings for each part of the selected mesh. These tools can help you transfer parts of your design to other segments of the mesh, such as clothes design or reflections.

Substance Painter is suitable for creating 3D models from scratch, in a short time, by starting with texturing. You can use the template shaders or import your own presets, then create custom channels on which to paint. Moreover, the properties panels allow you to control optical parameters of the mesh, such as antialiasing, color correction, DOF, glare or bloom.

The program also supports particle painting, which allows you to apply elemental details to your model. You may thus add realistic dust traces, glass cracks, rain effects or even facial hair to the models.

Substance Painter enables you to add realistic effects to the models, thanks to the advanced material painting, adding parametric masks or normal map sculpting. Its intuitive interface features detached panels that you can arrange in its interface so that they suit your work style. Moreover, the Physical-based viewport allows you to preview texture rendering, reflections, material effects.

NOTE: You need to login to the Substance Painter website in order to download the installer.