Substance Designer is the industry’s reference Material Creation and Scan Processing Tool. More than 95% of AAA game projects currently in development use Substance as well as the most prestigious visual effects and animation studios.

You will get free updates on Steam up to the end of 2021

Create amazing looking materials with full control and an infinity of variations. Edit complete texture sets instantly with Substance Designer’s node-based workflow and produce procedural, scan-based or hybrid Substance and MDL materials that will be directly compatible with your renderer or game engine.

Welcome to the community
Substance Designer is the tool on which the best texture artists in the industry rival themselves in a contest of ingeniosity and skill, along with an ever-growing and friendly online community. Have a question or need some guidance? Join us on Discord or on our official forums, there is always someone ready to help.
Want to learn from the best? Join the more than 100 000 users on Substance Share and download some of the 2,300+ free assets available to help you in your artistic journey.

This license does not include access to Substance Source

List of game engines and tools with direct Substance format support (Substance Designer does not require a compatible renderer and can also export good old textures if needed):

• Unreal Engine 4
• Unity
• Amazon Lumberyard
• CryEngine
• Autodesk Maya
• Autodesk 3ds Max
• Cinema 4D
• Blender (via 3rd party plugin)
• Modo
• Houdini
• Marmoset Toolbag
• iClone
• and many more, find the full list on our website!