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.
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Positive (34) - 91% of the 34 user reviews for this software are positive.
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Nov 21, 2017
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“The issues with this release are so few and far between that it’s getting embarrassing to keep giving Allegorithmic such high scores.”
5/5 – 3D World

“Every year SD becomes more and more enticing for a wide variety of end users”
4/5 – 3D Total

About This Software

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 updates on Steam up to the end of 2018
Link your account to your Allegorithmic account to get 1 year of update from the purchase date on Steam

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 donload some of the 1 700+ free assets available to help you in your artistic journey.

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

System Requirements

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macOS
SteamOS + Linux
    Minimum:
    • OS *: Windows 7 / 8 / 10
    • Processor: X86 with SSE2
    • Memory: 2 GB RAM
    • Graphics: DX10 - Shader Model 3.0
    • DirectX: Version 10
    • Storage: 300 MB available space
    Recommended:
    • OS *: Windows 7 / 8 / 10
    • Processor: X86 with SSE2
    • Memory: 4 GB RAM
    • Graphics: DX10 - Shader Model 3.0
    • DirectX: Version 11
    • Storage: 1 GB available space
* Starting January 1st, 2024, the Steam Client will only support Windows 10 and later versions.
    Minimum:
    • OS: OSX 10.6
    • Processor: X86 with SSE2
    • Memory: 2 GB RAM
    • Storage: 300 MB available space
    Recommended:
    • OS: OSX 10.10
    • Processor: X86 with SSE2
    • Memory: 4 GB RAM
    • Storage: 1 GB available space
* Starting February 15, 2024, the Steam Client will no longer support 32-bit games or macOS 10.14 or lower.
    Minimum:
    • OS: Ubuntu 16.04
    • Processor: X86 with SSE2
    • Memory: 2 GB RAM
    • Storage: 300 MB available space
    Recommended:
    • OS: Ubuntu 16.04
    • Processor: X86 with SSE2
    • Memory: 4 GB RAM
    • Storage: 1 GB available space

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