Substance Designer

Substance Designer 4, with its new features, can definitely claim the title of "the first texturing tool dedicated to Next Gen”. In particular, its new material layering workflow and its PBR shader are in par with what is going on with AAA studios around the globe. And now the tool is here to accommodate this way of working and puts that in everyone’s hands. 

Substance Designer is the industry-reference, next gen texture authoring and management tool, already chosen by numerous great studios over the world as a hub in their pipeline. Jump in and join the quickly growing community of Substance Designer users!

Key features:

• Node based texture editor 


• Custom template for creating DotA2 characters. 


• Real-time 3D Preview, with physically based shader 


• Live link with Photoshop 


• Mesh driven map extraction (AO, Normal map, Curvature, Height map, etc.) 


• Library of hundreds of predefined filters and tools 


• Optimized pipeline with UDK, Unity, 3ds Max, Maya and others 


• The Steam version of Substance Designer comes with an exclusive template designed to help artists create textures for Dota 2. See the guide in the Community Hub for more info! 


• Sell your creations on the Steam Workshop-- even with the non-commercial version!