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Unlock the power of procedural design.
Create seamless materials, patterns, image filters, and environment lights with infinite variations.
Discover the foundations of Substance 3D Designer.
Jump-start your creativity with foundational video tutorials showing how 3D design artists author textures with Substance 3D.
Author materials with the industry standard.
Designer’s Academy Award-winning 3D design technology is used by leading professionals across many industries.
Create non-destructively.
Using a node-based workflow allows creatives to build non-linearly, so every step can be adjusted later.
Explore endless combinations.
Open and learn from thousands of community and Substance 3D Assets library materials to see their node graphs, or use them to jump-start a new project.
Go beyond 3D materials.
Generate patterns, image filters, lights, and more with Designer’s powerful toolset.
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Supercharge your 3D design pipeline.
Access an extensive set of APIs so you can build and share plugins and create tools and utility graphs to supercharge your pipeline.
The features in Substance 3D Designer give you complete authoring control for material creation — and more.
Ever-growing content library
Access hundreds of nodes, filters, patterns, and randomizable noises.
HDR lighting creation
Build parametric lighting stages using procedural lights or 360° images.
Color management
Take advantage of Pantone and OpenColorIO support.
MDL support
Create MDL materials with the dedicated shader graph.
Open ecosystem
Easily send your materials and filters to other Substance 3D apps.
Substance 3D Designer is primarily a 3D design software that generates textures from procedural patterns inside node-based graphs. Substance 3D Painter allows users to texture and add materials directly to 3D meshes in real-time.
Yes. Substance 3D Designer allows you to export files for most major 3D file formats. A full list can be found in the documentation.
Yes, Substance 3D Designer can be used to create seamless textures and patterns. All output is fully non-destructive, non-linear, and parametric.
While we encourage anyone who wants to create 3D to learn every Substance 3D app, Designer should be viewed as the most technical and advanced texturing application available. Among the Substance texturing apps, Designer has the highest learning curve.
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Deliver designs that pop with Substance 3D and Illustrator.
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