Substance software is integrated in the main 3D applications and its format is an industry standard. You can go to the Graphic Processor section of our article Technical characteristics of computers and tablets to learn more about GPUs. Substance is optimized for Windows, macOS as well as Linux and allows you to extract materials from 3D objects on demand thanks to the integration of a GPU acceleration (Graphic Process Unit). This set of applications allows you to create 3D contents with great detail for cinema, video games, architecture or design.

We invite you to click on the links below to be redirected to a more detailed presentation of the functionalities of each of these softwares. These different applications allow, among other things, to apply textures to your models, which were obtained from a library, to design new ones from scratch or based on existing textures or to create collections of materials and textures. The Adobe Substance 3D suite consists of four major applications : Substance Painter, Substance Alchemist, Substance Designer, and Substance Source.

Substance has been used many times in film productions and is now also used by some major brands to develop visuals of their products. It is one of the leading tools in the world today for 3D texturing. Substance is a software suite for the creation of materials and textures developed by the French company Allegorithmic owned by Adobe since early 2019 and whose various software were launched in early 2010.

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