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Adobe Substance 3D Collection

Score7.3 out of 10

6 Reviews and Ratings

What is Adobe Substance 3D Collection?

Adobe Substance 3D is a suite of apps that support 3D design, including texture assets and rendering tools. Workflows can connect to Adobe Creative Cloud apps.

Categories & Use Cases

Adobe Substance 3D Collection

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In general we use Adobe Substance 3D Collection for various use cases. Like the painter helps us to create realistic pbr materials for our products and also helps us to save them as library and save time for further projects. The stager helps in preparing style frames for videography and visual frames catered specially for the client. Although its a rare use but the designer helps sometimes to create textures and materials from scratch

Pros

  • The substance painter is really useful to create realistic pbr materials and textures.
  • The stager is really helpful in visualizing styleframes and storyboard frames for video and special images.
  • Designer helps to create in detail procedural materials from scratch as per lur requirements.

Cons

  • The substance painter is easy to use but its interface could be improved to be a bit more user friendly.
  • More assets can be added to stager, so visualize products better. Also AI workflow can be added for backplates.
  • Substance designer learning curve is very tough. Many people not able to grab it. It could be simplified.

Return on Investment

  • The library we create in the substance painter really helps us to save a lot of time for future projects. Drag and drop the materials and boom product is ready.
  • Stager cuts us the costs by saving us time on the feedbacks because of the better visualization we were able to provide at initial stages.
  • Designer didnt helped us much directly but somewhat useful as it comes with the package and it has great tools which might be costlier to buy separately.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

KeyShot, Blender and Adobe PhotoShop

Other Software Used

Autodesk Maya, Adobe PhotoShop, Blender

The Best Texturing Software in Existence

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Adobe Substance 3D to create and improve our textures. We then

integrate the exported files with Blender and Unreal Engine. Adobe Substance 3D has been great since the start, it's easy to use, reliable, and it just

works. We have been using it a lot lately with the new features they

introduced after being acquired by Adobe. They are integrating it into the

Adobe Suite, with more updates on the way!

Pros

  • Great performance
  • Excellent Adobe support
  • Fast and easy

Cons

  • Sometimes, it can take a lot to load heavy files
  • It could be better at the time of exporting, it requires a pro user to make it right
  • The interface can be messy if you're not familiar with it

Most Important Features

  • Good support
  • Reliable updates
  • Ease of use

Return on Investment

  • We saved time when texturing models
  • With better looking assets, it's more money in the bank
  • Less time testing, more time doing

Alternatives Considered

Blender, Cinema 4D and Unreal Engine

Other Software Used

HubSpot CRM, Hunter, Crunchbase, LinkedIn Sales Navigator