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Substance 3D offer

Create, capture, and paint 3D materials, and stage and render 3D scenes with Adobe Substance 3D Collection.

Note: Substance 3D apps are not included in Creative Cloud All Apps. Substance 3D Collection requires a separate purchase. 

The following chart shows the apps and services included in Substance 3D Collection, as well as key information about them, including value, differentiators, competitors, and integrations.

Consult the short Substance 3D product videos to learn more about key features.

 

Substance 3D Stager

Core function Value Competing products
 Differentiators
 Use cases
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Build and assemble 3D scenes

 Set up assets, materials, lights, and cameras for virtual photography. Export and share media, from images to web and AR experiences

Keyshot

Marmoset Toolbag

Support for parametric models, materials, and lights from Substance Designer.

Integrated CC Libraries panel for cross device and team synced assets

More robust layout tools including snapping, collision, and alignment features

More robust compositing with Match Image automatic background matching

Publish your scene in 3D to Creative Cloud Assets for sharing in a web-viewer with commenting system

Virtual photography 

Product shots

3D illustration

Creative Cloud Libraries, Stock, and Bridge

Painter > Send model to Stager

Sampler > Send light to Stager

Stager > Send scene to Aero

Substance 3D Painter

Core function Value Competing products
 Differentiators
 Use cases
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Seamlessly texture your 3D assets

 Use advanced brushes and Smart Materials that automatically adjust to any model to show realistic surface detail or wear and tear. Explore mask presets that adapt to any shape, and paint with efficient, dynamic tools.

Marmoset Toolbag

Mari

Quixel Mixer

Powerful industry-standard texture authoring tool for game and film industry

Streamlined and updated UX to make asset management more user-friendly

Versatility and customizability to adapt to any pipeline

Substance powered filters and mask generators

100% nondestructive workflow

Custom, complex materials for all 3D use cases, including high-end visualizations (VFX, games)

Send scene to Stager

Supports Photoshop brushes (.abr)

Substance 3D Sampler

Core function Value Competing products
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Digitize and enrich assets for 3D

 Easily transform a real-life picture into a photorealistic surface or HDR environment. Closely match the original real-life surface and create seamless tile able materials from your captures. Or combine multiple materials and parametric filters to create more advanced surfaces.

Artomatix

Quixel Mixer

Delighting and material generation from a single photo using Adobe Sensei

Environment light generation from 360 photos and real-time light edition

Custom Substance filters can be added to increase the initial feature set.

Create materials and lighting for 3D by leveraging real life images

Send material to Painter

Send lighting environment to Painter or Stager

Edit textures in Photoshop

Substance 3D Designer

Core function Value Competing products
 Differentiators
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Discover the power of procedural creation

 The industry-standard parametric authoring tool, giving users unparalleled artistic control over the creation of materials, image filters, and dynamic geometry

Artomatix

Industry-standard parametric authoring tool

Substance noises and procedural patterns

Parametric 3D model creation

Substance runtime allowing real-time material and 3D model generation and tweaking

Create materials, image filters, and dynamic geometry

Send material/filter to Sampler or Painter

Substance 3D Assets

Core function Value Competing products
 Differentiators
 Use cases
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A library of models, lights and materials

 Access a library of thousands of customizable models, lights, and materials created by specialists and word-class guest artists (offer includes 100 per month per user). Modifiable parameters allow infinite variations. Pool assets among your whole team.

Megascans

2000+ high-end hand-crafted models tailored for professionals

Parametric materials allowing an infinity of combinations

Source graph for the materials can be downloaded, allowing users to learn how they were built

Environment lighting libraries

Building 3D scenes from scratch with pre-created models

Interoperability within the apps in Substance 3D Collection

CAD import* 

* Available with Substance 3D for enterprise only.

Core function Value Competing products
 Differentiators
 Use cases
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Import cad file types including STEP, IGES, SLDPRT, PRT, 3DM, CATPART, CATPRODUCT, JT, SLDASM, X_T

 Bridge the design department to marketing by directly allowing sharing, and staging of industrial design assets for marketing and merchandising purposes

N/A

Exclusive enterprise feature

Import CAD file types

Interoperability within the apps in Substance 3D Collection

Comprehensive API

Core function Value Competing products
 Differentiators
 Use cases
 Integrations

Comprehensive API to automate content creation

 Accelerate the creation of output variants such as style, localization, camera angles and file formats

N/A

Exclusive enterprise feature

Automate content creation

Interoperability within the apps in Substance 3D Collection