Update: Adobe Substance 3D Painter 8.2, 3D Designer 12.3

The smart creative apps and high-end content in Adobe Substance 3D give you everything you need to make great art. The updates to Substance 3D Designer and Painter add to that with new several features and improvements.

Designer and Painter are part of the Substance ecosystem of apps and content that empower you to design 3D.

What’s new in Substance 3D Designer v12.3

Substance 3D Designer 12.3 brings Substance model graphs to a new level with the support of subgraphs (or graph instances), plus the ‘Visible if‘ control for exposed parameters and some new nodes dedicated to curves edition. This version also introduces two new panels (Welcome and What’s New) to improve user onboarding, and some other minor features or bug fixes described below. 

Major features

Support of Graph Instances in Substance model graphs

If you are used to creating graphs, you want to be able to make subgraphs (or graph instances) in order to reuse your work, make graphs less cluttered and be more efficient.
This is now possible also for Substance model graphs: just drag & drop your subgraph from the Explorer to your main graph to use it as an instance node.

Other improvements for Substance model graphs

• Visible if for exposed parameters
• New nodes dedicated to curve edition
• New graph window

Welcome and What’s New panels

We have introduced two new panels to help you to get started with Designer:

First, the Welcome panel – displayed the first time you launch Designer – offers a global overview of the software and its role in the Substance 3D ecosystem. Then, the What’s new panel – displayed the first time you run a new version of Designer – quickly presents the main features introduced in this version.

These two panels are also accessible from the Help menu.

Miscellaneous

• Two buttons widget for exposed boolean parameters
• Resolve scaling issues for high-DPI screens
• Apple Silicon native support (M1 / M2) for Steam version

Full Release Notes

What’s new in Substance 3D Painter v8.2

Substance 3D Painter 8.2 focuses on a lot of quality-of-life improvements with dedicated features in several areas of the application.

Major features

New options to apply blending modes and opacity

Several shortcuts and actions have been added to make it quick and easy to copy and apply blending modes and the opacity across multiple channels in the Layer Stack.

New blending mode and opacity on filter and color selection effects

Filter and color selection effects now have the possibility to use blending modes and opacity controls.

New effects on folders

Folder content (the color part of a layer) can now receive effects of any kind. Before it was necessary to create complex layer configurations (like passthrough layers or anchor points) to achieve the same result.

New Substance archive (SBSAR) export

Substance archive (SBSAR) file format is now available when exporting textures. An SBSAR is a container that can be opened in many applications with Substance integration, which can make it faster and easy to ‘plug-and-play’ custom textures.

New environment option to light up underneath 3D models

A new setting inside Display Settings allows to align the environment map to the camera making it possible to adjust the lighting angle and light up parts below the 3D model.

New Favorites and delete/reload in Assets window

New actions have been added to the Assets window to make management of resources more convenient.

Miscellaneous features and improvements

A lot of small additional improvements and features have been added in this new version:

• New Welcome and What’s new window
  To stay informed about new features added to the application we now introduce a new Welcome and What’s new window when launching the application. Those window can be easily closed and won’t reappear upon next launches. It is always possible to re-open them via the Help menu.
• New action to quickly re-import a 3D model
• Improved HDPI support
• Reset Substance graph parameters to default
• View individual RGBA components in viewports
• Tiling fill layers and effects beyond 128
• New 16f and 32f EXR texture export setting
• Export and reload UI layouts
• Re-organized file menu
• Improved error message when opening projects that are too recent.

Improved Python scripting

Several new functionalities have been added to the Python API. For full details, take a look at the documentation available in the Help menu of the application.

Full Release Notes