Substance by Adobe, the software giant’s 3D texturing suite, announced significant updates across the entire Substance line: Substance Painter, Alchemist, Source and Designer.

The extensive set of updates includes:

Substance Painter:

• Photoshop ABR brushes are now natively supported in Substance Painter
• Hand Painting  
• Automatic UV unwrapping (Anorigami) beta  
• UDIM beta – sign up for beta that starts in January

Substance Alchemist and Source:

• Source now includes 650 smart atlases (grounds, vegetation, and organic materials)  
• More control and creative flexibility in Alchemist – using Source atlases to create variation and make your materials more realistic
• Atlases include hybrid atlases (scan based & parametric material) and hybrid mixes (combination of atlases, scans, & procedural filters) 

Substance Designer:

• Color management feature 
• UX Improvements to Preview mode and Presets management improvements 
• Atlas tool: Atlas splatter – shape splatter with only one atlas as input 
• New curvature baker

Source: Substance by Adobe