The free Substance 3D for Students and Teachers license is also not currently available to users in Restricted Countries (countries where access or usage is restricted by local laws or embargoes).Īdobe verifies your status through the school-issued email address provided during purchase. K-12 and self-taught users are, unfortunately, not eligible for the free Substance 3D for Students and Teachers license. To be eligible for this license you need to be officially enrolled student or a teacher at an accredited higher education institution. One last thing to mention is Bitmap2Material that will generate all the PBR outputs from a single input image…įor your barrel example, you probably want to use Painter to create the PBR outputs and apply them in UE4 using a the standard PBR material.Who is eligible for the free Substance 3D for Students and Teachers license? Creating the PBR outputs (Diffuse, Normal, Metallic, Roughness,etc…) is a pain to do by hand - painter lets you focus on PAINTING and not all the other stuff… Rather than several different materials applied to different parts of the model. You can paint multiple substances on the mesh, and they are all combined into a single set of PBR outputs.įor performance reasons it is typically best to have a single set of PBR materials for a given model. Painter is designed to help you create the PBR materials for a specific mesh.

UE4 Material applies shading using textures as inputs. In the end, Designer always outputs textures that have to be applied via some kind of material shader. Substances can also be created at runtime - this is useful to keep the binary small or to create effects that might change over time. Substance Designer can create much larger and more complex textures that can then be baked and then applied at runtime via a UE4 Material. There is some capability crossover with the built-in UE4 Material Editor - but, in general, the built-in UE4 material editor lets you generate shaders that are applied at runtime.

Designer lets you generate parametric textures at both runtime and design-time.

Substance designer to painter