Substance Painter(open beta discount $74.99)

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Substance Painter is currently in open beta at a discount price, if you are looking for a good 3D painting app for UE4 I highly recommend Substance Painter. It’s probably one of best 3D painting solution I’ve used in a long time and I’ve used many.The current build is still missing 4K texture map(it will be added in the near future), it will be in beta at the discount price until 1.0 is done. is for the non commercial license of Painter. They are making changes to to EULA that allows you to use the non commercial license on a commercial project as long as it generate less then 10,000 USD annually and that should apply to all their other products.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/273390

You can see their roadmap here: http://steamcommunity.com/app/273390/discussions/0/558749825207979878/

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Didnt know about the new eula. Sounds interesting.

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Hey all!

We just released an update to Substance Painter Beta that adds Seamless 2D Painting!
Also, we are now working hard on bringing Multi-material support as well as Adjustment layers and Substance in the next few weeks.

If you guys have any feedback about Painter, please shout! I’ll be monitoring Epic’s forum and I’m here to answer any questions you might have.

You can check out the new features here:

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It looks amazing :’) Goddammit I really wish I wasn’t so poor. If my project gets off the ground I’ll definitely look into getting it.

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Will be buying the indie pack once i’ve re-installed windows (most efficient way i can think of to de-clutter my C drive), I’m really impressed with what i’ve seen of Painter on youtube so far. Now all we need is the addition of supporting multiple mesh object import (characters wearing separate armor pieces, vehicles, mechs, that sorta thing, already mentioned idea in the Painter thread on the polycount forums).

Heh, i don’t think i’ll ever have to worry about passing that $10K/year mark, hell, i’ll be lucky if i sell ANYTHING :stuck_out_tongue:

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New Substance Painter beta 7 with a preview of beta 8 video: - YouTube

Substance Painter is on sale again -%50 off , offer ends June 30th: Welcome to Steam

@Anthony , yeah I don’t think I’ve ever made 10K annually with all my years of freelancing : . Currently SP doesn’t support 4K texture, but once its in I’ll definitely use it for my projects.

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New Beta 8 video showing off some of the new features: - YouTube

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Upsides:

  1. I bought it.
  2. High quality.
  3. It’s fun to use.
  4. Highly addictive.
  5. I recommend the product.
  6. Used by some industry professionals.
  7. It’s being regularly updated.

Downsides:

  1. Still has some bugs.
  2. UI still needs improved.
  3. It’s very pricey.
  4. For me requires more money later, full cost would be 590$ per seat commercial usage, and currently Full Substance Database = $1,590.00
  5. Not happy about the licensing model. OpenGL and DirectX are in the product for free, and the pencil and paper manufacturers don’t get paid royalty?
  6. Specs are way off. (Requires an NVIDIA55 or AMD77? I’m using an ATI HD 5770 and also have a NVIDIA Galaxy GT220.)
  7. Textual documentation isn’t complete though initial videos are great.
  8. Website account section sluggish.
  9. Website’s a bit buggy.
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So, is out of beta now? I checked the Steam link, but it’s not listed at $74.99.

Edit: Noticed it’s still in it’s ‘beta phase’. However, it’s discounted by 33% now, instead. Seems odd to keep changing the ‘discounted’ price.

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Yes it is still in beta, current version is 0.8, with the full release being ver 1.0.

There are still some features that need to be added, but for the most part it is easily usable as it stands today, I use it all the time (have since version 0.2 - I got the Indie pack for $150, included Designer, Painter, BitmapToMaterial and some pbr textures). It uses a pbr material system based off of the UE4 rendering engine, so the results look pretty much identical after they are imported into UE4.

It’s a really good program, and you can download a free month trial from their website: www.allegorithmic.com/products/substance-painter

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Hi all,

Substance Painter is now in Beta 12 and the final release is set to October 15th!

Here is a video showing some of what you can do with the latest version:

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That’s awesome news ! I have been using Painter since it first went to beta, it has grown into an amazing piece of software.

Congratulations on the upcoming release guys! :slight_smile: