Dear Painter users, 2021 has been a hard year for a lot of us and we can't wait to start fresh in 2022. We're so eager in fact that the 2022 version of Substance 3D Painter is already available! and on sale! and with an added loyalty discount!

This latest feature release is the last one for the 2021 version and also the first one for the 2022 version. But don't worry, even if we're starting 2022 early, you will of course still get updates until the very end of next year with this new version.

Get Substance Painter 2022 on Steam!

Get all the details on this new release in our dedicated article on the Substance 3D Magazine[substance3d.adobe.com]!

We also have a new tutorial going over the recent 3D Warp feature!

Here are the full release notes:

Added

• [Color Management] Support to Color Management OpenColorIO version 2
  
• [Color Management] Add color management settings to project settings
  
• [Color Management] Warning window about Color Management configuration changes when opening a project
  
• [Color Management] Display an error message if an invalid OCIO config file is selected
  
• [Color Management] Allow to override configuration with OCIO environment variable
  
• [Color Management] Multiple OCIO configurations integrated by default with the application
  
• [Color Management] Extract color space name from imported bitmap filename
  
• [Color Management] Allow to override the color space with one color space from the configuration in Properties window
  
• [Color Management] Add color management options in Texture Set Settings
  
• [Color Management][Viewport] Allow to color manage 2D and 3D views separately
  
• [Color Management] Load and convert environment map to the working color space
  
• [Color Management] Adjust color picker and editor with current color space
  
• [Color Management] Allow to select the display transform color space in the viewport with a new dropdown menu
  
• [Color Management] Apply display transform with Iray rendering results
  
• [Color Management] Export textures with different color spaces
  
• [Color Management][Python] Apply color management settings from Environment variable (OCIO) to new projects
  
• [Viewport] Allow to undock the 2D or 3D viewport
  
• [Auto Unwrap] New option to avoid elongated islands
  
• [Scripting Python] Call JavaScript functions from Python API
  
• [New Project Window] Make the imported maps section collapsible
  
• [Projection][Warp] Allow to hide normals as an option in the Warp settings
  
• [Content] 11 new grunge maps
  
• [Content] 8 new tool presets (zipper, tightening cord, glitter)
  
• [Content] 8 new materials (scar, pocket, ...)
  
• [Content] 1 new generator (inflate shrinkwarp)

Fixed:

• [Mac M1] Material layering not working
  
• [Crash][Projection] Switching to warp mode with a layer created with a previous version
  
• [Mac M1][Projection] Warp does not work
  
• Micro details are not displayed properly
  
• Interop] The "Browse 3D assets in Marketplace" button should always open CCD in the Stock & Marketplace 3D tab
  
• [Projection][Warp] Flip does not work when transformation is set to world space
  
• [Projection][Warp] Split option remains selected after splitting is done
  
• [Projection][UV] Pivot point is reset when flipping projection
  
• [Filter] Bake Lighting environment is changing when reloading or changing a parameter

Known Issues

• [Mac M1] Smart materials are not displayed correctly
  
• [Color Management][Crash] Random crash when playing with data type/color management on user channel
  
• [Color Management][Color picker] Do not pick the right value for data channel in legacy mode
  
• [Color management][Iray] Saving the render in EXR or TIFF while Color Management is activated in the viewport will always save in linear
  
• [Color management] Resources used as grayscale in mask display the wrong Color Space menu
  
• [Color Management][Iray] Env map is always linear when used in Iray
  
• [Color Management][Export] Converted maps are not exported as a color managed channels
  
• [Color Management][Export] Export ignores if user channel is color managed or not with legacy mode

Join the team live for a special broadcast featuring surprise announcements, news and previews of what's to come in the Substance 3D world as well as a Q&A session with the team!
If you already have questions, feel free to ask in the comments here and we'll compile a list for the event.

See you on Monday!

Substance 3D Painter 7.3 is here with 2 major new features, scripting improvements and more!

New Color Picker
This brand new color picker includes swatches, the ability to choose between float and integer (0-255) values, as well as between a linear or sRGB display. The color picker will also stay open while you are painting on the same layer, allowing you to pick new colors quickly or swap between swatches without interrupting your painting.

This is only a first step in the color picking experience redesign and you can expect more improvements in future releases.

New 3D Warp Projection
Hold on to your seats, the 3D warp projection is here. This innovative projection mode allows you to wrap images, masks and materials to any 3D surface using a grid of control points. Those points can be moved in 3d space and can stick to the surface to make sure you get a perfect fit, no matter how complex your model is.

Of course all of it is non destructive and you can swap out the material or change its wrapping at any time, you can layer as many of those as you'd like for an unparalleled projection based workflow, ideal for texturing faces, adding decals and all kind of situations where you need precise positioning.

New cylinder projection

This release adds a cylindrical projection method for fill layers and fill effects. The new projection allows to fit an image or texture around objects such as columns, pillars or more organics shapes like a character's arms.

Drag and drop textures to a specific channel

With the introduction of the Warp, the decal feature where assets can be drag and dropped from the library into the viewport while maintaining ALT had been reworked. Now, when a decal is created this way, it is no longer using the Planar projection, but the Warp projection.
It is also now possible to drag and drop not only materials, but any image into the viewport. A menu will pop up allowing you to choose on which channel to apply it.

See the Substance 3D Painter documentation[substance3d.adobe.com] and our blogpost[substance3d.adobe.com] for more details.


Added:

• [Projection][Warp] Expose 3D warp as a new projection mode
  
• [Projection][Warp] Allow decal mode for Alphas, Textures and Procedurals with drag and drop in the viewport
  
• [Projection][Warp] Use warp projection with decal shortcut (ALT)
  
• [Projection][Warp][Toolbar] Transform warp as whole or per vertices
  
• [Projection][Warp][Toolbar] Add grid points with split warp cross wise, horizontally or vertically options
  
• [Projection][Warp][Toolbar] Dedicated menu for reset actions
  
• [Projection][Warp][Toolbar] Option to automatically adjust tangents when moving points
  
• [Projection][Warp][Toolbar] Dedicated menu for grid edition (size, reset, color and handle size)
  
• [Projection][Warp] New keyboard shortcut to switch whole-vertices warp edition mode (SHIFT+V)
  
• [Projection][Warp] Click+Ctrl allows to switch between surface tool and other tools
  
• [Projection][Cylindrical] Expose the cylindrical projection mode
  
• [Projection][Toolbar] Group manipulator settings (size, grid steps, angle steps)
  
• [Color Picker] New color picker UI
  
• [Color Picker] Use sRGB values in color picker widgets
  
• [Color Picker] Allow to save and delete color swatches
  
• [Color Picker] Eyedropper accessible from color and normal slots
  
• [Color Picker] Allow to edit dynamic color between 0 and 255 values
  
• [Color Picker] Make HSV/RGB state common across the app
  
• [Color Picker] Color Picker window is semi persistent
  
• [Color Picker] Pressing Esc closes the color picker window
  
• Performance improvement for UI interaction and while painting
  
• [Engine] Update to new Substance engine version (8.3.0)
  
• [Scripting][Python] Allow to reload the mesh of the current project
  
• [Scripting][Python] Allow to update resources in projects
  
• [Scripting][Python] Allow to set and query the resolution of UV Tiles
  
• [Interoperability] Not available for Steam and Substance editions
  
• [Interoperability] Receive multiple resources from Bridge

Fixed:

• Color picker does not display the right color
  
• [Baking] Texture set list are not ordered correctly
  
• [FBX import] 3ds Max group pivot transformations are not taken into account
  
• [Substance Engine] Crash with import of Corrupted SBSAR
  
• [MacOS] Project configuration option in different languages is not present
  
• Autosaves does freeze Painter during long processes

Substance 3D Painter 7.2.3 is now available and fixes a few issues brought up to us recently.

Added:

• [Libraries] Add a way to exclude unwanted files from being crawled

Fixed:

• [Win] Multi screens and sleep issues
  
• [MacOS][Crash] Switching shader when using effects
  
• [Viewport] Full preview mode no longer shows brush cursor without alpha
  
• [UI] Angle widget turns the wrong way
  
• [Layer Stack] Many sub folders create very long freeze
  
• [Iray] Different views in Iray and OpenGL: Visible if not working
  
• [Iray] Index of refraction not taken into account and does not appear in mdl properties
  
• [JavaScript] ShowExportDialog() never returns true
  
• Can't read mtl from Adobe Stock

June 2021 is a big month for the Adobe Substance 3D apps. This latest release of Painter provides a new and improved asset panel, a new default shader, an overall refresh of the UI, some much-requested performance improvements, expanded language support, and more!

But first let's address the elephant in the room. There is a new icon, a new branding, a -slightly- updated app name, all this because the Substance tools have finalized their transition into the Adobe ecosystem and are now more connected to Creative Cloud.

So what changes for you, as Substance users on Steam?
Not much more than cosmetics actually. You will keep receiving updates at the same time as the Adobe releases, the Linux version is still going strong, Steam sales are still a thing and there is no plan to change any of that. We hope this alleviates some of the fears expressed when Allegorithmic joined Adobe, a bit more than 2 years ago now.

Now about this release, we have some great stuff for you all:

• We have a new Asset panel making the shelf easier and faster to use with asset filters, responsive layout, faster thumbnail loading and more.
  
• A new default shader with built-in support for advanced material effects such as sheen, clear-coat, anisotropy, advanced subsurface scattering and more.
  
• Performance and quality updates with a new height-to-normal mode to generate sharper normals and much faster painting for projects with many paint strokes.
  
• New features for the automatic UVs with the ability to constrain UVs rotation and added support for generating UDIM UVs automatically.
  
• Many more improvements!

As always, for the full list of new features and improvements, head over to our dedicated article[substance3d.adobe.com].

Finally, we want to emphasize that this is a first step in a new chapter for the Substance tools and the Substance team, and that we're working hard on the next step, with many, many things we're super excited about coming your way in the next year. Thank you all and happy texturing!

Substance Painter 7.1.1 is mostly a bug-fix update but also adds the much requested ability to use hexadecimal values in the color picker.

Added:

• [Color Picker] Allow to type hexadecimal values
  
• [Log] Warn users about incompatible AMD GPU drivers

Fixed:

• [Baker] Drop in performance
  
• [Geometry mask] Alt click on mesh name can lead to a crash
  
• [Engine] Painting does not refresh the entire view when necessary
  
• [Layer stack] Selection is stuck after changing shader
  
• [MacOS][Color picker] Color is slightly different than the one picked
  
• [Export] Using PSD file format doesn't generate one file per UV Tile
  
• [Scripting][Javascript] alg.mapexport.getPathsExportDocumentMaps() doesn't return all the values
  
• [Scripting][Python] Disabled plugins are enabled again when reopening Painter

This first release of the year for Substance Painter brings long awaited features like the ability to mask and hide specific geometry, copy, pasting, drag and dropping of effects between layers and even between texture sets, UDIM workflow improvements, new stitching tools and more!

Added:

• New geometry mask and paint selected parts of the geometry
  
• [Geometry Mask] Allow to paint selected parts of geometry by mesh names
  
• [Geometry Mask] Rectangular selection in both viewports
  
• [Geometry Mask] Allow to hide/ignore excluded geometry on any layer
  
• [Geometry Mask][Properties] Quick selection for checkboxes with click and drag
  
• [Geometry Mask][Properties][UI] Include/Exclude all with a dropdown in Properties window
  
• [Geometry Mask][Properties] Allow to quickly select one item in a list with ALT+LEFT CLICK
  
• [Geometry Mask][Properties] Overlay in viewports when hovering Mesh names/UV Tiles in Properties window
  
• [Geometry Mask][Layer Stack] Add Copy/Paste options to the geometry mask
  
• [Geometry Mask] New icon for Hide/ignore excluded geometry button
  
• [Geometry Mask] New tooltip for Hide/ignore excluded geometry
  
• [Geometry Mask] Keyboard shortcut ALT+H to toggle on/off "hide ignore excluded geometry" button
  
• [UV Tiles][Layer Stack] New Fill layer sphere preview thumbnail for UV Tiles and simplified mode
  
• [UV Tiles][Layer Stack] Allow to easily exit the UV Tile mask
  
• [UV Tiles][Texture Set List] Allow to give a description per UV Tile
  
• [UV Tiles][Texture Set Settings][UI] Two new section titles in the dropdown menu to change UV Tile resolution
  
• [UV Tiles][Viewport] Exit UV Tile Mask when dragging a material into the viewport
  
• [Layer Stack] Add Copy/Paste options for effects
  
• [Layer Stack] Allow to copy/paste effects from one Texture Set to another
  
• [Layer Stack] Allow multi-selection of effects
  
• [Layer Stack] Add copy/paste options as shortcuts for layer effects
  
• [Layer Stack] Automatically switch between mask and content when dragging effects to another layer
  
• [Layer Stack] Automatically create a mask when pasting a mask from another layer
  
• [[Layer Stack] Add move effect actions inside the effects' contextual right click menu
  
• [Layer Stack] Allow to drag and drop effects from one layer to another
  
• [Layer Stack] Dragging items onto a folder places them on the top of the folder
  
• Update Iray to version 2020.1.0
  
• [Bakers] Update Bakers to version 2.5.4
  
• [Bakers] Display individual UV Tiles in the baking progress window
  
• [Bakers] Allow user to quickly select one of the bakers with ALT+LEFT CLICK
  
• [Bakers][UI] Allow to quickly bake the current Texture Set with a new button
  
• Update Substance Engine to version 8.0.8
  
• [Substance Engine] Support Default Color in new .sbsar files
  
• [Auto Unwrap] Performance improvement
  
• [Export] Add visual feedback to indicate which UV Tile's resolution differs from project's default
  
• [Export] Add scene size factor into exported shader json file
  
• [Language] Add Japanese translation
  
• [UI] Update About window with versioning of internal dependencies
  
• [Scripting][Python] Allow to manage Shelf resources
  
• [Scripting][Python] Allow to know when a project is ready for baking and exporting
  
• [Scripting][Python] Allow to know when a Shelf has finished crawling resources on disk
  
• [Scripting][Python] Allow to query the list of UV tiles per Texture Sets
  
• [Scripting][Python] Allow to assign custom preview to Shelf resources
  
• [Scripting][Python] Allow to manage custom shelves
  
• [Scripting][Python] Add a method index in each submodule in the documentation
  
• [Scripting][Python] New style for the documentation
  
• [Scripting][Python] Improvement of resources and Shelf documentation
  
• [Content] Three new tool presets to make stitches
  
• [Shelf] Temporarily remove "Export to Substance Share" while transitioning to the new Substance Share platform

Fixed:

• Crash when using monitors with different resolutions
  
• Crash n Substance Engine with some rare projects
  
• [2D View] 2D Viewport can be missing on some projects
  
• Viewport refresh fails with Hide/Ignore Excluded Geometry when switching layers
  
• [Baking] "Match by mesh name" ignores parts of the object
  
• [Layer Stack] Clicking on a layer effect opens folder
  
• [Geometry Mask] UV Tile is still counted in mask even when reimporting the mesh without it
  
• [Geometry Mask] Right click menu in the viewport does not provide the correct tools
  
• [Engine] Heavy lags on particular projects
  
• [Scripting] High latency with remote JSON POST requests on Windows
  
• [Linux] Vram amount is not detected properly with specific integrated GPUs
  
• [Auto Unwrap] Crashes or long unwrap on some projects

Highlights
Sébastien Deguy, Vice President 3D & Immersive, will kickoff the livestream by reviewing highlights from 2020 (yes, there were some good things in 2020, including beautiful 3D creations!) and exciting news for 2021.

Product Updates
Principal Product Manager Jérémie Noguer will share some new features from the upcoming releases. You’ll get a preview of what the 2021 releases are bringing into Substance Painter, Designer, and Alchemist. You’ll also get updates on the VR tool Medium and the latest additions to the high-quality Substance Source library. Jérémie will unveil upcoming research projects with incredible features, and give you a sneak peek of the future of 3D at Adobe.

Live Demo
Valéria Gerontopoulos, Product Manager and Technical Artist, will take a live dive into the yet unreleased version of Substance Painter to show you some cool features and useful tricks.

Q&A
Livestream host Wes McDermott, Head of Substance Demo Artist Team, will present your questions at the end of the livestream. Don’t miss this excellent opportunity to chat with the team via YouTube chat. See you on January 28th, 10:00 AM PST!