The Substance Suite is a set of programs designed to make authoring textures more easy. It is created by Allegorithmic. Note that .sbs files are the substance designer files (full graphs); .sbsar files are optimized versions of saved .sbs files that have been published for use in other programs such as Unreal Engine, Unity, and Substance Painter.


Substance Designer

Substance Painter

Substance Alchemist

Substance Suite References


Substance Source and Bitmap2Material are also part of the Substance ecosystem. Substance Source is a vast library of materials created using scanned data and Substance Designer that is available for use throughout the Substance ecosystem. Bitmap2Material is a program for taking photo sources and quickly generating materials from those photos. Bitmap2Material is being replaced by a new and improved version integrated into Substance Alchemist when Substance Alchemist releases.