Substance Designer 4 on sale on Steam for $34, 66% off for the next 8 hours

ZacD

For those that don't know what it is, it's a Node based texture editor, check out the Steam page and their website for more info.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/238710/

Brian "Panda" Choi

I still need to do painting in Photoshop right?

Because I am getting this weird feeling I "maybe should" buy this.

Brian "Panda" Choi

Nvm, caved in. I have this stupid feeling I might actually use this later, I just don't have a clear idea about what it's going to do for me though.

ZacD

I does some similar things to dDo from what I understand. At least in terms of generation, but not necessarily use. it'd great for being able the edit the textures on a whole project or scene all at the same time.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71V6Vi6OpbM"]Base material Tutorial - Substance Designer 4 - YouTube[/ame]

Dean Gomez

With the new Substance Painter coming out soon, is this even worth getting? Mind you I have never actually textured much but I am familiar with the photoshop texturing pipeline. Will this be a great step up? Or should I just wait for Substance Painter?

Rick Stirling

For 25 quid you can't really pass up a deal like that.

Davision3D

Honestly, I had not heard of it before but it looks pretty great.
I wonder what the big difference between the normal "Substance Designer" version and the "Substance Designer Commercial" version is?
I'm also very interested in Substance painter, those particle brushes are too cool:
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKDZg0ntceA"]Substance Painter Teaser #2 - Particle Brushes - YouTube[/ame]
I wonder if you could then also upgrade Substance Designer to Substance Painter?

Paradan

in 6 months you'll see the line: "Familiarity with Substance Designer a plus." in every game art job description.

@Davidson: Painter is a different program, and requires a separate license. Painter and Designer are designed to work hand-in-hand smoothly as part of an improved pipeline that only requires photoshop cause that's what people are used to using.

Sims_doc

shame, i'd buy this painter instead of designer but i suspect they are meant to be used as one when creating something.

Greg DAlessandro

do you have to run steam to use substance designer if you buy it off steam?

Dean Gomez

Yourname942 wrote: »

do you have to run steam to use substance designer if you buy it off steam?

http://steamcommunity.com/app/238710/discussions/0/864973123762612828/

Apparently according to this you cannot. You can run the application in offline mode however. I also read in another discussion that if you buy the commercial license (through steam or their official website apparently) you can send them an email to request a version in which you don't need to run steam.

Greg DAlessandro

Dean Gomez wrote: »

http://steamcommunity.com/app/238710/discussions/0/864973123762612828/

Apparently according to this you cannot. You can run the application in offline mode however. I also read in another discussion that if you buy the commercial license (through steam or their official website apparently) you can send them an email to request a version in which you don't need to run steam.

If I buy the upgrade either now or later on can I still request to have a non steam version?

Dean Gomez

@Yourname942: Yep, according to this you should be able to.

http://steamcommunity.com/app/238710/discussions/0/810938082696610166/

Dean Gomez

@Paradan: That looks like it settles it then, I'm getting it

Rai

Nooo, I missed the sale!? T_T

Brian "Panda" Choi

I'm kind of sad it was in the middle of the night for PST people.

AndroidBebop

Rai wrote: »

Nooo, I missed the sale!? T_T

There will always be more I assume.

kageko

nice little added bonus: valve has included a dota 2 hero-shader in substancedesigner, just discovered this! Very nice

ambershee

I picked up a commercial license for £157 in the sale. Woop!