Does anyone use instaMAT . is it worth a try and deeper learning?

gnoop

I  wonder  does it provide any advantages vs  substance Designer/Painter .    Youtube videos are not very informative or showing  something  really new , I mean new approaches  , workarounds for limitations  of adobe software?        Something  good AI  really helping and  not just being one more useless toy ?       Something  to composite 8k  photogrammetry sources  or render AOVs    because SDesigner  is not really good for this?   Hi res to low res workflow?  not other way around ?      

Chat GPT  recommended it to me  when I once again complained about  usual  Adobe  substance suite annoyances .   No need of sbsar export and so on.   

poopipe

Short answer. 

Yes

I liked it enough to buy a handful of licenses for the team.  We don't use it very much as it doesn't replace an established designer/painter pipeline but it does have some really nice features that make geometry based materials easy to process. 

It's a good tool if you're operating largely independently, I don't think it's a designer replacement for teams as it lacks the asset /resource management that makes designer powerful 

gnoop

Thanks poopipe.   Chat tells me it has true vector brushes  which can be set  to curve deform  or distribute  images randomly  like some old 2d vector soft . I am so tired of Designer  curves  system  that almost impossible to control  and Painter  indexed square stumps blurry  brushes.   is it true ?   Chat  hallucinates a lot again with v5 released  

poopipe

I'm pretty sure they still do a month's trial so you might as well just give it a go - beats asking a robot  that's recycling commentary written by people who don't know how to use it properly