I predicted Adobe would buy Substance; it's not good news. Although for me I use Mari, which I find it's time to shine is no better then now, not that is has been bad. Pieces of Substance will be put into Photoshop and DimensionsCC; that's all I can say.
For just $45 per month, you too can rent Substance Painter! If you're a student and $45 is too expensive, you can just pay $18.95 per month for Substance Painter Light, which has almost all the regular functions, except multiple texture sets, custom environments, and the ability to export above 1024 maps.
Sadly I don't see any reason for them to not put the Substance suite into CC. The former CEO of Allegorithmic now directly reports to the executive VP who is responsible for Creative Cloud.
One thread is enough. I would merge them, but that would inevitably mess up the conversation order. So, closing this and asking you to head here. Thanks... https://polycount.com/discussion/208172/adobe-substance
Time to load up on Substance Share/Source assets because Adobe shareholders will want to squeeze that for a few more dollars. Just went to the Allegorithmic forums to confirm and there are 11 pages of doom and gloom, outrage, disappointment, and the eulogies have already begun..... Just look what Adobe did to Mixamo.…
I said this in the other thread but... It may not be all bad. There's actually room for significant improvements in the way Allegorithmic implement features and importantly TEST their software. Painter is a high risk update in a production pipeline and honestly as the person responsible for keeping our substance pipeline…
In 25 years Adobe have killed off countless innovative programs. They are the Adesk of the 2D graphic world. It may not be for a few years, but Substance tools, as we know them, will suffer greatly. Yes, you'll hear the usual cheerful and optimistic replies from devs whose company has just sold out to a corporation: 'oh,…