Announcements

 We just posted our SIGGRAPH 2026 announcements over on the Adobe blog. The key points:  OpenPBR is now supported right across the Substance 3D ecosystem — Painter 12.1, Designer 16, and Sampler 6 — with the entire Assets library (14,000+ materials, decals, and atlases) being converted too. Adobe has also released an open-source OpenPBR implementation on GitHub. Substance 3D Painter 12.1 delivers the long-requested Skew Map Painting, giving artists direct control over baking artifacts with brush, fill, and edge protection tools — alongside Auto Rebake, which speeds up iteration by only rebaking affected areas, a refreshed baking workspace, and a new Hard Surface Auto UV mode for mechanical assets. Substance 3D Designer 16 expands the procedural toolset with a redesigned Shape Splatter v2 node for scattering varied 3D forms procedurally, new SDF nodes for building and manipulating complex shapes directly in the node graph, a 3D Viewer for real-time iteration, and consolidated displaceme

 New Content Available in Substance 3D Assets! The Substance 3D Assets library continues to grow with new content designed to integrate seamlessly across Substance 3D Painter, Sampler, and the wider ecosystem. New: Ribbon Assets (130 assets) Ribbons are a new asset type in Substance 3D Painter that allow you to place repeated elements along a path on your model, allowing you to easily make trims, seams, patterns, and other details that conform to surface shapes.  New: Texture Generators (30 assets) We’re introducing Texture Generators, a new category of parametric noises, grunges, and patterns. These assets are designed to help you add variation, imperfections, and surface depth directly within your materials. 30 texture generators are currently available; more are on the way.  USD Format Milestone All models in the Substance 3D Assets library – now over 9,000 – are available in USD format. Featured Collection: Desirable Patina Also available is Desirable Patina, a Signature Collection