Substance

Keywords: SD, Designer, Painter

Substance usually refers to the Suite of Tools developed by Allegorithmic (Adobe).

Substance Designer is a node-based tool, dedicated to the authoring of procedural generated 3D Materials, Noise textures etc. and the Processing of imported data (e.g Scan Data, Height/Normal data from other Applications like ZBrush etc).

Substance Painter is a 3D painting tool which makes use of substances, smart masks and other procedural elements to texture and render 3D meshes.

Both main Substance Suite Tools work in a non-destructive workflow and are used to create either pre baked texture data or run-time editable materials for use in Games, Movies and ArchViz etc.

Source: https://www.allegorithmic.com/