What's on the substance source for substance designer?

[anilharmancioglu]

Hi there. I'm thinking to buy perpetual license via Steam and for now I'll only be using Substance Designer. Even if I start to use painter later I want to make my own substances anyway. Is there anything good that I'll miss on Substance Source if I buy perpetual license?

The reason I'm buying perpetual license is Steam has regional pricing for my country. There's incredible price difference between subscribing and buying. Also I don't understand why Adobe is not regional pricing for Substance Software subscriptions even though they do it for Photoshop, illustrator and every other Adobe product.

Thanks in advance!

[Esger van der Post]

You can see everything on substance source without even logging in. https://source.substance3d.com/allassets
As you can see, there are just materials, so I don't think you miss out on much if you're not interested in them.

It can be interesting to look at the graphs for some of them for learning purposes. But a tutorial series works much better for this in my opinion, since a graph on its own can be difficult to decipher. For instance, you can't really tell why an artist did certain things just by staring at the graph.