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Substance - News & Announcements - Re: Allegorithmic is joining the Adobe family
on: January 24, 2019, 02:37:17 pm
Blender's layer-based material authoring work looks very promising so far! Dayum. I'm going to invest. It will be something no one can ever buy right out from under me and change the rules.
I really loved Substance, but in light of new events I can't trust it to be reliable (yet). Once everything settles down and the smoke clears I'll have a second look, maybe later in the year.
I've already been busy reworking my workflows and am discovering I can actually do a lot of very comparable things in near-equal quality and speed, with Zbrush and 3D Coat. There are also tools to bake procedural textures from the node editor in Blender:
https://www.blendermarket.com/products/pbr-texture-bakery-for-cycles
which is only one of many other tools that peeps are working on.
I think the indie community will be just fine, and will find clever ways to circumvent Adobe and prosper. It will be rocky, for sure. But to have a piece of software that does a nice texture job and can't be bought... just imagine that. Blender 2.8 already looks phenomenal...
Ton Roosendaal is Neo. He's going to save us all
I really loved Substance, but in light of new events I can't trust it to be reliable (yet). Once everything settles down and the smoke clears I'll have a second look, maybe later in the year.
I've already been busy reworking my workflows and am discovering I can actually do a lot of very comparable things in near-equal quality and speed, with Zbrush and 3D Coat. There are also tools to bake procedural textures from the node editor in Blender:
https://www.blendermarket.com/products/pbr-texture-bakery-for-cycles
which is only one of many other tools that peeps are working on.
I think the indie community will be just fine, and will find clever ways to circumvent Adobe and prosper. It will be rocky, for sure. But to have a piece of software that does a nice texture job and can't be bought... just imagine that. Blender 2.8 already looks phenomenal...
Ton Roosendaal is Neo. He's going to save us all
