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For those unfamiliar, Substance Painter was developed by an independent studio and acquired by Adobe. It's also one of the greatest, most useful pieces of soft

For those unfamiliar, Substance Painter was developed by an independent studio and acquired by Adobe. It's also one of the greatest, most useful pieces of software of all time. It's up there with Veeam backup in the "Oh my god this is how all software should be" category. There is no other tool that compares. There's also a buy-once-own-current-version-forever version available for purchase on Steam.

ilyt 4y ago
> It's up there with Veeam backup Seriously, open source backup, especially in "more than 5 machines" isn't in a great state. Bareos/bacula is old, clunky and still havent' moved past "just pretend everything else is a tape drive", while every other backup software misses this or that feature or have no central management and scheduling (which is near-must if you don't want to go crazy with a bunch of machines).
darkteflon 4y ago
Thank you, I had no idea this was available as a one-time purchase on Steam. I'm very tempted, having written off Blender for this kind of thing. On the other hand, you just know they're going to require you to create an Adobe account "for exclusive offers and free updates", and then one fine morning in two years' time you'll get an email from Adobe titled "To Our Important One-Time-Purchase Product Customers" letting you know that "it was a hard decision, but we're going to have to disable your product license and move you to the subscription plan." Anyone knowledgeable have any views on whether the big upcoming textures update for Blender will move it closer to Substance?
- esperent 4y ago
  Have you tried the Layer Painter addon? https://github.com/joshuaKnauber/layer_painter https://github.com/joshuaKnauber/layer_painter
- gabereiser 4y ago
  Yup, just like they did for Photoshop and Premiere, After Effects, etc. Honestly, I want this to succeed. I want a blender-based Substance Painter alternative. I'm not too keen on it being just like Substance Painter but I should be able to achieve the same results. If you buy SP on steam, I'm pretty sure valve will make sure you keep that version forever with their vast cdn. Whether Adobe adds CC features to lock you out is almost a guarantee.

ilyt 4y ago

> It's up there with Veeam backup Seriously, open source backup, especially in "more than 5 machines" isn't in a great state. Bareos/bacula is old, clunky and still havent' moved past "just pretend everything else is a tape drive", while every other backup software misses this or that feature or have no central management and scheduling (which is near-must if you don't want to go crazy with a bunch of machines).

darkteflon 4y ago

Thank you, I had no idea this was available as a one-time purchase on Steam. I'm very tempted, having written off Blender for this kind of thing. On the other hand, you just know they're going to require you to create an Adobe account "for exclusive offers and free updates", and then one fine morning in two years' time you'll get an email from Adobe titled "To Our Important One-Time-Purchase Product Customers" letting you know that "it was a hard decision, but we're going to have to disable your product license and move you to the subscription plan." Anyone knowledgeable have any views on whether the big upcoming textures update for Blender will move it closer to Substance?

esperent 4y ago
Have you tried the Layer Painter addon? https://github.com/joshuaKnauber/layer_painter https://github.com/joshuaKnauber/layer_painter
gabereiser 4y ago
Yup, just like they did for Photoshop and Premiere, After Effects, etc. Honestly, I want this to succeed. I want a blender-based Substance Painter alternative. I'm not too keen on it being just like Substance Painter but I should be able to achieve the same results. If you buy SP on steam, I'm pretty sure valve will make sure you keep that version forever with their vast cdn. Whether Adobe adds CC features to lock you out is almost a guarantee.