Substance B2M3

Edited: If you don't have Bitmap2Material I definitely recommend it. This program is almost magic when it comes to quickly creating/perfecting materials. Whoever does their image recognition software is a saint(too much?). If you already own the original B2M: Pros: Very similiar to the original Bitmap2Material but can output Roughness, Metallic, and glossiness. Cons: Doesn't seem to improve image recognition (but it's still the best around).

Very very easy to use, creates nice tiling textures along with all the maps you may need from any photograph with some tweaking. The viewport has couple of shaders to test how the material looks with the current maps. If you are authoring PBR content it's possible to remove light effects from the diffuse map which is another plus. You don't even need a tutorial to learn how to use this, just takes 5-6 minutes to go over all the settings and learn how it works. Recommended.

This software is very good for those who like their indie games to look alittle more proffesional without any struggle. This is a very easy to use software and has helped me with my small groups game we are developing. We use the Unity3D engine which this software works super smooth with. I've heard just the same thing about the CryEngine aswell! I strongly recomends this product to those who are making indie games!

I use a lot of photosource for my tiling textures, and this is an amazing tool. It's very intuitive to use after following along with Allegorithmic's video walkthrough, which takes you through all the stuff you need to get started. The normal maps this program generates are miles better than anything Photoshop generates, and you get all the other PBR slots like Height maps, and whatnot, which really pushes the texture to new levels. This is a must buy for anyone serious about environmental art. The only "gotcha" is that some maps are exported as greysale, which Unity can't read naturally, so you have to change thme to RGB in photoshop, but once you do that you're gold. I plopped everything into the standard shader and after tweaking how intense I wanted each thing to be, it all looked great.

软件不错，好用，常用的贴图都可以生成。可以看成是SD的一个特殊功能的简化版本。遗憾的是万年不更新和不能直接保存为SD材质。所以，对于有SD的人来说，这个软件用处不大。 Good software, easy to use, can be used to generate the map. Can be seen as a simplified version of a special feature of SD. Unfortunately, it is not frequently updated and cannot save the file as SD material. So, for those who have SD, this software is not useful.

Cant use it through steam, every time I tried to do anything other than launch it, it wouldnt work. However, allegorithmic allows you to transfer your steam key to your allegorithmic account, if you do that you can download a working client from them. So if its on sale, I'd say go ahead and get it on steam, if not just buy from the allegorithmic site and save yourself the headache,.

This software is no longer launching. Which Shouldn't be allowed to happen.

Broken as of 2022.