AUTHOR PROFILE
Paul Hatton After graduating with a first-class computer science degree, Paul Hatton has spent nearly two decades working within the 3D visualisation industry.
+ PROS
Powerful set of texture creation tools
Connects even better into the Adobe ecosystem
Adobe continues to develop Painter with each release
- CONS
Alternatives such as Quixel Mixer are free to use
NEW PHYSICAL SIZE SUPPORT
It’s funny to think that this has only just made its way into Painter. This feature means that if a Substance material has a real-world size built in, then that can be used when making use of ‘fill layer projections’. This will take out all the guess-work for artists who want their textures to represent realworld scales.