


At the time of posting, the legacy free beta edition is also still available on Gumroad. Substance Painter Live Link is available through Gumroad via the link below.

Anyone who previously supported the project financially gets the full version free. ”Įven as a commercial product, the live link costs just $10, and Flores says that anyone in dire financial straits can contact him directly. “I think that is kind of unfair for the people that supported development, so hopefully this move will keep this and other projects I have in process. Updated 26 March 2018: Ymmanuel Flores has changed the name of his company to Xolotl Studio, and released Substance Painter Live Link as a commercial product.Īccording to Flores: “Sadly, even with over 4,000 downloads of the beta $200, which is not enough for me to dedicate the time to keep development as continuous as I would like.” Updated 25 October 2017: Hedgehog Labs’ latest update to Substance Painter Live Link adds support for 3ds Max and the V-Ray renderer, along with support for textures in UDIM format in Modo and Maya. On the Gumroad page, Hedgehog Labs writes: “I think this should be a default functionality of Substance Painter and that is why I’m giving it up for free, so everyone can have it.”Īny donations will go towards development of linking plugins for other 3D applications: the wish list includes 3ds Max, Cinema 4D, Houdini and Marmoset Toolbag, plus the Corona, OctaneRender and V-Ray renderers. The software is currently officially in beta, but it sounds like it will always remain free. Once the two are linked, changes made to an asset in Substance Painter can be sent to the other application with a click of a button, making it much quicker to generate test renders.Īt the minute, it works with Modo Maya, including both the Arnold and Redshift renderers and Blender, including both Cycles and the new Eevee real-time render engine due in Blender 2.8. Substance Painter Live Link does pretty much what the name implies, creating a near-live link between Allegorithmic’s texture-painting software and another DCC application. Transfer 3D assets from Substance Painter to other 3D apps with a single click Hedgehog Labs – aka tools developer Ymmanuel Flores – has released Substance Painter Live Link: a neat free live-linking tool for Substance Painter and Blender, Maya or Modo. Scroll down for news of the commercial release.
