“Adobe is a company that has always embraced new DNA and has grown through these critical acquisitions,” he said, and noted that Adobe always looks to these acquisitions to see how it can change through them - not how it can change the company it acquires. It’s worth noting that Adobe previously invested in Allegorithmic and that Dimension already features integration with Substance, so today’s announcement has clearly been in the works for a while.Īs Adobe’s chief product officer Scott Belsky told me, it’s worth remembering that many of Adobe’s most important products today were acquisitions, including Photoshop back in 1990. With Adobe Dimension and, more recently, Project Aero for creating AR experiences, the company has started focusing on 3D, and this acquisition will bring both talent and technology to the company. Beyond those integrations, though, what this acquisition is really about is the fact that 3D design and creating 3D content is becoming increasingly important for the creatives who use Adobe’s tools. Over time, Adobe will bring many of Allegorithmic’s technologies to its various Creative Cloud tools, many of which already offer complementary tools. The new API extends to asset authoring, and management of layers, parameters, and projects.Adobe today announced that it has acquired Allegorithmic, the French company behind the Substance tools for creating textures that are widely used by AAA game creators, as well as visual effects artists, animators and designers. Scripts can be launched via a dedicated Scripts menu, while plugins become part of the Sampler interface, and can be docked and moved around like native UI panels.

The other major new feature is the Python API, which can be used to create scripts or plugins to automate repetitive tasks, or to modify Substance 3D Samplers’s interface and functionality. One major new change in Substance 3D Sampler 3.4 is that it is now possible to expose parameters when exporting materials, as you can in Adobe’s Substance 3D Designer.

The update adds a new Python API for writing custom scripts and plugins and makes it possible to expose parameters when exporting materials, making them editable inside other DCC tools and game engines.

Adobe has released Substance 3D Sampler 3.4, the latest version of its material-authoring software, previously known as Substance Alchemist.

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