Substance Designer 2020.2 Adds New Engine and Faster Graphs

Substance Designer 2020.2 introduces Substance Engine V8, new distance options, smoother gradients and more intuitive parameters.

Archive republication: This article was originally published on 16 October 2020. It has been translated into English and lightly updated for clarity while preserving the original reporting and context.

Substance Designer 2020.2

Adobe’s Substance Designer 2020.2 introduced a new engine, additional nodes, faster graph evaluation and more intuitive parameters.

Substance Engine V8 enabled tools that had not been possible in earlier versions. The Distance node gained Manhattan and Chebyshev distance modes, while a new interpolation option produced smoother, more natural colour blending in gradients.

Further Information

Adobe detailed the release in its Substance 3D article.

Substance Engine Version 8 Update

New Content

Exposing Parameters

Generating Icons