The Substance in Unity plugin supports Unity 2018 and 2019. It can be downloaded from the Unity Asset Store.

Before upgrading or using the plugin, check the upgrading project page.

Be sure to check the Optimization Guidelines page before authoring custom Substance materials.

Table of Contents

Substance Material Scripted Object

The Substance in Unity plugin is now a scriptable object in Unity.

Substance sbsar root (Substance Graph Manager) SGM	Allows you to create and rename Substance material instances. This is the sbsar that is imported into your Unity project.
Substance Graph Object (SGO)	Contains the Substance parameters, Generated Textures and Target Settings
Substance texture outputs	Textures generated by the Substance Engine
Material	A Unity material that defaults to the Standard Shader with the Substance textures as inputs. A material is constructed from a graph (SGO) in the sbsar file.

Plugin Overview

Asset created in Unity Project

Substance Asset

Unity Material

Same as the name of the graph(s) the Unity material is based on

Substance texture output

A Substance texture is set to a channel in the Unity Standard material based on the Usage setting for the Substance Output. The Usage is set in Substance Designer.

The texture name is a composite of graph name AND usage name (with both component being separated by the substring " - ".

Downloading the Substance Package

Go to Window>Asset Store search for Substance in Unity to download and import the Substance package.

Importing a Substance Material

Right-click in the Project window and choose Import Asset.
Browse for the Substance .sbsar file you would like to use.
The Substance material will be imported into your Unity project. You can then drag and drop the material on a mesh in the Scene view and then edit the parameters in the Inspector.

Changing Parameters

Parameters and resolution can be set in the Inspector window. Please see Changing Parameters.