Substance Preferences

Make changes to the preferred settings of Substance materials and save them for future use.

Setting Render Engine Settings

Determine how Substance textures are rendered. Select one of the following:

• GPU - This tends to be the preferred setting, as it performs better, is faster, and can handle large textures. GPU can compute up to 8K Substance textures.
• CPU - Use CPU to lower hardware resources when multitasking or rendering. The tradeoff is performance. Large textures can be rendered, but it will be slow.

• Automatic - The Allegorithmic Substance Manager chooses the best option for the render engine.

• In the Menu Bar, select Edit > Preferences > Substance.

• Select an option from the Render Engine dropdown. Choose from GPU, CPU, and Automatic.

Setting the Default Output Size

This determines the default output size when loading a Substance archive and resetting a graph.

If using presets, see Applying a Preset to understand how output size is affected.

Keep in mind, the larger the size, the more resources required for rendering.

1. In the Menu Bar, select Edit > Preferences > Substance.

2. Click the arrow next to Default Output Size and set a value.

   NOTE To set different output sizes for width and height, click the Lock to unlock the proportions.