Release notes | Substance 3D Viewer

Adobe Substance 3D Viewer (Beta) Version 0.25.0
(Released Jun, 2025)

Features:

• Added the Export workspace.
  • Changed the Export button to Send to. Use the Send to button to send your project to Photoshop (beta). 
  • Use the Export workspace to save renders.
• Added resolution frame when exporting a snapshot.
• Generative features are now metered and spend Firefly credits (Text to 3D is exempt and remains unlimited).
• Improved flow and UX when using generative features with the composition workspace or Photoshop interop. When using 3D model to image, you now need to be in Canvas view.
• If a material preset is already present in the scene, applying it a second time now creates a new instance of it.
• Added Substance style camera navigation to 3D view (Alt+mouse).
• Remove snapshots from export render history list.
• Standardize file naming and paths for saves and exports.
• Disable 2D generative workflows in the 3D view.
• Add link to material Repeat parameter.
• Make default SBSAR resolution 2048x2048.
• Add labels to undo / redo actions.
• Remove cancelled items from the render history list.

Fixes:

• [AMD] Exporting file at Very High Resolution causes Viewer crash.
• [AMD] ASD files display ground planes in PS files.
• [AMD] Assets appear corrupt when adding 3D assets to a PS file.
• STEP files opened in Viewer are missing some meshes.
• Size property of carbon_fiber material displayed as NaN.
• Selecting axis-aligned camera affects focus distance max of next loaded files..
• Canvas Height and Width fields accept negative and very large values.
• After changing the aspect ratio Variations preview box appears blank under 3D model to Image.
• [Regression Mac] Viewer crashes when loading 8200x8200 Ps doc.
• File name gets truncated when you select custom lighting under light preset.
• [Regression] Cannot change material parameters on USDs exported from Painter and Sg.
• Focusing Viewer during send-to-Ps causes progress dialog to stall.
• [Regression] Basic material is not being auto applied to models without textures.
• After changing UI Theme, the material preset color does not change correctly.
• [Win] After send-to-Ps, edit contents in Ps does not send to Viewer.
• Long folder name is appearing clipped under files section.
• [Regression] Opening a folder with models, doesn't auto load the first model.
• [Regression][Mac] Viewer crashes after clicking fit frame to canvas after changing canvas size.
• Framing a selection does not properly set distance to center.
• [Regression] Photoshop image scale doesn’t match Viewer when using generate then to Photoshop workflow.
• Bloom effect missing from exported image.
• [Regression] Translucency rollout appears twice in the appearance panel.
• Grid doesn't render with top-down orthographic camera.
• Transparency switch doesn't work when exporting image.
• PNG and TIFF image exports have different gamma levels.
• Edit content sends a default white background image if there's no background or all below layers are hidden.
• Open image toast doesn't clear/update when user makes a new render, old image shows.
• Changing canvas ratio to 500x500 and going back to 3D view causes export frame to be offset.
• Grabbing the right side of frame moves the render to the right side of where the frame handle was at.
• Transparency toggle in snapshot causes JPG export images to have black backgrounds.
• 3d view mode exported images have black backgrounds.
• Export frame tag gets hidden under the view toolbar in canvas mode.
• BMP exported images do not export with transparent background when transparency is enabled.
• GenAI overlay displays incorrectly when resizing render frame.
• [Regression] AI-Generated new look for your model does not have transparent background after send-to-Ps.
• Model sends back to Photoshop as a black square if user scaled frame larger than viewport in Seashell.
• Fit to screen button missing label on Mac.
• 3D smart object selector in Ps Plugin panel shows object from previous document.
• [Win Regression] Unable to load model in Photoshop, Photoshop could not connect to the Substance 3D Viewer (Beta) app error occurs.
• [Regression] Camera cannot be moved in canvas mode.
• [Mac] Space bar doesn't pause and play animations.
• ASD cannot be edited or saved after closing Ps doc .while open in Viewer.
• Canvas mode exported images are missing background color and render black.
• Scale to fill canvas an scale to fit canvas buttons do not align background image to canvas.
• Rasterizer snapshots export with noise.

Substance 3D Viewer for Photoshop (beta) Plugin Version 0.25.0
(Released Jun, 2025)

Added:

• Make Photoshop active after Send to Photoshop completes.
• New Substance 3D Viewer panel in Photoshop (beta).

Adobe Substance 3D Viewer (Beta) Version 0.24.1
(Released Apr, 2025)

Fixed:

• Crash on Windows when doing multiple exports

Adobe Substance 3D Viewer (Beta) Version 0.24.0
(Released Apr 24, 2025)

Added:

• Added a new Send to Photoshop action.  Send your Substance 3D Viewer (Beta) document to Photoshop and embed as a Smart Object layer.
• Support for multiple new languages:
  • Spanish
  • Korean
  • Brazilian Portuguese 
  • Chinese (Traditional) 
  • Chinese (Simplified)
• Added a preference for aligning the application panels to left or right orientations.
• Duplicating materials now provides a unique name for each material for clarity

Fixed:

• Prevented a crash when using the fit to frame action.
• Export file dialog now populates a default file name.
• Framing camera no longer causes orbit to behave off center.
• Changing to orthographic cameras now keeps objects in view.
• Resolved multiple minor UX issues with alignment, text centering, and styling.
• Preferences now show correct shortcuts for Mac OS (option) and Windows OS (alt).
• Material properties are no longer missing after undoing a material change.

Substance 3D Viewer for Photoshop (beta) Plugin Version 0.24.0
(Released Apr 24, 2025)

Added:

• Added a new Send to Photoshop action to Substance 3D Viewer (Beta) desktop app.  Send your Substance 3D Viewer (Beta) document to Photoshop and embed as a Smart Object layer

Adobe Substance 3D Viewer (Beta) Version 0.23.1
(Released MAR 26, 2025)

Fixed

• Added missing shortcuts to some tooltips.
• Fixed an issue where it used to be possible to interact with the 3D Viewport while on the Home screen, even though the Viewport wasn't visible.
• The To Photoshop button no longer appears on the Home screen when not viewing a file.

Substance 3D Viewer for Photoshop (beta) Plugin Version 0.23.1
(Released MAR 26, 2025)

Fixed:

• Files with extended characters in the file name can now be opened.
• Added an error state when Viewer is unable to process an asset that has been placed in Photoshop (beta).

Adobe Substance 3D Viewer (Beta) Version 0.22.0
(Released Feb 20, 2025)

Added:

• Removed a memory check on startup that was preventing some low memory GPU devices from running Substance 3D Viewer desktop app.
• The file browser in the Appearance workspace will default to the same location as the path as the initial file or folder currently opened.
• Improved the tooltip for materials when drag-n-dropping from material presets in the Appearance workspace.
• Changed the Workspace bar to have collapse and expand behavior.
• 3D model to image when using the composition mode “Generate a composite scene” will now correctly respect your 3D rendered content when match color value is set to 100.
• New denoising model improves high SPP render quality in complex scenes, balances detail preservation in low SPP renders, and eliminates pixel artifacts.

Fixed

• The Reset camera action is no longer selection based.
• Fixed an issue where long file names in the files workspace would break the interface.
• Fixed an issue where some models didn't work as expected with the Generate workflow.
• Added missing translations for some strings in the file import settings dialog.
• The first frame of animated assets is now correct.
• Preview renders no longer produce a fully transparent image.

Substance 3D Viewer for Photoshop (beta) Plugin Version 0.22.0
(Released Feb 20, 2025)

Added:

• The maximum size when placing a 3D model is now 4096 by 4096 pixels.
• The default aspect ratio when placing a 3D model is now square.
• Photoshop (beta) and Viewer now brings the other app into focus when interacting.

Fixed:

• Fixed a bug that sometimes editing a model from Photoshop (beta) could open a second instance of the Substance 3D Viewer (Beta) desktop app.

Adobe Substance 3D Viewer (Beta) Version 0.21.0
(Released Jan 16, 2025)

Added:

• Performance improvements for interactive rendering with ray tracing

• Navigation information selection type for mouse and trackpad shortcuts is now persistent across sessions

Fixed

• Crash when using raytracing with generated 3D models

• Crash when resizing the application or canvas

• Crash when opening files

• Crash when opening document from Photoshop greater than 5400 pixels

• Crash when adjusting field of view

• Unable to install Substance 3D Viewer on a device with AMD graphics card

• Reloading a document shows incorrect error there is no geometry

• Small canvas size causes 3D view to render at low resolution

• Undo of up-axis change not updated in axis indicator UI

• Original materials do not reapply with undo

• Send to Photoshop button disabled when sending generated image

• Photoshop and Viewer apps now focus when using Edit Contents or To Photoshop actions

• Unable to access material settings on sub-meshes

Substance 3D Viewer for Photoshop (beta) Plugin Version 0.21.0
(Released Jan 16, 2025)

Added:

• Plugin build information added to the plugin About screen for easier bug reporting.

Fixed:

• Unintentional launch of second instance of Substance 3D Viewer application when editing from Photoshop. 

• Save dialog when using multiple Smart Objects could update the wrong layer 

Adobe Substance 3D Viewer (Beta) Version 0.20.1
(Released Jan 7, 2025)

Fixed:

• Fixed common crash on mac when loading scenes

• Fixed issue with disappearing renders when enabling Ray tracing and clicking "To Photoshop"

Adobe Substance 3D Viewer (Beta) Version 0.20.0
(Released Dec 12, 2024)

Added:

• Compatibility check between Viewer app and Photoshop integration versions.

• Raised maximum render size from 4096 x 4096 to 8192 x 8192.

• 3D model to image can now generate images to match the canvas resolution.

Fixed:

• Snapshot results were visually different than Photoshop results.

• SBSAR material names sometimes displayed as ‘ref’ instead of actual name.

• Some text was clipped in the UI in some locales.

• Custom installation location in Creative Cloud desktop app caused Viewer app to not launch.

• The “To Photoshop” button shows up sometimes when not connected to a Photoshop document.

• File names beginning with the character “0” fail to load.

• Generate requests sometimes stop processing with no error.

• Unable to apply materials to instanced geometry.

Substance 3D Viewer for Photoshop (beta) Plugin Version 0.20.0
(Released Dec 12, 2024)

Added:

• Support for Photoshop documents with multiple artboards.

• Compatibility check between Viewer app and Photoshop integration versions.

Fixed:

• Older versions of Photoshop 3D workflows disrupted by the Substance 3D Viewer plugin.

• Crash in Adobe Bridge when using 3D files associated with Substance 3D Viewer.

• Background in Viewer fails to update when launched from Photoshop.

• Transform data fails to sync in Photoshop documents with multiple 3D Smart Objects .

• Fail to load PSB document backgrounds in Viewer.

• Fail to place files with extended characters in name as 3D Smart Object.

Adobe Substance 3D Viewer Version 0.19.1
(Released Nov 14, 2024)

Added:

• 3D model to image can now generate different aspect ratio choices.

• Support for importing GLTF lights.

• Support for exporting FBX lights.

• Support for exporting FBX camera animations.

• Keyboard shortcuts display in application menus.

• Tooltips for long strings when the full length will not fit are now shown on hover.

Fixed:

• Fixed a crash when unable to connect the rendering engine to Vulkan on unsupported GPUs.  A dialog will now appear notifying the system is incompatible.

• Incorrect icon shown in the navigation info bar for 2 button mouse zoom canvas command.

• Inconsistent visual appearance of images between snapshot, export image panel, and Send to Photoshop workflows.

• Trackpad scrolling missing in the export image panel.

• Missing scrollbar in the Generate workspace.

• Missing scrollbar in the Feedback panel.

• Zoom UI displaying in the incorrect location in the app header bar.

• Incorrect display names when importing SBSAR materials.

• Incorrect display names when importing cameras from FBX files.

• Incorrect transforms when importing cameras from FBX files.

• Incorrect transform when importing skinned meshes from FBX files.

• Incorrect transform when importing rigged mesh from FBX files.

• Incorrect scale transform when loading FBX files.

• Error when exporting FBX files as FBX files.

• Missing textures when exporting FBX files.

• Missing metallic textures when converting GLB to FBX files.

• Non-unit length normal vectors error when converting FBX to GLTF files.

• Error with image loading when saving and reloading GLB files.

• Camera transformation incorrect when exporting as FBX file.

• Geometry and texture information lost when converting GLB to FBX files.

• Missing localized strings for tessellation settings.

• Generate not working for Japanese language prompts.

• Strings are clipped in the interface.

Substance 3D Viewer for Photoshop (beta) Plugin Version 0.19.1
(Released Nov 14, 2024)

Added:

• Support for more 3D file formats in Photoshop (3MF, SAT, 3DS, DWF, DWFX, IPT, IAM, EXP, CGR, DAE, DXF, PRT, IGS, IGES, X_B, X_T, PRC, RFA, 3DM, PAR, STL, STP, STEP, U3D, WRL, VRML)

• Localized Viewer dialogs and controls in Photoshop to French, German, Japanese

• Support for 16-bit Photoshop documents as backgrounds when editing the Smart Object in Viewer

• A new tutorial to the Photoshop discover panel

• Compatibility checks between plugin and Substance 3D Viewer desktop

Fixed:

• Crash when viewing About dialog

• Multiple issues with transform and updates between Viewer and Photoshop

• Unable to place 3D files with extended characters in file name in Photoshop

• Transform is incorrect when editing mulitple smart objects from one Photoshop document 

• Multiple issues with handling file paths with extended characters

• Issue when using a 3D object inside a group or artboard

Adobe Substance 3D Viewer Version 0.18.2
(Released Oct 30, 2024)

Fixed:

• Crash when making selections.
• Missing fonts affecting interface display.

Changed:

• There is an error when saving USD files that breaks mesh visualization.  Files are now saved as ASD format when edited.

Substance 3D Viewer for Photoshop (beta) Plugin Version 0.9.2
(Released Oct 24, 2024)

Changes:

• Fixed transformation information showing up incorrectly when opening a 3D file Smart Object in Substance 3D Viewer. 
  

Substance 3D Viewer for Photoshop (beta) Plugin Version 0.9.1
(Released Oct 22, 2024)

Changes:

• Fixed a crash when using the Photoshop (beta) workflow and using the edit contents action multiple times in a row