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Substance 3D Stager

Substance 3D Stager

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  1. Substance 3D home
  2. Home
  3. Getting Started
    1. Activation and licenses
    2. Stager on Steam
    3. System requirements
    4. Accessibility
    5. Glossary
    6. Viewport navigation
    7. Supported formats
      1. Import & export formats
      2. Preparing models for use in Stager
      3. Importing CAD data
      4. End of support for Substance models
  4. Interface
    1. Interface overview
    2. Shortcuts
    3. Menus
    4. Viewport
    5. Assets panel
    6. Project materials panel
    7. Scene panel
    8. Actions and Properties panels
    9. Timeline panel
    10. Tools
      1. Tools overview
      2. Select tools
      3. Camera tools
      4. Environment Lighting tool
      5. Shape tools
      6. Sampler tool
      7. Magic Wand tool
      8. Canvas tools
  5. Objects
    1. Objects overview
    2. Standard models
    3. 3D Text
    4. Shapes
    5. Group
    6. Materials
    7. Camera
    8. Environment
    9. Physical lights
  6. Using Stager
    1. Stage 3D scenes
    2. Arrange objects
    3. Work with lights
    4. Render 3D scenes
    5. Add materials and textures
  7. Features
    1. Connected apps
    2. Coordinate system
    3. Snapping system
    4. Align and Distribute
    5. Collision based transformation
    6. Rendering system
    7. Apply images to models
    8. Material displacement
    9. Material projections
    10. Match Image
    11. Animation presets
    12. Publish scenes to the web
    13. Generative background
  8. Common issues
    1. GPU rendering is disabled
    2. Stager viewport is blank
    3. Stuck on splash screen
  9. Release notes
    1. All changes
    2. Version 3.1.0
    3. Version 3.0.0
    4. Version 2.1.0
    5. Version 2.0.0
    6. Version 1.3.0
    7. Version 1.2.0
    8. Version 1.1.0
    9. Version 1.0.0

Canvas tools

Adobe Substance 3D Stager makes it easy to view your cameras in a 'canvas' context - letting you see the exact pixel size it will render at and zoom in and out.

To use the canvas tools

  1. Activate a camera in the scene panel or viewport control bar.
  2. Activate a canvas tool on the toolbar.
  3. Click and drag in the viewport.

Name

Description

Shortcut

Zoom

Zoom in and out on the viewport.

Z

Hand

Move the viewport up, down, left, and right.

H

In addition to the canvas tools you can use the canvas zoom control in the viewport control bar to set exact sizes or use the following shortcuts to navigate as well:

Description

Mac shortcutWin shortcut

Zoom to fit viewport

Cmd 0

Ctrl 0
Zoom to 100%Cmd 1Ctrl 1
Zoom inCmd =Ctrl =
Zoom outCmd -Ctrl -

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