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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

Shape tools

Use the shape tools in Adobe Substance 3D Stager to draw and stamp basic 3D shapes. See the shape documentation for details on the properties for each shape.

To use the shape tools

  1. Activate a shape tool on the toolbar.
  2. Click and drag in the viewport to draw the shape.
  3. Change tool options to customize the tool interaction methods.

NameDescriptionShortcut
Box toolCreates boxes and cubes.M
Sphere toolCreates spheres.O
Torus toolCreates tori.U
Cone toolCreates cones.K
Cylinder toolCreates cylinders.Y

Tool Options

Construction method

The method for viewport interactions.

Base: Draw the shape from corner to corner of the base.

Center Base: Draw the shape outward from the center of the base.

Stamp: Create a shape with default properties and uniform scale.

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