With the announcement of the new Substance 3D Collection, I’m happy to be able to provide more insight into the plans for the future again. 

The team has been hard at work building Adobe Substance 3D Stager – which is an evolution on the concept of Dimension as a professional grade staging application with new depth and workflow possibilities.

At the moment neither Dimension nor Stager run on Apple Silicon M1 devices. 

We sincerely apologize for the impact to your work thus far or for those who have been unable to try these tools.  With Stager now released, getting emulation mode running as soon as possible a top priority.

We will be prioritizing investigations for M1 emulation in Stager first.  Support for Dimension is an unknown at this time.

I will provide updates as this topic moves forward.

This should be fairly straightforward! Thank you for submitting the idea.

This is a great idea and definitely something we can do. I’m marking it as under review and will discuss with the team!

Thank you for the feedback! The feedback button is supposed to have an in-app mechanism for attaching the file, which seems to not be working.

On this website feedback.adobedimension.com there is a “Contact Us” which you can use to send attachments privately.

We do not recommend attaching log files to forums.

Dimension supports “Light” and “Dark” UI modes in the preferences. It’s certainly possible to allow more personalization, but having details on what you’d want to customize is helpful!

Thank you for the exceptional and detailed feature request! Very clear on what you’d like to see here. It’s possible and seems like something that would be great in Dimension.

Dimension has never been tested with eGPUs. There’s probably no reason we can’t support them, just haven’t today. At this time we don’t have immediate plans to add this to our testing coverage, but I’ll bring it up to the team and will update here if we start work on it!

A note, it’s not actually expected that plugging in the eGPU afterwards would change anything. Dimension selects the GPU at launch and once selected doesn’t change. I’m very curious about the performance change, but if it’s actually using the eGPU that is not by design.

Hey everyone! Today we announced the release of a new app – Adobe Substance 3D Stager.

Stager builds on the foundation of Dimension but has a completely reworked infrastructure and is built for pro audiences.

Stager includes a new material model that provides a ton of new controls including displacement and tessellation.

In addition Stager’s material model supports sheen, clear coat, anisotropy, subsurface scattering, dispersion, and much more!

You can find more information about Stager here:
https://www.adobe.com/products/substance3d-stager.html

Thank you for the suggestion! I’ll bring this up with the internationalization team, it’s something new for us so we don’t have a precedent here, but I’m sure possible!

Thank you for the suggestion! This sounds like something we would want to add in the future.

Hey everyone! Today we announced the release of a new app – Adobe Substance 3D Stager.

Stager builds on the foundation of Dimension but has a completely reworked infrastructure and is built for pro audiences.

Stager includes support for CAD import including dozens of new formats, the full list can be found in the Stager documentation:
https://substance3d.adobe.com/documentation/sg/import-export-formats-213060294.html

CAD Import is only available for those with the Enterprise version of the Substance 3D Collection plan. More information on this plan is available here:

https://www.adobe.com/creativecloud/business/enterprise/substance3D.html

You can find more information about Stager here:
https://www.adobe.com/products/substance3d-stager.html

Thanks for the suggestion! I’d love to know here if rendering was faster would you prefer smart objects in Dimension so you can place the new graphics in 3D? The reason I ask is mostly because if we bake the materials and lighting down to 2D there’s a bit more limitation on what you could do with the PS smart object. For example replacing the packaging label wouldn’t update to show in reflections or refractions in the rest of the scene. Is that an okay limitation?

Hey everyone! Today we announced the release of a new app – Adobe Substance 3D Stager.

Stager builds on the foundation of Dimension but has a completely reworked infrastructure and is built for pro audiences.

Stager includes support for physical lights including point, spot, and area lights.

You can find more information about Stager here:
https://www.adobe.com/products/substance3d-stager.html

This should be very feasible. We do allow you (as of Dimension 2.2) to copy/paste selections of geometry into new objects. Right now the selection method is using Magic Wand, so if your material application is the same as a magic wand selection then you could do this today.

For a future enhancement we can add a way to select the polygons a material is assigned to.

Thanks for the idea! We’re evaluating saving many things. We’re starting with saving models and materials, but may include full templated scenes later. For the moment I’d recommend saving your .dn scenes itself then you can import a new object.

We’ve started some discussion around adding scene panel sorting & filtering. Not sure if we’re doing it (yet) but actively discussing!

Thanks for the suggestion here! Should be pretty easy to do. I’m curious would you primarily be selecting different objects of different shapes and sizes or primarily duplicated similar objects?

If the object has multiple parts would you want us to put the decal on all selected parts?

Hello! In our next release we’ve added automatic UV generation and error fixing so if you have a model with no UVs or that we detect UV errors you’ll get a prompt to resolve the issue.

This process is currently fully automatic and we are not yet adding manual UV mapping and controls. Once the new feature is out we’ll continue to evaluate providing manual custom UV controls.