Allegorithmic recently released Substance Designer 2, their material processing solution that brings smart texturing to 3D pipelines. Substance Designer 2 comes in two versions, a full version and also a lite version, and also adds a version for OS X. Substance Designer 2 contains some new features such as vector painting as well as a Photoshop-like layering system. For more information on Allegorithmic’s Substance Designer 2 release and features, visit the site here where you can also find a trial download of Substance Designer 2.

Substance Designer is a powerful material processing solution that brings smart texturing at the heart of 3D creation pipelines. It is designed to help any artist transform all kinds of image resources, including your existing bitmaps, into substances.

“Substance Designer, the authoring tool to create substances, is being upgraded to a new version, Substance Designer 2, which is bringing fantastic new features such as a new vector paint feature or a new familiar layering system, to help texture designers emphasize on creation. And it is now available for Mac OSX!”