Substance + Unreal Engine
Substance allows artists to efficiently produce real-life textures perfectly suited to Unreal Engine users: multi-output (diffuse, spec, normal, etc.), resolution-independent and fully-editable in Unreal Editor, with all content fitting into mere kilobytes of data.
The native integration of Substance Engine with both full source Unreal Engine 3 and UDK opens the door to next-generation texturing for today’s developers.
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Faster AND Higher Quality Materials
Yes, you can have BOTH! With the combined power of Substance and Unreal Engine, you can automate tedious texturing tasks (like, well, importing a texture in UE won't take a thousand years anymore), you can reapply your texture templates on many objects in a click (that alone will save you hours of work per week) and you can accelerate iterations thanks to the parametric nature of substances by editing your substances directly IN the Unreal Editor.
With that in hand, use the time saved to produce more or, better still, fine-tune your art to make it unique and beautiful.
Create dynamic textures
For those of you with a big heart: Unreal Engine embedding Substance Engine by default means that you can exploit the parametric nature of substances in Kismet and animate them at runtime and/or let users customise the textures of their favourite character/ship/gun or other kind of 'generic' asset.
Substance Engine will regenerate the textures according to the input parameters. Like ageing materials, more or less scars on this face, a dirtier gun (a gun is always dirty isn't it?), etc.
Infinite possibilities… Just waiting for creatives to invent the future of games look.
Reduce Download Size
Last but not least, using Substance in conjunction with Unreal Engine will allow developers to distribute substance files (that can be VERY tiny) instead of large, fat gigabytes of TGAs and DDSs that players hate to wait for when they have to download the whole game or a new add-on to their favourite game…