I just went for the steam / substance thing, and am not disappointed. Despite being slightly unclear on what exactly I am missing out on without the Adobe sub, I took a punt, and all seems good ! I do appear to have everything I need to make great materials - loads of presets, brushes, and the sort of things I was hoping for, including those nice particle jobbies ! So that's me happy 🙂
Yep, @HappyPolygon, Steam normally does games but increasingly other things too these days ! I have been 'playing' SD for 2 hours now, and have already won some sort of random gamer style award 🙂 Now for 3 weeks of hardcore learning while I try and make it work with Cinema and Octane and try and get my workflows sorted !
CBR