Unreal Engine Project Titan -- Get Substance Painter And Modeler Free!

Unreal Engine have just announced Project Titan. It is a 10 week long "artist game jam" set in Unreal Engine for the community to collaboratively work on a large open world project. You can compete in the following categories:
- Environment/Level Design
- Character
- Props
- Materials
- VFX
Aspiring game artists can get feedback and collaborate with professional game artists and staff from Epic Games and the final results will be open sourced for everyone. Additionally if you sign up you get 6 months of Substance Painter and Substance Modeler for free.
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[@Clawthorne]

Okay that title is very clickbaity. If it's "free for 6 months" it's not free. It's just an extended trial. 😐

[@alexhooi7268]

Half a year is reasonable enough IMO, enough time to thoroughly test the software to see if it is worth the asking price, or for a professional artist, use it in that time to make enough in commissions to pay for itself. I bought Substance Painter on Steam couple of years back, still using it today after evaluating it vs 3DCoat and Quixel Mixer.

[@Nebulaoblivion]

@@alexhooi7268It's still a free trial, not a free product though, being his point.

[@sfcoawol6273]

Thanks for saving my time! No sense learning new tools if I don't plan on paying for them

[@manadoria]

Half a year to use a tool to the extent that you will feel almost obligated to purchase it when the "trial" has ended; probably more than if you had just used it for the duration of an average trial period.

[@WatThaDeuce]

'They actually bought this and rebranded it.' That's Adobe's whole business model.

[@WolfCatalyst]

6 months... get us hooked and then jack up the price. Looks like sp and sm 2024 are still on steam though, but wow did they jack up the price

[@Cadaverine1990]

The price is reasonable as it is for what you get. Then again if you aren't from the North America or the EU, currency exchange is a pain.

[@thelaughingmanofficial]

That's what Adobe does.

[@fernwaerts]

Wow indeed :( I bought Substance Painter I think 2021 for around 80€ in a steam sale - yes at that point they participated and reduced it from like 125-150€ (can't remember the original price). I kinda think that 200€ is still reasonable as you get a good software that saves you a lot of time in the process. But I hope they go back to participating in the sales :)

[@DarkDao]

So basically r/Place but in UE.

[@Nasylbek]

Can't wait to see a very long German flag in it

[@etherealregions2676]

It's too bad it's not a competition, I need some more epic T-shirts. 😂

[@Jasseri]

How do you get the trial? I have signed up for the "Project Titan". U get it when it starts or?

[@ShaunRoot]

I'm not seeing how to get Substance Painter. Do we need to wait until March 28 to test it? You would think they would want people to get some practice in.

[@TheDigitalGuerrilla]

Hey you, young artist, try our software and get a new monthly payment down the line! F that! The only thing that makes me happy is that they are so desperate that they are giving 6 months for free. Even with perpetual licenses of older version of their software, I'm off their "ecosystem". They need to understand that the artist made them who they are, not the investors

[@DarthBiomech]

Perpetual licenses of the "old versions" are not _their_ software, they've bought Substance Painter and renamed it to Adobe Painter. Real shame the original devs were seduced by the money...

[@binodsarkarIN]

@@DarthBiomech didnt substance always have a monthly system ?

[@wtflolomg]

This seems like the sort of marketing activity Unity could get back into to show their commitment to game devs and creators. Epic seems to be getting back to basics. I do feel like both need to tune their approaches to deal with the skill disparity. I can think of a few ideas on how they can do this, off the top of my head...

[@skubed007]

it will no even download on my device 💀

[@modernator]

That's not a free.

[@natan_amorim_moraes]

Wasn't "Project Titan" the name Overwatch had internally until the official announcement?

[@musicdudem6673]

It’s also used for a Houdini project

[@sleepingcolossus]

Something like that. It was supposed to be a next gen MMO initially. The MMO project was cancelled but the tech was repurposed for Overwatch.

[@MasterPiffy]

​@sleepingcolossus nah games and films have "working" names before the titles release. I worked on big george foreman, which we called "champ" during dev.

[@IlseMulAuthor]

Unity's project has been cancelled and has NOT been made available, in contrast to what was promised, IIRC.

[@ViRiXDreamcore]

Welp, that sounds like Unity.

[@ViRiXDreamcore]

This may just be biased, but I feel like the unreal ones gonna do better than the unity one did.

[@vaibhavjaiswal799]

I have a question... You said the result projects will be open source, right...! So are we allowed to use those assets for our own personal and specially commercial projects And more importantly, are we allow to use those assets with other game engines like unity and godot too....

[@gamefromscratch]

I would guess so, but amazingly there are no legal details, EULA, or FAQ posted that I could find covering the details. Which is... Odd.

[@vaibhavjaiswal799]

Not forcing or anything.....but if any licence thing get update can you make video on that Cause I am sure many people like me, would wanted to know about this info

[@vaibhavjaiswal799]

And by the way I am a unity developer And no they never completed their open project These kind of things from unity really pissed us all First open project then gigaya But we have good hopes from them now as new CEO arrives, lets see what happen And also loved your videos man Really your channel is the one whih make me updated about everything in game dev industry

[@bexplosion]

From ArtStation: The final project will be released as a free downloadable sample project, standing as both a testament to what artists can do and as a learning resource for others wanting to understand how best to build an open world game. Also: Work will be submitted to the project using Perforce and should follow the guidelines given in the technical art guide, code of conduct, and version control guide.

[@DarthBiomech]

Open source ≠ public domain, so this is uncertain.

[@maskwaGaming]

Amazon just recently bought planetside 2. Coincidence?

[@TheThehwashere]

entered

[@sigrid714]

You can't name anything Titan or Leviathan without infringing on a billion other things that thought that was a clever name for "big thing"

[@FUMIME_TCG]

Basicly ADOBE getting scared of BLENDER and pushing their 3D-suite of products gently to wider audience. ( Not saying this is BAD or GOOD, just .."saying" something)

[@joantonio6331]

Substance modeler for free... I just subscribbed to it last month... damn it

[@MastermindAtWork]

I would've suggested to get the Steam version. Sure, it cost more up front, but at least you keep it.

[@joantonio6331]

@@MastermindAtWork thanks, I did not know I could buy it.

[@MastermindAtWork]

@@joantonio6331 Well whenever you get the chance, check it out and buy your software asap. Adobe took down Substance 3D Sampler from Steam a few months ago so you'll never know if they'll do the same for the others.

[@iamyourgreatgreatgreatgrea6291]

@@MastermindAtWork "At least you keep it" Maybe in comparison to EpicGames, but all of your Steam "possessions" are just subscriptions after all, meaning there's absolutely zero owner rights. If Valve feels like it, they could literally pull the rug under all of us, at any given time and for probably whatever reason they feel like, hell, I don't even think they would need a reason for it, since it's all in the TOS and that kind of stuff.

[@MastermindAtWork]

@@iamyourgreatgreatgreatgrea6291 You are a 100% right and this is what I hate about the all-digital future we're going down. But hey, this is the better of the two evils, at least they're not yoinking your license cause you couldn't afford the product that month after your trial is up.

[@andrekling]

They bought medium, modeller is all new based on medium tech

[@TheLongestConfidence]

Disparity*

[@skubed007]

yo me here!!!

[@DavesChaoticBrain]

I like how you think 10 weeks is "Quite a while". hahaha

[@gamefromscratch]

For a jam it's literally years

[@alexhooi7268]

I've participated multiple times in the Global Game Jam , which is 48 hours. Typical gamejams are 3 days - a week, so yes 10 weeks is a long time for a gamejam.

[@iamyourgreatgreatgreatgrea6291]

Whether 10 weeks is or isn't quite a while is really just subjective. So it absolutely can be "quite a while", in fact, it can be an insane amount of time, but it can also be the exact opposite.

[@Tomas-yg1xz]

I believe a normal Artstation challenge is 6 weeks for the production phase (which is what we are looking at in this case) and we know how much art gets made in that time so I would say that 10 weeks is enough to produce quite a large variety of assets (with mixed quality of course).

[@ganipra7402]

flag will be anywhere, fanbase will make lot of beautiful works. unfortunately, I can't disturb genshin impact fanbase . lol

[@TheBlackbirdii]

Clickbait title

[@padreputativo]

I hate Epic's "buts". The typical twisted stories from Tim Sweeney of "you can use this for free BUT if you use Unreal", "the engine is open BUT it's not libre", "these assets are free BUT if you use them in Unreal". They don't do anything that isn't a twisted way to make more money.

[@Tomas-yg1xz]

You know, I have no idea why people just see free stuff behind everything. The real point of this is for people to get to work on a complex project and train themselves in the process. Not the fact that someone else can claim free stuff as a result. I mean I would be perfectly happy even if the whole thing was deleted after it's final showcase and the participants only got to keep the source files for their own work. Just like with all the other Artstation challenges.

[@padreputativo]

@@Tomas-yg1xz In capitalism, people are really convinced that "nothing is free" when in reality everything is free before putting a price on it. They also believe that work is equivalent to and must be equivalent to money, which is also not true. So it's normal for there to be people who are even grateful to be harmed-charged or forced to use certain tools (while Tim Sweeney plays the indie-liberating savior to make even more money with Fortnite while having a store where he charges indies and has rules from past eras). I'm not surprised at all. It's like Apple fans and the crappy glasses they've released, they enjoy them just the same even though they're the worst in decades.

[@WatThaDeuce]

@@padreputativo you just want to exploit other people's labor while you're over here complaining about 'capitalism'.

[@TheSoulmarine]

Open sourcing my work in exchange for 6 month free sub? Thanks but no thanks.

[@sk.mahdeemahbubsamy2857]

I have a free copy of both for lifetime😂😂😂😏