 Hi there, welcome to Game Dev Academy. I'm Shane and in today's video I'm going to be showing you how you can get Substance Painter for free on a one-year educational license. If you're not already using Substance Painter and you don't know what it is, it really changed the game a few years ago when it was released and it makes creating textures and materials for your 3D models really easy, but the results are also really good. It allows you to paint with full PVR materials all at once, so you're painting across lots of different texture layers, which is amazing. So if you're not already aware of this magical piece of software, you should be and you should be using it. So let's take a look at what you need to do to get yourself a license now. So the first thing you'll want to do is get to the right website. The way I'm going to do that is by just popping a search for Substance Painter student into my browser. There you can see that Substance Painter student and I'll give that a little click and on the results page, you can see that you've got the website there, Substance3D.com slash education and that's the link that we want. This is the web page that it brings you to. It does look a little bit different to the last time I was here. I think that's because Adobe have bought them out, but you can see here students and teachers, you are entitled to a free personal license. Click here. Get your free license, which is what we will jolly well do. Give that little bad boy a click and then it brings you to a login page and you've got some options. You can choose to sign in with Facebook or sign in with Google. If you've already got an account, you can use that or down at the bottom, you can choose to create an account. I've created an account previously, so I can just log in using that. So on this page here, it's now just giving you some information about the license that you're going to get and it says you're entitled to a free personal license, which is valid for one year for use at home or on a personal machine. But what is cool about this is in brackets, it says renewable, which means that after the year is up, you can just get it again. So, while ever you are eligible for a student license, you can just keep getting substance painter, which I think is just swell. So before you can get your license, you do need to give them some details. So I'll let them know first of all whether or not you're a student or a teacher. I'm a teacher, so I'm going to choose that. And then you've got to give them some details like your name and where you're studying. So I've filled that in, but I've totally blurred it out because I don't want to be identity thefted by any of you losers. The last thing that you need to fill in, though, is what kind of way you're going to use it. And I think that's just more for the information that it doesn't really mean anything. But I'm going to just tell them that I'm a 3D generalist. I tend to do lots of different bits and bobs with it. So that's what I'll choose. And then the last thing you need to do is attach proof of current employment or affiliation with the school that you are at. So for that, I have an ID card. So I just took a picture of that and I'll upload that here and that'll be fine. I've always found, whenever I've done this, that they give you the license instantly, so I'm not convinced anyone really checks these, but maybe they check them after the fact, but it's always been instant for me. You will need to agree to the terms and conditions, obviously. And then you can just click through to the next bit. This is where our paths are going to diverge a little bit because I've already got an active educational license, so I don't need to get a new one. But it's at this stage that you will be granted your educational license after having uploaded your proof. For me, however, I'm going to go to my account so that I can see the active licenses that I have. Here we go. So from this page, I can just choose to install the Windows version of Substance Painter. It also shows that through doing this, I can get Substance Designer and Substance Alchemist as well. So I'll click on the Windows version to get the installer downloaded. This will take a little while, about 10 minutes for me, and then you'll be able to open that and start installing. Once the installer opens, you'll get this license agreement to look at. You should totally read all of that. I always do, honest. And then you'll have to accept the terms and conditions, and then you'll be able to click on next. Decide whether or not you want the desktop shortcut. That's your choice. I don't want to pressure you one way or the other. Do what feels right to you. And then you can just start installing. This won't take too long, a couple of minutes. And then if you're very lucky and everything goes your way, once it's finished installing, you'll be able to launch Substance Painter and it'll be time for you to make some sexy ass materials for your beautiful 3D models. So now that you've got Substance Painter, you might want to learn how to use it. I'll put a link at the end of the video to a really good tutorial, or if you really want to go in depth with Learning Substance Painter, then you could join PluralSite and complete the Substance Painter Fundamentals course by VictorKam. If you use my link in the video description below, you can get a 10 day free trial, which is more than enough time to complete that tutorial series. Thanks for watching. This video, like all of my others, has been supported by my very generous patrons over on Patreon. 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