What is a .SBS file?
SBS is the editable source of a Substance procedural material. Created and opened by Adobe Substance 3D Designer.
- Did you know
- Substance Designer evolved from MaPZone, a free node-based texturing tool by Allegorithmic, before version 1.0 of Designer shipped in 2010.
- An SBS is XML, holding the editable node graph, while the published SBSAR is a compiled, read-only archive you cannot turn back into an SBS.
- Substance Designer came from Allegorithmic, the French studio Adobe bought in 2019.
- What Analyser reads
- Identify design-app files: Figma (FIG), Affinity Photo/Designer/Publisher, CorelDRAW (CDR), MediBang Paint (MDP) and Substance. A Figma file has its container read out - format, Kiwi version and chunk sizes - but not its contents: Figma encodes the design with Kiwi, a schema-driven binary format whose schema ships inside the file and changes with the version of Figma that wrote it, so there is no stable structure to walk. Sketch, by contrast, opens in a full viewer - see Sketch above. GIMP (XCF) does too, and Krita (KRA), Procreate and Paint.NET (PDN) show their embedded preview - see Raster art above.
- Depth of analysis
- .SBS is an identification-grade format: Analyser recognises it from its bytes and decodes the header metadata it carries, rather than opening it in a full viewer. Formats that do get a full viewer are marked "Full" on the formats page.
- Open a .SBS file
- Drag a .SBS file onto the Analyser home page (or tap to pick one). It is identified entirely in your browser - nothing is uploaded, there is no account, and it works offline once installed.