Substance Resources For Unity

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You can use Allegorithmic Substance Materials with Unity, here’s few useful links:
(^main image is from the free SubstancePlayer)

TUTORIALS

1. How to use Substances and what they are (unity3d blog)
2. Official Allegorithmic YouTube channel

FREE SUBSTANCES & DEMO PACKAGES

1. 18 Free Substances (unity asset store)
2. Airstream Substance Demo (unity asset store)
3. Palace of Orinthalian Demo (unity asset store)
4. POD Tutorial (unity asset store)
5. Custom Characters Demo (unity asset store)
6. Couple free substances (TurboSquid marketplace)
7. Make it a BrickWall (unity asset store)
8. Make it a Parquet (unity asset store)
9. 25 Free Substances (UDN)
10. Stone Filter (UDN)
11. Metal Filter (UDN)
12. 25 Free Substances (Allogorithmic Maya Bonus Pack, has some substances that are not found in other packs)
13. 8 Free substances for mobile (unity asset store)

*Some of those UDN files need Unity 4.1 or higher

FREE TOOLS

1. Substance Player (create variations of your substances and exporting the results as bitmaps)
2. Substance Utilities (create substances by combining your own diffuse+normal+specular maps)
3. Bitmap2Material LITE (Generate seamless tiling materials (normal, height, specular, ambient occlusion, etc.) from any bitmap,  inside Unity) | More info (Allegorithmic site)
4. Substance Terrain Tool (This script will allow you to apply your substances on Unity built-in terrains)

NON-FREE SUBSTANCES & TOOLS

1. Substance Designer (trial available)
2. Bitmap2Material (unity asset store. Bitmap2Material Lite is the trial version) | More info (Allegorithmic site)
3. 3ds Max 2012/1013 comes with Substances (also subscription center has some extras)
4. Lots of ready substances (unity asset store)
5. 3ds Max 2014 comes with 83 substances

SHOWCASE

1. Ballistic Substance Breakdown: unity facebook game, using substances (vimeo)
2. AtomFishing II: graphics (polycount forum)

(more later..feel free to add more in the comments)