Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your SBS file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert SBS to another file type
To convert SBS Substance files to another format, you need Substance 3D Designer or other 3D software.
Convert a file to SBS
To convert other file formats to the "Procedural Material Source File" file type, you need software like Substance 3D Designer or a similar tool.
About SBS files
The .SBS file extension is primarily utilized as an XML-based source graph file for Adobe Substance 3D Designer, capturing procedural node networks used to generate 3D textures. Alternatively, it serves as a JSON-formatted SMS text message backup generated by Android apps like Gilapps SMS Backup or Super Backup & Restore. Other niche uses include audio sound banks for Electronic Arts games, German payroll data encoded in UTF-16 (LE) for SBS Lohn plus software, and 3D printer build files for Asiga Composer. Users frequently encounter issues with .SBS files because they are tied to expensive software subscriptions or specific utility applications. Substance Designer files contain heavy procedural math and cannot be natively previewed in web browsers, while SMS backups are notoriously difficult to read without parsing tools. If you have an SMS backup, converting the .SBS to CSV, JSON, or TXT is highly recommended for easy reading in Microsoft Excel. Substance graphs are usually compiled into SBSAR files for game engines, but extracting raw XML data is also possible. Because these files span highly proprietary 3D graphs, strict data dumps, and binary audio streams, standard online converters fail to process them.
Convert.Guru analyzes your SBS file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert SBS file to MVC, BAK, BACKUP, OLD, TMP, TEMP, ARC, ZIP, TAR, GZ, 7Z or RAR, you can use Substance 3D Designer or similar software from the "Material Node Graph Storage" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert SNAPSHOT, OLD, IMG, RESTORE, ISO, COPY, VMDK, TMP, VHD, BAK, ARCHIVE or BACKUP files to SBS, try Substance 3D Designer or another comparable tool in the "Material Node Graph Storage" category.
The SBS Converter Story
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our SBS converter.