Bug Reports

When selecting the Rasterizer Renderer, baked normal maps does not render correctly on symmetric models. The OpenGL can render it correctly, but it was recently marked as deprecated and added a warning that it will be removed.Updating drivers didn’t made any change.No issues with the normal map on any other app, including PainterOn Substance Painter the maps looks fine. 

Hi, recently I upgraded to Substance Designer 15, and now when I try to create a new project or open an existing one, the program crashes. It seems like an issue with the 3D view because when the crush window appears, my 3D view is blank.What I tried so far:updated drivers for my video card (put studio drivers for Nvidia) reinstalled substance changed to OpenGl and Iray  checked python libraries installed and uninstalled ReShade libraries because saw it as a potential fix from another post

Hello from Ukraine!:)  I have an issue with SD 15 - it started to crash on loading the project.Yesterday I worked on a several projects, and all was well. Then, today I tried to open SD (I tried my projects, and even blank new scene, doesn't matter), and it crashes on loading.  After some tests I discovered that this is caused by rasterizer renderer initializing. If I disable 3d view before loading the project, I can use Designer, move and connect nodes and see 2D outut, all works as before. But if I initialize 3d view (no matter - using rmb on Output node or from window>new 3d view), it shows me black 3d view for a second and then crashes. I even can't switch to OpenGL, even if I set OpenGL as default renderer in settings, it still tries to initialize Rasterizer first (why?). The issue is I've already updated all my important projects to 15 version so I even can't open them in older versions of Designer. I tried 14 version, it works well with OpenGL ev

Title says it all. I’d provide more information if I could. I wish designer would tell me what exactly the problem is but I just get a small window that tells me: “Error publishing package. Check the console for details”. And if I check the console nothing is there. Where should I look?Thanks in advance

This is just ugly now, could you move either one of the Previews to align with each other? 

Hello,The new Color.Raytraced baker does not render the correct material colorsIt worked correctly in v14 but chooses random colors in v15.   Additionally, Color.Raytraced does not function correctly through the SAT.  If left to the default, or set to mesh_color through the --color_source flag, it renders a black image.  Example command: <path_to_baker>/substance3d_baker.exe Color.Raytraced --inputs <path_to_low>\low3.fbx --output_path <out_path>\ --high_scene_paths <path_to_high>\new_colors7.fbx --output_size 1024,1024 --output_name ID_Test --padding_radius 10 --projection.max_height .5 --projection.max_depth .5 --color_source mesh_color Assigning vertex colors to the high poly fbx and changing the color_source flag to vertex renders out the vertex colors correctly.  I have tested most of the other bakers through the SAT with no issue after updating the new flags, but mesh_colors seems broken both in Designer and through

I can launch and use Substance Designer 2025 and Work with it. 3D View renders normal. But as soont as i try to resize/reopen the 3D View Panel, SD crashes.If i close 3D View, i can resize the other Panels.I tryed switching Render engines, Updatet my Drivers, Stopping the Render engine before resizing.Always the same result. Can’t get it to run. Im Using Adobe Substance 3D 2025 Standlone Steam edition. Version 15.1.2

The version 15 update introduced updated versions of some noise nodes. The problem is that the scale input of the gaussian noise node is now hard clamped to 64, whereas before it was possible to override the range to scale it to values far above that limit. This feature is necesary to achieve a lot of effects without needless workarounds, and also unnecesarily breaks old graphs using the gaussian noise node with higher scale values

Running into workflow blocking issues with Designer Baker UI. SImilar issues were previously present in Painter, but have been fixed.When relative to bounding box is unchecked, parameters which should be set to physical scene units (cm) and be well above 1 or 100 cannot be set. The UI prevents the user from supplying WS values.Ambient Occlusion, Curvature, and Thickness may be affected. I’ve only tested AO  

It seems that using document channels in filters are broken - they are not picked up and the default value on the node is used instead.Here I have started with the ‘Specific filter’ template and use the roughness channel as a mask for a blend:In painter: roughness channelApplying the filter:basecolor is NOT affectedusing another texture as maskUsing another texture works fine: I was trying to use the user channels and not roughness but then I noticed that not even the default channels seem to work.If this is a user error, please let me know! (if it is, it might make sense to raise a warning !!)This is using the latest versions of Painter and designerSubstance 3D Painter, version 11.1.2Build 5115 - 5faba39802156445fcb0e2b9673b9805f16bd43515.1.1 build 10305 commit 12408c79 Release (01/15/2026) Thanks for looking into this,seb  

While works fine in 2023 Steam version and also works just fine  in Adobe subscription  version ? I love my Steam 2025  version because I have all my favorites, custom tools  and project settings there .      I had w10 extended security update  before I  first  noticed that 2025 Steam  15.0.3 version  issue  :right click menu shows something , but next left click to confirm do nothing at all.  My guess Microsoft  update might be  a culprit   since I saw no Designer updates  recently .  I would be appreciative  for any advice .

Thanks to your reports, we've established a conflict between Discord's Game Overlay and Substance applications.   We're currently looking for solutions, but in the meantime, if you're facing functionality issues with Designer/Painter buttons, please disable Discord's Overlay.  

tried different setups, Sbsrenderer can only render up to 8192x8192 resolution, which is quite not enogh. Please help.

So not all of the UI responds to mouse actions in Substance 3D Designer 14.1.2 Steam Version. A few days ago everything was working just fine. I’ve noticed that all commands execute normally when launched via keyboard.   

I recently got Substance Designer from Steam, but when I try to launch it, it opens the title screen and then closes. I've clicked Verify File Integrity and reinstalled it multiple times, but it hasn't resolved the issue. I've also checked the minimum system requirements, and I meet them.  So I'm not sure why it's not opening or what can be causing it.  I got it because the remote computers my school provides are very laggy, so any help would be greatly appreciated.

After updating my old substance designer to the newest version 15.0.3 Substance designer is unable to launch. When I do so it stays stuck on the splash screen. I have tried multiple solutions but it does not seem to work. The solutions I have tried:uninstalling and reinstalling the app (version 15.0.3 and version 15.0.0)launching the app as adminupdating my Nvidia drivers to version 581.57Changing my graphics processor to high-performance in the Nvidia control panelDisabling my Nvidia GPU (seemed to work, at first, as it opened the software and my graph but crashed a few seconds after opening) My specs:Laptop model: Acer Nitro AN517-41Processor: AMD Ryzen 7 5800H with Radeon Graphics (16CPU)Operating System: Windows 11 Home 64-bit version 25H216GB RAMDirectX 12Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050  I have found multiple threads with the same issue however I still haven't found a way to solve this problem. Is there anything I might have missed ?  Thank you for your help

After installing the latest version of Designer on my Laptop, it opens the splash screen and terminates after two or three seconds.   I deinstalled it and did a new installation I also updated GPU drivers I disabled Antivirus Software   Here is the Log from the Windows Event Viewer:   Protokollname: ApplicationQuelle: Application ErrorDatum: 01.10.2025 17:06:24Ereignis-ID: 1000Aufgabenkategorie:AnwendungsabsturzereignisseEbene: FehlerSchlüsselwörter:Benutzer: MARCO-LAPTOP\marcoComputer: MARCO-LAPTOPBeschreibung:Fehlerhafter Anwendungsname: Adobe Substance 3D Designer.exe, Version: 15.0.2.0, Zeitstempel: 0x68c442b0Fehlerhafter Modulname: Adobe Substance 3D Designer.exe, Version: 15.0.2.0, Zeitstempel: 0x68c442b0Ausnahmecode: 0xc0000005Fehleroffset: 0x0000000001e1aee4Fehlerhafte Prozess-ID: 0x3058Fehlerhafte Anwendungsstartzeit: 0x1DC32E4F1CF379CFehlerhafter Anwendungspfad: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Substance 3D Designer\Adobe Substance 3D Designer.exeFehlerhafter Mod

I found a bug these days that I have to report and I wonder how it could have slipped through the cracks (haha, Substance pun - which was not intended) Anyhow, here is the bug report:When you open the clouds_2 node which live inside noise_clouds_2.sbs and you change the scaling of the "Scale" input parameter you will notice that one of the FX graphs inside will not scale correctly.Reproduced with Substance Designer Version 15.0.1See a demovideo here:https://youtu.be/giEP8fFGivc  Best Regards,Rüdiger

Substaince Designer is crashing every time i select other Meshes in 3D view. It also happens when i Change Render Typ or anything Else realated to the 3D view Window. I dont know what to do, please Help me.

I tried everything I could, but some things are missing, like the shape function.How can I restore the functionality? 1. Deleting the program and trying again doesn't work2. I had a 2-hour Adobe consultation.3. I also downgraded too4. No graphics and CPU issues(latest upgrade)5. Useless for new users6. Cleaning tool is useless tooI think a file is missing. How can I restore the functionality?  

I haven't used Designer in a little while (busy at work), but I booted it up yesterday, only to see that Tessellation Factor is now gone. And the base high-res plane has nowhere near enough geo to be of any use without tessellation. Why on earth was this removed?  I know I could make a super dense plane in Max etc, but I really shouldn't need to. I see parallax occlusion mapping is also now gone. Again, why? This makes no sense.

Software version: Substance Designer 15.0.1 (build 9305, commit 31dfdb10, Release 07/15/2025) When baking a normal map, black pixels appear along UV shell borders if the Default Anti-Aliasing option is set to any value higher than None. If Default Anti-Aliasing is set to None, the black lines disappear. Since the issue was not present in previous versions and is reproducible on different models and PCs, I believe this is a bug. Steps to Reproduce:Bake a normal map on any model with UV shells.In the baking settings, set Default Anti-Aliasing to a value higher than None (e.g., 2x2, 4x4, etc.).Observe the baked normal map result.

Steam Version of Substance Designer 15.0.1 does not launch. I see a starting artwork after which nothing hapens. In the task manager, the process can be observed starting out after launch, then marked as "suspended" nad killed. Happens both through the shortcut and via Steam itself.My specs are:ASUS x550vi5-3230M, x64GeForce GT740M, 2GB, driver version 425.31 (updating is unavailable for this laptop)RAM 6GBWin 10 Home Single Language, x64, version 22H2 I understand that my computer is way below recommended specs, but the app is not marked as "unavailable" for this system in Creative Cloud, the way Substance Modeler for example is, and I don't have much choice at the moment. 14.x versions from Adobe.com used to launch just fine, Substance Painter 11.0.3 works just fine. A number of people also reported the same issue on Steam's forums with the same description of the problem (app not launching).Thanks.

In version 15, textures generated using the distance node exhibit precision deviations in pure white and pure black sections, rendering subsequent comparison algorithms unusable.In version 14, pure white and pure black are fixed as 0 or 1.How to maintain this accuracy in version 15?

I was trying to change my tessalation settings on my project, only to discover that I have no materials anymore, just the basic AdobeStandardMaterial and literally nothing else. I cannot find ANY information anywhere for this issue, I uninstalled and reinstalled the program, opened a new project, reset the settings, and tried to find the material library location on my disk, but I cannot find any information on it anywhere