Feature Requests

I often need to save  8 bit tga for a game and  16/32 bit  pngs for archiving and using as input for other materials .   Would be really nice to have it Designer .

It would be great if we could specify colors for referenced graph nodes from other graphs in the current graph in Substance Designer. Currently, referenced graphs are displayed in the same red color (#a21318) as default nodes, which is not very intuitive.While allowing users to customize the color would be ideal, if it disrupts the consistency of the user experience, it would be better to represent them with a distinct fixed color instead.For example, a highly saturated red color like #f01c24, similar to the bright green (#86f047) used for sbsar nodes.

 Hi, I was wondering what would be the best way to recreate this kind of texture? Thanks

focusGraphNode() is only focusing on SDNodes, can you please extend the functionality to focus on any graph object (i.e frame, pin, comment etc.)? 

Hi Substance team!Loving the new Substance Designer 14.1 update!One feature that I was really excited about was the alignment tools, but I find them a little bit hard to use right now. I am often selecting the bunch of nodes I want to align, hovering over those new icons and see which one I need to pick, click it and then repeat.It would be much better to have them appear in the Shortcuts panel to assign our own shortcuts to them.Personally, as someone who is working in Unreal, I am used to the Shift+WASD for the alignment of nodes and think that if it doesn't clash with any of the current keyboard shortcuts, this could be a good default keyboard shortcut for it. But the option to change them should still be there.I'm sure anyone working in Designer would agree with this!Thank you!

It would be really useful if there was an 'export all graphs' or 'export selected graphs' option. If I have a substance file with a bunch of graphs that I need to batch export, I'd like to select them all and do export selected, or something similar. I don't see any way of doing this and you need to run through them all one by one exporting, as it currently stands.

When exporting textures the export window stays open afterwards, and the program will not take any more inputs until it is manually closed. I do not see the point, it's just an extra bunch of clicking for no reason. Can we have an option to make the window disappear after you've exported and you can carry on. This might not seem like a big deal but with no option to batch export graphs you find yourself having to constantly close the window and it's just redundant clicking.

At the moment if you have let's say 3 texture nodes and you want to set a common property, such as, 'relative to parent' for example, you need to click the texture, change the properties, go to the next texture,  click it, change the properties, etc...As they ALL share this common property why can't we just select all 3 nodes and change it once and have it apply to all of them? This applies for just about anything in the properties panel, this would be a great feature in my opinion, color/grayscale etc, etc. 

Currently I see nothing like in game when set material roughness  in Designer.    That "panorama" default background  HDRI produces  so dull highlight spot for the sun being only 16 degree high  I wonder how anyone could call it Phisycally based.    I know we could check in iRay to get more adequate look but  why we couldn't just have same "ultra" settings  like in PAinter.     I constantly do  darker roughnes than necessary due to so dull preview in 3d pane.  

Like one in Photoshop color settings.    I can't export areas of a texture supposed to have specific gray values in -game  shader  is needed  without some exte noise.      It's too tiresome to fix it in Photoshop .      If anyone knows a workaround  please share.   I tried to posterize the result in 255 steps before converting  to 8 bits.   Looks ok  in 2d view   but again  noise after export.

Issue: Packed maps are not displaying correctly in the 3D view as intended.   Details:In my case: ORM Map: R = AO, G = Roughness, B = Metallic Normal + Height Map: RGB = Normal, A = Height (or RG = Normal, B = Height) While the full texture is correctly applied to the corresponding material property, the specific channels (e.g., R, G, B, or A) defined in the Output node's "Usage" tags panel are not being used as configured. Instead, the entire texture appears to be applied indiscriminately.   Steps to Reproduce: Right-click in the node canvas and select "View Outputs in 3D View." Each output routes to the correct material parameter (e.g., AO, Roughness, Metallic), but the individual channels specified in the Output node's "Usage" tags panel are not isolated as expected. This can be observed in the accompanying screenshot.   Relevance: For game development, utilizing packed maps is a standard optimization technique to minimize texture memory usage. Accurate channel ma

I'm creating quite a few materials with exposed parameters using the Painter Filter (w/ additional mesh maps) template. This works great, as I can load a model in, bake the relevant maps (usually AO & curv), fine tune everything, then replace the baked images with my inputs and export to Painter. However, if I want to tweak anything after, I have to go through the process of swapping the links back to the bakes, editing, back to exposed parameters, export. Since all of these inputs are empty (black/trasnparent) by default, it would make a lot more sense for SD to default to your baked maps as an override to these inputs, or at least offer the option to.

When you edit a function, pixel processor or sub-graph   would be nice to have slelected  top level  sliders always be  available as on screen widgets so you can chang the math  or blending and istantly check how would it respond to  top level changes without necessety to go up and down all the time.   I mean from value/pixel processor to main graph and back .

The way we could set a path specific for a graph .    I have so many aliases alredy I am losing track of them.   Could be an easy way to relocate the whole folder of resources  at once. 

spline bridge list is a very powerful new tool. itd be cool to have some randomize offset for spacing.

For example  I have an alias  "svg masks"     and a path saved in  programm settings .   Now I want  a second alternating version  of same  material   by making the graph copy .    And in that copy  I want  those masks  be linked  to another folder .Can we have  the graph local  path list  for same aliases . The way "svg masks" be linked to another folder  in the project  .  A tab in input parameters maybe ?

Please ,do it like in Sampler .     So when I do 256x2k texture  I could use just hires plane   and not wasting my time to import specific mesh and switch back in forth from 3d package and  Designer  just to test  how V repeating only looks .    Or maybe just a  scale gizmo for the plane  so I could squeeze it in 3d view.    Sorry for repeating  request . I ak for this  for decades.

Hello, I have a small suggestion to make for material height blend node.I would like the Mask output to be exposed as an additional output on the Material Height Blend. Often times after blending two materials together, I would like to use the mask to do some additional adjustments, for example to alter the normals, to be used to create additional masks. It is technically something I can do by myself but I would just like for this change to be made on the Substance team side so we don't have a duplicate material height blend node with this additional feature.It should be a really quick change and shouldn't have any impact on the node's performance. Thank you!

Hi Substance team! Really enjoying the new portal node and it's keeping graphs really clean and readable, it also encourages reusing nodes so it keeps the computation time down. I was wondering if there was a possibility to make portals dockable.Let's say something like this with a different color to differentiate it from other nodes. The reason I'm requesting for this is that, while moving things around, portals don't often get picked up when you drag nodes around unless you specifically marquee select them.It is often times more intuitive to grab the two nodes you want to move and just shift them to where you want them but at the moment, the portals would be left behind. This is also the case when trying to grab a node and holding Shift to expand the frame, but the portal gets left behind. My colleagues have the same sentiments about this which is why I'm making this request. It would be really great if something can be improved about this, thank you so much!

Hello, I already wrote inside another post, but no one responded, so I decided to write in a separate one Thank you very much for updating the Bevel node, it is really important for me!I also want to ask you about small fixes of Bevel Smooth node. Make a third output for exporting the general mask (after smoothing and offset mask)Add the ability to make the background white, in the "Direction/In" modeIn the "Maximum Distance" parameter, for me personally it would be very important to have a divider or change the Steps of parameter change. Since I often use values ​​like 0.003, which have to be entered manually. Since the minimum step on the slider is 0.01

Modulation of rotation along scatter on spline node - similar to how it works in tile sampler using a greyscale image to control the curve amount along the spline. Randomisation of start and end for 'Scatter on Spline' node - this would help for example when creating networks of branches for trees, giving a more randomized look. A way to mirror duplicates in the 'Scatter on Spline' node with offsets etc. 

1.  quick , working on 2d view  gradient  tool +  gizmo like in Photoshop  for quick linear or radial gradient  that would add  its node automatically .   2d screen preview for curve node nodes placement maybe. 2. vector soft style path/shape draw  with easy selecting   each object .  Current  svg node is inconvenient and ancient as hell.    Or an ability to import  each vector layer  same way psd layers do  in psd importer.   Just not so slow  please.     3.  copy/ paste   working for  quick pasting something  without search for file with ability to re-link later  if necessary.   just for a sake of quickness.  4.  vector shapes draw with  material  fill  and  feather edges  quick option .  I recollect old Creative house  Expression  which have 

Shape splatter is cool but lacks proper antialiazing   for things like grass plants , small twigs  , tiny leaves, moss etc and never look as real as proper 3d render when it goes to few pixels  only details .    Or require huge extra resolution Designer would just die from or anyway would be slow as hell vs modern gpu renders like Cycles , Redshift or Octane  on something dencely populated.  Please  make  cryptomatte masks extractor  and support of multi-channel  exrs  so we could  composite  rendered ellements  easily.    I  use Blender compositing pane  currently to export masks  and layers as rgba pngs  but it's one extra annoying middle step when you tweak something  in objects scattering  .  Would be so easy if Designer  could just  read exr directly  and extract all necessary masks and AOVs  on its own. ps. in fact I would love

Please Adobe makes such option in Designer  like any other 3d packages do  have.  I know there are 'alaises"  but they are inconvenient as hell.     I am asking for the option for years  and wonder is that any technical troubles to do so.   Make it an  option please if it agains some designe rules.  A question  the programm asks.     Mybe pithon script I  could ask chat GPT to do that can work on sbs file directly  ?    Just give us some instruction how to do it.   

I can't tolerate  Substance painter.  Struggle with it for years and never felt homy in it.  Once you accustomed to nodes you can't really  go back to layers.    Besides there are much better  brush systems around than what Painter offers.  I can't do a nice "roll" brush  in  Painter for examle Zbrush or Corel Painter  can.   Or do auto cavities  masking  zbrush can on the fly with pressure involved like a real world brush,  without  wasting your time on complicated  masks tweaking that always look sort of robotic  vs what simple human touch could do just by your own hand intuition.    Or Rebelle brushes  with true looking  flows and streaks  way ahead of  SPainter or  Corel Painter ones .    But even using Substance  Painter as a mask painter  it   would be so much more convenient to just copy/ paste masks to Designer and assem