Feature Requests

Hey everyone,Been working with Substance Designer and there's something about the Sample Gray and Sample Color nodes that's been on my mind. We don't have controllable mipmaps on these, and it feels like we're missing a trick. The big thing for me is being able to quickly get local or global averages without having to mess around with an atomic graph node. It's about making things faster and more straightforward. Mipmaps could really simplify this process, and in a tool like Substance Designer, that kind of efficiency matters. But it's not just about averages. Mipmaps can open doors to more complex stuff that we might not even have thought of yet. Sure, some of these applications might seem out there for the average user, but isn't that part of the fun? Pushing the tool to see what it can do? Also, let's talk about having automatic and manual mipmaps. Automatic is great for when you're scaling down and just need it to work smoothly, but manual control? That's where you c

A dedicated, atomic dummy node would be very useful, and less tacky than using something like a levels node as a dummy node.  It should have a dynamic input (like most atomic nodes), and a single parameter to manually change the output type to color or gray. It should still have mipmaps, like most other atomic nodes. In addition, you (Adobe) could use this node to automatically convert an input to gray or color type, instead of using gradient map and grayscale conversion nodes. Lastly, the node should be called "Dummy", its icon should be the silhouette of a crash test dummy's head, and its description should definitely be something to the effect of  "this node does nothing... and that's the point!" THANK YOU!!! 

Please make it possible to scroll the Properties with Wacom Alt + middle mouse so it's quicker to go through the long menu without clicking on the tiny scroll bar.

I would like to extend a humble request, and maybe to ask whether it falls within the realm of expectation, that primitive Matrix types are included to substance function graphs. It seems something rather trivial that I never really understud the absence of.Considering my personal anecdotal experience for the past many many years and also the ones from other collegues in the industry, I seems like the need for that is frequent, systematic and it is often met with an excessive amount work and underoptimized logic in order to get around this deficiency.I think people would do many more cool things if stuff like working in homogenous coordinates wasn't prohibitively laborous and yielded slower results. The only thing preventing that is the lack of  a way to input (and especially to output!) matrix types from from a substance function graph. Imagine how much simpler it would be to make custom splatters, ray marches, custom 3D shapes, etc, if one could only store and manipulate transfo

Chat GPT wrote me a pyton script  that should replace  all bitmap resources to other folder . here it is:import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET import os def replace_bitmap_paths(sbs_file_path, old_path, new_path): # Parse the XML file tree = ET.parse(sbs_file_path) root = tree.getroot() # Find all elements with the 'bitmap' tag for bitmap_element in root.iter('bitmap'): # Get the current bitmap path current_path = bitmap_element.text # Check if the current path contains the old path if old_path in current_path: # Replace the old path with the new path new_bitmap_path = os.path.relpath(current_path, old_path) bitmap_element.text = os.path.join(new_path, new_bitmap_path) # Save the modified XML back to the file tree.write(sbs_file_path) # Example usage: sbs_file_path = 'path/to/your/file.sbs' old_path = 'textures/' new_path = 'new/path/to/bitmaps/' replace_bitmap_paths(sbs_fi

   Please Adobe add a simple 3d painting  to SD .    I am so tired to switch in between  Designer and Painter all the time  and  also find Painter  quite inconvenient .   It never works right when you export sbsar  from Designer  and it's a constant  pain in your .....   A huge  time waste for exposing parameters where in Designer you could always go straight to right node.     Besides   nodes are so much easier than  layers . With those layers in SPainter  I couldn't figure out a thing in my own files.   Textures from Painter are never same pixel art precision   like you can do in Designer   using pixel processors.  I have to work in double of target resolution In Painter because of that and it's slow as hell.     And please update bitmap and vector  nodes . Make it a same thing  with both brushes and vector tool

1) Ability to save 3D viewer settings with the designer project.2) Ability to set a default preset of these settings so that new projects come with them.3) Ability to save custom presets of these settings.

Nodes are cool but sometimes  I miss the convenient gizmos  available in many traditional image soft.    Like linear gradient where you can add points on the fly  select and scale them .   Like making few dots , select them and scale against the cursor or first selected .  Would be nice for Photoshop too actually. Or transformm gizmo working in exact pixels  scaling around pointed center of transform  . See Photoshop .  Same to crop things in exact say 32 pixels  wide stripe.       I did  my own node  to do this but it needs to have "size" node connected  from previouce input.  It's tiresome  and complicates the flow.  

Being accustomed to Blender node system it feels  so inconvenient in Designer . For example to make  a dot node in Blender we could just  SHift + pen stroke accross  sevral lines  and you have a dot in each of them if they are unrelated or  lines get merged if it's same data.      In Designer I sometimes  need multiple Alt+pick  tries to do same.   More complex it is harder it's to do. To erase a connection you can Just Ctrl+ pen stroke acrros a line or several of them at once . To insert a node you  don't need to select a line first, just move a node closeby and it  gets connected automatically. To make  your own tool you do just group  Ctrl+G  and thats all.   No tiresome exposing .  Quick an simple.   If you need to share same input in multiple nodes you do "driver"  and copy/paste it into input sliders of other nodes  making them violet ak

Would be nice to import exr  with cryptomate masks   and work like that through the whole node flow    with a node to extract specific mask /channel or layer  .   Same for saving such exrs .   I 'd love the export  dialog  would have  a checkbox to save side exr file with all the necessary  masks  and channels.  Or at least  having file format and bit depth drop downs   like Painter. It's so  disappointing to find  an old sbs  where nothing works anymore . Usually happens   a year after  with missed resources etc.     Well for me it's even half a year.   Never managed to work  with any sbs I did  after that time .   Or it just takes forever  to open with  so many  "no"   to unswer   yes/no popups.    A single automatic  side exr  file could be an easy option.

I think it would be super handy to be able to link two similar nodes together. For example: The splatter circular grayscale, and the splatter circular color.   If I was using one to drive height, while the other one is color. It would be handy to not have to manually keep the two up to date whenever one changes.OR, to be able to use the alpha of the input to create a heightmap within the same color node. Then have an output for the color and an output for the height.

please add support to api so we can:-have a node appear in 2d view and activate the "view outputs in 3d view" option.-open/close a graph-mark a node as selected(yes i know we can obtain it, but that isnt enough for what i want to do) to essentially to have its properties appear in properties panel. thx,phil

would be nice to add any additional inputs to the output node, set them to height, normal, ao etc & enjoy all our pbr outputs graphically as one. regards,phil

can you add an option so we can hide all connections in general? theyre a nuisance.  i believe that who ever created designer/node based tools, made a fundamental flaw of having connections on-view. imagine if there were connection in scripts, would be a nightmare right?but anyways, can you also add straight connections, cause the bezier are ok but sometimes annoying and the other circuitry type ones are pretty useless. a nice straight line from `A to B` just like the ones in blender should suffice.regards,phil

can you save our workspaces, i.e what graphs we have open per pkg?unlike others, i plan on structuring things properly so my material pkg's will have somewhere between 5-10/15 graphs in them. and having to reopen them all each time i open the pkg is a nuisance. regards,phil

the node input/output labels(that appear when hovering a node) color is the same color as node connections. could you change the node labels color to black so it can be seen when a label is directly over a connection? regards,phil

could you add a method so we can obtain a child comment's graph position? i have this plugin that when placing entities(nodes/objects) in scene, it first checks if an entity is selected, if so, it offsets the new entity from that. however when it comes to offsetting something from a selected comment thats a child of a node, then the newly placed entity is badly offset due to the child comment's pos being based off the nodes coordinate system rather than the graphs. regards,phil

would be neat to have a hotkey to disable frames that are behind entities from actually moving said ents when frame is being moved. so the hotkey essentially temporarily disables the frame's "stickiness". regards,phil

basically, when we selected a portal node, the dashed wireless connection becomes visible, i know why this is and its a nice feature. but any chance of adding a btn to the permanent graph toolbar where we can toggle the wireless connections from appearing cause when graphs are large and portal nodes in graph is many, then wanting to shuffle things about, the vast wireless connections being on-view is quite obstructive. regards,phil

I have a plugin that utilises stock instance nodes. but at some point it would end up adding old graphs(nodes) to scene if we arent ever made aware that stock instance packages have updated as the plugin requires users to update the stored graph name as and when it gets updated by you guys. So if you could make this info publicly available that'll be great! regards,phil

just noticed that the graph object(s) classes dont have this method: .getIdentifier() like the SDCompNode class does. This method is great cause it returns a unique set of nums(id) which is handy for when needing to compare entities. regards,phil

Ive noticed that in the uiMgr class, only methods exist for obtaining graph entities(nodes &/ objects) if theyre selected.It'll be great to have a method that simply returns all graph entities whether selected or not. Regard,Phil

please consider adding this stuff to the api, thanks```All of this i know is pretty much GUI stuff. But its deffo cool stuff and would give us a lot more variety when letting the creative juices run wild.Im sure someone else would probs like other things ive not mentioned/not generally related to GUI.  Some things i think we should be able to do: 1) subclass nodes, graph scenewhy?so we can access the following methods:mouseMoveEventMousePressEventMouseReleaseEventetc..or at least provide a callback for this. 2) map mouse cursor to scene(graph) posWhen i have a node follow the mouse cursor, theyre not aligned.Its due to mouse cursor going off monitor coordinate system and node going off graph coordinate system so need a method like mapCursorToScenePos() which handles the offset conversion for us. 3) change node outline color,   mark a node as selected so the outline actually appears,   change a connections color / thickness.   chang

So when we have a few missing  images we could select  their folder only once.  Not doing it for each and every missing resources.  Perhaps as an option.  

I've got a number of images that share the exact same transforms. Using the transform widget in 2d view for my scenario is the fastest way to position and scale multiple images. Instead of manually updating each one I want to instance their values. I setup an exposed parameter then duplicated the transform nodes. However, the widget is no longer useable even if I click on "Edit in 2d view".    I couldn't figure out a way to expose outputs from a Transform 2d so they can be daisy chained using custom inputs, so I assume exposing to the main graph is the only method to instance a transform 2d? Below is my instinct on how this should be possible.