Feature Requests

I really want an input node in my custom graphs that acts as the input node on the levels and blend nodes. A node that dynamically detects the input type and then outputs grayscale and/or color if needed.It would save me a lot of hassle when building custom nodes if I don't need to make them using a boolean to toggle input and output visibility. I just want run everything though the same graph, independent of input type without using conversion nodes.

When adding a new node, you have to type long strings for longer node names, or scroll through many options if you don't want to type long names. What if you only had to type part of each word of the node's name? For example, if I want to add a "Multi Directional Warp Grayscale" node, it would be much faster to type "mul dir gray". Other node-based softwares do this. It means less typing and less scrolling. Adding nodes feels slow and distracting when you have to sort through options every time. There are many nodes that start with "gradient" - so either I type the full word "gradient" followed by another word, or I have to read through all the nodes that start with "gradient" until I find the one I was looking for. Or I can type "gra lin" and press enter to add the "Gradient Linear 1" node in less than a second. This would also be helpful if you don't remember what a node is called, or you don't remember what order the words are in. Right now, the search doesn't show a

Is there a way to reorder the input list for the new portal node? I tried labeling them with number e.g. "01 Base Height", "02 Height w Cracks" but they don't sort alphabetically for me.

Similar to a new feature introduced in Unreal Engine 5's material graphs, reroute nodes that lets you plug an input into a node, and then grab that as an output elsewhere in the graph without the need to have tons of connecting lines going all over the place.So instead of this:You'd get something like this: Obviously it's a limited example, but it'll let you produce much more readable and clean graphs, and can help with optimisation as you could grab and use a single noise rather than reusing a new Clouds generator each and every time, while keeping everything tidy and organised. Bonus points if the nodes were visually distinct, and maybe didn't have the thumbnail to save computation time, as all the nodes need to do is point to where data should go like a connector.

I know there are aliases   but wouldn't it be much more convenient to just link and re-link resource folder ?   Not each bitmap one by one but just folder.   Same way evry 3d package does. Those aliases make me problems.  I have a huge list of them .   If I want to  do just new texture  version  using  new set of bitmaps  exported  from another sbs  I have to relink the alias  and  figure out which one  exactly.   It turns to the total mess so quickly.      Please do it standard way  where we could just re-linlk the folder. 

Wish we can add a node that can cache previously computed result so that the image caches before this node is not stored in memory. I know the new version of SD has node image cache option on the menu, but many times I found its really the best to cache some nodes while others are not. Please make this come true thank you!

I know I am supposed to use Painter.  But gosh how  inconvenient  and  pain in someone  ... it is  comparing  it to Designer nodes.     Always non stop troubles with some hidden checkboxes   and gazillion sliders I have no understanding what they really do math wise and no way to see or quickly  modify it.  Or why they work odd when in Designer evrything is just fine.     It's miles  easier when you do your own "filters"  and understand what's actually happening .  With Painter I wasting days and weeks  debugging  things.   Also anything I do in Painter  is a tad bit blurrier . Had to downscale at export .  While in Designer  I use my own transform node  that works in pixel precision  . i.e moves something exactly  5 pix left for example. Not 5,345 that instantly adds more blur.   Tried to do a same  "filter" for Painter  and it neve

In the pixel processor, I would like to be able to store the result of a part of a function in an array/temporary image (up to the same size as image size) and have that stored array/temporary image available for sampling, modifying and re-storing in subsequent runs of the processor (i.e. for every pixel processed).   This would increase the power of the processor, for example to build a mask as each pixel is processed and use and modify that mask when the next pixel is processed.   If the final array(s) could be output alongside the normal pixel processor image output - even better   Dave  

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I would like the ability to draw inside a mask layer and use that as a bitmap within the node graph. So the painted mask can impact the designer graph. For example I have created a vein material that uses a single mask and goes through a scatter node to add small branching veins. I would like the ability to paint the original vein mask in substance painter on an object and have that automatically get the branching veins and fit within the material made within the graph.

A one compatible with modern renderers. So we could import and composite procedural and rendered elsewhere things together. For complex things scattering/population it’s actually easier and speedier in something like Redshift or Octane. With better immediate visual feedback, better AA. Proper intersecting physics. Much easier to do erosion effects etc. That color ID node is a pain to use comparing to proper cryptomatte. Especially for small few pixels details. 

Hello, I am new to Substance Designer, I usually use Mari software for texturing, and I was exploring different ways to create Masks/Gradients and to control them in SD.I noticed that there is an option to create a gradient using 3D linear gradientand using worldposition to orient/manipulate it,I was wondering if there is a way to reproduce sort of 3D Radial gradient, based on an empty object location as gradient centre, and controlling the radius, falloff and feather from that point forward?If not, I think the software would benefit from such a node.

For U and V independently .  Or just a scale gizmo  for a test object.  It's so annoying to make and load  new objects for each of texture output factor .And please make zero height scale a default material  setting.  It's so tiresome to scrol through material settings to find it evry time. 

I mean to share some parameter  you have  to expose it  and onse you did it  the parameter it's locked . You have to click on background , look through parameters, change the default settings ,  click , click, click etc It's so monstrously inconvenient and tiresome .  Especially if it's levels  or  transform nodde whree graphical representation is always better than just sliders. Please let  it be editable,  or do something color codded  Blender does with drivers and driven, or let us have a widget sliders on top of  the main node pane .I know I can make value inputs and  connect nodes by means of this   but it's so much extra pain in my a.. too.       Just  make exposed  parameters editable  please.  

I'd like to be able to right-click on a node/graph/subgraph and do "Open Dependencies". Today we can do that from the package itself, but this sometimes opens many more dependencies than we need.

It's a huge source of issues . lost resolution, etc.   Can we have it  same way Fx-map node do? 

Please add the ability to reset to default the values of all the parameters inside a parameter group.

As a live filters  over photoshop layers with access to multiple layers i.e. anchors . Basicaly make Photoshop read sbsar  files please.     would be so much better than Sampler IMO.    At least let it be an option. 

Working in pixel processor is always a kind of miss and hit, try and see for me and whenever I am trying to invent something I do it in Blender.Because it so much more convenient there. If you want to try another math opperation you just switch the node , you don't have to go through the list of them again and reconnect.But the main reason is Blender viewer and output nodes you can connect to anything and it always show you something. In SD you do it blindfolded half a time . Pixel processor expect vector 2 , you couldn't even output anything different to see . No spreadshit pannel to see what numbers is passing either . Half a time you just have no idea . It so damn inconvenient . Earlier I used Sverchok addon for Blender . It always showed some clue what goes through each node at least. In Sd I aleays have to copy paste to value processor to see something .It's so inconvenient. I alredy recreated a few of SD nodes in Blender  and one day may  stay there altogether.

I find  having and maintaining  so many grayscale channels in SD  somewhat tiresom.   It just adds to that  notorious "macaroni monster"  tremendously.  I always  lost something on the way and have to waste my time trying to figure  out why my roughness suddenly became black and it what material node something haven't been connected properly.Wouldn't it be easier if we could  pass alredy packed RGBA   node to node?   So perhaps  just two RGBA.  color, height,  normalX and Y ( we could perfectly recreate Z just at export) , roughness , alpha , so  just two RGBA.  Maybe an extra one for passing through several masks . I am trying  to do such a workflow but  have stuck  in it . Looks like it would take me forever . Can we have it pre-codded somehow in the soft?    I am so tired  of gazillion links , a Hordian knot  typical SD file is.   Gree

A feature  I need most of all in Substance Designer . An ability to have masks from a cryptomatte exr.So I finally could just use 3d rendered  things with proper collision  phisics  instead of those never working properly, as you want them to and never having  accurate anti-aliased alpha  splatters, samplers  , atlas scatter etc.Some of 3d renders, gpu based are doing it quicker now and with better visual feadback.  Always look realistic. just out of a box with perfect AO and GI and whatever material phisical  properties  you want to bake. It's beside a fact that scattering things in 3d soft is easier  usually. Just looks at geometry nodes in Blender .   They are so much easier to work with.   Multi layer exr support would be nice too so we wouldn't have to maintain gazilion  macaroni lines  from one node to enother 

When you need to tweak a node in the beginning  or middle of node flow it's sometimes super slow and unresponsive  because Substance Designer   calculates evrything  after.  Diconnecting  and re-connecting  works but it makes so much exra troubles. I'd love  to see an option to pause evrything but only after a node in 2d preview currently  with some  "paused" indication  in 3d preview .    In fact I think it should be a default behavior.

Please, make same export  option Painter has.  An ability to export  8bit tgas and 16 bit png  for depth  channel

I have this issue  in SD.      Sitting for minutes answering  "no" for evry lost dependency  , including those your substance doesn't need at all .Can we have a checkbox please to answer "no" to every question at once.

I know  there is output node I can set randomly to any node. But it's mostly unusable  if output require  other format.   I open  some pixel processor and couldn't understand a thing usually.   It's very SD thing actually.Super cyiptic and undeciferable. Let's see at Blender for example .   It's shader editor  made me learn about  CG  a lot just by ability to show real time    output for evry math opration  ( with  help of some normalization on and off) . It's very visually illustrative.  It's geometry nodes  "viewer" node  shows your a lot what's actually happening   in each stage of node flow, up to exact digits.     In SD it's a crypto puzzle you  have to figureout  yourself . Please do something with it.