Questions

As my graphs are getting more "spaghetti-like," I’m really struggling to keep the wires organized.I know we have the "All Rectangular Links" option in the settings, but honestly, it’s a bit too much for me.Is there any way (maybe a hidden setting or a plugin) to get "Partially Rectangular Links"?What I want is a hybrid style: keeping the smooth splines for the most part, but having the ability to "snap" certain sections or specific node connections into rectangular angles. I want that clean look without the rigidness of the "All" mode.

Hi there,I didn’t open it since 1 month, but impossible to launch Substance Designer now,  which crashes just after launch opening a report log window. I’m on a Mac M2 Sequoia15.7.3. I though it was maybe du to the last update then I uninstalled Designer, delete preferences, and installed an older versions but, surprise, it doesn’t work neither… I can't understand what's going on, if you have any idea ;-)JA

Hi, I am trying to get up and running with Substance Designer, and I notice the default renderer has been updated since I last used the software. I am working in a fresh scene, and trying to visualize my height/displacement in isolation. My renderer is set to the GPU Pathtracer, and I have increased my tessellation values on a Sphere 2 tiles. However, rolling the lights in the 3d viewport just removes any visibility of the displacement, and I can really only see it in the shadows. I have attached a screenshot for your viewing.Is this a bug or user error on my part? Lastly, is there a way to isolate a node in the 3d view so I can see each change one at a time? I was looking at documentation and apparently 1 or 2 on the keyboard is supposed to do this, but in my case it just toggles the link creation mode.Thanks. 

I’m baking out textures from a source mesh to a target mesh using the Transferred Texture baker. One of my source textures is RGBA. But when I bake out the texture output is RGB. How can I bake out RGBA? Do I need to link the source texture to an alpha map in the source material? If so, this is quite tedious since I use alpha in both the Diffuse and Roughness maps. 

I am trying to  update  my workflow in Designer by sending images  for final composition, crop, export  and archiving to be done  in Photoshop.    So I need  the files be looking same in Photoshop.    I want to keep 16bit integer format at least  and want a quick one to update and save inside PHs smart objects.      I Did it with pngs before   but they slow as hell in PHs .Tiff looks much quicker   but I seems couldn't get rid of  extra gamma correction  in PHs.     Is there a way to export tifs as is without  any profile attached?  The way PSH would  use default srgb profile without asking anything or recalculating colors ?     For some  reason I thoght RAW is the way but looks like it doesn't .

Installed Substance Designer Painter, Stager   Stager runs fine,   Designer, Painter keep generating error 205 messages. Have installed , uninstalled, rebooted, logged in to ACC, logged out. No Joy. I am signed into my ACC subscription. I have signed out. I have signed in, have signed out. It appears that Substance app is not finding my subscription. I cannot even sign in our out from the app. I keep getting the error code 205 popup. Selecting the contact support brings up a 404 page error. I have disabled my Anti-virus many times I have tried different browsers. Anyone?   Anyone?  Bueller???    

Substance designer creates a circular basketball leather pattern, as shown in the following reference image 

Hi everyone,I’m new to Substance Designer and I’ve run into a problem I can’t figure out. No matter how many times I create a new graph and select the Metallic-Roughness preset, I cannot find the option to choose Translucent + Displacement (or any PBR shader) in the 3D View.The only material available is AdobeStandardMaterial, and it’s always marked as “default (overridden)”. I don’t see any way to load other shaders.I’ve searched for solutions, but most tutorials show that by choosing the Metallic-Roughness preset, the PBR shader options should appear automatically. In my case, they don’t.Has anyone else had this issue, or knows why this is happening?It’s really frustrating and I’d appreciate any advice.Thanks in advance!

Hi, Apologies if this is an obvious or dumb question - I'm a but new to this and the learning curve is proving steep!  I have been using the mutliangle_to_normal function in 3D Designer to take a set of images recorded using illumination form 4 equally spaced directions - lets say N, E, S and W - to create a normal map of my object and from that create a height map.  It works really well and give some amazing results. But.... I now have a sample where I can't use the 4-equally spaced points, the lamps have to be placed at irregular, but well-defined, known points.  Can I change the input angles into the function and if so how do I do that?Thanks in advance, and agin aplogies if this is too easy a question. 

Hello all,I'm creating a Substance Designer filter that turns an image input into an oil paint effect. I made custom brush stroke alphas and used Shape Splatter node to scatter them around.The problem:Shape splatter tiles by default, so some brush strokes are leaking through the borders which can be seen in the images. I don't want any tiling effects to happen at all since I will also use this shader to paints on baked Unity lightmaps.Any help would be appreciated, thanks!

Hello dear community,  i want to create a function for 2D transformation node to control only Y2 transformation matrix. My aim is to expose this as a parameter which i need to use in a sbsar in other software. how can i build it in the function graph?   thank you, Mark g 

Is there a correct way to check the default resolution on a mystery SBSAR with no origin, info text or metadata?In this case the SBSAR output is probably set to Relative to Parent so it is adjustable dynamically when brought in to another Substance graph.Wanted to find out if there is a better way than simply changing the Parent graph size and eyeballing the SBSAR output to see if it stops changing at a certain resolution? 

Hey! I want to scatter my pattern on a spline, and have it layer the patterns based on a height map (bottom to top). This is easily done in Scatter On Splines Greyscale, but the only blend options in that node at Add or Max, and my pattern has a black outline (so needs an alpha channel).The option for ordering via height map isn't available in Scatter On Splines Colour. Is there a way to get around this?I approximated a result using Shape Splatter and Shape Splatter Blend and then using a map to mask it, but I ended up with too many shapes clustered together than I'd like.

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HelloHow should I proceed so that multiple meshes (each with its own UVs) in a single graphic/material can have their individual bakes read without overlapping the bakes?Thank you

HelloIs it possible to create a single graphic with multiple objects that have the same material and bake each object individually?Is there a tutorial?Thanks

HelloIn Blender, it's possible to optimize material graphics by grouping them so that when a change is made to the graphic, the entire graphic doesn't have to be processed.Is there a similar feature in SD 15? Is there a tutorial?Thanks

Does anyone  know  right way  or could point me to a relevant tutorial?  I need not a tree like "splines on a spline"  but rather  vertical splines  with random subtle  waviness    getting random x and y shift  .   Is there something like index parameter   in spline nodes  like inside fx map node ?    A way to  set spline quadratic  node spline amount to say 10  and  use each spline index  to give each its own subtle  random points  wavines .     A super easy to do thing in Blender geometry nodes  with clear and easy preview  but I broke my mind alredy trying to do it in Designer.  I see I can do  10  pre-made  splines manually   with some functions controlling  points position  for each of them individually ,   map a texture on splines,  and then feed each on

Documentation page says it can be used as input to Spline poly quaderatic  node . How?  it has incompatible inputs.    

Hello,   We have observed an increase of crashes reported by users, occurring when Designer is used in combination with third-party software that intercept calls from Designer to the graphics drivers.   Software such as: Post-process injectors such as reshaders that apply color grading, camera effects, ... On-screen overlays such as custom crosshairs, GPU performance metrics, skins for video streaming...   Please note these applications are not supported, and we recommend disabling them before running Designer.   The hooks applied by such software can lead to errors in Designer's graphics processes, especially those involving the 3D View. Crashes may therefore occur when the 3D View is started, which happens when creating or loading the first graph in a Designer session.   Thank you for your understanding.   The Substance 3D Designer team  

  We just published an article exploring how the Substance 3D Assets team and Chris Lefteri Design combined 3D and ‘real-world’ expertise to look at injection-molded plastics, and consider how techniques like injecting dyes or adding speckles in the mix can create interesting material effects.   These materials were created with CMF designers in mind—experimenting with parametric materials in this way to show every phase of the material creation process can essentially save a lot of time and resources in terms of iteration and prototyping—but it's a fascinating look overall at how different areas of of material creation can converge (and create some phenomenal visuals, as a plus).    Go ahead and read the full article, Go with the Flow: Animating Injection-Molded Plastics with Substance 3D Designer, right now!  

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Hi,  When making a new node via script and setting the identifier like this: output_node = graph.newNode("sbs::compositing::output") output_node.setPosition(sd.api.sdbasetypes.float2(48, 48)) output_node.setAnnotationPropertyValueFromId("identifier", sd.api.sdvaluestring.SDValueString.sNew("N")) output_node.setAnnotationPropertyValueFromId("description", sd.api.sdvaluestring.SDValueString.sNew("Normal")) The node doesn't update in the UI,  it just has the default 'output' name and doesn't show the description in the tooltip.  I have to click each node for it to refresh and show the correct name and tooltip.  Given there doesn't seem to be a SelectNode(node) in the API i can't do this in the script either. I would have there might have been a node.Redaw() or graph.Redaw() but can't find anything along those lines in the API either.  Am i missing something here or is this a bug?  Thanks.  

Im sorry but after upgrading to 15.0 I am super confused? When I rotate my camera in the renderer I get this effect and I can't seem to get tesselation factor to work (yes, I know it got moved...) despite playing with the settings like before nothing updates. I am following a designer tutorial verbatim and their renderer looks completely different than mine, and I have followed this same tutorial on previous versions of Designer and it looked 1;1. Is it bugged? I never had this ugly render issue before the new designer update. I dont know if there is something I am missing but I can't be the only one struggling with this. Any guidance is appreciation, maybe I am making a dumb error lol 

Hi,Whenever i change scene or renderer in Designer the app just crashes.  I've tried a bunch of stuff such as reinstalling Designer, GPU drivers, fiddling with a bunch of the settings within Designer to no avail.Aside from that, it works fine - i can make as complex a texture as I like and open and close different files without issues.  But turning a cube into a cylinder is crossing the line.Specs:LaptopGPU: 4080 CPU: Ryzen 9 7945HX32GB RAM