Questions

Hello, I've got a question. It's partially related to other software but I think it's important to ask about. While creating height map and exporting it to Unreal Engine 5, I discovered tesselation density doesn't match the one I was making map while looking at SD 3D viewport. How can I adjust it properly?

Hello there, Is there any tips and tricks about making a sparkling or glossy texture as strass/velvet/satin? I guess I can deal with the depth and relief in Substance Sampler but I'm stuck with the shiny part.From what I see my problem is related to- gloss- metalness- IORAny advice?

Hey internet people,   I am currently trying to set up Version Control for my substance 3d designer project for my company and the instructions are asking me to select a file: Tools/Version_Control/Perforce.py in order to continue my setup.    I have scoured my computer and am unable to find that file.   I was wondering if anyone who had successfully set it up could help. -Hawke

Is there a way to have Substance Designer auto-fill in the Author / Author URL on creating new graph? Through python API, how to do that?

If I have the master suite  plan and I am supposed to have access to all the design application for my subcription, why do I have to pay for these new 3D applications. They should be part of my subscription.

hello, how can I export sppr in Substance Designer?

Hello, So I was testing publishing a sbsar from designer into painter. If I export my maps out of Substance as PNGs it looks great, if I publish a sbsar and import it into painter / houdini it looks like it is a minecraft block in terms of quality. My parent size in designer is 8192x8192 and it exports PNGs at that size so I am not sure if that is the reason the quality is drop so significantly in the sbsar. Let me know what you think, hope you can help! Vincent Griffith

I am trying to do grass and would like  densier  distribution . Is there a way to do it in same shape splatter node ?    By having unrestricted shape multiplier  probably like with fx -map?

Can I somehow improve the quality of the 3D viewport and get rid of the jagged outline

HelloI made a substance graph in Designer and published it. Loaded into Blender 3.1.2. The result after generating/rendering the graph in Blender is not like the output in Substance Designer. Looks like a bit depth issue, with clipped values or compression errors. Everything is on 16bit. Anybody?

Hello everyone!!! I want to export a SBSAR file out of Designer that allows me to be able to pull any maps off of my hard drive to sub out Diffuse, Normal, AO, Roughness input maps. What can I do in Designer to make an dynamic image input that allows me to have the option to pull image maps off of my hard drive inside of Painter / Houdini or whatever uses SBSAR files? The goal is to be able to dynamicly change input maps and still run through sbsar node tree. I am assuming this is possible but I am a noobie. Hope you can help. Vincent Griffith

Hello!!  When I export my sbsar from Designer my file is 0kb when I have a Tri Planar node connected... when I disable it, suddenly the sbsar is no longer 0kb and is writing the file with data... Can anyone tell me the reason why?  Vincent Griffith

I want to do a few presets  in material nodes . How can I unlock them  to be able to  modify them ?      Before I just saved it in another folder   but now they still staying read-only.  

Hello! I am working on an eyeball material in Designer. The idea is that i should be able to use this material to create custom eyeball textures for my characters without having to export a whole different material every time. Im having some trouble with exposing the color for the eyeball, as right now im using a color gradient and i've read that those cannot be exposed. Im therefore curious if there are any other methods of creating exposed colors that can be customized in Painter? The attached pictures show the gradient im currently using and what the eye currently looks like, i want to be able to keep the same amount of "levels" on the material somehow. I had a thought that maybe i could separate each of the colors on this gradient into "uniform color" nodes and blend them back together to create a similar result, but i have not been successful in doing so as of yet. Any suggestions are very welcome, thank you! 

I'd like to combine height, two UV gradients and ID  into single 32-bit  gray channel to use it in fx-map node max blending to then split successfully  after.I tried to put  the height before the comma and  two gradients as passengers after in  digits order  using just floor  and add nodes ?   It works  with one gradient at best , the second comes  pretty degraded due to values precision and  no room for ID at all.    Should I use  some other math . Rather multiplying one to another?    Isn't floating point value should allow to pack lots of info?    Is there any cool advanced way  to do it that could workaround  precision issue?   Sort of bit masks maybe? 

Hi I'm a newbie, so forgive me if this is a stupid question. But as you can see here, I have created a weave generator for myself. It works great except I'm not able to add separate colours for the warp and the weft. How should I go about this?Am I missing something in the steps?  

Hi, I've exposed parameters and created presets in the past with no problem and if I create a graph from scratch I don't have a poblem creating presets but, I've exported a Sampler file to Designer, exposed a colour node and made a preset. When I publish it as sbsar file I get an error message. [ERROR][Cooker]Parameter: Unknown parameter type[WARNING][Cooker]Input type is unknown in parameter normal_format of preset white. [2][ERROR][Cooker]Compositing: Input bridge not found... (repeated 15 more times)[ERROR][SBSCooker]Input type is unknown in parameter normal_format of preset white.[ERROR][SBSCooker]Cooking fail [Error 13] I don't really understand why since if I make the graph from the same image files in Designer and create the presets it woks fine. I have to be honest that error log doesn't really help me at all. So how can I fix it? I'd really like to be able to export from Sampler and create presets because I created a lot of graphs that got lost, I'm only left with th

Hello all,I want to take a 2D file that was built in Illustrator and build a 3D model (I've attached a sample). I'm not familiar with 3D all that much and I have access to Creative Cloud apps. Can someone give me some tips please? Thank you!

Hi everyone, i'm totally new to Substance Designer and only just started few days ago and so far i'm loving the tutorials i found on the official channel, as they are really well explained.I'm having a small issue though related to the "Aged Wood Planks: 02 - Creating the planks pattern" video, around 17:20 min, where it shows how the pattern of the nails mask follows the input parameters as it's getting changed from 2 to 3 and then 4. In my case my nails mask disappear when i move to 3 and 4, but i'm totally sure i followed the process of editing those simple functions twice already.What am i missing? I'd be happy if anybody could help me with this, feeling like my brain is about to burst lol.I'm using SD 12.4 by the way.

I am trying to use the "get slope" node in substance 3d designer 12.4.0 while watching a tutorial. However it does not pop up in the list of nodes. Has it changed to a different name, or is it a node I have to download and install in my version? This is the tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjTONstmYz0 and it is at 19:45 in the video where he uses it. Any knowledge if there is a different node that has the same effect would be greatly appreciated.

Hello, Playing around with Designer, I can't find a way to solve this little problem : playing with normal, height noise  and/or fiber, I can't manage to make a short hair effect or add some kind of fiber ruggedness to fabric. I thought about an alternative as some kind of glitter as for velvet but I'm not too sure about the parameters that generate glitters/sparklings. Any hint?

(this was marked as spam so I'm reposting)I am unable to install the Substance suite of products on my desktop. I recieved a key for student use and installed the products on my laptop, however when I sign into my account on deskop the substance products either show as "trial expired" or "request access". 

Hello, I try to create a fabric with transparency but :- transparency is too strong (maybe it's how it is supposed to be, it's just the scale)Trying to colorize it :- if I add a blend node : color still impact the alpha (white is fine, black turn invisible)- if I add an alpha merge node, the fabric texture goes wrong (the thresold disapears -likely "invert"-).I have tried different parameters (greater, lower, invert, add,  multiply etc.) but with no avail. Any hint about how to fix this?   

Please enable the Send To Stager option per graph (i.e. per material) and not only per package, which is inconvenient when multiple materials are into a same package.

Hello,  I have a substance file with two substance graphs, one of the graphs I created a pattern but I wanted to combine that pattern with another fabric material sbs I had.  The exposed parameters I made on my "HexTri '' are working fine in the sbsar but the exposed parameters on the base fabric aren't visible even though I have the "base fabric" package exposed in sbsar. Any ideas what might be failing? Thank you.