Questions

im using shape nodes to drive height on a PBR material, and when i use anything other than a straight linear gradient, i get a pixel border edge. This seems to occure when i use a Transform2D and offset a shape off the canvas.

Hi. I wrote a simple script for sbsrender "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Substance 3D Designer\sbsrender.exe" render ^ --input "F:\SD_Test.sbsar" ^ --output-path "F:\TestPath" ^ --set-value "$outputsize@11,11" ^ --output-format png And it outputs 256x256 textures even though the output nodes are 2048. I tried everything. Is it possible it's locked to 256 without the enterprise license?

Hi everyone,I’m trying to reproduce a word-based pattern similar to the attached reference. Each word has been saved as an individual .png (2048px square exported from Illustrator) and imported into Designer.I started experimenting with Tile Sampler, but I can’t manage to align the words properly without unwanted overlaps. I also tried using what I know about Flood Fill, but I still don’t get the result I want.My questions are:Can Substance Designer realistically be used to create this type of layout (words aligned into a structured block without overlaps)?If yes, which nodes or workflows could help me achieve this? Even just a hint or direction would be really helpful. Thanks in advanceThanks in advance for any guidance!

I'm trying to get Substance 3D Automation ToolKit with no luck.I already understood that it used to sit under Developer Console -> Packages -> Tools according to this discussion, after digging all over the place, I've deduced that there's no 'Packages' option.Trying to use pysbs according to the beginner guide also yielded no results.I tried to install pysbs according to the guide, and by using homebrew and got a whl file that after installing it provided only info folder, with no data folder.In addition, any attempt to change the <version> in the whl path according to the versions in the release notes has failed.Any help would be highly appreciated. 

Hi, I have enterprise license of the Adobe creative suite, including Substance 3D designer. But after installing the Substance 3D designer, I cannot find Substance 3D Automation ToolKit. Any idea how I can install it? Further, I cannot find "sbsmutator.exe" either, and is it also part of Substance 3D Automation ToolKit?  Thanks a lot for your assistance and help,andLooking forward to your reply!

Hello How should we proceed with using displacement when exporting from Substance Designer to Blender? My question is regarding mesh subdivision in Blender?How should we handle the mesh that used tessellation in SD when exporting to Blender? Thanks

Hi there,  I've been using substance designer to help me with distributing patterns with gradients to be used in an application that animates based on RGBA values. It's been helpful, but the default flood fill mapper node doesn't seem to have options to change pixel filtering. As the animation is based on the RGBA values of my final texture, the filtering causes artifacts that are out of time. I would like to have a flood fill mapper with nearest filtering. I think that I see where in the pixel processor functions for the mapper I might be able to edit this in; however, I'm somewhat new to designer and I haven't been able to find a way to easily create an editable copy of the flood fill mapper. If anyone has any ideas for how to correct my filtering or go about editing the existing function, I'd very much appreciate it 🙂 The filtering present from the mapper node:Resulting artifacts in final application:  

My 3d view in substance designer is completely black, due to the missing default state file in the project settings. does anybody know how to fix this? I tried uninstalling, but that didnt work.

Here is a Embroidery Generator I made in Designer and showcasing in Painter, hope you like it.I showcase more on this project on my ARTSTATION page : https://www.artstation.com/bbgzla   

Can somebody  explain me how  this material blend node  gets white mask when nothing is connected  in  "grayscale mask " input ?    I copy nodes into separate  graph and the magic gone  still see no funtction or logic  in those two  blend nodes.  Am I having early dementia  or waht ?   Stack at this puzzle.I would understand  if input node had default color set to white    but it isnt? 

Before assuming that there's no way to search for nodes inside the Substance 3D Designer documentation Im gonna ask first.Is there anyway inside the Substance 3D Designer user guide to search for a keyword or something? AND I don't mean the "search adope support" because it takes you to places. I mean inside the guide itself. IF there's one that I somehow missed kindly note it for me, IF not please for the love of god add a search bar.Also I believe an offline version of the documentation wont harm anyone. TY

Why do we pay for "all apps" only for Adobe to ask for a seperate plan for 3d software?Substance is an Adobe App is it not? How am I paying for "all apps" yet not getting all apps? This is false advertising on Adobes part and is just downright a shady business practice.

I am trying to  persuade chatGPT to write me a python editor script that would split  big sbs  files into separate ones for each graph each own  except those used inside other graphs of same sbs  to be included only in those splitted sbs files that  may need them.   Chat informed me : In Substance Designer 14.1.2 (build 8986, April 2025)Neither the sd nor substance_designer Python API modules are available in the Python Editor, so scripting graph/package management is not possible. Could somebody comment please 

Hello!Would the demo file "Pipesdemo.sbs" shown at the 0:52 mark of Lourise's Intro to Splines video available anywhere?https://youtu.be/QDcDc_g3RLM?si=FpKOMSD2TdBrEbDY&t=52I believe the closest is the Quick Tip #24: Cables and Pipes sbs, but I would be interested in digging in to the more complete example shown in the brief clip above! 

I'm trying to create a pattern that uses a line of shapes that starts dense and then spaces out as the pattern goes along. I have created an example in Photoshop to depict what I mean. Any help would be grealy appricited. Thank you. 

Hi all, I premise that we do not use substance in our workflow and I hope this post is aligned with community rules.If anyone is able to create the attached texture, please email us at [removed by moderator] specifying the asking price for creating a seamless texture (with associated normals, roughness, displacement, ao..) The texture we need to use it for wall wall covering, so we would need at least 6-8k resolution and approximate size of at least 3x3 mt. Thanks to all  

Hello,First of all, I am new to Substance Designer. I have been trying to follow one of the tutorials and there is one step to create subgraphs from a bunch of selected nodes. I also included Input and Output nodes with default settings. After that, I simply dragged and dropped the subgraphs into the main graph. However, every time I open the file, each created Subgraph have an icon "i" in a circle with the following warning:Notes: Referenced by loaded data(s).  There is no info about what it means, it neither reacts to LMB nor to RMB, although everything seems to be working. I don't even know if I should worry about it. I tried to search Documentation on Adobe website and found information on other warnings/errorsbut but there is nothing about Referenced by loaded data. I would be grateful for any explanation on that Thanks EDIT: As a side note, when I double click on any subgraph and open it, I can't see anything but black textur

 

I'm trying to get a blue and white checkerboard pattern on the lycra. I don't care what platform - Designer, Sampler, Painter - as long as I can create the checkerboard on lycra. Thanks. 

Hello!The embroidery filter included with Substance Painter (and Sampler) is incredibly well-made and useful for many projects. I was wondering if the original SBS file used to create it is available anywhere? It would be really helpful to have access to it for learning purposes and to adapt it for specific use cases.If it’s already available and I’ve missed it, please let me know!Thanks so much!Margaritis

Or I need to do it  on my own ?    Like  selecting a range of splines  and slide an image stripe randomly on each of them?    Any other  spline nodes that may help?     

Is that what this pop up mean?"Adobe Substance 3D DesignerWe apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. We would like to inform you that the support for MDL graphs will be deprecated in a future release of the software. It means you won’t be able to create, edit or read any MDL graphs. To continue working with them, you will have to use an earlier version of the application. We understand this may affect your usage and appreciate your understanding as we work to improve the product"Or just Designer won't be an MDL authoring tool?

Hey folks, I have two computers on which I actively run Designer (one work PC and one laptop for personal use). I've noticed that while working with larger graphs at 2k or higher, the 3D viewport updates, renders, and responds to changes in the graph noticeably faster than my laptop, despite the desktop having less VRAM and a comparable GPU to my laptop. I'll post the specific hardware down below for reference, but I'm curious why this ends up being the case. It's a bit of an annoyance to jump from working on one machine that feels like a smooth experience to another machine that feels noticeably more sluggish on a daily basis. My only guess is that the laptop is forced to clock the CPU or GPU at a lower speed to keep the temperatures in check, but beyond that, I've no clue. Desktop HardwareCPU - Ryzen 9 7950X 16C/32TGPU - GeForce RTX 4070 12GB VRAMRAM - 64GB Laptop Hardware (Razer Blade 16)CPU - i9 13950HXGPU - GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile 16GB VRAMRAM - 64GB @ 5200 MT/

Hey! Does anyone know how I could possibly make cracks that look like this? I've been trying to do it using a combination of the scratch generator and cracks 3, slope blur and directional warps. I'm struggling a lot and can't get an idea on how to make it. Thank you in advance! 

Heyhey, guys! :] For a personal project, I am trying to replicate a european rose chafer's iridescent texture in UE5 as detailed and precisely as possible. I already got the entire logic for the iridescence and almost everything else set up in Unreal but there's one thing that's still missing - the proper micro surface texture. So far I am using just a texture with very small bumps that's blended with a swirly texture in the shader, and it works decently well but it's still not quite what I am looking for.   So, here's what I want to replicate:  The first 3 pictures show the dotted nature of the microsurface, while the last 2 show the swirly structure on a somewhat more macroscopic level. So I'm trying to create a somewhat regular array of dots that follows a swirly structure.  If you were to replicate that pattern with the described features accurately for your job, what would your approach look like? I've had several thoughts about it but