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Hey Substance3D team and community!I was pinging Substance3D on twitter about this a while ago, but didn't get a response (https://twitter.com/olafhaag3D/status/1484321640515129352).I was looking into the PBR BaseColor / Metallic validate node to better understand how safe values are determined. As a first step, it converts the albedo to a grayscale image, presumably to get luminance values.I was a bit surprised about the channel weights .299R+.587G+.114B, which are typically used to calculate rec601 luma, not used with sRGB/Rec. 709 values.Why is that? Aren't the colors linearized internally? I try to understand why the colorimetric weights (.2126R+.7152G+.0722B) weren't used, assuming nodes use a linear colorspace.More on grayscale/luminance/luma conversion and the difference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grayscale The PBR Albedo safe color node, on the other hand, treats all channels equally.I assume the 0.19 and 0.12 values in the function are just the range between 50 and 30

Hi, I'm getting some massive file sizes when exporting to PNG (4096x4096) from Substance Designer. I understand PNG 4k is going to be large, but my normal maps are coming out at 110mb. I was expecting more along the lines of 15mb.  What can I do to optimize my exports while still maintaining an acceptable level of quality for offline render engines?

Hey SD Team! I'm working on a high-end interior architecture project and specifying a recycled high-density polyethelyne (HDPE) material as a interior lining (pictures below). I was hoping to do some realistic renders using Blender to show the client, but have come up stuck on how to recreate the HDPE as a PBR material.     I had an initial go using Blender shader using the voronoi texture and a colour ramp, which looked okay from a distance, but wanted to see if I could use Substance Designer to recreate something much more realistic for close-up renders. I think specifically I'm after suggestions for achieving the subsurface fading effect that the material has (as the plastic pellets melt into and overlay over each other), rather than a voronoi which has solid chunks that a are blurred. For context I'm new to Substance Designer, but have had a little experience with textures using Quixel Mixer (and not afraid to jump in and learn) Any suggestions/id

I'm trying to switch our current legacy Substance licenses over to our Adobe account, which already has a bunch of Photoshop and CC licenses happily attached to it. But the only options I have are to add a single Substance license to the account and attempting to purchase any additional ones gives me the message 'This purchase is not supported.'. It seems that the full Substance subscription with Stager might be possible, but we don't need that and it near quadruples the cost.I've spoken to Sales and whilst I feel pessimistic after three hours on a chat, they're going to try and sort something out. I'm baffled why I can't just add a bunch of Substance 3D Texturing subscriptions to our Teams account and assign them out the same as I do any other app.Maybe this is something that's still transitioning over to Adobe and I just caught it at a bad time? Does anyone know about this?Thanks!

I can only see the 'send to player' option in the dropdown, nothing else. I am using the adobe version with a student license. Do I have to enable it anywhere? I see nobody else experiencing this issue, except for steam users but I am not using it on steam.

Hi everyone, enjoying both designer and painter except for one issue at the moment. When I send a material from designer to painter, what's the best workflow? cause any tiling in painter (using UV scale)  and the material seems to lose resolution quality which is understandable cause it's not tiling like in a shader. So what's the workflow to bring in a designer material, tile it to fit scale of model, do some manual painting and have high quality textures output from painter? Thanks much in advance!

Hey! How to repeat such a pattern? 

Hey at work Im using substance Designer trough Creative Cloud Desktop app. Whenever it updates it revert to default templates and it deletes all custom templates I made. How to keep my templates

Hello all, I'm getting this issue when I launch Substance Designer where the UI wont load at all and remains invisible, the title bar and welcome screen do load. It seems to happen at random and there's times where it does load without issue. I can fix the problem by dragging the title title bar out of full screen and then the UI comes back but this always causes my layout to resize, which I have to realign each time. Any ideas?

I use the same substance graph in Unity and in Houdini. For some reason Houdini's Labs Substance Material node expects textures to be 16-bit while it's best to use 8-bit textures in Unity. Is there any way to automate the publishing of different SBSARs with different output formats? Currently I do it manually by setting the output format of the node before the Output nodes.

TDR Timeout and Recovery page for issues on Windows has a link "thipage" with instructions on how to fix the issue, but the link does not work.  https://substance3d.adobe.com/documentation/sddoc/crash-when-rendering-graphs-215288194.html Can someone please post the instructions?  

Is there a hotkey combination   , Shift +something  maybe?

is there a math approach , a function graph that could fix  stretching and squeezing of an input image in Fx-map while  using rotation.   I see It's possible in transform node transform matrix of 4 values   but I couldn't figure out how to do it with float2  in fx-mp 'pattern size'.   is it possible at all?  

I noticed a problem with Flood Fill to Gradient Node. Its Angle Variation parameter always was used by me to make gradient in every tile looks in different random direction. But in the newest version of SD it is just rotating all gradients in the same way. In fact, now it is no difference between using Angle or Angle Variation parameters.

Hi there, I'm attempting to open a new substance graph and the program keeps crashing.   Am I doing something wrong? 

Hello all, I'm unable to find any documentation or resources online on how to add custom environment maps in Substance Designer. There's a 2015 thread here, but the info there doesn't seem to match the current version of the app. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Hello all,   A new section is now available in Designer's documentation: Technical issues.   This section covers common issues you may experience when using Substance 3D Designer. For each case, the symptom is described and recommended steps for troubleshooting are offered.   Issues are grouped into impact categories, which currently are:   Warnings and errors Application does not start Cannot create/load a project Crash when rendering graphs Parameters not working as expected Incorrect image output 3D View issues User interface issues Substance model graphs feature is missing   These categories are available through a handy link in the Resources section of this forum on the right column, under the Common issues category.   This section will be regularly expanded and updated with more common problems and solutions in order to provide a useful reference for you, with the hope of minimising downtime if the problem you encounter is known and easily fix

Hi All, Getting python recursion errors when trying to publish a relativly simple substance graph and it fails but generates the texture maps etc just fine.  Tired to contact support but auto response said they were closed, so trying here to see if anyone else has had same issues while I start debugging it, can't see any other reported issues the same having a search about. [MSG][975][GPUInfo]Using GPU number 0: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 [ERR][976][Python]Traceback (most recent call last): [ERR][977][Python] File "C:/Program Files/Adobe/Adobe Substance 3D Designer/resources/python\designer\appinterop\appinteropui.py", line 190, in __onActionTriggered [ERR][978][Python] [ERR][979][Python]self.__callback() [ERR][980][Python] File "C:/Program Files/Adobe/Adobe Substance 3D Designer/resources/python\designer\appinterop\appinteropui.py", line 481, in __onPublish [ERR][981][Python] [ERR][982][Python]pkg, publishParams, self.__uiMgr.getMainWindow()) [ERR][983]

Let's say for example I have folder with 100 images in it. I would like to perform some operation on those images in Designer and replace them (or save in another folder but with same filenames).Let's say I wanna blur every image and change it's levels. Is there a quick way way to perform these operations on all the images without manually connecting 100 input and output nodes and then renaming nodes, so the filename output will match? Blur and level values would be this same for every image. No need for variation here

Substance 3D Designer 11.3.2 has been released today.    Here is the complete release notes of this bug fix version:   Bug fixes [Substance models] Can't publish package that contains Substance models graphs [Substance models] Impossible to export a model graph in some specific cases [Substance models] Make parameters ranges more coherent [MDL] Crash when exporting MDLE file [MDL] Wrong .mdl file generated when a MDL graph contains Dot nodes connected to Exposed parameters [2D View] Optimize display of painting tools [Content] Inconsistent Output size parameter setup in template's source graphs [Properties] Labels of Soft/Hard ranges are wrong in the Property Panel for MDL and Substance models exposed nodes [Templates] Update default values of inputs in 'Sampler filter' template Features and Improvements: [Documentation] Update 'Iray' section

Looking for SBS modeling examples,is it possible to download procedural models from substance source?Im looking for 3d building set, like there is one in the substance source https://substance3d.adobe.com/assets/allassets/b5f8a504036dbd2b34a0b99cc5cd437988f9ef5f?q=building&u=buildingIs it possible to download procedural models from there or somewhere else? If not are there plans to expand it in the future?Where can I find the procedural modeling examples?

I want to make my own material blend and multi material blend  nodes and would like a new preset become default one when I drop the nodes in  graph pane.    Is there a way to do so ?

Does anyone knows a full list of criteria necessary?     Those 2 and 3 hotkeys  work for default material nodes only but never work for my custom made ones .Whats the trick?

After the last update of the program in 3d view, the material stopped being displayed correctly, I can't understand what's the matter, please help me figure it out.Mac Os Big Sur Operating System

Hey everyone. So I'm exporting my sbsar to Unity but the normals have artifacts. What settings do I need to adjust in Unity 2021 URP to get them to look similar to Designer? I increased the resolution to 4096, but that didn't help. I also tried to change the compression as well with little avail. Any help would be appreciated. I'm also using the Substance Designer plugin/asset from the Unity store. Thanks!