Questions

Hi, Texture/Material Gurus.By the help of Substance Designer's Python Editor, I'm trying to draw/plot some complex sine waves such as "Squeeze Theorem / Sandwich Theorem" shown below:[squeeze theorem example]I'm trying to somehow use Matplotlib in SD's Pixel Processor to plot diverse functional graphs.But, a week-long intensive googling has failed to find a solution to import external or 3rd party Python libraries or api to Substance Designer. Its internal Python Editor keeps prompting error logs like this: [Numpy & Matplotlib are installed in the right directory. But, Substance Designer's Python Editor can't read\/recognize Numpy??] On my PC, I've installed all most every existing Python functional graph-drawing Libraries, such as Matplotlib, Numpy, Turtle, Tkinter, Sympy, Pysound, Graphviz, Plotly, etc. in the right directory/path recognizable for SD as a test.But, it seems like SD doesn't read or recognize those libraries, escpecially Numpy (which, I guess, the core library

Hi, following a breakdown on the topic, I've built a node tree to create these metallic tiles stacking on top of eachothers. My problem is that the entire thing only has one uniform color, while I want each tile to have a slightly different color, is there any way to achieve that?  

Hey all, just starting out with Designer and I've run into an issue where any adjustments I make to the height displacement of my materials appear to either not be reflected in the 3D Viewport, or are very miniscule compared to the examples I'm following online. Examples:https://i.imgur.com/jWFHEfv.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/GUJCXTX.png Under the Materials tab: I've set Adobe Standard Material to "Tessellation + Displacement", the Height Scale is set to 1, and the Tessellation Factor is set to 16. I've also tried setting the Renderer to IRay but this doesn't appear to solve it. Any ideas as to why the height displacement is so minute for me? Thank you!

well I'm new to the designer and I decided to make a simple herringbone node, the idea is that the external "brick" has its dimensions changed by me to suit the pattern and it was working correctly with the brick I created for preview, I used a multi switch to choose between the "default" and a custom one but when I put the custom one it doesn't work right (follow the print, I use in a test graph the node created using the same brick of the preview, it is a ctrl+c ctrl+v than it's inside the node and it's still not working, I'm sending the node in case anyone wants to see it)

I'm trying to export a mesh made in Substance 3D designer as a Substance 3D model file. However, upon exporting, I get an error message.Here are the steps I'm taking and the error message I'm getting as a result:  I create a mesh inside the new Substance model graph, and I have a node set as the 'root' of the graph. I go to export the mesh as a Substance 3d model file (by right-clicking the graph in the explorer tab, clicking export, save as Substance 3d model file) Then I get this error message: "Failed to export graph (Error: 'PreprocessFailed')" Anyone know what to do here?

Can somebody explain please how  size >pixels works  in tile sampler?  I'd like to recreate the option for  my own fxmap.     When I try to modify the node  something goes wrong.

Hi,  I'm on Windows 10 and my SD is the 11.2.2 (the 11.3 is downloaded and being installed as I write) I'm making a bark texture and I need it to be 1:2 ration (e.g. 2048 px width and 4096 px height). I set up my graph with 2k x 4k resolution, thinking that was how it was done. However, I realised quickly that the 3D view was displaying incorrectly: stretching the width of my texture to make its ratio 1:1 and tile it once on both the u and v axis of the UVs. I thought there would be an option to change the tiling settings in the parameters of the 3D view, but didn't find one that would let me have a different tiling number on the u and v axis. During my search, I also realised that actually, my 2k x 4k texture was just a 2k x 2k texture repeated twice vertically. My tile random node just repeated the same pattern 2 times vertically. Is it possible to create a 1:2 texture within Substance Designer (with no repetition of the v axis)? If yes, how do I do it?&

I am trying to figure out how certain features work to make an improvements I need.I often see  dome float2  node with  'size_pixels' for example ( without #)   , a lockal variable my guess, right? How can I find  it's graph  and where it is? Or at least what values it outputs?

I'd like to make a pattern that looks like a brush stroke (just like in Photoshop). Like this:Given a brush tip and a curve pattern, generating the brush stroke. Of course I can just paint this in Photoshop, but I'd like to make it procedurally, so I think Substance Designer may be the right choice. I know there is Shape Splatter, but it splats the shapes all over the places. How could I make the brush stroke like above?

HiI try to simulate wood section with Substance Wood material  This is my try Need advice to make ring wood in the end of wood sectionAttached fileThankTravis 

I'm using SD to make rock materials and I'd like to generate a mesh that matches the material. Is it possible to use a Substance height map output to displace a plane in a model graph? Seems like a common need but I can't seem to find a way to do this. Thanks,Brett

I own perpetual licenses for designer and painter that I renewed in october following the announcment that perpetual licenses would not be sold anymore. After today announcment I installed adobe CC to see none of my substance apps are available and the substance launcher doesn't have the updates either. There is no information anywhere for how I can verify/ transfer my licesnses over to CC. Looking to know what is happening with perpetual licesnses and if there is a solution to this?

ça fait des jours que je cherche et il ne me reste plus beaucoup de temps pour rendre un travail important, je n'ai pas trouvé où vous contacter non plus alors je le fait ici.Ma version d'essais vient d'expirer aujourd'hui et je ne sais pas où rentrer mes clés d'activation substance.Savez-vous où je pourrai faire ça ? Merci. (Les clés en question)

Hi all, Adobe standard material not working out well for me with Iray in substance or painter; Once I switch to PBR metalic rough everything is good. I completely lose ambient occlusion for instance with the ASM. Is that these materials are not completely compatible with Iray or am i doing something wrong? 

When working with displacement in mind, is it still a good idea to generate normal maps from the height map? It seems like when that is done, the normal map does weird things on top of the displaced geometry at render time. Looking for some gidance where this is concerned, thanks in advanced.

Hello all, Is there a way to repeat a pattern along an edge mask? - e.g repeat a circle along an edge mask so the circle shape follows the edge.  That is the mask does not cut into the circle but the circle follows the mask edge.  This shape will then not just follow the mask edge but fill the mask with the circle shape too. So you are left with a mask filled with the circle shape BUT also at the edge of the mask the circle follows the edge of the mask cleanly without the mask cutting into the circle? Can easily fill a mask with a circle shape but it cuts into the circle shape at the edge of the mask but is there a method to be able to fill the mask with the circle but not have the mask cut the circle at the edges. Thanks in advance. Mark.

I would like to know what's the current status on 16K/32K textures support, both for work in software & file export across all Substance 3D software, including Painter, Designer, Sampler & Stager? I'm also curious about why in the past Substance is always lacking behind on 8K/16K/32K supports? Is it just because Substance software are utilizing real-time rendering and thus there is hardware limitation? How does film/VFX industry who also use Substance software to cope with these limitations? I guess UDIM? But that doesn't explain the hardware limitation part.

Hello. I recently received an art test for a material artist cannidate. I am trying to review the test, however I got the follow errors that I can't figure out how to fix. "Update file version from "1.1.0.201904" to "1.1.0.202102"I say yes to all and then it says "The following dependency could not be loaded "substancePlugins/nondirectional_warp.sbs""The following dependency could not be loaded "substancePlugins/CellularFractal_OLD6.sbs""The following dependency could not be loaded "DeteLowPassing.sbsar""The following dependency could not be loaded "substancePlugins/Get_Slope"To my knowledge , these are built in nodes. I can't find anywhere on the web of where to get these plugins to point the designer file to. Any help would be greatly appreciated! 

I've subscribed to the Substance 3d package, and have only had access to the applications for the initial 30 day trial. They all still show up in "Apps to try".I've followed the steps in this post:https://helpx.adobe.com/manage-account/kb/stop-creative-cloud-trial-mode-after-purchase.htmland still, they aren't working. I can't even purchase the package again, as when I click buy, it says I already own it!I've been paying for these apps and I can't use them! 

Hello fellow Substance 3D Designers, I am a new program user and I am trying to create this pattern:  I can easily create the general triangle pattern and I know that I can use a tile sampler node to mask some of the the triangles, but I would like to mask them using a somewhat "gaussian distribution" as shown in this pattern.  I'd also like it to be tileable.  Any ideas?  Thanks in advance.

Hi, I'm a designer beginner and I'm having a difficult time getting materials to look right when sent from designer to painter. I think it has something to do with how I authored my graph and maybe I'm not quite understanding how to author normal maps and such. Any help is much appreciated! I've shared my files.

Hey all! I'm currently doing a bit of research for my company to upgrade to Substance 3D Designer from the Non-Adobe CC installed version, and I am unable to find the info I need.  For context, we are still using the non-CC verion and want to upgrade to the newest one, we found the upgrade and update process of the old version of the application to be quite disruptive across outsourcing and within our studio and we want to know if that process might be smoother now.With the new version of the app, are graphs created in a newer version backwards compatible If only partially so, which version updates are backwards compatible and which aren't. would 11.2.1 be able to open an 11.3.1 file,  or is it that version 11 wont be able to open version 12 graphs? Some other situation?Thanks!

This has been a pretty consistent issue for some time now. I typically tear my 3D view window off and put it on a secondary monitor, but if I maximize the window I am no longer able to open any of my menus. My workaround has been to unmaximize the window and drag it out to take up as much of the screen real estate as it can.  Anyone else experiencing this and is Adobe aware of it? Thanks!

Hi All,I'm noticing that some of my exposed paramters are not visible via a published .sbsar file when used as a node in a graph however when using the .sbs file as a node in the graph all the parameters are now visible... Is this a known issue and if so is there currently a workaround or is it requiring a system fix from the devs?Thanks,Dan

How do I get metadata to be stored within the SBS file as so that it can be read within a file manager. As applying metadata though Substance Designer isn't apply to the file properties and unreadable within a file manager.