Questions

I'm trying to use Substance Designer's Gradient Editor node "Pick Gradient" (iMac running OS 11.5.2),  to select a range of colors on a reference image. so I click Pick Gradient and attempt to drag my mouse over my reference image.  When the cursor exits the Substance Designer window, however, all other windows vanish, leaving my desktop background image as the only image available. Am I using this tool incorrectly?  How does one use this to select a range of colors from a reference image if windows running other applications do not remain active the cursor leaves the Ds window?Is there some way of importing images into Ds to use as reference?

I started using Substance Designer earlier this year but had to cancel my subscription for a few months. I recently got back to it and had to upgrade to the version using Creative Cloud rather than the Substance Launcher. Since then my node library is missing all of the more complex nodes like noises, patterns and PBR materials. The ones I already had in my graphs continue to work but I can't create new ones except by duplicating them. Things I've tried, to no avail:* Reinstalling several times, installing Substance painter, restarting the computer, doing all the previous after uninstalling all the previous Substance installs.* Erasing application data in User>Library>Application Support.* Creating a new Library window and closing the old one.* Leaving the window open overnight (this seems to have crashed Designer after a few hours).* Checking logs (can't be done, the entire folder they're supposed to be in is empty).* Rebuilding thumbnails in the Library settings (seems to

Hi,I am trying a substance 3d procedure modeling, and i duplicated a couple of meshes by using a curve and Array duplication node, and i am wondering that can i select a single mesh using a index like scene browser show?  Another question is that is there any way that i can display a vertices of curve just like the documantation link shows below. https://substance3d.adobe.com/documentation/sddoc/split-curve-215286519.html#section2 Thx.

Would it be possible to design a 3D meat case using Substance 3D? We want to simulate different types of product placement as they'd appear in a grocery store. It would be similar to a planogram, but much more realistic. We'd want to be able to show the case at different angles and be able to move the products around. 

I can't seem to figure out how to properly 'instance' variations of a mesh that I've created in a model graph. In a traditional material graph, you set up sliders and randomized inputs (like procedural noises that change based on the seed). You can then drag that material into another material graph to easily create variation by adjusting the sliders and seed values on that instance. Is there an equivalent functionality in model graphs? For example, I'm creating a grass blade mesh with various sliders and randomized values. I want to create several unique variants of the grass blade. But there doesn't seem to be a way to create an instance of that node graph that allows me to adjust the sliders or choose a different random seed. I can't drag a model graph into another model graph, and the 'geometry instancing' node only duplicates the exact input. It doesn't allow you to create new variants by adjusting the seed value or sliders. It feels like I'm missing something. Or i

I'm going through the Substance Designer model graph tutorial on my Mac and having frequent crashes. Is anyone else experiencing the same thing? 

Hallo zusammen. Wie macht ihr das, Adobe Substance 3D. und Photoshop zusammen arbeiten? Welches format nutzt nihr da in Adobe Substance 3D. für den Export in PS?Danke für die Hilfe

Hi,Are you planning to update your 3d plugins to be able to import/link a SBSM model into 3dsMax, Unreal or Unity?

Hello, Reading the update about how Dimension isn't really part of the Adobe roadmap any more (aside from stability updates, etc.)... I am wondering how it will affect my simple Dimension workflow. Currently, being new to 3D, I have one workflow with Dimension: Use it to bring in 3D models of waterbottles, color them, place decals on them, and export PNGs of them against a white/no background. I do not place the waterbottles into scenes with backgrounds, nor have any other object aside from the water bottle in the PNG. Reading for the first time about the Substance 3D Collection, it seems like S3D Stager would be overkill to learn for my workflow... would I use S3D Designer as a replacement for the work I do in Dimension? Thank you!

I am trying to set up a graph that is tied to a specific workflow and can be shared among artists, so I would like to have a cleaner graph without some nodes carry over the tweaked parameters. I want to reset certain nodes settings in one go but couldn't find a way to do it.So, is there a way to reset multiple nodes together in Substance Designer, instead of go to individual node and reset from the properties panel?

Hello, Thanks in advance for any help with this matter where the colors are much darker in 3ds Max Redshift material than they are in Substance Designer.  Please note I used both Substance Player and Substance Designer to export bitmaps. Please see attached and let me know if there is some setting I can use in 3ds Max to correct this?In the past this happened before using Mental Ray material, so I am guessing this could be the same problem? Thanks!

Hi! I am making a leaf vein. I got two results from the similar graphs. Does anybody know why do these results differ? Settings: 2 Edge Detect graphs have the same settings. The Blend graph has Copy blend mode and 100% opacity.

Hi,I am looking for a workflow to export not only the tile I see, but also the one that would be on top/left/right/bottom relative to the visible texture. Since Designer is procedural, it should be capable of generating data "beyond" borders of the visible document. Is there some feature to export such "tiles"? One thing I found is the Tiling parameter of Materials->Default->Edit. Scaling it up, the texture gets smaller in a nonrepeating pattern. Thus the following imaginary workflow could work. Does somebody know how to actually do it?...1. Set Tiling to 22. Export upper left quadrant in full resolution (e.g. 4096)3. Export upper right quadrant in full resolution4. Export lower left quadrant in full resolution4. Export lower right quadrant in full resolution Maybe there's an easy Designer feature for this and I just don't know about it. Thank you

What I want to ask is whether a gradual color can be applied to an object. For example, if I make a petal, can I make a coloring node so that the petal can get a gradually changing color (such as the change from dark red to light red) at one time after blending with this node. Thank you very much for taking the time to reply to me

Hello community, I do photogrammetry work with products for my clients and create product visualization images and videos from them.  Right now I just use Reality Capture, Photoshop and Blender for my work. At the moment , I'm working with a special kind of pillow but I'm having a lot of trouble getting the texture and color of the pillow to come out properly. So I thought maybe I could cut the pillow and place the fabric flat against the wall to create a seamless texture that I can use to texture the 3d model pillow with.  I was able to create that with another app called PixPlant. However, when I try to apply the new texture maps to the model in Blender, it doesn't quite look right.  When I try to define the seams for the UV Mapping, and apply the texture to it when creating a new material, it doesn't line up right. The geometry doesn't follow the seams of the pillow. I have tried remeshing and retopology tool, but it's still difficult to get the geometr

I am looking for some input on whether or not Substance is the best tool to create 3D designs like shown in the image? Your thoughts on Substance or other options would be greatly appreciated. Once designed I would like to be able to use the design to 3D print the product.Thanks!

I'm trying to build a new material from scratch. My height is based off an imported 8bit png greyscale map. Trying to connect an HBAO node out of this, and into my AO, but I'm not seeing any AO returned. One thing I'm noticing is the link between my height and my HABO id a red dashed line. I can't find what that means in the docs, but I'm guessing it's bad. Does anyone know what that means? Or how to properly use the HBAO node. Tutes I found on youtube are basic and don't address my issue, so I'm turnign to this forum in hopes to find something. Thanks for your help.

Hi, I'm trying to expose only the rotation of the Transformation 2D node. When I click "Expose as a new graph" next to Transform Matrix, I  get "X Y Z W" when the Sbsar is brought into Unity. How Can I expose that as a either a percentage or something that's more user friendly? Thanks!

Hello! I just started to use Substance Designer and I stumbled onto a problem where there is a seam going through my material, how would I go about to make my materials seamless?

Hi Everyone. I am new in this program, and One of the biggest difficulties I've had is the difference between the current interface, versus  the tutorial videos' interfarces. For example, the tessellation option does not generate Height. T_T Could you please teach me how to setting correctly the 3d view in this new version, please?  

Hi, I am in need of adding a few manufacture's blended colors to the multi-switch-color filter and cannot find a way to do this?Please see attached and note most of the colors in this manufacture's line is singular rgb with the excepiton of a few.I am unable to find a node or someway to add a blended color to the uniform node with new inputs, or any other node that follows the same ouputcolor list?Please advise if there is a way to somehow add a combined color mix in the multi switch color filter? Thanks!  

Substance Designer didnt flush RAM usage, even after all graphs will closed. SD flush memory only after reopen software and it brings a lot of discomfort because it does not allow you to work long sessions, and can also affect the performance of the whole computer if you work in parallel in Maya or other programs and do not watch the consumption of resources.Old original topic with same issue.https://forum.substance3d.com/index.php?topic=19645.0PLS FIX IT, this is really bad thing !

The question is how to make a vertical random shift?

Hello, Thanks in advance if able to solve this.  I need to have a drop down list in my multi-switch-color-filter that has both uniform colors and blended colors.  The issue with the blended colors is there does not appear to be a way in the other nodes used where I can get the output in the same drop down list as the uniform color.   My options I imagine are to create a new node that will somehow go in the same drop down list as the uniform colors in the multi-switch filter, or have a separate multi-switch-color filter for the blended colors and try to find a node that can give me a drop down list so I can name the colors in a sequential way.   Please advise if anyone knows how to go about adding blended colors to a multi-switch-color-filter where there can be names added to a drop down list in the same way as the uniform color works?   Thanks!

I tried to modifiy "max pattern liberty" but it doesn't help. I see a kind of square frame that crops  the shape.How can I modify the shape splatter the way it wouldn't crop while upscaling beyond  standard 5 value?