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Participant
July 5, 2025
Question

Referenced by loaded data warning after reloading a file

  • July 5, 2025
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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 texture. Does it have anything to do with the aforementioned warning?

 

1 reply

Community Manager
July 5, 2025

This is just an information, not a warning/error. When you drag and dropped the graph into another one you created a reference to this graph, that's simply what the message says.

Participant
July 5, 2025

OK, I understand that.

 

It only brought my attention because the message was not present when I created a reference to subgraphs. It kind of appeared once the file was loded again.

 

I thought graphs in this state would work in some sort of suboptimal manner and would required changes for better efficiency. Hence, the info to make me aware of that.