Substance 3D Designer

Thirty days have September, April, June, and November – and that means there’s just enough time left in the month of April to push out this month’s Substance 3D Community Digest. Read on.   Substance 3D News    We've just published our monthly post over on the Adobe blog; you can head over there right now to learn about Substance 3D Connector, the value of Substance 3D in Motion Design workflows, and much more!   This month the Substance 3D team has been racking up the miles. At the start of the month we attended OFFF Barcelona, then NAB Show in Las Vegas. Then, from April 23-26 we attended FMX  2024, the Film and Media Exchange, in Stuttgart where we presented updates on Designer and Painter, as well as reviewing users’ portfolios – a popular feature, and a real pleasure for our team.   Independent 3D Artist Ronan Mahon demonstrates the power of the Substance toolset.    And on April 25 we hosted Substance Days Frankfurt. To users coming from

Hi, Sorry if I'm missing something obvious, but I'm looking for a way to set the graph type on a SDSBSCompGraph.The graph type attribute I'm trying to set is the drop-down box under a graph's Attributes:I see a function called getGraphType() to get the graph type but no way to set it through the API. I've also tried looking through all of the properties on the graph and can't find the a property for graph type. In the python editor, for example, if I have an SDSBSCompGraph object called graph and look through all of the annotation properties, I don't see anything for graph type:>>> annotation_props = [p.getId() for p in graph.getProperties(SDPropertyCategory.Annotation)] >>> print(annotation_props) ['outputs_computation', 'identifier', 'category', 'label', 'author', 'author_url', 'tags', 'description', 'userdata', 'icon', 'show_in_library', 'physical_size'] I'm using Substance Designer 13.0.1 on Mac OSX Ventura 13.4.

Steps:Designer 13.1.1 is crashing in the following scenario:- inside pixel processor, use a portal structure (data going into a portal output then a portal input)- create a package function, copy subgraph containing the portal output into that function: the portal dot node will loose its source reference inside the function (which is normal)- make the data flow pass trough the function and the unreferenced portal. Expected result: Designer would report an error (at least into the console) and not crashActual result: Designer crashes This scenario can happen when copy/pasting code from one place to another, if portals are involved and we forget to re-source them. This is how it happened to me. I have a sample graph demonstrating the problem if needed, but cannot attach it here. 

Hei!When I use heightmaps that i bake externaly as a base i get these stepping artifacts even though my bakes look smooth. any ideas where this might come from. Tried 8 bit and 16 bit images, png tga and tiff. Same issue with textures from xnormal, maya and marmoset

Hi! The Tiling Mode settings of the Spline Mapper (both Grayscale and Color), aren't working for me.It always acts as if set to H and V Tiling, even if I set to No Tiling, Horizontal Tiling or Vertical Tiling.I expected it to work the same way as in the Spline Render (or any other node). Here's an example where P1 and P3 of a spline are positioned beyond the 0-1 range: What's also weird, is that the Spline (Poly Quadratic) switches its resolution to 2048x16 by itself in this setup and I can't change it to anything else.

I've just subscribed to the Substance suite, primarily to create custom parametric 3D shapes. I have Designer, Painter, Stager and Sampler but 3D Modeller is not anywhere to be seen. Have I missed something?I'm totally new to this but am familiar with Dimension.

Hi, every timeI try to post my material in the community assests, I get this message. No other information. The reason why I want to upload it is because I discovered the Substance Plugin for Unreal, which lets you have a faster workflow between apps. In a tutorial on how to use this plugin, an Adobe employee responded that if you want to be able to use the exposed parameters made in Designer in Unreal, you should first upload the material on the community assets. Then you can follow his steps (which was downloading the material, adjusting its parameters in Unreal).  So I have two questions: 1. Is it really necessary to upload the material to the community assets?2. How can I use my exposed parameters (made in Designer) in Unreal? Because it's a lot of back and forth just for tweaking a color or a value in Designer and then reimporting it, and so on. Thanks!  

hello What is the configuration to have more speed in Substance Designer with this hardware configuration?Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 3600XT 6-core 3.79 GHz processorRAM: 16GBVideo card: RTX 2060 6GbHD: SSD M.2 250 Gb thanks

Hello, I am a newbie to Ds and was following a tutorial where they say to bring up the Invert Grayscale node and I type it in and get nothing. So I figured being a newbie , maybe there has been an update since this tutorial (which isn't very old from FastTrack tutorials) and the name of that has been changed to something else or I don't know which is why I'm here. Anything helps. Thanks!

I'd like to see more compression options in the EXR (prefs>proj>gen>exr>). Specifically DWAA / DWAB compression. Thanks! Also, can you also add more verbose documentation on your EXR settings please (see attached)? The current docs are a bit light on the subject. Thanks! Chad Ashley

Hi!I was wondering if anyone has ever created a texture generator for substance painter that uses the Tile Sampler as a base. The problem I'm running into when I use my generator in painter is that I want to use a painted input mask in the tile sampler but use triplanar projection for the tiling. I'm working with a model that has different texel densities across multiple UV shells so it would be best to use Triplanar projection in that case.  But when I do that, my mask input also gets projected in Triplanar which messes my mask all up. Is there a way to make the tiles in the tile sampler use triplanar projection when taking a UV projected mask?  I really like that the mask input for the tile sampler cleanly takes individual tiles out.Thank you!

Hello,I have been facing an issue where I am unable to achieve the same appearance for my normal map in both 3D and 2D views, despite setting it to OpenGL. Specifically, the 2D view displays the normal map inverted, resembling DirectX, while the 3D view shows the correct OpenGL normal map. To address this, I have tried adding a Normal Invert node, which corrects the 2D view to match the OpenGL normal map. However, this inversion also affects the 3D view, causing it to display an inverted normal map. My goal is to have both the 3D and 2D views display the OpenGL normal map correctly.    

Hello community, I feel a tad silly for asking this, but I just can't seem to figure it out and cannot find an answer online (likely due to bad search terms). I am wanting to creating tiling patterns, say a brick pattern, that uses different sized inputs in the width, but does not leave any space in the pattern, see attached example.  I do not wish them to be completely 'random' as I'd like to input custom sized pieces. Running custom shapes through the tile sampler will leave a gap between the shapes, as expected I believe if I am understanding how its handling inputs. Thank you for any help and advice.

hello What is the most correct way to position a decal like the one in the image in Substance designer?the mesh I want to do this on is a box. maxresdefault.jpg (1280×720) (ytimg.com) How can I do this with a radial gradient node? thanks

It's been awhile since I have used Designer and I'm lost trying to find where the post process effect options are for OpenGL. In the past, it was either in "Camera" or "Renderer" - "Edit" you would have options to add depth of field, lens flare, color correction etc. Were these options removed? They were called "Yebis2" effects. Painter still has them. 

We have just released a new version (13.1.2) to bring some improvements concerning frames, comments and nodes creation or positioning, and to improve AxF worflows. Look at the detailed release notes for more information.   Improvements: [Graph] Do not place duplicated nodes on top of the original node [Graph] Improve alignment of comments attached to nodes [Graph] Improve comments move [Graph] Snap pasted/duplicated frames and comments to the grid [Graph] Snap new frames and comments to the grid [Content] 'Curvature smooth': Add a note about tiling support in the description [3DView][IRay] Allow int output to be assigned to enum parameter [AxF] Add properties about the clear coat model [AxF] Improve errors management during export [AxF] Improve GLSLFX and MDL materials for "SVBRDF" representation as stored in a AXF file [AxF] Remove 'CC No Refraction' property from 'AxF to AxF' template [AxF] Rename properties "properties.has_xxx" to "characteristics.has_xxx" [AxF] Update templat

I'm trying to create a volumetric material like here:https://www.artstation.com/marketplace/p/doBV0/3d-volumetric-wood-smart-materialhttps://www.artstation.com/marketplace/p/deVg/3d-volumetric-oak-wood I probably need to use a 3D Texture SDF node.I can't find any tutorials. Help me to understand.

Hi,I'm trying to randomly position my pattern with tile sampler but it's keep generating overlapped shapes.I would like to have only the non-overlapped shapes but struggling with how to do this. Is there a way to use position random without any overlapped shapes?

Hi everyone ! I'm working on different brushed metal for watch advertising and in some cases, especially for close-ups, a 16k version would be great. Theoretically, Designer can generate outputs in 16k but in my case, it wont. Too render in 16k, I simply select my graph and increase the output size (I have also increase the memory budget, the cooking size limit and the GPU cache limit). And it seems that it struggles on the same nodes everytime, which are the splatter circular and the tile generator. Does anyone have an idea ? Or is there known limits like in instance amounts on those nodes that makes them enable to render in 16k ? Thanks to anyone who will help me !