Substance 3D Designer

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 ! 

I found two issues with the recently released "Fit size to content" feature for frames. Both were found in function graphs, they may also exist in regular graphs. Selecting multiple frames with CTRL key and applying "Fit size to content" only rezises the first frame.Some frames created prior to the Designer version having the frame resizing features do not have the "Fit size to content" when right-clicking on them, even after converting the graph to the new format. This seems to occur in particular for frames embedded into other frames (but not necessarilly for the parent frames).

I have a problem,  I use "Mask to Path" and "Path to Spline" Nodes in Designer to create a Texture Generator, when I import it in Painter, the whole Mask gets messed up.

Hello! I have been working on a material that is intended to be overlaid on other materials in painter. I have set up a mask output with the following settings:My issue is that when i import the material into substance painter, I have to set the mask output manually under the materials channel mapping. As you can see here, the channel defaults to <no alpha>. When i select my mask output from the dropdown, everything works as intended. How can i set up my output to be recognized by Painter automatically? Or am i misunderstanding and this is actually a problem on the painter end?

hey Is there a way to use the Height map in Substance designer without deforming the object as in the image?     Does the same work in Unreal as in the image below?    Is there a way to do this with Triplanar or another means?remember that I am only using procedural maps.thanks

I have three tileable, seamless bitmaps that I want to use in a “Tile Sampler Color” node to create vertical siding.  I chose the “Tile Sampler Color” node so that I could iterate between each bitmap image to create a random pattern.  The problem I’m running into is that the bitmaps get scaled or stretched.  I have tried using “Absolute” under “Size Mode” and I end up with only one of the bitmaps showing.  There has got to be an easy way to randomly assign my bitmap images to these planks.  I can’t believe something so simple has to be so complicated in Substance Designer.  I would use Substance Sampler; however, I am not happy with the latest version, and I don’t have enough control over what I want to do.    I could also use a Flood Fill to move things around, but I think it would be much easier using “Tile Sampler” if it's capable of this taske  What am I missing here?  Thanks in advance.

Hi guys, When I activate display timings all nodes are at 0ms and I just can't figure out how to make it work. Thank you for your time.

Hello peeps my goal is gray scale luminance varience  with the tiled bars, i need the base to stay white and black but im trying to use the flood fill to random gray to create my varience, for some reason flood fill dosent seem to work can canyone explain what the issue might be. also it seems like tile safe rotation in safe transform based on true or false can effect the outcome any idea why that is? thanks again peeps for all your help. 

Basically I have a grayscale switch with multiple shapes the user could input, but I'm trying to find a way for the user to input their own shapes as well.Basically something like the SVG node, but the user could import their own in substance painter.

I want to make some changes to a material I got from the Substance 3d Assets Librarym, but I only have the option to import it to painter and not designer. It instead says that sending to this app is not available yet.Furthermore If i download it and open it in designer there is a lock symbol on the graph and I can neither see or change it.The following may be relevant:Both applications are installed to same directory.Substance designer was given a fresh re-install and this did not fix the issue.These applications are all installed and managed via adobe CC.I also can not send it designer through substance painter.

  Before the end of the month, we just have time to squeeze in the March edition of the Substance 3D Community Digest! Substance 3D News    The big news this month: GDC 2024 happened! And so we presented one of our world-renowned Substance Days! The big news:   Our Blender plugin 2.0 update which was released recently, bringing in refactored plugin architecture, improved stability and overall performance improvement, new image formats to export textures, bit depth selection for each map type, Substance Engine selection support (defaulting to GPU), and much more.     In Substance 3D Painter, some news for our spring release: Access Substance 3D Assets directly within Painter. Also, a preview of our new Text Resource, to add lettering to your surfaces.   In Substance 3D Sampler: Text to texture powered by Adobe Firefly – provide a text prompt, and receive a selection of modifiable textures. This is available today in the Beta panel of CC Desktop! &nbs

The Add Presets From File functionality consisting in creating an embedded preset from a preset file is not working.

Hi, I'm just experiencing MDL Graphs in Designer and want to use them in Painter or Stager. The exported MDL file indicates that version is 1.7.- In Stager a popup message saying this version of MDL file is not supported(this popup also includes a link to "Learn about the Adobe Standard Material" version of .mdl used by Stager, but this link goes to an inexistent page...).- In Painter, even if I add the MDL file in the \shaders\mdl directory, nothing happens. As I cannot change the MDL version, I am stuck to use MDL only in Designer, what is quite useless. Why this kind of feature is not maintained in version updates and when it will be available for the current MDL version ?   

I have no graph templates available when I click the add new graph template button. I saw another post about this issue on a different version, and I looked for the folder that should contain these templates. But no such folder appears to exist. Help please. I can't properly follow along on any tutorials without this. I am running the latest version of designer on a Mac.