Substance 3D Designer

Is it possible to send the vector patterns drawn by Illustrator to Designer for use?

The version 15 update introduced updated versions of some noise nodes. The problem is that the scale input of the gaussian noise node is now hard clamped to 64, whereas before it was possible to override the range to scale it to values far above that limit. This feature is necesary to achieve a lot of effects without needless workarounds, and also unnecesarily breaks old graphs using the gaussian noise node with higher scale values

Hi there,I didn’t open it since 1 month, but impossible to launch Substance Designer now,  which crashes just after launch opening a report log window. I’m on a Mac M2 Sequoia15.7.3. I though it was maybe du to the last update then I uninstalled Designer, delete preferences, and installed an older versions but, surprise, it doesn’t work neither… I can't understand what's going on, if you have any idea ;-)JA

I tried to download a zip file, but I can't download it: "This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below". What's the problem?Link: https://attachments-us-west-2.insided.com/2815e52e-cc6b-11f0-b9d7-88aedd688ac4/3DWood_Version_4a.zip?Expires=1771170845&Signature=WBaXZskxMrRpXkkT~CVnRSQ4jCk9-CksFC9RbyU2JHBnu0if3IidJHs~sfpN1U9GS~Foq05mInpB7pne4hOJvoYg2WYxJhP5BeeWkjYSAvGy2Wrc8MaDD7P6txabdxpCrhpfAaebbskAjOhBmoPBHaIVHIDjv5YiKrk9P3uhp~McQNhwCsvb73UVUpfkH-boHHJvHijFHadTqSnv3pK-OUodNYHeOtFMskFY0xfB23-B0YJQ1OjyFrFtU2ubmQa230HyoxUrnhUCL2pEjEzCXs4YafWE54E2n1kI8D6HQMB~W4c0q4XsiKQ1JkVPpenmKgpnPWUNni2kL0cdObqM7w__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAJODP2KXSV47YM4AA

Running into workflow blocking issues with Designer Baker UI. SImilar issues were previously present in Painter, but have been fixed.When relative to bounding box is unchecked, parameters which should be set to physical scene units (cm) and be well above 1 or 100 cannot be set. The UI prevents the user from supplying WS values.Ambient Occlusion, Curvature, and Thickness may be affected. I’ve only tested AO  

As my graphs are getting more "spaghetti-like," I’m really struggling to keep the wires organized.I know we have the "All Rectangular Links" option in the settings, but honestly, it’s a bit too much for me.Is there any way (maybe a hidden setting or a plugin) to get "Partially Rectangular Links"?What I want is a hybrid style: keeping the smooth splines for the most part, but having the ability to "snap" certain sections or specific node connections into rectangular angles. I want that clean look without the rigidness of the "All" mode.

It seems that using document channels in filters are broken - they are not picked up and the default value on the node is used instead.Here I have started with the ‘Specific filter’ template and use the roughness channel as a mask for a blend:In painter: roughness channelApplying the filter:basecolor is NOT affectedusing another texture as maskUsing another texture works fine: I was trying to use the user channels and not roughness but then I noticed that not even the default channels seem to work.If this is a user error, please let me know! (if it is, it might make sense to raise a warning !!)This is using the latest versions of Painter and designerSubstance 3D Painter, version 11.1.2Build 5115 - 5faba39802156445fcb0e2b9673b9805f16bd43515.1.1 build 10305 commit 12408c79 Release (01/15/2026) Thanks for looking into this,seb  

Hi, I am trying to get up and running with Substance Designer, and I notice the default renderer has been updated since I last used the software. I am working in a fresh scene, and trying to visualize my height/displacement in isolation. My renderer is set to the GPU Pathtracer, and I have increased my tessellation values on a Sphere 2 tiles. However, rolling the lights in the 3d viewport just removes any visibility of the displacement, and I can really only see it in the shadows. I have attached a screenshot for your viewing.Is this a bug or user error on my part? Lastly, is there a way to isolate a node in the 3d view so I can see each change one at a time? I was looking at documentation and apparently 1 or 2 on the keyboard is supposed to do this, but in my case it just toggles the link creation mode.Thanks. 

I’m baking out textures from a source mesh to a target mesh using the Transferred Texture baker. One of my source textures is RGBA. But when I bake out the texture output is RGB. How can I bake out RGBA? Do I need to link the source texture to an alpha map in the source material? If so, this is quite tedious since I use alpha in both the Diffuse and Roughness maps. 

I am trying to  update  my workflow in Designer by sending images  for final composition, crop, export  and archiving to be done  in Photoshop.    So I need  the files be looking same in Photoshop.    I want to keep 16bit integer format at least  and want a quick one to update and save inside PHs smart objects.      I Did it with pngs before   but they slow as hell in PHs .Tiff looks much quicker   but I seems couldn't get rid of  extra gamma correction  in PHs.     Is there a way to export tifs as is without  any profile attached?  The way PSH would  use default srgb profile without asking anything or recalculating colors ?     For some  reason I thoght RAW is the way but looks like it doesn't .

Installed Substance Designer Painter, Stager   Stager runs fine,   Designer, Painter keep generating error 205 messages. Have installed , uninstalled, rebooted, logged in to ACC, logged out. No Joy. I am signed into my ACC subscription. I have signed out. I have signed in, have signed out. It appears that Substance app is not finding my subscription. I cannot even sign in our out from the app. I keep getting the error code 205 popup. Selecting the contact support brings up a 404 page error. I have disabled my Anti-virus many times I have tried different browsers. Anyone?   Anyone?  Bueller???    

Hello, I'm having trouble using any painter channels within a 'specific filter'(https://helpx.adobe.com/substance-3d-painter/content/creating-custom-effects/channel-specific-filter.html )For anything I try, not the channel in Painter but the inputs default value in the designer graph is used.I wanted to use the user channels initially but failing that I tried to simply make the Specific Filter - Painter sample work, but here the same thing happens.This the small modification I made to the sample, using the roughness channel to blend the base color with noise): Roughness channel:Result (should use roughness but uses white value from graph): I checked with others who experienced the same issue. It might still be a user error, but if it is, it might be good to make it more obvious that something is wrong 🙂 This is using the latest designer and painter versions:Substance 3D Painter, version 11.1.2Build 5115 - 5faba39802156445fcb0e2b9673b9805f16bd43515.1.1 build 10305 commit 12408c79 Relea

Baking textures on Mac and PC has a different outcome and I really don’t know why. Is this an Apple Silicon Problem?   Rendering on a MacBook Pro M3 Max 64GB RAM, macOS 15.7.3 all renders (HDR) are darker, especially the Bent Normals and the Normal WS passes are almost black   Rendering on Windows 11 with an GeForce RTX 3060 all looks fine. Please see attached images.

Hello,I am running into an issue where the textureTransfer bake doesn't preserve the alpha of the texture.  I am fairly certain this used to work.  Is that a bug, does the new baker not support alpha transfer, or am I just overlooking something somewhere?  I was running throught the SAT, but it also just results in a white alpha channel when baking manually in designer.Thanks,Chris

Hello, My Substance Designer crashes every time I try to open a new or old scene. I tried several methods to fix it that I found online, but nothing worked, and I am out of solutions. What I've tried:- Completely uninstalling and re-installing SD           - With a clean wipe- Updating Graphics Driver to the latest version- Switched to Studio driver - Switched to Intel iGPU for a test- Renamed several folders to reset the settings- Paused the OneDrive sync- Checked the log but didn't get much from it. The image includes my email address, if it makes it easier for you to locate the crash logs I sent. Thanks,Raz

Hello,Why does the UV image appear as shown in the image when importing from Blender to SD?It's a normal sphere created in Blender and mapped using the command: smart uv project.  These "cuts" don't appear in Blender.  What's the problem?How can I fix it?  Thank you.

Everything works normally for generic graphs, but Input Color won't show up in Painter, does generators allow only grayscale inputs or am I missing some setting? 

Hey there,I’m working with the wonderful PBR Renderer node (pbr_render2.sbs), customized to prerender PBR textures into a single "unlit" color texture with neutral lighting and AO. Surprisingly, it works quite well, but I’ve run into some core issues. Feeding prebaked World-Space Normals to replace the standard projection causes:HDRI projection behaving incorrectly (inconsistent and partial)Visual glitches, like noise or lighting appearing from belowThese are the most visible problems. There may be deeper issues especially since, from what I understand (now), this is fundamentally a 2D-based node which makes full 3D simulation likely impossible. Do you think there is a way to modify the PBR Renderer to respect World-Space Normals and fix HDRI projection without rewriting underlying functions? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.Thanks!