Substance 3D Designer

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!  

I am trying to create a material for Japanese roof tiles and it always comes out incredibly flat. I have tried to put the Tessellation factor and the Height in the render settings higher and beyond the recommended values to see what happens and it has barely changed anything. So it shouldn't be a geometry issue or that the settings are simply too low (I hope). I've attached an example from a tutorial (red tiles) that does something similar and their height shows up a lot more pronounced. The other pictures are what I have in my project. I would like to achieve a lot more movement in the silhouette of my material so it looks like actual tiles and not like a flat puzzle. I've tried a bunch of suggestions I have found online and followed tutorials, but I was unable to make it look right. Is it maybe an issue with the settings for my graphics card? I have a NVIDIA RTX 3060Ti so I don't think it's not powerful enough, but perhaps it's not being used correctly?Substance recomm

Hi, I'm new to Designer, and have been following tutorials to pick up the basics.I have run into an issue where if I change the resolution of the work that I'm doing to try and preview the project in 4k, (upping the resolution from 2k) the client crashes. I downloaded some project files from the internet to see if it happens with someone elses work, and it doesnt crash with theirs, so I'm assumming i have a combination of nodes or settings in my project that are causing the problem. Can anyone advise how I should go about troubleshooting this?  

Hi, I'm having trouble exporting my 3d scene. I am seeing the hi-res plane properly, with height displacement and all the right textures applied on the override material. When I export scene as any file type (fbx, obj etc) it is an empty flat plane. All the tutorials for exporting scene are like 4 years old, and the interface is slightly different. I'm using Adobe standard shader (i think). any clues?thats my first material btw 🙂 

Experimenting on a grass generator FX Map node with various masks + height packed into RGBA but I'm struggling to achieve the correct blending/layering of elements (bottom image). Pretty new to it. Not sure if my workflow is bad or if its just a limitation of FX Maps.Considering just making 4 variations of grayscale FX Map but hoping to avoid having to make a bunch of matching variables to sync the parameters.  

Say I have a subgraph  saved in same sbs , now  I want some of its instances  do slight different thing.     in Blender I can  make a group  instance unique and local to the file ,   make an override.  All this seam impossible in SD .   The only way is to make a copy  , change what it does  and then manually  drop  and reconnect .      Is so  painstakingly annoying   coming after using  Blender.   Especially in some loop like operation like slope blur .      Am I missing something? 

  We’ve just released the newest version of Substance 3D Designer, adding features that make Designer faster and smoother to use, and easier to learn for users coming to the tool perhaps for the first time.   What’s new in Substance 3D Designer 15.1?   An updated ‘new graph’ window   If you’re new to material creation, the first head-scratching moment can come right at the start, when selecting a template for your project. The new release of Designer makes this step much, much clearer, giving you thumbnails allowing you to visualize templates at a glance, and informative tooltips which help you to determine which template suits your project best. New noises   Noises – whether dirt, directional noise, Perlin noise, or many others – can be a key part of a project. Designer now allows noise nodes to override bit depth; noises are no longer fixed at 16bit, providing better support for non-tiling workflows. In addition, this newest version of Designer adds new parameters to noises, to pro

  Environment artist Sherif Dawoud has just created a new Signature Collection for Substance 3D Assets, Welcome to Mireland, focused on the richly atmospheric world of wetlands and marshes. We’ve also just published an interview with Sherif, where he breaks down the creative and technical processes behind this collection, exploring the construction of several key materials, including a highly flexible birch bark system, a mossy swamp-ground surface built from tile-based organic patterns, and terrain materials enriched with customisable grass, leaves, and twig placement. Sherif also shares insights into using displacement-driven workflows in Unreal Engine with Nanite, and how decals, with carefully applied normal exaggeration, can add realistic variation without heavy geometry.   Read the interview with Sherif right now!

Wondering if someone can point me in a direction. I'm used to PySBS, but need to understand how the SD python API handles a couple of things.I've created some node instances, outputs, and graph parameter (inputs) via the API.However, I need to set the graph parameter to Vec4 type (but not the default slider variant, I need to set to a color variant, and potentially change color specific settings [sRGB, float, etc]).I also need to bind that parameter to a uniform color's Output Color parameter. Thanks!

  Arr, matey! Few there be who be havin’ the gumption to create materials that be useful years down the line! Yet this be just what wily ol’ Eric Wiley did a few years back when he put together his ‘Treasure Island’ Signature Collection for good ol’ Substance 3D Assets! The most beautiful ship decking ye ever did see! Treasure, me hearties, by the armful! Everything ye need to make the most astounding pirate scene ever seen across the seven seas!   So aghast were we at the beauty of ol’ Eric Wiley’s work that we dredged up from the depths Eric’s accounting of his workflows and techniques and all, and republished it just these last few days. Go and cast yer eyes over it now, ye mangey landlubber! Arr, me beauties, she be a fine read indeed!  

Substance designer creates a circular basketball leather pattern, as shown in the following reference image