Substance 3D Designer

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

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Limited testing so I could be wrong.I noticed sometimes ctrl+B doesn't work to open the Export Outputs window for some graphs. I noticed whenever I edit the Pattern field from its default settings, ctrl+B stops working, even when I change it back to the default $(graph)_$(identifier)  i.e. this T_  

  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!  

While works fine in 2023 Steam version and also works just fine  in Adobe subscription  version ? I love my Steam 2025  version because I have all my favorites, custom tools  and project settings there .      I had w10 extended security update  before I  first  noticed that 2025 Steam  15.0.3 version  issue  :right click menu shows something , but next left click to confirm do nothing at all.  My guess Microsoft  update might be  a culprit   since I saw no Designer updates  recently .  I would be appreciative  for any advice .

Thanks to your reports, we've established a conflict between Discord's Game Overlay and Substance applications.   We're currently looking for solutions, but in the meantime, if you're facing functionality issues with Designer/Painter buttons, please disable Discord's Overlay.  

tried different setups, Sbsrenderer can only render up to 8192x8192 resolution, which is quite not enogh. Please help.

So not all of the UI responds to mouse actions in Substance 3D Designer 14.1.2 Steam Version. A few days ago everything was working just fine. I’ve noticed that all commands execute normally when launched via keyboard.   

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

Hi everyone,I’m new to Substance Designer and I’ve run into a problem I can’t figure out. No matter how many times I create a new graph and select the Metallic-Roughness preset, I cannot find the option to choose Translucent + Displacement (or any PBR shader) in the 3D View.The only material available is AdobeStandardMaterial, and it’s always marked as “default (overridden)”. I don’t see any way to load other shaders.I’ve searched for solutions, but most tutorials show that by choosing the Metallic-Roughness preset, the PBR shader options should appear automatically. In my case, they don’t.Has anyone else had this issue, or knows why this is happening?It’s really frustrating and I’d appreciate any advice.Thanks in advance!

Hi, Apologies if this is an obvious or dumb question - I'm a but new to this and the learning curve is proving steep!  I have been using the mutliangle_to_normal function in 3D Designer to take a set of images recorded using illumination form 4 equally spaced directions - lets say N, E, S and W - to create a normal map of my object and from that create a height map.  It works really well and give some amazing results. But.... I now have a sample where I can't use the 4-equally spaced points, the lamps have to be placed at irregular, but well-defined, known points.  Can I change the input angles into the function and if so how do I do that?Thanks in advance, and agin aplogies if this is too easy a question. 

Hello all,I'm creating a Substance Designer filter that turns an image input into an oil paint effect. I made custom brush stroke alphas and used Shape Splatter node to scatter them around.The problem:Shape splatter tiles by default, so some brush strokes are leaking through the borders which can be seen in the images. I don't want any tiling effects to happen at all since I will also use this shader to paints on baked Unity lightmaps.Any help would be appreciated, thanks!

I recently got Substance Designer from Steam, but when I try to launch it, it opens the title screen and then closes. I've clicked Verify File Integrity and reinstalled it multiple times, but it hasn't resolved the issue. I've also checked the minimum system requirements, and I meet them.  So I'm not sure why it's not opening or what can be causing it.  I got it because the remote computers my school provides are very laggy, so any help would be greatly appreciated.

After updating my old substance designer to the newest version 15.0.3 Substance designer is unable to launch. When I do so it stays stuck on the splash screen. I have tried multiple solutions but it does not seem to work. The solutions I have tried:uninstalling and reinstalling the app (version 15.0.3 and version 15.0.0)launching the app as adminupdating my Nvidia drivers to version 581.57Changing my graphics processor to high-performance in the Nvidia control panelDisabling my Nvidia GPU (seemed to work, at first, as it opened the software and my graph but crashed a few seconds after opening) My specs:Laptop model: Acer Nitro AN517-41Processor: AMD Ryzen 7 5800H with Radeon Graphics (16CPU)Operating System: Windows 11 Home 64-bit version 25H216GB RAMDirectX 12Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050  I have found multiple threads with the same issue however I still haven't found a way to solve this problem. Is there anything I might have missed ?  Thank you for your help

Hello dear community,  i want to create a function for 2D transformation node to control only Y2 transformation matrix. My aim is to expose this as a parameter which i need to use in a sbsar in other software. how can i build it in the function graph?   thank you, Mark g