Substance 3D Designer

Hi. I am trying to learn Substance Designer. What would be the best and most straightforward first material to make in Substance Designer for a beginner? I want to get into it but all of the nodes and interfaces and settings are confusing me. Can anyone give some recommendations? Thanks! 

   Hi! I'm not new to designer but new to this forum! So I hope I can find some answers here 🙂 the new Apple Watch commercial shows the orange textile strap really good modelled and I wanted to ask if anybody has an idea how to do this with designer. I know about weaving patterns and stuff but what I can't figure out is: how to make this look good also on the edges and warp the underlying model with the texture so I really looks 3 dimensional!! hope somebody has an idea of maybe a workflow I don't know yet 🙂  thank you and greetings  

Instead of  doing second input ? 

If I create a sbs containing a MDL material, it seems I can export the MDL as a mdle file, but cannot publish the sbs as a sbsar file. The error message will be shown. Is there any way to publish sbs containing MDL as a sbsar file? or is it possible to convert mdl to sbsar?

Good morning. I hope someone can assist with a simple question about the upcoming Adobe online seminar, "3D Character Design: Make a Monster" using Substance 3D Designer. I will not be able to attend this seminar happening October 6 at 10am (PDT). Will this session be recorded so that I may view it at at later time? I hope so. Thank you.

I see some extract curve node  but it doesn't work at all. I am super confused.  Is there any simple way to import a curve  to substance Designer Model graph?  I tried  to read  extract node documentation.  Haven't understood a thing .  Didn't help me a bit.    Could somebody explain step by step please how to extract / import  or whatever a curve from 3dmax or Blender?    Or Modo , I have steam version of it?      So far nothing is working. 

Years ago I switched to SD from  Filter forge.   What I am still missing from Filter forge is an ability to scale  material gradually   to whatever pixel per detail ratio I need .Whatever I do in Substance Designer  looks ok for a scale I started initially.    40x40 bricks  for example  . or 3x6 meters of surface. etc.   Whenever we need to change texel size  or to clump a texture to a specific size  I.e. to  change pixel per cm  ratio  Substance material is no more looking realistic    because some of input noises are scalable  , others not  that well by integers only  and other kinds are not scalable at all.   Switching form factor like 2x2 to 1x2 is never a safe opperation too.It's a huge drawback  IMO  since a half of our repeating  textures  are clumped to a specific size . A fence/wall height for example and doesn't h

The resolution/bit depth text in the Blend - 2D View is black and unreadable against the background. Please FIX!!!! Version 12.2.1

How can I make sure  a custom output would autoconnedt to next node input ?I set same usage from  integration attributes  and sometimes it works , other time doesn't? What's the rules?

Hi im trying to recreate something like in the image belowThis is my current work so far. Its really blurry up close and I want to know if there is anyway to improve that in designer.    The problem only seems to get worse when I import it into painter as a base masterial Any help would be greatly appeciated  

Is there any plans to resume or re-take the support for MaterialX?Or at least an another node based shader programing alternative?

Hello, I want to design a base material with an opacity map. But Designer's base material node does'nt provide any opacity entry. How can I do to publish a sbar PBR with opacity ?Thank you !

Its been a while since i played with designer, I forget how to invert a parameter vaule? lets say I am remapping a float vaule  into a liner interpolate. How do I invert the vaules. Right now my slider is going in the wrong direction for what i want it to do, hope that makes sense?

Hi guys,My cement/brick material in Substance Designer is supposed to generate small clusters of bricks over the texture area like this: but for some reason when I export it to .sbsar and import it into Painter the clusters of bricks look massive and unnatural like this: I have attached the .sbs file for the cement in the post. Any help or ideas as to what could be causing this to happen would be very appreciated! Thanks,Edvin

Hi! I am trying in Substance Designer to recreate a diamond shaped textile. But I want it to tile like a diamond pattern does, meaning it will have diagonal rows. But I can only achieve a hexagonal shaped pattern, which doesn´t create this diagonal diamond shaped pattern. Any ideas on how to do this in Substance Designer? 

Hi, where's the older substance forum goes? Are there all the conversation and answer been permanently removed?

Thumbnails are not updated and images cannot be exported.Also, the 2d view is not updated even though the display output is pressed in the 2d view. You can't even export images. I tried reinstalling it and clicking Recreate Thumbnails, but it didn't work. It's been working fine until now, and when I put together a heavier and more complicated node than this, it worked fine, so I don't think there's a problem with the computer's machine specs. Please let me know if there is a solution.

 Hi, I logged to Allegorithmic's site and was made aware that the Substance software have been acquired and moved over to Adobe. I have two sets of perpetual licenses, but I cannot access the keys (or the necessary software installers), as they're no longer displayed there. The page instructs me to write to allegorithmic-legacyaccount@adobe.com which I have done, but I've received no answers after a few tries. What should I do? Thanks for any help.

Substance 3D Designer 12.3 brings Substance model graphs  to a new level with the support of subgraphs  (or graph instances), plus the 'Visible if ' control for exposed parameters and some new nodes dedicated to curves edition. This version also introduces two new panels (Welcome and What's New) to improve user onboarding, and some other minor features or bug fixes described below.  Release date: October 6th, 2022   Major features Support of Graph Instances in Substance model graphs If you are used to creating graphs, you want to be able to make subgraphs (or graph instances) in order to reuse your work, make graphs less cluttered and be more efficient.This is now possible also for Substance model graphs: just drag & drop your subgraph from the explorer to your main graph to use it as an instance node. We have also introduced the concept of output nodes &nb

Hi, I am looking for a way to create a custom, multi material switch, so I can attach more than two instanced materials to it.I have experimented with the 'switch' and 'multi switch' nodes and am using the 'material switch' as a starting point. So far, I have run into the problem where some of the inputs are not detected, for example I have a normal input in the node editor, but it does not show up when I load the node in a different package. I have attached the sbs file so people can have a look. My newest version I have taken the inputs and blends from the 'multi switch color' and 'multi switch grayscale' nodes and duplicated them across all the outputs. In total I only have 4 color and 4 grayscale inputs, while when looking at the graph of the node there are clearly 5 outputs for color and 7 outputs for grayscale. I have also some errors but I cannot find a lot of information about it, since the substance forums are not available anymore.It also makes me wonder w

Hello! this if my first post on this community so pls be gentle ^^Im trying to link the ''size'' variable of a shape node to the ''tile(x,y)'' variable of a tile generator node.The tile generator it's clamped (1-4)So i need a node tree like....If tile number value is 1---- size value---- (0.68) If tile number value is 2---- size value---- (0.32) If tile number value is 3---- size value---- (0.2) If tile number value is 4---- size value---- (0.14) for exampleBut i dont find a simple way to do thisPLS HELP ME! ^^ Thx in advance!

Hi everyone, So, I want and need to create some custom mask generators for Substance Painter. After some reasearch I found out this is something you can do with Substance Designer.  However, it is proving difficult to preview how the generator is working in Designer. I have to export and import into Painter to see how is affecting the geometry. My idea was also using some of the premade mesh generators to produce what I need along with some extra nodes. Any suggestions or tips on how to preview these generators in Designer? Many thanks in advance

I bought a monthly subscription, i downloaded the material that i like and when i open it, i don't know why but it's completely disabled, doesn't matter what i do I tried to import it, save it with another name, exporting it. I don't know what to do actually.I use Substance Designer 2022 ( Steam Version ), on Win 10.