Substance 3D Designer

I have used 3D software  in the past, but a long time ago!! Are there any pointers on how to get started? Can i import drawings to get started?Any help or advice would be hugely appreciated! I only have a 30 day trial so need to give this a good go before trying something else!

Hello everyone, I already have SD 2020 (purchased on Steam) which is now expired. I am planning to purchase SD 2022 once released on Steam. Wondering how can I upgrade to this new version? Do I need to treat it as new software and create a new account on "substance3d.com" or the existing connected account on "substance3d.com" will still work? Please help me understand the process. Any response would be highly appreciated.

Hello Im new to designer and im trying to correct this weave so it aligns right but can't seem to figure it out.   I attached a image of my workflow and my actual work down below. Any help would be greatly apperciated

Hi there,Recently i've encountered a very annonying bug with Substance Designer in which designer crashes when I attemp to link a 3D Mesh. The window pops up and immediately crashes the tool. I've tried reinstalling, but it still crashes. I've managed to work around this by going to Link > Other, and loading meshes that way, but I'd love to know why linking 3D meshes is crashing. Note: it's not my mesh that's crashing the application, I don't even get that far, the tool has crashed before I can pick anything mesh to link. It could be because my previous path towards linking a mesh no longer exists as I archived some files, but why would that crash the entire application?!

I've noticed when using a cube to preview my material in Substance Designer that the bevel I apply looks quite warped at certain angles. If I switch to a rounded cube or cylinder however, everything looks clear and sharp. I was curious as to why this is? Is it related to the geometry of the mesh? When I export this and use it in other programs will I encounter similar issues?Screenshot: 

I used Visible for some parameters.Inside the designer and player, the parameters are displayed correctly.But when I load the SBSAR file into Painter, all the parameters are displayed as if I did not use the visible if code.How can I solve the problem?

Hi everyone.So that's the problem : Internet connection disables when I run substance designer.I'm 100% sure than it it happens when I run designer.I have no administrator rights on this PC so I can't block any connections for substance designer.How can I fix this issue?

I'm looking for a way to take a model I've created in a 3D Model graph and output the height of that model to use in a regular substance graph. There doesn't seem to be a straightforward way of doing this. Has anyone tried or can point me in the right direction?

Is there a good way to view the output of the Function Graph? I find myself trying to test what I'm doing to ensure that my results are correct, however, I can't seem to find a good way to view the results of a section of my graph. I know I can set the output at that point in the graph, however, it will only update the pixel values.  Is there a way to see just what the Function Graph is doing in the viewer?

Hi All,Just wondering if I've either missed something simple or if anyone has accomplished this in SD.All of the native SD warp tools look to work only in 2d texture space.What I need to do is take for example a 3d noise then warp that but using the position map as the basis for the warp, if you just use the standard tools you will get issues as it warps outside of the UV boundaries. As a workaround to get the effect (and demonstrate what I'm trying to achieve) I'm currently taking the output into a 3rd party program blender in this case and warping the vertex position in 3d space but one the surface whilst leaving the UV cords in the same place which works and I can build a workflow around it but it feels like I should be able to do this all in SD.  Anyone got any bright ideas ? 

HiI made a series of graphs in a designer file which I'm going to export them as as sbsarSo I have some questions:1. How can I join all graphs in one and recall them by a input, ( I mean in despite lots of file in library of painter, there is a one file but an input parameter that user can choose different result 2. How can I set a stamp in painter to have  negative height values not positive

Wonder if anyone ever managed to do a node that extract masks  from a cryptomatte exr  rendered in 3d soft ?       Is it at all possible in SD? 

Hi guys,inside the baking tool (Bake model Information) seems I'm forced to export maps with an Output Name in full lowercase.why? is there a way to avoid it ? Thanks 

So I'm trying to learn how to model in the modeling graph of designer. And I keep on running into an issue that I can't find a resolution for in the documentation and I am bit confused as to how to fix it. This seems to happen a lot with curves and I'm sure it's something silly that I'm missing but it's been with the extrude curve note and the parametric curve node. I would appreciate any assistance thank you in advance.

Hey guys, is there some way to receive of your designer note-tree a (.glsl) vertex and fragment shader ? I know there is some workaround with the Materialx plugin, but only for some older designer Version.The current Version of the plugin and also Materialx is not supported.  Is there something in planning, too update the plugin.Or is there someway to receive nativ of designer the Vertex and Fragment shader ? best regards felix 

Hey, 🙂 can someone tell me how to change Adobe Substance Designer menu font size? With the DPI on and off, it doesn't work. I have a 34 inch monitor.  

Hello Substance team, First off, thank you for including sbsbaker in the latest release ! Much appreciated. Question > I am building an python-based automated Substance baking/texturing pipleline system and am seeing a small x/y pixel offset with bakes using sbsbaker between windows & linux. This happens with the older SAT sbsbaker and the new one now included in Substance Designer. Anything I should know here to prevent this ? Any thoughts on why this might be happening ? I'm using the latest version (12.1.1) of Substance on each platform (linux version via steam). Images attached for the same ao bake on each platform. A quick difference overlay will show the offset clearly. Thank you for your time. - Scott Windows 10 Pro 21H2Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS 

Now that MaterialX directly supports MDL as part of version 1.38 (and newer), I really wanted to utilize it in Substance Designer. However, the latest version of the MaterialX plugin only supports version 1.37. I was wondering if there are any plans to update that plugin to support MaterialX version 1.38?

Is there a way to make a material that would have red and white stripes and the stripes would get smaller at the top like a circus tent looks?

I noticed that Ubuntu 20.04 was the latest officially supported version for Designer.  Is there a plan for official 22.04 support?I am able to get Painter to launch on Ubuntu 22.04, but Designer crashes on startup (on a fresh install too) on both Wayland and Xorg.  Both required me to manually install two libxcb package dependencies to start, but once I was able to do that they both at least hit the launcher.  When Designer crashes, a black window briefly appears after the launcher dialog disappears and then the crash reporter appears.  The logs don't indicate any warnings or errors as far as I can tell.  (I have submitted a proper bug report through the crash reporter).  I have an AMD GPU and with the default (mesa?) drivers.

Hey guys! I'm fairly new to substance designer, decided to learn substance designer a bit more!I'm trying to find a way to create a satvario marble, something that looks like that(link attached)Any way of where I could start or any exemple of what I should do to get adecent looking like marble?At least where to start!Thank you https://www.dreamstime.com/marble-texture-natural-pattern-background-design-art-work-marble-natural-design-texture-pattern-background-image183722479https://www.dreamstime.com/stock-photo-marble-texture-background-closeup-rock-image76287851    

Hello today I was trying to use the isoparametric curve node and it keeps giving me an error, "computation result is empty." I was wondering if anyone else has run into this issue or might have a solution to why this doesn't work as I am trying to feed into it a mesh that was made buy a curve and a sweet note. From what I've understood there must be some way to highlight or designate the mesh has a target but I haven't been able to understand how, any help would be appreciated thank you so much in advance advance.  

I'm looking to get into designing 3D Animated Motion Graphics. 1 of my biggest focuses I'm really interested in this field is the Motion Graphics and Animation in Sports Broadcasts/Highlights. I'm extremely big into sports as well. I coach Football, Umpire Baseball. I'm into Film/Photography and a lot of Action. I've been trying to task myself in designing a bunch of 3D Sports Objects/Equipment. With that said, I'd figure I'd task myself with a challenge of trying to create a 3D model of a Football Helmet. All those Smooth surfaces of the Helmet Shell to all the creases within the bars of a Face Mask to the Interior Padding. It's definiately a lot of work, and I'm not one who wants to "Cheat" and jsut pull someoneelse's 3D Model for Free from a Site and just Re-Texture the Model(s). I've downloaded free Models in the past, and the UV Maps are just way too difficult to deal with. 1 Of the Main goals I wanna factor in and make my own 3D Model is for Simplicity of altering

Hi, I wanted to customise some basic assets aviable in Painter, the ones like Bevel Line, Rectangle, Circle etc. They seem to appear in Painter with alpha chanel included. It's a nice feature since they don't get in a way that much when you are using them as bruch input. How do I achieve similar effect creating graph from a scratch in Designer? Specifically how do I retain alpha in Painter library preview and in brush view and make them appear in propper library tab (textures in this case)?Thanks in advance!J

Whenever I begin a new material, or switch the object in the scene, it develops dark black patches that can only be removed when I go into Materials>Default>Edit>Normal, and uncheck "Normal", leaving "DirectX Normal" checked. However, as stated, if I change the object in the scene, it re-checks "Normal". Is there any way to permanently uncheck this box? Material with Normal Checked:Material With Normal Unchecked: