Substance 3D Stager

Hey there. Soooo.. Quite frustrating so far trying to migrate from Dimension to Stager for me. If I cancel any render when I return to the stage it's black and I can't use or adjust the program anymore at all, I can't even "save" the project or even just quit the application. I then must bring up the "Force Quit Application" and force quit to close it, losing any unsaved changes. (I'm on a 2019 MacBook Pro with OS Big Sur).There's another annoying bug I won't get too deeply into regarding black bars on models that are laying flat that never happens in dimension with the same models, forcing me to go back and use dimension again for odd projects.While I'm complaining... being forced to take on the entire 3D suite cost (on top of my All Apps and stock subscription) seems a little crazy. Am I right in assuming Dimension will eventually be phased out since it's extremely similar? I personally believe this new 3D collection SHOULD be rolled into the All Apps subscription. It is after all ca

I'm coming from a 3DSMax "junior" experience level user.  To be honest I don't particularly like the over complex environment of 3DSMax and it's workflow ... just seems like a very slow way to get a 3D scenes and considerable learning curve especialy UV mapping and PBR materials etc. To the point ... Stager questions:1.  Export to 3DSMax file format?  Any gotcha or additional work needed in 3DSMax?2.  Import from 3DSMax?3.  Create octahedral imposters that use a very specific texture setup (texture arrays) used primarily for vegetation.4. Does is support DDS output? 5. How extensive of a object and texture library comes with the Stager?6.  How large is the 3D object "payware" library for Stager? And finally, if I just need to create normal/roughness/metal textures from an albedo texture, do I need Stager?  Can Designer create texture arrays from octahedral impostors?  (i.e. this link: https://shaderbits.com/blog/octahedral-imp

I LOVE Stager so far! As it grows in the future I would really love to see support for animated fbx so that I could bring in an animated character or object and texture it and render it in Stager with the amazing materials, lighting etc. that stager has! Right now I'm bringing animated models that I painted in substance painter into Unity, but the lighting and materials just do not look the same and I would love to be able to do it all right in Stager without having to deal with Unity! Also a turntable rotating effect would be great, to be able to put objects or a scene on a turntable and record it as it rotates. 

Trying to see how Stager compares to Keyshot Pro and if it's worth potentially switching.

Hi, This might be super obvious, but I cant seem to figure it out... Is there a way to hide the large white dot that shows where youve placed a physical light? In the Stager pre-set demo, the physical light is not marked with a dot, but if you intereact with it, it then has that annoying dot in the way.  Also, is there an option to hide any object or light from the camera but still have it cast glow on the surrounding environment?  Thanks alot, A

Everytime I go to click on ray tracing to preview my scene the whole app freezes, it won't even let me close the app. I have this exact same issue trying to render anything. If I go to cancel the render and go back my entire scene is grey. Everything is updated I can't figure out why this is happening.

Mandatory Cam 1 and Cam 3 are able to render without any errors nor crashes. I export my sneaker from Adobe Substance Painter over to Substance 3D Stager project from #TheGreatShoeCase. I do not add anything else, I don' move anything, I don't change any settings in the Stager project.  I just do a render.  Cam 1 and Cam 3 are able to render as expected.  Cam 2 rendered a few times with black boxes over the back of my sneaker :  Default Render settings from the project file provided by #TheGreatShoeCase I've tried unchecking GPU Render and the Cam 2 Render just crashes. Do we have any other options for submitting our projects to #TheGreatShoeCase and participating in the competition? NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080PC, Windows 10,64-bit OS, x64-based processorRAM: 16 GBProcessor:  Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8700K CPU @3.70GHzHardware-accelerated GPU scheduling is On to 'reduce latency & improve performance' 

Hello, I would just like to know whether it is possible to open SketchUp files (.skp) into Stager, and if all the settings of the SketchUp project are kept (especially textures). Thanks!

Hello friends, i am not able to use the "Match image" feature properly. The checkbox "Create lights" is not available, because i use a CPU with 64 cores. To be more precise, i use a "AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX 32-Core Processor". Is there a workaround for this issue? I mean, the "Create lights" feature is essential for me, to use "Match image" with this program. Best regards

can i add a material to a light in the alpha channel to make a flag?

Hi,  I'm relatively new to the Adobe 3D workflow... I just wanted to test out Adobe Sampler by modifying my own wet snow material. It looks great in Sampler, it has height, texture, everything. I exported it as an sbsar (i experimented a bit with what features were checked off for the export) and dropped it on a sphere in Stager and even with Displacement checked on in Stager, the material appears flat and lifeless. What am I missing? Thanks,A

Seriously... 3D Stager hides the GPU render function as soon as I install a current driver. I have tried everything after a fresh reinstall of Windows 11. > Nvidia Control > Stager 3D > high performance> Windows 11: Graphics > Settings > Stager 3D > High Performance> i installed nearly all studio drivers (ofc. firstly the suggested drivers) I have an AMD Radeon 5900HX + a GTX 3080, even in Stager the GTX is shown but the GPU rendering is grayed out... see screenshot. Rendering with my CPU takes on average ~5x longer than with the GPU, that can't be real... Adobe charges another 30€ more for the 3D Suite subscription and it doesn't work correctly.  Adobe pretends that GPU rendering is a nice side issue, but it is extremely important! It saves a massive amount of time. If the 3D stager is to be competitive, something should change.

How can we render models out of Stager, along with their Abient Occlusion, Shadows, & Reflections, without rendering the background objects that "catch" them? • Ground Plane shadows and reflections will not export with trasparency. This worked in Dimension. • Ideal workflow would be to allow ANY object (like a wall) to act as a shadow catcher, similar to how 3D layers operate in After Effects.  

Hi, i use an iMac 2017 with an 4,2 GHz Intel Quad-Core i7, 64 GB RAM and Radeon Pro 580 8 GB as GPU. I love use Adobe Dimension for my projects and could not await to switch to 3D Stager to use all the well known Substance power. So I was more than disappointed when I started my first scene in Stager – the performance ist really bad. Working is just not possible when every move has a delay. When will Radeon Pro 580 be supported so that I can use Substance for my work? Best regards

In the current documentation, under "GPU Rendering" the following appears:"For laptops which also include an integrated graphics card, use the NVIDIA Control Panel to set the preferred graphics card to the discrete card." This is true only for Windows 10. In Windows 11, this setting is not controlled by the NVidia app, but by the Windows 11 Settings app. Go to "Settings > System > Display > Graphics." Under "Custom options for apps," add Stager (or any other desktop app) by choosing the Browse button and navigating to the .exe file in Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Substance Stager. Choose "High Performance" in the options dialog. Additionally, the NVIDIA Control Panel must be reset in order to work correctly in Windows 11. It will crash within a few seconds of launch, so is unusable until reset. When this is done, it correctly shows that choice of GPU is now handled by Windows, not by the NVIDIA Control Panel.

For some reason my file just completely will not open after hours of work! Help! 

Hello!Everytime I create/save a file containing - in this case-  a lot of cubes with images placed on the model and try to open it later, Substance crashes and get stuck to the loading screen (I tried waiting for one hour with no luck)I have to ctrl+alt+delete to escape this loop.I spent a lot of time creating those files and it already happened 4 times. I had to recreate from scratch EACH time losing in the process hours of work...It's getting a little annoying and definitely not worth the 40€/month! I've already sent two reports to adobe bug courriel with no luck. (no answer to be specific).Journals are attached.Someone can help?Thanks!

 

Hello everyone. I tried in vain to import 3D data e.g. Stp in Stager. Now my company has a subscription but it still doesn't work. What can I do? Thanks for your help!

I and many others have this problem with Adobe Dimension, and I thought maybe it wouldnt be an issue in Stager... When I click edit on a graphic, image, or decal it won't open in Photoshop like it did just a week or so ago. I used to be able to VERY easily modify the color of anything in photoshop, click save, and it would change in Dimension/I assumed it would in Stager. When I click edit, it does nothing at all. If there isnt a solve to this, how can I quickly modify things? 

In my Mac mini (2018) I have an Intel core i7,  Intel UHD Graphics 630 1536 MB and memory32 GB 2667 MHz DDR4. Substance 3d apps are quite slow in this configuration. I thought about the performance extensions. I want to buy Blackmagic eGPU.  Will it work? Does Anyone work in substance 3d applications using blackmagic eGPU?

Hi, I wasn't sure where to post this, I couldn't see a forum for general questions. If you purchase one of the substance plans and pay monthly, can you canel anytime, or is there a commitment to a minimum  period of a year or something, even though you pay monthly?If I take out the monthly subscription at the special offer price shown in a recent email from Adobe, can I then change to the Substance Texturing plan in a couple of months if I decide that's better for my needs?

Hi, first time poster. Really like how i can go from substance to stasger to aero to create AR content.  its really exciting.  i do have a question though.  how does scale work?  for example.  i made a model of a Printed Circuit Board in my modeling Application i modeled the FBX to scale, brought it in to painter, then sent to stager and finally aeeo and when all the steps were comleated the model looked about right.  but.... i wonder was that just luck?   What if i wanted to do somehtinhg big... lets say a 6' tall refrigerator or a piece of furniture that needs to be actual size?  will Stager inherit the size from the FBX and via painter all the way to aero import? what are your thoughts any advice?  Thanx in advance...-Mychael

I am using a windows computer with a Nvidia graphics card. the drivers are up to date and I have set the graphics card to work with stager in the nvidia control panel but GPU rendering is still not available in stager. How do I fix this?

Found that I couldn't "Send to Stager" some of my models and got kinda bummed.Any plans to implement this??