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Mario Arizmendi
Mario Arizmendi
Legend
October 27, 2021
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New Illustrator 2022 - How to create, edit and save my own materials

  • October 27, 2021
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Hi all

Looking at the brand new 3D materials in recent 2022 version, I am wondering how to create and save my own kind of materials for use in my  projects.

I can see that the materials files uses an extension called .sbsar, how to open or edit this kind of files?

 

 

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Correct answer Srishti Bali

Sure Ton

I did that and for me it worked fine without crashing the app.

But my goal is create my own materials, so If I am not going to buy Substance app, I will not be able to create my own...


Hi Mario,

 

Illustrator doesn't have this option as of now, however, we're working continuously to improve this feature in upcoming updates.

Please feel free to share this feedback here and stay tuned for updates.

 

Regards,

Srishti

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Mylenium
Mylenium
Legend
October 27, 2021

*.sbsar translates to Substance Archive and is a material definition file containing all necessary Substance ingredients. These materials need to be created in Substance Painter/ Designer and can then be shared with other programs. Not sure, though, how it's supported in AI. I'm reasonably certain they intentionally created those flat default materials and the whole shebang would just crash with custom materials.

 

Mylenium

Mario Arizmendi
Mario ArizmendiAuthor
Legend
October 27, 2021

Thanks Mylenium, very clear explanation. 

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DanielleP123ABC
Inspiring
January 20, 2022

Without a precise description of what you are building and what you are doing and the system and hardware specifications it's impossible to help you.


I posted this afterwards, later on yesterday...not sure if this helps any or not, thanks for your time!
 
Material Import crashed/crashing AI - Problem Partially Found Below, Help With Issue & Fix Pls!
New Here , 
Jan 19, 2022
 
After a long day of uninstall, reinstall, cleaner tool, Adobe remote assistance and no fix later....Every time I go into 3D effects AI stops responding and crashes (works fine in older version).

 

I know the problem was an accidental mass upload of dowloaded substances while distracted, so I figure something somewhere is continuing to recognize "Your Materials" under Materials tab in 3D effects, even after everything, and maybe is trying to upload still or has a corrupted file (I have also deleted all downloaded materials as part of the attempted fix).  So to test my theory I went into program files and located the Material-Resources folder and deleted the files outside the Default Material Substances folder: material_icon_render.sbsar and missing_material.sbsar.  I relaunched AI and after doing so I was able to access 3D effects but no materials would appear, just continous "searching cirlces", also my "Your Materials" folder was still there as I had suspected...so in some manner (not crazy computer savvy) my thought is correct, I am just not entirely sure what exactly is causing it or how to fix this...

Please help!  All or any help would be so appreciated its been almost 24 hours and I am going crazy trying to fix this.

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