Substance 3D Designer

I’d like to set up a substance designer file as a template so that it can be viewed but not changed. Is there a way to set it as read-only? The default graphs are read-only, so I figure there’s a way it can be done.

This is just ugly now, could you move either one of the Previews to align with each other? 

I am trying to create a packed texture -  Color_AO In some cases I don’t need an AO and so I want to pack the alpha channel with all white so my in game shader will still render correctly When I plug a uniform white into the alpha and export the alpha channel is not exported It will only export the alpha channel when I have some value range in whats being plugged into the Alpha of the RGBA Merge node I am exporting as TGA in RAW color space   

I’m having an issue with Substance Designer’s script path setup. When I set a path using an environment variable, only scripts placed directly under that root directory are recognized. Scripts located in subfolders are not detected, which makes it difficult to organize modules in a hierarchical folder structure. Because of this limitation, I’m unable to properly separate and manage my scripts. Is there any way to make Substance Designer recognize scripts inside subdirectories, or is this a known limitation?

HiI’m creating some dynamic ribbon materials, but I’m running into an issue where a visible seam appears where the end piece meets the middle section when the material is used in Painter.Specifically, there is a line of differently colored pixels in the normal map at the point where the pieces connect. I’m not sure what is causing it, but it consistently shows up when the material is used.To rule out problems with my node setup, I started from the “Leather Strap Ribbon” template and modified it from there.At first, I thought the issue might be related to my use of 2D Transform nodes with tiling disabled, but even with a very basic setup (as shown in the top image), the seam still appears.One thing I’ve noticed is that the problem always occurs at the “End” section, never at the beginning.Anyone have an idea what I might be causing this? 

Hello,The new Color.Raytraced baker does not render the correct material colorsIt worked correctly in v14 but chooses random colors in v15.   Additionally, Color.Raytraced does not function correctly through the SAT.  If left to the default, or set to mesh_color through the --color_source flag, it renders a black image.  Example command: <path_to_baker>/substance3d_baker.exe Color.Raytraced --inputs <path_to_low>\low3.fbx --output_path <out_path>\ --high_scene_paths <path_to_high>\new_colors7.fbx --output_size 1024,1024 --output_name ID_Test --padding_radius 10 --projection.max_height .5 --projection.max_depth .5 --color_source mesh_color Assigning vertex colors to the high poly fbx and changing the color_source flag to vertex renders out the vertex colors correctly.  I have tested most of the other bakers through the SAT with no issue after updating the new flags, but mesh_colors seems broken both in Designer and through

I can launch and use Substance Designer 2025 and Work with it. 3D View renders normal. But as soont as i try to resize/reopen the 3D View Panel, SD crashes.If i close 3D View, i can resize the other Panels.I tryed switching Render engines, Updatet my Drivers, Stopping the Render engine before resizing.Always the same result. Can’t get it to run. Im Using Adobe Substance 3D 2025 Standlone Steam edition. Version 15.1.2

Is it possible to send the vector patterns drawn by Illustrator to Designer for use?

The version 15 update introduced updated versions of some noise nodes. The problem is that the scale input of the gaussian noise node is now hard clamped to 64, whereas before it was possible to override the range to scale it to values far above that limit. This feature is necesary to achieve a lot of effects without needless workarounds, and also unnecesarily breaks old graphs using the gaussian noise node with higher scale values

Hi there,I didn’t open it since 1 month, but impossible to launch Substance Designer now,  which crashes just after launch opening a report log window. I’m on a Mac M2 Sequoia15.7.3. I though it was maybe du to the last update then I uninstalled Designer, delete preferences, and installed an older versions but, surprise, it doesn’t work neither… I can't understand what's going on, if you have any idea ;-)JA

I tried to download a zip file, but I can't download it: "This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below". What's the problem?Link: https://attachments-us-west-2.insided.com/2815e52e-cc6b-11f0-b9d7-88aedd688ac4/3DWood_Version_4a.zip?Expires=1771170845&Signature=WBaXZskxMrRpXkkT~CVnRSQ4jCk9-CksFC9RbyU2JHBnu0if3IidJHs~sfpN1U9GS~Foq05mInpB7pne4hOJvoYg2WYxJhP5BeeWkjYSAvGy2Wrc8MaDD7P6txabdxpCrhpfAaebbskAjOhBmoPBHaIVHIDjv5YiKrk9P3uhp~McQNhwCsvb73UVUpfkH-boHHJvHijFHadTqSnv3pK-OUodNYHeOtFMskFY0xfB23-B0YJQ1OjyFrFtU2ubmQa230HyoxUrnhUCL2pEjEzCXs4YafWE54E2n1kI8D6HQMB~W4c0q4XsiKQ1JkVPpenmKgpnPWUNni2kL0cdObqM7w__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAJODP2KXSV47YM4AA

Running into workflow blocking issues with Designer Baker UI. SImilar issues were previously present in Painter, but have been fixed.When relative to bounding box is unchecked, parameters which should be set to physical scene units (cm) and be well above 1 or 100 cannot be set. The UI prevents the user from supplying WS values.Ambient Occlusion, Curvature, and Thickness may be affected. I’ve only tested AO  

As my graphs are getting more "spaghetti-like," I’m really struggling to keep the wires organized.I know we have the "All Rectangular Links" option in the settings, but honestly, it’s a bit too much for me.Is there any way (maybe a hidden setting or a plugin) to get "Partially Rectangular Links"?What I want is a hybrid style: keeping the smooth splines for the most part, but having the ability to "snap" certain sections or specific node connections into rectangular angles. I want that clean look without the rigidness of the "All" mode.

It seems that using document channels in filters are broken - they are not picked up and the default value on the node is used instead.Here I have started with the ‘Specific filter’ template and use the roughness channel as a mask for a blend:In painter: roughness channelApplying the filter:basecolor is NOT affectedusing another texture as maskUsing another texture works fine: I was trying to use the user channels and not roughness but then I noticed that not even the default channels seem to work.If this is a user error, please let me know! (if it is, it might make sense to raise a warning !!)This is using the latest versions of Painter and designerSubstance 3D Painter, version 11.1.2Build 5115 - 5faba39802156445fcb0e2b9673b9805f16bd43515.1.1 build 10305 commit 12408c79 Release (01/15/2026) Thanks for looking into this,seb  

Hi, I am trying to get up and running with Substance Designer, and I notice the default renderer has been updated since I last used the software. I am working in a fresh scene, and trying to visualize my height/displacement in isolation. My renderer is set to the GPU Pathtracer, and I have increased my tessellation values on a Sphere 2 tiles. However, rolling the lights in the 3d viewport just removes any visibility of the displacement, and I can really only see it in the shadows. I have attached a screenshot for your viewing.Is this a bug or user error on my part? Lastly, is there a way to isolate a node in the 3d view so I can see each change one at a time? I was looking at documentation and apparently 1 or 2 on the keyboard is supposed to do this, but in my case it just toggles the link creation mode.Thanks. 

I’m baking out textures from a source mesh to a target mesh using the Transferred Texture baker. One of my source textures is RGBA. But when I bake out the texture output is RGB. How can I bake out RGBA? Do I need to link the source texture to an alpha map in the source material? If so, this is quite tedious since I use alpha in both the Diffuse and Roughness maps. 

I am trying to  update  my workflow in Designer by sending images  for final composition, crop, export  and archiving to be done  in Photoshop.    So I need  the files be looking same in Photoshop.    I want to keep 16bit integer format at least  and want a quick one to update and save inside PHs smart objects.      I Did it with pngs before   but they slow as hell in PHs .Tiff looks much quicker   but I seems couldn't get rid of  extra gamma correction  in PHs.     Is there a way to export tifs as is without  any profile attached?  The way PSH would  use default srgb profile without asking anything or recalculating colors ?     For some  reason I thoght RAW is the way but looks like it doesn't .