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ChrisBurrowsCG
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June 3, 2022
Question

python access to output templates in texture export window

  • June 3, 2022
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Is there access to the list of preset output templates available to the Export textures window via python API?

I have tried 

substance_painter.resource.search('u:export')

and 

substance_painter.resource.search('u:EXPORT')

to no avail. Further, this snippet:
 

    resources=substance_painter.resource.search('')

    for resource in resources:
        substance_painter.logging.log(
            substance_painter.logging.INFO, 
            'testing',
            'resource is %s' % resource.identifier().name
            )

never prints any of the export presets to the log. Should I expect to see i.e. 'CryEngine' in the log with the above code?

 

Ultimately, our goal is to hide from the user any export defaults we don't think are necessary for studio work. We would like to do that without removing the painter installation path from the list of available resources if at all possible. 

 

Thanks,

Chris

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    chadv64418999
    chadv64418999
    New Participant
    October 5, 2023

    Not a direct approach, but you can do something like this:

    import substance_painter.resource

for shelf in substance_painter.resource.Shelves.all():
    export_presets_dir = f"{shelf.path()}/export-presets"
    if not os.path.isdir(export_presets_dir):
        continue
    for filename in os.listdir(export_presets_dir):
        if not filename.endswith(".spexp"):
            continue
        name = os.path.splitext(filename)[0]
        export_preset_id = substance_painter.resource.ResourceID(context=shelf.name(), name=name)
        export_preset = substance_painter.resource.Resource.retrieve(export_preset_id)[0]
        print(export_preset.gui_name())
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    sander37117328
    New Participant
    October 5, 2023

    Only issue here is that this doesn't return the internal preset names, right?

    chadv64418999
    chadv64418999
    New Participant
    October 5, 2023

    It returned these names:

    Amazon Lumberyard

    Arnold (AiStandard)

    Arnold UDIM Legacy (AiStandard)

    Blender (Principled BSDF)

    Corona

    CryEngine

    Dota 2

    KeyShot 9+

    KeyShot

    Lens Studio

    Maxwell (Metallic Roughness)

    Maxwell (Specular Glossiness)

    Mesh Maps

    Non-PBR Specular Glossiness

    PBR Metallic Roughness (folders or PSD groups)

    PBR Metallic Roughness

    PBR Specular Glossiness (converted from Metallic Roughness)

    PBR Specular Glossiness

    Redshift (rsMaterial)

    Renderman (pxrDisney)

    Renderman (pxrSurface)

    Roblox (MaterialVariant)

    Roblox (SurfaceAppearance)

    Shade 3D

    Spark AR Studio

    Unity HD Render Pipeline (Metallic Standard)

    Unity HD Render Pipeline (Specular)

    Unity Universal Render Pipeline (Metallic Standard)

    Unity Universal Render Pipeline (Specular)

    Unreal Engine 4 (Packed)

    Unreal Engine 4 SSS (Packed)

    Vray Next (Metallic Roughness)

    Vray Next (Specular Glossiness)

    Vray Next UDIM Legacy (Metallic Roughness)

    Cyril Dellenbach
    Community Manager
    Cyril DellenbachCommunity Manager
    Community Manager
    April 24, 2023

    Hi everyone,

     

    and thanks @ChrisBurrowsCG for the question.

     

    The output template files being available in your folders under:

    C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Substance 3D Painter\resources\starter_assets\export-presets

    You should be able to use them from there.

     

    With that being said, you might find another solution in our scripting documentation (help>scripting documentation>Python API>Substance_Painter package>resource module).

     

    Best regards,

     

    Cyril Dellenbach (Micro) | QA Support Artist | Adobe
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    ChrisBurrowsCGAuthor
    New Participant
    May 12, 2023

    Thank you Cyril for the reply. 

     

    My specific use case involves wanting to hide the contents of starter_assets/export-presets from the user without explicitly removing/moving the files on disk. For production reasons we're still working with version 7.x; when we can start working with 8.x I'll try the python resource module again. 

     

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      Colorbleed8723147
      Participating Frequently
      January 9, 2023

      Would like to +1 and bump this question. I'm also stuck getting these through `substance_painter.resource`.

       

      The documentation does seem to be able to use it as a resource for Exporting using a default preset

      None of these seem to return the export presets:

      resources = substance_painter.resource.search(substance_painter.resource.StandardQuery.ALL_RESOURCES)
resources = substance_painter.resource.search("")

       

      And like in the original topic message I expected this to only return resources with "Usage" 'export':

      substance_painter.resource.search('u:export')

       

      I basically want the same list as is shown in the UI:

      preferably including the export-preset-generator variants too (above the divider) here.

       

      I'm at least able to find the currently set project template using this:

      substance_painter.js.evaluate("alg.mapexport.getProjectExportPreset()")

       Which will return something like:

      'export-preset-generator://doc-channel-normal-no-alpha'
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        Colorbleed8723147
        Participating Frequently
        April 24, 2023

        Just checking in whether there's been any updates to Substance Painter in its API solving this? Or maybe someone figured out a decent way to do this?

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        nerophesis
        New Participant
        September 12, 2022

        any solutions for this? i would also like to query the output templates already existing in the project

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