Unreal Engine - LiveLink to Substance - Broken

[Stu22648339unhz]

LiveLink seems to be broken with unreal engine 4.24 on various versions after 6.1.3

I see a few posts about this with no resolution. I am in a bit of a situation as now that Adobe owns Substance products.. I cannot gain access to the subscription key file to be able to use 6.1.3 - so after about 24 hours of trying to get something working im really struggling.

dcc-live-link] No defined association with the exported '$mesh_$textureSet_BaseColor(.$udim)' map

is the error - Live link was/is fine on 6.1.3 but it wont work on versions after that.
It is such a great feature and the idea of manually importing and plugging in hundreds of materials and textures is just not possible in my situation.
Does anyone have any suggestions?

I have tested with various versions including the latest and I get that same error. I have re-installed the live link plugin in case it had some update.. Obviously being a project full of code - migrating to a newer version of Unreal is off the cards at this crucial moment.
Any help or advice would be great!
thanks 🙂

[Stu22648339unhz]

I spoke to a helpful person on the telephone support and have managed get 6.1.3 licenced.

[viva_la_zoom]

I'm in the same situation, it's such a great connection and workflow helper but it just wont work with 7.4.1

I bought permanent Steam version so not sure if i can go back, i might have to speak to support.

Is yours working alright with 6.1.3 then?

[neeg]

Hi, the livelink was a beta feature and we have currently removed it. We are exploring it for UE5. Please stay tuned.

[viva_la_zoom]

Thanks Neeg,

the addition of such feature to UE5 would certainly be a game changer! Please make it happen!

I have installed 7.2.0 and it seems to work even though the system is very confusing. I'll just have to assess whether is feasible to carry on with it

[AnihausDREW]

When will this be returned? This was an integral part of our workflow that's now removed. It's a real pain if you end up with a complicated model that needs a lot of textures updated or hooked up in Unreal.

[Anthony24770078lby1]

It's been 2 years Adobe, please make Live Link available for UE5 5.3 and 5.4.  We were so excited to have Adobe and Substance in Unreal.  Thanks