Adobe Substance

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Weird issue when baking my normals, Help! So when I go to bake my normals in substance painter, the bake captures my edges and details i wanted, although I get some weird edge artifacts on my flat surfaces on my model. The lines are where iv…	2 Last	Staniel182 Nov 2019
[HELP] iridescent Substance! Hi! I'm trying to achieve an iridescent substance mdl shader but for as long as i've been researching, i think I can use a normal map to affect the angle of view to change its color but i'm not reall…	3 Last	poopipe Nov 2019
Substance Painter 2019.2 Smoothing Errors? Hi All,I'm in the process of baking on my Gun model but came across an issue that I haven't been able to fix yet. The top pieces of the gun here are completely hard surfaces with all hard edges…	16 Last	Amank679 Nov 2019
A lot of issues in normal baking from 3Ds max to substance, help! Hey everyone,I'm not new to 3Ds max and modeling but I'm new to optimizing for games and so I don't know all that much about normal maps, I'm trying to bake my high poly turbosmooth model onto my low…	1 Last	Mike99027 Nov 2019
Substance Painter problem - Good results inside, bad results outside Hi people.I have a very noob problem, but (after many days) I gave up trying to find a solution.I have this low poly steering wheel textured in Substance Painter with AO, Normal maps and some fast ma…	8 Last	arkaneXXI Nov 2019
#Nodevember 2019 Hey,Similar to Inktober, #Nodevember is here. See Adobe/Allgorithimics post:https://magazine.substance3d.com/substance-designers-nodevember-is-here/?fbclid=IwAR0LobJ5PgfWtpGxYzYvRQJ7lfuF4e_B3vmHPZwqa…	0 Last	Clark Coots Nov 2019
Newb Question - What's the use of "extreme" Substance Designer Materials? Hello everyone,this might seems like a strange question, but I'm learning Substance Designer right now and I want to use the substances in UE4.On the internet and on ArtStation I see a lot of great m…	2 Last	dakart Nov 2019
Substance Painter HUGE files Im having an issue with a painter file thas has gotten HUGE, like more than 4,5 GBThing is I baked normal in 8k and the rest all in 4k.... then I did some work (file was like 2 GB) then Ive tried bak…	19 Last	saleemarani Nov 2019
Javier Perez Article - Experience Points When you think Substance Designer, no doubt the name Javier Perez pops up. Javier gives us a short but sweet insight into some of his work from the Signature Series and his contribution to Artst…	0 Last	Zey Oct 2019
Duplicating pattern from center Hi there all i couldn't find a way of duplicating pattern from center so i have created the material in but i used a svg that i created in illustrator and now i am trying to create this pattern …	2 Last	roshankarel Oct 2019
Experience Points - Substance Article by Creative Assembly Lead Artist Simon Pennington I had the pleasure of interviewing Simon Pennington, Lead Artist at Creative Assembly. He went into full detail of his Star Wars inspired Substance material. Full breakdown here: https://ww…	0 Last	Zey Oct 2019
Substance Painter add channel info Hi!So, I've already painted this layer with base color and other channels applied, but I forgot to apply the Height as well. Is there a way to sort of convert my already painted color channel to …	1 Last	poopipe Oct 2019
Panel Detailing I'm looking for suggestions on method to automatically generate details that follow around the edges of panels/facets in Substance Painter.https://i.imgur.com/kS6NiXd.pngAs seen in the above picture …	6 Last	Taylor Brown Oct 2019
How to export cages from 3ds Max to Substance Painter Hi. I have a low poly model in an .obj file composed by different pieces (not a single mesh). But I have problems baking the normal map of the cilindrical shapes:I have read this can be solved using …	2 Last	arkaneXXI Oct 2019
Curious if there's a way to achieve a similar effect to the cutout filter in photoshop? Hey, so there's a really useful photoshop filter called "cutout" that essentially takes an image and simplifies it into polygons and colors. I'm wondering if there's any way to achieve this effe…	1 Last	poopipe Oct 2019
Substance Painter Normals lower resolution then tutorial So Ive followed along the whole way and am in Substance painter but my models normals always look low resolution. For example my 4k textures look like Tim's 2k textures... I believe i followed a…	9 Last	Taylor Brown Oct 2019
Seams only in Substance Painter it's 8 hours i am trying to fix this.The mesh is perfectly smoothed (edges)if i import the Xnormal-baked map in Marmoset, it works completely fine (first image. it get seams on 3DS MAX tangent space.…	2 Last	LaurentiuN Oct 2019
SP Baking symmetry from asymmetrical mesh (Solved) I'm working with an asymmetrical .fbx of a model from Zbrush - when I try to bake the high poly mesh in SP, the program seems to bake only one side of the original model, and mirrors it onto the othe…	4 Last	skyeraikes Oct 2019
Substance "random mask" instance hey guys, i was wondering if the tile sampler "mask - random" input can give random results if you were to instance the node? there must be a way, i just cant figure it out. For the graph in que…	1 Last	poopipe Oct 2019
SP Super Slow When Playing With Complex Material Parameters!! SP works fine with simple built-in materials. However, when I download and use some complex materials from either Substance Share and Substance Source, SP is extremely slow to respond. It takes aroun…	6 Last	oglu Oct 2019
Baking high on low process All files attached (high & low FBX, blender file)Can anyone explain is there any set of rules i need to know before baking high on low ?Is high poly need to be bigger than low ?Do u need to trian…	2 Last	Taylor Brown Oct 2019
Adding scratches manually I want to add scratches with a brush. I want them to have depth. I can adjust the height of the stroke and have it apply the base material, but I want to have the scratch be a different material. Lik…	16 Last	Batu_Khan Oct 2019
Using Substane With Cloud-based Vitual Workstation ?? (Is It Possible?) Is SUbstance Products compatible to use with Rent Virtual Workstation from the cloud? (I am thinking about stratuscore)I am urgently in need of some sort of stable thing to run SP on. My PC is incapa…	0 Last	Chef_0f_J0EY_SH3rWay Oct 2019
How to Substance Paint Paper Material ? How do I go about creating realistic paper material for my book in this situation? Sorry for bad English. I have an image above.	5 Last	poopipe Oct 2019
Material IDs issues in Subtance painter I'm still a student and i'm having problems when trying to bake material ids in subtance. I have an asset compound of multiple parts without attach. I select the whole asset an export it as low poly,…	3 Last	Jimmy_Chao Oct 2019
Can I delete the PAINTER_LOCK file ? Hello everyone. I am organizing my folder after a small project. I just want to keep the main Substance Painter file. Can I delete the ".spp.painter_lock" file? Will it result in any lost data if I o…	1 Last	Daf57 Oct 2019
Substance Designer > Painter workflow ? Hi here!I am trying to figure out what would be the optimal workflow to make all created substances available to several artists of the same team over a network, and so I was wondering if any of you …	3 Last	poopipe Sep 2019
substance painter import issue and normal bake issue Ive exported the low poly form 3ds max only to have split my export into 2 separate objects in substance painter. I really dont want this and i dont know why It is doing this.Before i disable 09 - De…	2 Last	rememba_da_name Sep 2019
Substance Painter Blending materials question( fixed) Hello EverybodyI have a question.I am trying to blend two materials.I am adding my first material and then above my first layer i add a second material and I add a black mask so I can paint or add on…	1 Last	miket Sep 2019
substance painter high poly bake issue Hey guys im also following one of Tim's tutorials and having a floater bake issue and could use some help.Before this issue appeared I had this issue...which was caused by an ngon i missed and had to…	2 Last	MisterSande Sep 2019
Substance Painter - Turning Generated splats/textures into mask. The original concept has Blood on the knife which i need to position better but before i get a handle on that i was wondering is this approach possible?Too make a Fill layer an only change the colour…	2 Last	GarethStandfield Sep 2019
How to enforce edge-select to work? (subs-designer) HiI just begin to learn designer...How to enforce edge-select-node to work?It doesn't workhttps://imgur.com/y0t8bVvThanks	3 Last	poopipe Sep 2019
Small and annoying normal map error Hey guys, having some problems baking some props, a small normal error is present resulting in a hard triangle like shape appearing, bassially its very annoying and i cant figure out how to get rid o…	4 Last	Wankenstien Sep 2019
Impossible convexity HiI have middle-poly model without any normal map and other mapsI loaded this model into painter and generated all maps without loading highpoly model. Succededexcept one map (Id color map).Then i us…	3 Last	zachagreg Sep 2019
Substance Painter normal map mirroring issue So i have imported the high and low poly into SP and this line is on the underside of the stock… It broke the screw on the underside and made a V shape.How do i fix this? I checked in 3DS MAX the hig…	0 Last	rememba_da_name Sep 2019
SD: Hide Position UI in 2d View? Hello,When you have an input parameter Type/Editor as Float2 Position, does anyone know if it's possible to Hide the Position pins in the 2d View? The "Visible If" control only hides the Slider value…	0 Last	Clark Coots Sep 2019
How do i create this shape? Hi Polycount, first time posting here.Im working on a stilyzed palm bark but being very new to Substance Designer im actually having an hard time creating the shape highlighted in the picture. …	1 Last	RealityFix Sep 2019
Substance Designer 5.5.1: OpenGL rendering black geometry Not sure what happened considering the project has been going smoothly until now but suddenly all of my geo is rendering black in OpenGL. It looks fine in IRay though, can somebody help me resolve th…	7 Last	zhangvisual Sep 2019
[HELP] Substance painter texture exporting issue does anyone know the cause of this issue it started happening randomly every time i export. restarting the software doesnt seem to help.	6 Last	Jerc Sep 2019
Auto chamfer Sharing this cool tool I found today: https://www.artstation.com/avisparadocs/store/vxVV/auto-chamfer-2-1	0 Last	armagon Sep 2019
Viewport Vs IRay Hey guys! New to substance and game assets in general, so this might be a stupid question!I was wondering if I was texturing a game asset in substance painter then should i base my textures on how it…	1 Last	sprunghunt Sep 2019
Pattern distribution along shapes Hi,I want distribute one custom shape on background with this closed shapes, I need align it to normal direction to this spots on background. I can bevel my shapes and distribiute it and t…	1 Last	zachagreg Aug 2019
My uv maps are split for some reason in substance painter (SOLVED) I used blender to create a low poly version of my sculpt and it's parts. I then combined all the parts to have them all in the same uv map, but when i imported it to substance painter all the uv maps…	0 Last	Goosmo Aug 2019
No Updates Available for GPU Everytime I boot up Substance Painter I get a message saying my GPU drivers are outdated and need to be updated, but whenever I try to do so I get told that my drivers are already up-to-date. I'm usi…	1 Last	Daf57 Aug 2019
Substance Alchemist for Portfolio? Hi All,I'm planning on learning Substance Alchemist, but I'm not sure If it's something I actually dive into like, designer or painter or if it's more just taking pictures and transforming them into …	2 Last	Amank679 Aug 2019
(Solved) [SD] How do you share a library of custom nodes? Say I mostly work on macOS, and my Substance Designer graphs contain references to nodes in my library;If someone on a Windows machine would like to open my graph, even if they had a copy of my libra…	1 Last	bitinn Aug 2019
Substance Designer (2019.2.1) Edge Ware Help? Hi All,I'm currently following a YouTube tutorial and I've come across an issue as I reach the end. I'm trying to add edge ware to my Brick material but my whole material gets covered in excess edge …	0 Last	Amank679 Aug 2019
Merging texture sets substance painter Hello,I have been working on a model which I UV mapped, then split up in several parts and exported multiple seperate objects as a single FBX to substance painter which helps me texture some parts mo…	12 Last	RobertT Aug 2019
Is there any way I can increase the number of pattern inputs beyond 6 on the tile sampler? Need to plug in more than 6 patterns into the tile sampler. Is there a way to do this?	2 Last	ludzon Aug 2019
Baking Issue (Driving me insane!!!) Hello, I am trying to get good bakes with a model to make sure I have a good workflow and I just can not get a good bale when trying everything even cages and it is just this one piece, the first pie…	1 Last	rollin Aug 2019