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Sticky Substance Designer - Master Thread

For those that do not know what Substance Designer is, it is a node based texturing package designed for next gen work flows. It's completely non destructive and non linear. It includes a real time t…
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MrDixioner

Sticky Substance Painter - Master Thread

Here is our second Substance announcement! [url=http://www.allegorithmic.com/products/substance-painter][size=+2][b]Substance painter[/b][/size][/url] is our vision of what a next generation texture…
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Bek

Sticky Substance - Show your stuff!

This thread is here for you guys to showcase your Substance work, post away! [img]http://i.imgur.com/dbXU1ox.png[/img] [img]http://i.imgur.com/RayaXiU.jpg[/img] [img]http://i.imgur.com/cBYkF2Q.jpg…
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Jace213

Sticky Substance Source - Master Thread

Today we are excited to introduce Substance Source!Substance Source is an online material library dedicated to our Substance Live users.Anybody with an active Substance Live payment plan can download…
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onionhead_o

Sticky Substance - Bug Reports and Feature Requests

There are currently 2 ways to report bugs: [list] [*]In Substance Painter, through the [b]Help > Report Bug[/b] menu. [*]For every other Allegorithmic tool, the little green tab on the right of [url…
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cabilo

Sticky Substance Threads

Here is a listing of all the additional long-running Substance threads : Substance Designer - Release Notes Substance Painter - Release Notes 3DS max to Substance Painter Learning reso…
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Froyok

Histogram looking pattern with distorder option - Substance Designer

Hi,Im trying to achieve something that looks similar to what you can see on the attached image, something like histogram looking pattern with distorder option, I need to add I'm quite new in Designer…
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poopipe

Stepped Gradient Effect

I'm looking for a way to break a gradient into a variable number of steps.The effect I'm going for is a shale like flaky rock surface.Right now I'm using a curve but that's less than elegant workflow…
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poopipe

Baking artifacts on flat surfaces

Hello guys I am experiencing some artifacts when baking. The fact is that I tried to optimize those flat areas removing unnecessary edges and making them converge into the same spot. Not always, but …
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Neox

Painter: Update/refresh all maps

I've been looking for a button where I'm able to update all maps at once (all my baked maps) so i don't have to say "refresh" and make sure that they are properly loaded in all layers.Is there a way …
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Ch4ndra

Sampler AI advice?

Could somebody share an experience please.        For example I have  Photo+depth  pair  from Reality Capture   and want  Sampler …
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gnoop

Designer to UE5 different results

Hi!So,I'm exporting some mud texture from Substance Designer to UE5 and it looks drastically different,anyone can give me a pointer why it happens?I've attached a screenshot with the color texture,ho…
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poopipe

When to self occulde AO bakes

Hi, So I've been using Substance painter and have done some bake tests in it. I've found I'm getting cleaner bakes without the shadows from meshes sitting on top by using the match by mesh name …
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gnoop

[Substance Designer][Unreal] SBAR parameters won't carry over [SOLVED]

I have parameters in Substance Designer.I import the sbar into a blank scene in the most generic way imaginable.the parameter's don't show up.The texture output is set to 4K but only imports into unr…
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Eric Chadwick

[Substance Painter] Crash upon start up

used Substance painter since 2022 worked perfectly on my rig and now Substance painter crashes and throws Bug report with out explanation here's what I tried soo far to fix it:&nb…
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T3485

[Substance Painter] Normal Map Painting

Hi! I've been looking for some answers in the content that I've watched, but I didn't exactly find something that will fix the problem I'm facing right now. I'm following miss Arilizart's proces…
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Fabi_G

Directional Bevel - and other Substance Share nodes - Where to find them?

Hey everyone, I noticed that a lot of (paid?) nodes that used to be available on old substance share and get mentioned in articles about Designer or shipped as dependencies with .sbs files are rather…
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poopipe

Does anyone know how to see dds files thumbnails in windows file explorer, adobe bridge etc.?

Files exported from Substance Designer for example?     Years ago I did see them  but totally forgot  what it was . Or at least I think I did.   Some  thu…
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gnoop

pls delete

pls delete , i have found the solution
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focus_method

Substance not able to detext vertex color

hello, I've used material manager from maya, exported as fbx and tried baking the ID map as vertex colors.However the maps turn out to be black no matter what. I've done the same exact procedure…
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wldudwpdls

[Substance Designer] Connect multiple outputs at once

Real quick, I want to know how to do something simple that most users already know how to do so this won't take long. how do I connect multiple outputs from one node to the inputs of another node. I …
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poopipe

Substance Designer Edge Detect [Issue]

i am so confused why Edge Detect makes inner circles I tried to follow different tutorials but this happens only to me
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WeakNess

Would Substance Designer automatic exports destroy SSDs?

I have not used Substance in awhile and I noticed you can automatically export each time a change is made. Is this good for the health of a solid state drives that degrade the more you write to it? E…
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ZacD

[Substance Designer] How to expose color input

Very quick question. I would like my SBAR file to allow users to modify the albedo color and the roughness value. I don't remember how to do. Thanks in advanced.
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daniellooartist

Substance designer for modeling. What's the advantage?

I'm a newbie in Substance Designer. Recently, I've been fascinated with modeling in Substance Designer. Cem Tezcan and Lee Borrer's works are two of my favorite SD creators.I'd like to know, what are…
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poopipe

Substance painter generates artefacts when baking AO map

Hi guys)Could anyone explain-what causes these damn artefacts when baking AO map in SP?They are appearing where the seams are located.I changed dialation width a few times but it did not help.What ad…
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poopipe

Issue with padding on Diffuse texture

HiI'm having a problem with a texture for a character/creature I'm working on. Somewhere along the way, I think I've screwed up the padding. I've exported out various parts of my texture from Substan…
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DustyShinigami

Bad quality after baking

Hello everyone ! I wanted to do a test of baking in using one part of my model but I don't understand, why the quality of my bake on Substance Painter is so bad... All my UV have a texel ratio of…
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poopipe

Problem with normal Baking substance

Hello, after spending hours on this i decided to come here to ask for help.I have a low poly model that i wish to bake with an Higher Poly one but I get some weird artifacts on the normal map followi…
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ocamikaze

How do you minimize connected nodes in Substance Designer

I'm following a tutorial, and this happens when he connects the node. Can anyone tell me how to do it and what its called? Thankyou. 
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Bmikes1988

How good generative Ai in Sampler ? New features in Designer/ Painter ?

Does anyone use it  really?   Any improving in photo to normal map  generation?  From what I saw in youtube videos it looks like it generates small 1x1m pieces , repeating li…
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poopipe

Edge seams material issue artifacts (normal+height map)

Hi!I'm working on some furniture, but I have found a problem with the texturing steps. As you can see in the images, when I apply the material (a stylized material bought from an artist in Artstation…
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Benjammin

Baking Issue

Hi there so i'm having this strange issue with baking. I don't know why but when i am baking my model from low to high, in painter it has it where this one part is red and i can't figure out why. I c…
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poopipe

Need material advice - Is this metal?

Hey! I was in the middle of texturing a lamp post on substance painter, my goal is to reach photorealism, so being as close as possible to my REFs is vital. My problem is that i can't really tel…
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gnoop

custom grunge map (substance painter)

HI,Someone knows how to use custom grunge map in substance painter? I mean when I import a custom grunge map in to painter, I'm not getting the same settings like default grunge maps to change balanc…
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Benjammin

Radial Sliders for Painter

Hello, I'm working on a Radial Sliders for Painter that give the artist the freedom to change the parameters for the Alpha of your brush just by pressing a shortcut and moving the mouse. The tool cur…
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c.buliarca

Strange squares on material

These  strange squares appear on the mech that follows the wire frame in substance painter, everything looks fine in blender. I have removed my bones from the model, remade the uvs, deleted and …
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poopipe

Low poly Artifacts after baking (Please reply)

I made a high poly mesh in ZBrush and decimated it. but after baking it, it leaves this weird low poly cluster.Tris: 3milLow poly is already smoothif anyone can fix it, I would appreciate it a lot!Th…
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Harshkoshiya991

Variable halo distance in distance node?

Have anyone managed to do something like that? With halo distance  variable by noise input?It's perhaps could be possible with loop node or slope blur approach with more steps  but I wo…
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gnoop

Baking Issues "the return"

Hello guys, first of all, I have search for this kind of issue in the forum but nothing seams to fit this situation, or at least, I dont find a relationship within my problem. So, if I am wrong I wou…
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beredis

Bake issue: High res is mirrored in one place?

Hello!  Not sure if this is a bug, or user error.  Bit of a noob, but I've encountered an issue I've never come accross before.  Trying to search for this issue didn't yield anythi…
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MisterNacky

Import issues from Maya

Hi all, I have a problem with Maya and Substance Painter. I need to export a file from Maya to Painter.I am a beginner and know very little about the whole workflow. I followed tutorials and my gut, …
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Chmerk

poops substance fiddling thread

Rather than clog up the sticky or bravely announce that I'm going to implement a Doom style renderer in designer (still working on it ) and then fail to deliver I thought I'd dump my stuff hereedit:&…
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poopipe

Substance Designer- Does anyone have the Get Slope node available to share?

[{"insert":"I was watching this tutorial on how to create a brick wall material in Substance Designer :"},{"attributes":{"link":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LjTONstmYz0&t=1195s"},"insert":"htt…
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gnoop

Substance Painter smart mask messed up after reimport mesh and maps

Alright guys,I am experience this issue every time I reimport the slighty changed mesh. So here the smart mask (dirt) is as it has to be:This is the same smart mask after reimport the same Mesh:Do I …
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poopipe

Calling All 3D Artists: Share Your Texture Baking Preferences!

Hi everyone! I am a 3D Art Student, currently writing my Bachelors Thesis covering the topic of Texture Baking. Currently, I am trying to find out which software is the most popular fo…
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davit3d

Brick Material WIP (How come I never did a brick material before???)

[{"insert":"Well, how is it possible that I use substance designer since years and never did a brick material? \nWhile strolling through my references of brick materials I decided to go for it.\nPlea…
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iam717

Easy way to fit bitmap and fit object with warp projection in Painter ?

I am struggling with  warp projection gizmo.  it's inconvenient as hell  and always blurry .   Does anyone know an easy way to fit  projection   like  UVMap mo…
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gnoop

Rotating View Breaks Lighting?

The face texture set of my character get's dark when I rotate the view. I already restarted Substance Painter. Here a short screen recording showing it: https://imgur.com/a/hwcP9rz
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Sidney Eliot

Wrong colors in Painter?

Does anyone know  why when I expose a color input  into sbsar  and drop that sbsar  in Painter  I see something like  extra gamma correction?  Getting milky.  …
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gnoop

Substance Painter issues ? UV seam mark

Why are the places I choose mark seam darker? I am using Blender if you know what problem it is please help me ! Thank you 
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Tahyuni

Bakeing hell

Hi all, So i am getting these weird maps when baking, and I´d like to know, if anyone knows why this usually happens?It is an ambient occ map and a defuse map btw.
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Hellgnome

Wireframe affecting shading in substance painter

I feel like this is probably a fairly common issue but I cant seem to find anything online so im probably googling poorly. Im sure the answer is probably how the triangulation is done but im not sure…
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TannedBatman

Baking Problem

Hi there !I made few rocks in maya and I decided to made one UV map for all of themHigh & Low Poly :UV Map : And, when I tried to bake it all in Substance Painter, I had weird artefact on my…
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Elliott

Sampler news?

I tried  to use  Sampler  few times through years and never found it any helpful really .   Uninstalled it to save space.   Just  read it got some new AI upscale  a…
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gnoop

non square brush dabs in SPainter ?

deformable and repeating  along  brush stroke . Does anyone know if its possible ?Like in typical vector soft?   
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gnoop

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