Adobe Substance

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Substance User Group @ GDC15 Hi all! [b]We will be hosting our annual GDC User Group on Tuesday March 3rd at the Burger Bar, on Union Square, from 7:00pm to 9:30pm.[/b] The team will be there to showcase the latest releases, …	2 Last	csprance Feb 2015
Painter - Straight lines? I was wondering if there is a way to make a straight line in painter since im doing alot hardsurfaces. but keep having to go to photoshop to make a straight lines. preferably a hotkey not a brush :)	6 Last	MeshMagnet Feb 2015
Basics of basics: what are the advantages of procedural texturing, simply put? Hey all, I got SD a bit too early in my learning process and put it aside for some time now. With 5.0 being released I figured it is time for me to start learning the ropes. Thing is... I had a lot…	8 Last	Mant1k0re Feb 2015
Workflow for multi UVd objects to one? Need some guidance and assistance. I created a 9 sub-tool mesh in Zbrush that I exported each sub-tool and UVd individually in 3D-Coat. I produced my maps and then to found out in SP I can only bri…	3 Last	hexflow Feb 2015
Following a tutorial and having issues Following a tutorial and having a couple of problems, Here is a traffic cone after importing it into Unity 4 [img]http://i.imgur.com/jsfRVmx.png[/img] 1) It suggests that the top has incorrect UVs…	4 Last	Froyok Feb 2015
File corrupted - need help! Hello guys, "Substance painter" I was painting happily yesterday saved my file. and opend it this morning and got this nasty error message that ive been trying to fix without succes. [IMG]http://i…	7 Last	Froyok Feb 2015
[Help] Trieing to create a color Jitter Brusheffect for Painter I wanted to get a HSL-Jitter similiar to what Photoshop offers for brushes by creating a custom substance to use in my tools basecolor/albedo slot sadly that didn't work out too well because substan…	3 Last	AshuraDX Feb 2015
Displaying Input Node Labels? Hi, I've made a function which takes various image input nodes, however how do I display the labels for these inputs so I know which is which? [img]http://i.imgur.com/5pIAvRA.jpg[/img] It would be…	1 Last	Alex Sawczuk Feb 2015
Free substance painter tutorial on Digital Tutors Looks like it's on offer today (Friday, Feb 20) only, if you wanna grab it - [url]http://www.digitaltutors.com/promotion/character-texturing-substance-painter[/URL]	0 Last	root Feb 2015
Substance Designer 5 announcement and pre-order! [size=+2][b]That's it, Substance Designer 5 is right around the corner![/b][/size] [url=https://www.allegorithmic.com/products/substance-designer][img]http://i.imgur.com/POU4hZH.png[/img][/url] New…	21 Last	Michael Knubben Feb 2015
SD Texturing Door Hi All, I'm trying to apply a texture to a simple Door that I've unwrapped in Substance Designer. If I use Material Blend, I obtain a wrong result as stated in the Picture attached. How can I apply…	5 Last	instg8r Feb 2015
Substance Painter - general (noob) questions I just discovered this software and decided to give the trial version a try. Right off the bat it seems I'm doing something wrong. I tried using a sample project that came with the software and i w…	1 Last	Froyok Feb 2015
Painter - Designer baked position map orientation I'm finding that if I bake a position map (all axis) in Designer and pop that into painter, an effect like ground dirt reads the "bottom" as -X to X instead of -Y to Y. I've worked around it by pre-…	2 Last	JackDCaron Feb 2015
My comment box is clear and not working in Substance Designer. I got a quick question. I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong. I'm following along on this SD tutorial. I'm at this part where he adds a comment and basically parents a bunch of nodes to that c…	1 Last	MeshMagnet Feb 2015
Painter; Not painting on certain faces I'm using Substance Painter, and for some reason, on this current model, I cannot paint over specific polygon faces. Initially entire sides of the model could not be painted on, but I found out this …	5 Last	Zack Maxwell Feb 2015
Substance Designer to Marmoset & SRGB? Hi, I am currently using Substance Designer to create textures and come across a few issues... I understand that realistically, Roughness should be linear space and therefore Not SRGB whilst …	10 Last	Dave Jr Feb 2015
How do I make glass in Substance Painter? I'm kind of at a loss as to how to approach a transparent object in SP. Is there a checkbox I need to tick to allow transparency? Do I need to have an alpha channel assigned to one of my maps?	2 Last	websta Feb 2015
Substance Painter constrain brush Apologies if this has already been answered somewhere already.. Is it currently not possible to constrain a brush stroke in Substance painter horizontally or vertically by for example holding shift …	3 Last	MDiamond Feb 2015
Regarding Substance Atlantis - How does it work? [URL]http://www.allegorithmic.com/demo/atlantis[/URL] Here, Allegorithmic claims that the UE4 plugin reduces the overall texture file size by 97%. I was wondering [I]how [/I]that worked. Hopefully t…	2 Last	Froyok Feb 2015
Would this be possible with Substance Designer? I'm at a loss as to what the plugin is called. I'm pretty sure it was for Maya. Basically you could plugin a regular normal map and an object space normal map and then the plugin would fake chamfer…	5 Last	MeshMagnet Feb 2015
Substance designer baking artefacts Hi everyone. Been experimenting with designer baking options. Have some artefacts on a normal map. They are on the boundaries of UV islansd as I understand. Using SD 4.4.0 Just cant figure out how to…	1 Last	Jerc Feb 2015
ArvinMoses Giving Away Substance Freebies! Hi guys, This is a crosspost from the 3D critique thread but wanted to make sure you guys got the freebies. I've been working in Substance for the past year and wanted to give away some nodes. …	14 Last	arvinmoses Feb 2015
SD - Custom Shortcuts & Maximize Graph Two questions: 1. Is there a way to customize the shortcut keys? 2. Is there any way to maximize the graph space? I'm still new to Substance Designer. I've searched through the manual several t…	2 Last	cartermrobbinson Feb 2015
How u make dem subz? Hands-on mini-tuts for making Substances These threads have always been popular with the hard surface + texturing themes but I reckon it would also work really well with substance designer/painter. So either post what your looking to make …	9 Last	luthyn Feb 2015
The Comprehensive PBR Guide Hi fellow Polycounters! Happy new year from the Allegorithmic team! [url=http://www.allegorithmic.com/pbr-guide][img]https://fbexternal-a.akamaihd.net/safe_image.php?d=AQCjCesd8rfh68nv&bust=1&w=484&…	9 Last	luthyn Feb 2015
Only Albedo shows up in 3D view of Substance Designer Hey so I was following the tuts on Allegorithmics website and I have set up the material but its only the Albedo that is displaying in the 3D view :/ I have set the material to physically based and …	11 Last	NicolasW Jan 2015
Node Size Hi everyone, I have made some custom material nodes that are 2048 and when I bring them into another node that is 1024 they do not scale down. I have set them to parent and tried to transform them. …	2 Last	Kessler Jan 2015
Substance Designer Textures in Cryengine hi @ all, i'm have a hard time to get my SD Textures "PBS workflow" into Cryengine, the textures are looking fine in SD but when importing them into cryengine everything becomes so glossy ??? The st…	11 Last	David1983 Jan 2015
Matching roughness between UE4 and SD/SP Hello guys, Posting this here as well, as the allegorithmic forum seems slightly slower than the PC community. I hope it doesn't bother anyone. As I am new in both UE4 and the allegorithmic softwar…	15 Last	dzibarik Jan 2015
SP, How to fade the Height Channel of a layer, Hello, It's possible to fade the Height channel of a layer ? Nothing append when I change the fusion mode of a layer or the alpha value to the Height. All the layers Heigh adds, when I do a replace…	4 Last	walter Jan 2015
Seams in tiling textures I've been trying to work on some tiling textures using Substance. I was under the impression the various pattern generators, like the grunge presets, were supposed to tile automatically. However, w…	8 Last	bugo Jan 2015
Autosave feature? I was wondering if SP has an autosave feature? If not, it'd be nice to have one that lets you customize where it autosaves, how many backups and how often.	2 Last	MeshMagnet Jan 2015
Getting a proper Curvature Map from XNormal? I was wondering what are the best options to use in XNormal for a proper Curvature map in Substance Painter? I've gone through the different options, but it seems like it's more of a miss than findi…	2 Last	MeshMagnet Jan 2015
Where is the ID Substance Effect option? I'm watching this tutorial and when he adds a substance effect to a layer, there's an option for ID selection. I'm not seeing that option; was it removed? [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature…	4 Last	MeshMagnet Jan 2015
Is it +Y or -Y for normal maps? So what is the default normal map setting for Substance Painter? -Y or +Y?	3 Last	Froyok Jan 2015
Some freee stuff coming... Hey, check this thread => [URL="https://forums.unrealengine.com/showthread.php?56478-The-Monolith&highlight=houdini"]https://forums.unrealengine.com/showthread.php?56478-The-Monolith&highlight=houdin…	0 Last	[Deleted User] Jan 2015
Bispoke outputs / Customisation's - Unity Just wanted to get a bit of information about what kind of, if any, bispoke custom, outputs or shaders can be added into substance / unity pipeline. The example that comes to mind is painted car sur…	5 Last	StormyBA Jan 2015
Render only smooth intersections This has been making a bit of a splash w/ Tor Frick's excellent results in the latest version of Modo and it'd be great to be able to do in a Substance Suite baker. Process is well described here: …	2 Last	kary Jan 2015
Quixel trade for substance painter I dont know if im allowed to do this and i dont know how many keys you get when you buy Substance Painter but i was thinking if anyone was interested and had a key of substance painter (if possible) …	0 Last	Mike123 Jan 2015
Emissive problem in Substance Painter So, I'm working on my project and have it almost complete. I add an emissive channel and make a new layer, when I go to activate the emissive in the material section it does not open up a color selec…	0 Last	Bmikes1988 Jan 2015
Substance Designer and cloth/fabric So I wanted to try to make some patterned fabric in Substance Designer but am having a tough time with making a convincing looking "cotton/canvas" material. I was doing some reading on the forum her…	2 Last	Cthogua Jan 2015
Baking Problems This might be a general baking problem but I'm specifically using Substance Designer to bake and I'm getting these empty areas on my normal map. Any idea why? I'm using a cage and the high poly was o…	13 Last	convolution223 Jan 2015
SVGs not showing up in Designer. I created a simple SVG so I can use it as a mask. When I link the SVG in designer and drag it into a graph, it doesn't show any of the paths I've created: [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/uz0ZZEc.png[/IMG] …	4 Last	bengti13 Jan 2015
SOLVED \| Really low quality when publishing a substance I have a substance that I'd like topublish the view in Marmoset. The substance has a few bitmaps that were baked for use with damage generators, etc etc. I've messed with the bitmap compression setti…	4 Last	james swanson Jan 2015
Switching between Substance Designer and Painter Workflow? Hey guys, I was experimenting with Substance designer and painter and was wondering if there was an easy way to move between the two programs or what is the least destructive way to iterate between …	2 Last	Froyok Jan 2015
Creating own substnace effects... Hi Can anyone tell me if there is any good tutorial out there on how to build own substnace effects like rust efffects, dirt...	4 Last	polypixel3d Jan 2015
Some simple Substance Painter layer effects Linked below, a pack of useful lil substance painter layer effects graphs i've been putting together. These are all made very simply, in some cases literally just configuring Allegorithmic's stock n…	6 Last	M-Cubed Jan 2015
Can't connect node from AO output to invert grayscale? Probably just a stupid mistake on my part, but I can't seem to connect the output of an AO node to the input of an invert grayscale node. It just simply won't allow me to do it. Surely AO outputs as …	3 Last	james swanson Dec 2014
Wrong material within package assigned to object in Marmoset I have a package that contains 5 base materials and 1 master material. The master material is applied to the object and outputs at 2k. The base materials are at 256x256, and are tiled within the mast…	2 Last	james swanson Dec 2014
Substance Painter for Character/Creature artist. Hello everyone! First of all I'd like to say, that you're making a great effort with all Substance tutorials over the internet, glad to see that you also have your own sub-forum here on Polycount. …	3 Last	Jerc Dec 2014