Basic SD template question - how do you actually apply them to a huge set of meshes?
polycounter lvl 10
Hey, I'm very new to Substance Designer, so maybe it's covered in some tutorial I might have missed, but here is my case: I have a huge number of meshes, and for each, I want to produce some bakes, push those bakes through a graph, and save it's output.
The graph in question can be really simple - for example, I made a tiny graph that combines a curvature and occlusion map into a single RGBA image (two Color Image Input nodes, one Channel Shuffle node, one Output node). I found a video tutorial on saving projects as templates and adding new directories to the SD template preferences, so now it shows up in the template list.
What I can't understand is how do you use that template efficiently. The only process obvious to me so far is this:
Am I misunderstanding how templates are supposed to be used? Have I missed a faster way to get textures with a single graph and a big set of meshes?
The graph in question can be really simple - for example, I made a tiny graph that combines a curvature and occlusion map into a single RGBA image (two Color Image Input nodes, one Channel Shuffle node, one Output node). I found a video tutorial on saving projects as templates and adding new directories to the SD template preferences, so now it shows up in the template list.
What I can't understand is how do you use that template efficiently. The only process obvious to me so far is this:
- Open New Substance dialog
- Choose your template, press OK in the dialog
- Right click your Unsaved Package in the Explorer window
- Choose Link - 3D Mesh, find a mesh in the file browser, hit OK
- Navigate to the newly created Resources folder in the Explorer window
- Select the mesh there, right click it, choose Bake Model Information
- Configure the baking outputs (curvature and occlusion in my case), press OK
- Navigate to the newly created Resources/Mesh_Resources folder in the Explorer window
- Drag the baked images from there onto the Color Image nodes of your graph
- Right click the graph in the Explorer window, choose Export outputs as bitmaps
- Configure destination/naming/format, press Save All
- Start again from Link - 3D Mesh to produce more images
Am I misunderstanding how templates are supposed to be used? Have I missed a faster way to get textures with a single graph and a big set of meshes?
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Setup each graph by hand is gonna be tedious otherwise.