Expose blending modes

Veezen · Nov 2018

Hi!

I wonder is there any good way to expose all blending modes to Substance Painter?
It seams that some of the generators have blending modes inside like for example "mask editor"

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/ha/adw0c6tb2t2c.jpg

So I made something similar using multi-switch but I'm not satisifed with this and I don't have one variable control on opacity - for each blending mode I need to create opacity variable.

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/po/ugs20hsr2zq6.jpg

Is there a better way?

poopipe · Nov 2018

Assuming it's coming from a blend node yes.

Expose the blend mode parameter as an integer 1 drop down list and the opacity as a float1 slider.

You'll need to fill the list in yourself but that's no big deal.

I'm about 90% confident it'll translate to painter correctly

LorasTyrell · Nov 2018

I'm afraid blend modes can't be exposed, this has been confirmed by the devs. The reason they provided was technical limitations. They also recommend the same approach you have taken with multiple blend nodes. I don't see why you can't share one opacity parameter between all of them though

gnoop · Nov 2020

Do anyone know a quick way of exposing blend modes in SDesigner with actual names of blend modes , not just slider with integers as I usually do . Copy paste the complete list of modes from somewhere or something ?

poopipe · Nov 2020

If you can expose it as an integer slider you can expose it as a drop down and name the entries

gnoop · Nov 2020

poopipe said:

If you can expose it as an integer slider you can expose it as a drop down and name the entries

Yeah, i know , I just wonder is there some non tedious way to do so? like copy/paste the complete list of those entries , paste and associate with blend node I am going to expose?

poopipe · Nov 2020

I'd be surprised if you couldn't script it - the in editor stuff is pretty powerful.

iivietal · Sep 2022

I got the similar issue and made a simple node to reuse this feature. Just like the default blending mode but the dropdown list is exposable.

Hope it can help if anyone need it (free for personal use of course): https://www.artstation.com/marketplace/p/bbP5y/exposable-blending-node-for-substance-designer

Expose blending modes

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