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1. Hybrid workflow for Designer – anyone tried this?

   

   

   Topic by ManojS · Sep 2025 · Home› Adobe Substance

   Hey everyone, I’ve been experimenting with creating a diamond PBR material with prongs. I managed to build a decent version in Substance Painter, but as expected it only really works at the baked scale. In Designer, I know the procedural approach is the “proper” way for infinite scalability, but I was wondering about…

2. Re: Hybrid workflow for Designer – anyone tried this?

   

   Reply by poopipe · Sep 2025 · Home› Adobe Substance

   this but... in this case, generating that shape by combining shapes in designer is relatively simple and it can easily be shoved into painter with exposed parameters. soo.... if you need a lot of different tiling gemstones for your project it might be worth putting the extra effort in at the beginning

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   Reply by Eric Chadwick · Sep 2025 · Home› Adobe Substance

   For most materials, this makes sense. But gemstones are better done as pure geometry, since refraction and dispersion are essential. Why would you want to make a flat gemstone material?

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   Reply by gnoop · Sep 2025 · Home› Adobe Substance

   What you described is imo just most common way to work there. Nobody wastes time just for sake of potential scalability you may never need. If it's not a portfolio sport my guess.