Substance Designer 4.4 Now Available

Hello,

Allegorithmic has released Substance Designer 4.4 with Photoshop PSD export! Tech artists can now create PSD Networks from Substance graphs directly in Substance Designer. There is support for layers, layer groups, blending modes and opacity. Any node can be created as or added to a layer and the exported PSD file is fully editable in Photoshop. This allows tech artists to create complex graphs and export artist friendly PSD files.

In addition, Substance Designer now ships with a Physically Based material library with 50 materials from http://Gametextures.com.

 

Hey Wes,

thank you for releasing a new video explanation for each new feature and interation of your programs. This is really helpful and very often (at least for me) the first go-to even before I read any documentation.

Very much appreaciated and I really like your way of explaining.

So - thanks. Please keep it up

 

Thank You very much I'll do my best.

Cheers,

Wes

 

+1

 

Hi, can someone tell me how it performs on mobile?

 

Substance materials are mobile friendly and there are settings for using a texture cache which speeds up generation on mobile.

Cheers,

Wes

 

Hey Wes,
Is there an explanation about how the PBR to diffuse/specular node works? I seem to get pretty unsatisfactory results with it and so far.

 

Hi,

We don't have any specific documentation. The node converts to metal map to specular/diffuse. There could be some issues with the conversion as it can be tough to get it correctly. Can you post the results you are getting?

Cheers,

Wes

 

Sure - this is how it looks by default. I was especially wondering why the diffuse chanel went black after the conversion.
For the Unity standard shaders the only conversion that is actually needed seems to be the glossiness (as alpha). It seems to work okay but for Unity usage I ended up setting up a few nodes of my own

It's not a big deal actually - I was just wondering whether there are a few things to know on how to use this. Certain nodes sometimes don't seem to do what they are supposed to unless you know how they are inteded to be used. So I was just wondering if there's something to this one as well.

 

Hi,

It looks like the PBR shader was not switched to Spec/Gloss. We have two PRB shaders: Physically Based and Physically Based Spec Gloss. Did you switch the shader on the materials?

Cheers,

Wes

 

Damn - you are right! Thank you. I actually did have it set up wrong.
Somehow I was thinking that this would convert to current gen blinn/phong diffuse/specular/glossiness. My bad. So I was right about setting it up manually but wrong in what the node actually does.