Okay, very confused...
I upgrade to Unity 2018.1.0b8. All my models are pink, and I get the error messages saying Substance designer support has been removed. Please download the plugin from the asset store.
No mention is made of what the plugin is actually called, so I can't find anything doing searches for Allegorithmic or substance designer.
So I go to the Allegorithmic site and find old links and blog posts about a substance plugin and finally find the supposed support on my download page. I download Source.unitypackage and import it. Nothing...
More digging until I find these forum posts. Wes says the plugin will be on the asset store with the release of 2018.1, so I search again and finally find the asset called "Substance in Unity". Not the most intuitive name and gets buried when doing a search for "Substance".
So I import the asset and restart. Now I have a bunch of errors about duplicates. Manually delete everything that I can find pertaining to substance and start again. Now I finally have a "Substance" tab on my menu bar, but all that's there is a link to the substance store.
More digging, and I see an obscure mention on a post that says that there is a roadmap and that not all features will be available with 2018.1 right away, but again, very buried and various contradictions.
So... What's actually going on, where are we at, and what do I do about all the pink in my project? Do I wait? Do I dump substance all together? Will I have to start over again anyway and recreate all these materials from scratch? Will it just magically fix everything once whatever it is you have to fix is finally released on the asset store? Is there an eta on this? (it was said that this would work with 2018, but I guess you just meant that I could purchase your substance assets, not use my own)
And why isn't there better clarity on your main pages about this rather than being buried in these forums? At the very least on my Allegorithmic customer download page, there should be a lot more clarity as to what I'm getting with that "Substance support for Unity" download. Having something there AND on the asset store with no real descriptions really isn't helping things.
I get that things will break, especially with beta builds, and progress takes time, but in this day and age of instant web page updates, blogs, forums, etc, bad/unclear communication is another thing entirely. Clear communication and proper management of customer expectations is as important, of not more so, than fixing the bugs.
Bottom line: How/when do I get my textures working again?