Automating material export

[skg]

Can the following sequence of steps be automated via scripting in Substance painter?
1) Create project from template with OBJ + Input Maps
2) Assign smart material to mesh
3) Update all maps through "Resource Updater"
4) Export with premade export settings

Any help with scripting capabilities would be much appreciated.

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Regards

[bsilvaLS]

Hello! (Links below are relative to your install directory)

1. Yes, this can be done. [.../resources/javascript-doc/alg.project.html#.create__anchor]

2. You can get information about smart materials in your layers, but I don't think it's possible to edit them... can someone from Allegorithmic verify this? This is all I'm aware of: [.../resources/javascript-doc/alg.texturesets.html#.structure__anchor]

3. This is possible, though maybe not easily. There is an update method in the API, but I'm suspecting you'd want something more automatic: [.../resources/javascript-doc/alg.resources.html#.updateDocumentResources__anchor]. The good news is, the source code for the entire Resource Updater plug-in is fully available under your plug-ins folder, so you could tweak it or pull things out of it to roll your own.

4. Yes, this is supported. [.../resources/javascript-doc/alg.mapexport.html#.exportDocumentMaps__anchor]

Cheers,

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[skg]

Hi bsilvaLS,
Thank you for your helpful and quick response. Do you know if all the 4 steps can be sequenced and fully automated without requiring any manual input after each step? We would like to write a script that runs all 4 steps one after another and produces the final results at the end of the last step.
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Regards
skg

[Froyok]

Can the following sequence of steps be automated via scripting in Substance painter?
1) Create project from template with OBJ + Input Maps
2) Assign smart material to mesh
3) Update all maps through "Resource Updater"
4) Export with premade export settings

Step 1, 3 and 4 are possible, but step 2 isn't with the current API.

[bsilvaLS]

I haven't done it before, but I believe you could sequence 1, 3, and 4 without any manual input. But as Fabrice verified, step #2 isn't possible.

[bsilvaLS]

One other consideration -- you could have your plug-in run steps 1, 3, 4 in response to a toolbar button, or when the application starts (through a callback in your plug-in).

But I'd also like to know -- is it possible to run Substance Painter in batch mode, i.e. without raising the UI?

[Froyok]

But I'd also like to know -- is it possible to run Substance Painter in batch mode, i.e. without raising the UI?

No, we don't have a batch mode.

[skg]

Thank you Fabrice and bsilvaLS for the help. We will give this a shot.