On Demand Material Remapping

[SFXPZ]

Hello there,

I'm new to Substance and I'm using Substance Materials inside Unity.
One small issue I have is this:

I assign substance materials in 3ds max and when I import the fbx into Unity, I would like to re-assign the materials with the "on demand" function inside Unity.



Inside the fbx-mesh I gave the material the same name, but unity can't find them when I try to re-assign them. I found out that inside the substance archive (.sbar), the material name gets a "mat." prefix. So I did the same in 3ds max, hoping Unity would have less problems finding the materials. No success. Is this because they are inside the .sbar-archive or do you have a hint on how to make this work?

Thank you

[SFXPZ]

Is there really no one who needs to replace materials?

[-kg-]

Hello there,

I'm new to Substance and I'm using Substance Materials inside Unity.
One small issue I have is this:

I assign substance materials in 3ds max and when I import the fbx into Unity, I would like to re-assign the materials with the "on demand" function inside Unity.



Inside the fbx-mesh I gave the material the same name, but unity can't find them when I try to re-assign them. I found out that inside the substance archive (.sbar), the material name gets a "mat." prefix. So I did the same in 3ds max, hoping Unity would have less problems finding the materials. No success. Is this because they are inside the .sbar-archive or do you have a hint on how to make this work?

Thank you

Hey @SFXPZ ,

At the moment, unfortunately this will not work. Fbx needs to understand how to translate the scene into its own format. Fbx does not know what a Substance node is in the scene, and so it normally skips over it. So it goes:
3ds Max <-> Fbx <-> Fbx <-> Unity
So we would need to do more than just on the 3ds Max and Unity plugin side to make that work.

[SFXPZ]

Hey @keston

Thanks for your reply. Makes sense. I guess there's just no workaround right now. Thanks again.

[Christian Dolby 0]

Considering this is still a problem, the solution is quite straight forward so I thought would post. Open the substance material stack and click on the first entry (the material). Ctrl-D to duplicate. This creates a duplicate material with the same name that sits outside the stack, on demand can see this and will work as expected.