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Substance Integrations - Houdini - Substance and PDG

 on: June 20, 2019, 09:12:10 am 

Hi,
While looking for a way to have multiple variations of a Designer material inside Houdini, I found PDGs. It looks like a good alternative to the lack of keyframing support for Substance materials in Houdini. When I create a Wedge TOP node to add variations it all works good, I can even see the variations in the viewport licking in the Wedge dots. But then I use ROP Fetch to render and the images came out without the Substance material at all. Both with OpenGL node and Mantra node. However if I render directly from those ROP nodes (not through the TOP/PDG network) it works properly.

It looks that PDGs is not passing the material at render time or something like that. I get this issue in Linux but not in Windows.

Thanks

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Substance Integrations - Houdini - Re: Houdini 17 + animated textures issues

 on: June 19, 2019, 09:49:05 pm 

You can give PDG a try. I created a wedge node, then a rop and it worked very good as an alternative of keyframing parameters.

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Substance Designer - Technical Support - Preferred workflow for multiple variations from multiple points of views

 on: June 08, 2019, 08:02:53 am 

Hi,
I'd like to ask the opinion of staff and users regarding the best workflow for this task. I need multiple viewport renders from different points of views (animated .fbx camera) while the material's parameters change every x frames.

I tried first to use Houdini (my main tool) but first, I cannot seem to animate the substance exposed parameters, and second it is too slow.

Now I am looking into using the Automation Toolkit, but I am not sure there is a way to set viewport point of views from .fbx camera.

Should I try Unity? Does Substance allow parameter key-framing there?

Thanks!

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Substance Integrations - Houdini - Re: Opacity not working in Mantra

 on: June 06, 2019, 06:30:20 am 

I change to SubstanceToMantra_Experimental.cfg and it's working properly.

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Substance Integrations - Houdini - Opacity not working in Mantra

 on: June 06, 2019, 06:10:31 am 

Hi,
The output opacity from Designer works well in my Houdin viewport, but it doesn't work rendering with Mantra. It appears there is no connection to opacity in the SubstanceToPrincipled.cfg so I added this:
      "opacity": {
        "opaccolor_texture": "%map%",
        "opaccolor_useTexture": "1",
      }

But still no luck. I am on Ubuntu, Houdini 17.5 and latest version of Designer.
Thanks!

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Substance Integrations - Houdini - Houdini 17.5 plugin in Ubuntu 18.04

 on: May 24, 2019, 06:56:15 am 

Hi,
The installer script doesn't work for me. I also tried to copy the files into the /opt/hfs17.5/dsolib folder with no luck either. Can you help with where to put the files?

Thanks!

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Substance Integrations - Houdini - Settings for high quality in viewport

 on: May 20, 2019, 10:41:18 pm 

Hi,
How can I tweak the viewport settings to get the maximum quality when using a Substance shop material? I tried a few settings in the Display Options but I get always the same 'preview' resolution.

Thanks!