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Substance Integrations - UE4 - Linking parameters between different graph instances?

 on: August 21, 2016, 08:56:30 pm 

Hi. I'm looking for a way to link parameters between different graph instances so I can change those parameters across all of the instances instead of setting each value manually. I'm using a .sbsar with material switches and changing the material switch number for each of the model's materials (one graph instance per material).

If it was a UE4 material I would use parameter collections (https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/Engine/Rendering/Materials/ParameterCollections/) but since it's a .sbsar I have no idea how to accomplish this. Is there a way to do this? Or a better method to do the same thing? (uber .sbsar material with shared parameters)

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Substance Integrations - UE4 - Re: Substance Plugin 4.12 ETA

 on: June 07, 2016, 08:55:39 pm 

Nice, thanks.

Hope you had a good vacation!

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Substance Integrations - UE4 - Re: Substance Plugin 4.12 ETA

 on: June 04, 2016, 06:38:11 pm 

Any update?

Even if it takes a while for the marketplace version I wouldn't mind a github 4.12 update.

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Substance Integrations - UE4 - Re: 4K support ?

 on: May 11, 2016, 01:08:03 pm 

Wasn't 4k support for UE4 (GPU engine) already added to the 4.11 Substance Engine?

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Substance Painter - Discussions - Re: Scaling, Aligning & UV Rotate Generators

 on: April 24, 2016, 06:32:58 pm 

You state "substance" yes I know how to do this process to substances.

I strictly said my issue was with Generators.

If I use a generator on a fill the UV tools are there but have no effect

The stencil approach doesn't apply because its a generator

Sorry likely something I am not understanding

Instead of adding it as a generator you can add it as a material (drag from explorer to material tab) and then drag out the iris generator to the layers panel and you will get a fill layer with the iris generator set as a material. Then you should be able to use the UV settings.
(edit: it also says "material" in substance share.  )

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Substance Painter - Discussions - Re: Generator Question

 on: April 24, 2016, 06:15:10 pm 

Normally you wouldn't really paint this on a model but just drop it in a mesh that has proper UVs. The iris generator creates a flat texture so to get a good result you would do a planar projection from the front ortographic view on your mesh (projection from view), you can do that in Blender. To scale the whole eye you can scale the UVs.

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Substance Integrations - UE4 - Re: SP2 Exported Textures Washed Out

 on: April 17, 2016, 01:07:59 pm 

UE4 doesn't support 16 bit sRGB textures. You can either export a 8 bit sRGB texture or a 16 bit linear texture (if that actually is a thing). Or just export a 16 bit sRGB texture and fix it in the material: https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/378768/substance-p-srgb-problems.html

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Substance Integrations - UE4 - Re: 4.11 Github ETA?

 on: April 12, 2016, 09:57:30 pm 

Thanks! I'm getting a crash when launching UE4 4.11.1 with it installed though.  (through marketplace)

Fatal error: [File:D:\BuildFarm\buildmachine_++Portal+Main\RocketSync\HostProject\Plugins\Substance\Source\SubstanceCore\Private\SubstanceCoreModule.cpp] [Line: 90]
Unable to load Substance Library.

I accidently installed this UE build to C:\Program Files (x86)\Epic Games\4.11 instead of the normal 64 bit path (C:\Program Files\Epic Games\4.11 or something), could this have something to do with it?

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Substance Painter - Discussions - Re: Houdini plugin in the wild

 on: March 25, 2016, 05:59:17 pm 

Whoa! Nice timing, just started using Houdini. Thanks!

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Substance Painter - Discussions - Re: Any good tutorials for UVing humanoids for substance?

 on: March 09, 2016, 10:29:23 pm 

You can mirror the UVs if the model is symmetrical, then you can save UV space and get more detail that way.

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Substance Designer - Technical Support - Re: Problem understanding a color-behavior in FX-Map/Quadrant

 on: February 21, 2016, 06:20:22 pm 

If you click in the FX map (outside of the quadrant) you will see a bunch of options, if you set the Roughness from 1 to 0 they will all turn white again. I don't know if this is what you want though.

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Substance Painter - Technical Support - Re: Stencil mask not working.

 on: February 03, 2016, 10:55:30 pm 

I took a look at your file and it seems that you're not using pure black, when I picked the color it showed RGB 19,19,19. Try filling it with 0,0,0 and it should hopefully work.

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Substance Painter - Discussions - Re: UV order

 on: February 02, 2016, 08:08:52 pm 

If you're still having issues and need to swap the UV maps you can follow the instructions here: http://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/5348/how-to-change-uvmap-index
(paste the code in the text editor and click run script)

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Substance Painter - Technical Support - Please add a warning when importing a mesh with multiple UVs

 on: January 05, 2016, 12:09:10 am 

Or you'll get people like me wondering why their graphic driver randomly dies when starting a project. I thought the model had too many polys first (80k tris is a lot right) but after changing TDR values I still had issues when rotating in the viewport/mousing over the UV layout. Maybe I should've suspected something was wrong when the UVs were basically a square but I thought that was because of the lag.

I made a lowpoly model to test and noticed that I was getting ridiculous slowdowns in the UV (2d) panel so I looked around and found out that you're only supposed to use one UV layer. That makes sense now but I had the impression that you needed a UV layer for each material...

After removing all but one of the UV layers I was able to paint just fine even on the higher poly model. So, please, add a warning when importing a mesh with multiple UVs. Save the noobs!