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Substance Integrations - Unity - Re: Broken generation and awfull performances

 on: May 22, 2021, 05:32:28 pm 

Failed to extract Substance.Editor.InspectorSubstanceImporter class of base type UnityEditor.Experimental.AssetImporters.ScriptedImporterEditor when inspecting Assets/Allegorithmic/Plugins/Substance/Substance Engine/Editor/Substance.Editor.dll
UnityEditor.AssemblyHelper:ExtractAllClassesThatAreUserExtendedScripts (string,string[]&,string[]&,string[]&)

Failed to extract Substance.Editor.SubstanceImporter class of base type UnityEditor.Experimental.AssetImporters.ScriptedImporter when inspecting Assets/Allegorithmic/Plugins/Substance/Substance Engine/Editor/Substance.Editor.dll
UnityEditor.AssemblyHelper:ExtractAllClassesThatAreUserExtendedScripts (string,string[]&,string[]&,string[]&)

Also related to this: assets like Microsplat won't work until the Substance namespace is functional again under 2020.3.8f1 LTS. Please fix your stuff.

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Substance - News & Announcements - Re: Allegorithmic is joining the Adobe family

 on: January 23, 2019, 08:38:37 pm 

Wes, as a community leader, proven to have a level head on your shoulders, can we please hear your unedited opinion, unadorned with sugary toppings?

Aren't we expecting a little too much of an employee who needs a salary to feed his family? It's not Wes' turn to speak about this decision as he probably had no stake in it.
These are top level decisions - so the CTO/CEOs are the ones to address this question to.

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Substance - News & Announcements - Re: Allegorithmic is joining the Adobe family

 on: January 23, 2019, 08:21:30 pm 

Cannot express my frustration about this move. Hopefully Adobe won't meddle with your development or subscription system in any harmful way. I wish you the very best outcome - a lot of negative vibes currently coming your way. Be strong.

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Substance Designer - Discussions - How to break resolution dependency of the graph

 on: March 04, 2018, 12:48:59 pm 

Hi there,

I 've developed a habit to work with 512x512 graph resolution to get results fast.
What I regularly find difficult though is to scale the resolution up to 2k x 2k when I'm nearly done with the graph.
Usually the results look a lot different (especially with small scale features like pebbles, cracks and pores) with the new resolution.
How do you go about breaking this resolution dependency? Slope blur, noises, warps... they all act differently on different resolutions and need their attributes adjusted to accomodate for when there are more (or less) pixels.
Any advice? Do you create custom nodes that scale attributes based on the output resolution? Or do you simply not use the lower resolutions to develop your graph?

Thanks.

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Substance Integrations - Unity - Re: An Update on Substance support in Unity 2018.1

 on: March 03, 2018, 09:12:22 pm 

You are doing a great job where Unity is not. Don't rush. Take your time.
We had to live without SBS6-support for so long now that it shouldn't matter if it takes you a few weeks longer to get this thing out.

IMHO it is Unity who is to blame - they added Substance support as an engine feature and did some heavy marketing on this stuff as well. Now they are simply breaking their promises. And doing so in silence like some shady thieves.

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Substance Integrations - Unity - Re: Unity and alpha/transparency problem

 on: December 21, 2017, 05:30:39 pm 

Transparency in games or realtime render engines for that matter is a difficult thing to implement.
Basically your material is using a shader that looks at what pixels have already been drawn and blends the pixels of your transparent material with what is already there.
However these shaders usually don't write to the z-buffer - they don't prime the pixels of your transparent mesh for proper z-sorting. That is why some parts of your transparent mesh stick through and get overlaid by itself.
Often engines simply decide what transparent mesh to draw first based on its position to the camera - which is happening way before any pixel shader has run and z-writes may have occured.
So it is best to separate meshes into parts that can be drawn fully opaque (non-transparent) and transparent to minimize these artifacts.

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Substance Integrations - Unity - Re: Unity 2018.1 Support

 on: December 19, 2017, 10:48:36 pm 

Wow, finally something is moving regarding the Unity implementation - thx for your efforts, Allegorithmic!
Will the plugin be free for us SD users?
Furthermore, there are already asset store plugins out there that can read substances (ProceduralTexture is the name of the Unity class if I remember correctly) and output combined maps (RTP terrain shader, Vertex Tools Pro) - will they need to change their codebase in order to utilize the plugin? I ask because this usually delays stuff further.

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Substance Integrations - Unity - Re: Flood Fill node is not compatible with Unity.

 on: December 19, 2017, 10:43:34 pm 

Saw that topic: https://forum.allegorithmic.com/index.php?topic=20952.0
Then saw this one here. Now I am sad.

Any chance to see this implemented in Unity within the next few weeks?
I know I know, they are slow.

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Substance - Purchases & Licenses - Re: Bought Substance Painter 2018 on Steam and received Substance Painter 2017?

 on: November 27, 2017, 12:48:56 pm 

This is confusing as hell. Why the difference in maintenance durations?
Buying on Steam January 30, 2018 should give you updates till January 30, 2019 - on Steam.
Why is it necessary to download the standalone licence to get the proper maintenance duration?

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Substance - Purchases & Licenses - Re: Syncronizing Steam license

 on: November 27, 2017, 12:44:31 pm 

I am interested in this as well.
Are you going to update Substance Painter and Designer Indie licences on Steam, too?
Say: if I upgraded my licences here on your website, will I get a patch for my Steam versions? Or will you simply hand out new Steam keys?

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Substance Designer - Technical Support - Re: SafeTransform node does not tile when Transform2D involved

 on: June 21, 2017, 01:13:48 pm 

Oh boy, it didn't occur to me that the tiling was also relative to the parents. Thx, that solves the problem. So no bug, sorry for that.

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Substance Designer - Technical Support - [SOLVED] SafeTransform node does not tile when Transform2D involved

 on: June 21, 2017, 10:54:26 am 

I've already submitted a bug report regarding this issue from within Substance Designer. Since the submit button behaves strange I do not know if it ever reached you.
So here it is as a forums post and illustrated by this gif:


As you can see the Safe Transform node does not correctly tile the image when it went through a Transform2D node before that was set to Absolute: No Tiling.

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Substance Designer - Technical Support - Re: Bug Report Window, Submit Button strange?

 on: June 16, 2017, 10:44:08 am 

Substance Designer 6.0.3 Indie here:
After pressing the Submit button it changes to "sending" state.
After that a cryptic string populates the button ending on the word "click!" in parenthesis.
I do not know if the two bugs I just submitted have reached your server. No confirmation mail either.

Exactly what I reported few days ago but didn't get any attention or reply. Frustrating when you want to actually take your time to write a bug report and cannot be sure if all the hassle was worth it.

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Substance - News & Announcements - Re: How to report bugs?

 on: June 13, 2017, 11:03:48 pm 

Substance Designer 6.0.3 Indie here:
After pressing the Submit button it changes to "sending" state.
After that a cryptic string populates the button ending on the word "click!" in parenthesis.
I do not know if the two bugs I just submitted have reached your server. No confirmation mail either.

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Substance Integrations - Unity - Re: Substance Designer 6 Sbars not working with Unity

 on: April 22, 2017, 08:16:02 pm 

I'd like to know, too.
When will we see the SD6 engine integration in Unity 5.6?
I fear that UT might stop supporting that release alltogether concering Substance Designer and postpone any upgrades to Unity 2017. Let's hope for the best.