Hello!
Houdini Artist here--relatively new to substance designer--LOVING it so far!
My question is about frame based exporting. I know that subtance player is the tool that is utilized to generate multiple textures from a graph-great way to create some procedural variations very quickly.
My question though is--can a graph itself be sourcing bitmap file sequences--such that when the graph is fed into substance player to generate texture sets per frame basis- it can pull the mattes that have a corresponding $F token?
For example:
I have a series of leaf venation displacement maps. They were built using simulations in houdini.
Ex:
leaf_venation_matte.01.tiff
leaf_venation_matte.02.tiff
leaf_venation_matte.03.tiff
leaf_venation_matte.04.tiff
These maps are being imported into substance designer as bitmaps, and are a critical part of our node network we have been building within designer to get the final result.
Currently we are using one batch of 3 files to help push the texturing process.
at the moment we have:
leaf_venation_height.01.tiff
leaf_voronoi_matte.01.tiff
leaf_venation_matte.01.tiff
these three mattes are a critical part of the template, and are themselves are just one set in a much larger group of matte sets (300 or so altogether).
ideally we would like to get a finished graph template, and then use substance player to kick out a series of textures using in sequence
leaf_venation_height.02.tiff
leaf_voronoi_matte.02.tiff
leaf_venation_matte.02.tiff
leaf_venation_height.03.tiff
leaf_voronoi_matte.03.tiff
leaf_venation_matte.03.tiff
etc etc etc
until all 300 are exported
Is it possible to have substance designer know that it is reading sequence information at the beginning of the graphs in a situation like this? --apologies if my syntax is poor here, just getting to know the program.
Thank you in advance for your help!
just to reiterate--
maps are input as masks into a substance designer graph
leaf_venation.01.tiff for example-- drives things on frame01, while
leaf_venation.02.tiff (ideally) will drive the next group of outputs on frame02
when it comes to output everything
Thanks again!