It would be great to have the option to load image (udim) sequence into Substance Designer and be able to export a bitmap sequence from one Output node.

For those who sometimes like to use Substance Designer as an image editor rather than just a material maker.

I would happily give up on nuke or other compositing programs If I could apply all the fantastic functions in Substance Designer onto my texture image sequence at once.

Currently when I import bitmap into my graph, the resizing happens with two options for stretching. Smooth stretch and Nearest stretch. If there is a way to preserve the image size but then fill rest of the pixels with a choice of gray scale values, it would help preserve the pixel proportions for non square image size input.

Blender nodes are quite convenient imo with wacom pen

.Shift+stroke across several links makes reroute dot node.

M to bypass node

Nodes being auto connecting

But main thing I miss in SD is an ability to quickly drop a link with just a stroke accorss it.

It would be great to be able to run multiple instances of Designer at (bonus: being able to copy / paste nodes between them)

e.g. I have a texture export running that takes 30 mins (many UDIMs) and at the same time I could open a second instance to continue to work

It would be great to have shortcuts in 3d viewer to toggle between different channels (like in Substance Painter), baseColor, metalness, roughness etc. to see what every channel is doing without any lighting / reflection etc., just flat color information.

Thanks!

In Substance designer would be cool if you can colour code exposed variables to easily see where they belong.

Not sure if this is grouped under launcher.

Say I want to "align selected nodes vertically". Can I select then push say G or something to repeat the same previous function without having to click the button again

like the G of Maya

In addition to choosing a Pattern in Shape Splatter, it would be amazing if you could choose a substance graph to Splatter.
Exposed parameters on the substance graph could generate a Map pin on the splatter node, and 3 sliders: Amount, Random and Map multiplier.

This would be an incredible way to get far more randomness out of splatter

Substance Designer has file link system based on absolute path. This is quite annoying sometimes. For instance, moving .SBS file from one PC to others, mesh mapping, etc.
If SD allows user to use relative path, it will give users great experiences.

so we could test non square textures on default cube object without necessity to load custom geometry every time

Backface Cull Switch in Substance Designer. Without having to go in and manually modify the glsfx/glsl files, can you please add a switch in designer to enable/disable backface culling? This is especially needed for alpha planes.

I like how pressing space bar in graph window allows for searching nodes immediately. It would be convenient if the same search be made available upon right clicking. Currently it gives Add Node option and it requires for me to move mouse to pick what I need. This would further align with other software in similar workflow such as DynamoBim. Just a thought.

Had that "Crazy" idea this morning... Why not create a node or a way that simply inject METADATA (EXIT) on output images... That way we could identify an image as a BaseColour, Normal, Height, Without caring about it's naming. And i could write a "smart" script on my 3D Software that reads metadata from image and auto-connect then to the correct slots on a PBR material...

 Is this too crazy ? lol I just want to put the "bots" to work for me. Just checked and Substance Designer don't handle metadata... 

 That could be crazy if it works !

Substance Designer.
I always work with the 3D View floating and HUGE, and it's very ODD, everytime o move it around and it wants to dock everywhere into Substance Designer screen. It's amazing to have the Dock Option, but it's odd when you don't want it to dock. :)

Could we have a random position slider for both X and Y on each tile sampler?

For Substance Designer I think it great if there was as system like the objectMerge and null nodes in Houdini where you could output parts of your graph to null nodes and then use the 'objectMerge' style node to retrieve data from those without having to physically connect the node. Think this would be a great way to get of messy graphs connections and overall add less clutter. There could even be an option to see these connections but as dotted lines or something when using the highlight flow display.

Running both Designer and Painter on a 4K 27" display isn't a great experience. The UI scaling choices are either 100%, which is super tiny, or 200%, which is too big. Could support for arbitrary scaling be added please? Ideally Designer/Painter/Alchemist would match whatever scaling Windows is set to. Photoshop does this, and it works really nicely.

Hello guys,
I would love to see some sort of Pointer's Gamut check to make sure that albedo textures belong to real surface colors.
It could be implemented in Legacy and when using ICC profiles as some kind of preview mode in the 2d view (like Esteban mentioned)?

Here is a link to an article about Pointer's gamut : https://www.tftcentral.co.uk/articles/pointers_gamut.htm

And a pdf to explain a bit the tool and its purpose.
(sorry for double request, one for each software)

Thanks !

Currently, it is difficult to store information and get information that would normally get stored in an array or dictionary. I have created a tool that places objects along a bezier curve, and it would have made the creation easier if I could have stored the pascal triangle in a dictionary, finding the correct array of integers per number of bezier points.

Thanks!