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Substance Designer Admin Tutorials

Substance Designer Addon - 0.1.1

Substance Designer Project Templates​

The Project Templates feature lets you start workfiles with templates. It offers several options to choose a preset template when users launch Designer.

How Project Templates Work​

Project Template Profile

Based on the selected Template Type (3), the specified template is added to the workfile and named according to the Graph Name (1) with the specified Document Resolution (2) in the template.

Template Types​

Default Template​

It is similar to the options in File -> New -> Substance Graph.... This feature allows you to select a default graph for artists to start with.

Default Template Select

Custom Template​

When choosing Custom Template, you need to provide the filepath of the substance file and the name of the graph in the .sbs file you want to use as a template.

For example, to add the graph metallic_roughness_sss from the substance file D:\test_pbr_template.sbs as a template for your project, fill in the Path to Custom Template as D:\test_pbr_template.sbs and Custom Template Graph Name as metallic_roughness_sss. Refer to the screenshot below for guidance.

Custom Template Project Creation Example shows the contents of the template file and specifying a graph in settings

Template By Task Types​

When choosing Template By Task Types, you need to provide the filepath of the substance file and specify the desired task types for it to work.

For example, notice the colors in the following example.

Template By Task Type Example

Launching Substance Designer in the specified task setting will trigger project creation.

Launch Substance Designer

The graph is named according to the Graph Name, and the template file contents are added to the graph.

Template Built