[=JuanManuel;18049]
With a full integration in Unreal Engine 4, Substance Engine makes the creation of next-gen textures a seamless experience for even the most ambitious of game developers. integration comes as a free plugin available for all Unreal 4 licensees.
That is what the email from Allegorithmic says.
What is does not say is, how to actually install it. You must have a github account linked to your UE4 account so the Allegorithmic Substance github page appears. Then you look for the dll files in the plugins folder branch, and download.
Download… and copy… where? Anybody?
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Copy the Substance folder(in UnrealEngine-4.0.zip\UnrealEngine-4.0\Engine\Plugins)in the zip to your UE4 plugins folder(C:\Program Files\Unreal Engine\4.0\Engine\Plugins). Launch the editor and goto Windows>Plugins , you need to scroll down and enable Substances, the editor will restart and you should get an error like guy( Adobe Support Community )
[=Demarii;18068]
I might be totally off base here, but as I see it what you will want to do is clone that repository and compile it just like you would the Epic repository and compile it. I would assume that plugin will eventually get pulled into the once its been vetted, but for early adopters you can give a go now. I don’t believe there is an “install” process for getting it into the repo or your fork but I’m sure if you wanted to manually transfer the changes over to your own fork you could do so using a diff/patch.
I would highly doubt the plugin will not cost Unreal Engine users any money,its in the companies interest to integrate substances with as many engines as they can out of the box to promote their tools. To be able to make and work with substances at the art creation level you will need to have their tools/suite. For the power it provides it is well worth the money, it is going to completely replace a part of my workflow once I get 100% up to speed on using them. I’m really excited to see integration in Unreal!!
Hope that helps clear things up for you.
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The Substance plugin is completely free for all UE4 users, according to the news letter - whats not free is there tools. Also AFAIK the Substance plugin for UDK was free also.