Substance Plugin 4.9.0.10 Released

anonymous_user_379eea4d · September 1, 2015, 3:28am

Substance Plugin 4.9.0.10 has been released and is available on the Epic Games Marketplace.

Source: https://github.com/Allegorithmic/UnrealEngine

Updated to 4.9 General Release
Fixed a bug where streaming levels wouldn’t load all of their substances
Fixed a crash bug that would occur when loading textures using the new multi-threaded loading structures

NOTE: We have also updated the 4.8 plugin on the marketplace with these fixes

joshcamas · September 1, 2015, 4:38am

Page not found.

What is the substance plugin? What does it do? c:

anonymous_user_2b10dd13 · September 1, 2015, 9:50am

Stuff like this

erebel55 · September 1, 2015, 1:44pm

Yayyyy been waiting, thank you!

anonymous_user_379eea4d · September 1, 2015, 2:03pm

Hi ,

For some reason the github URL goes to a blank link. It might be a forum bug. Try copying the URL into a new browser tab/window. As for the substance plugin, it allows you to directly use substances within Unreal Engine 4. Substances generate all of the textures needed for a material, but save space and allow you to customize the output of the textures in real time.

For more information and a preview of Substance Designer, check out our website: https://www.allegorithmic.com

anonymous_user_b666e59e · September 1, 2015, 2:59pm

The link above works for me. Keep in mind that since the Substance plugin is created in a custom fork of the Unreal Engine, you must be logged into GitHub using an account that is linked to your Unreal Engine account in order to be able to see the repository (this is the same process that you must follow if you want to build the Engine from source code). If you are not logged into GitHub, or your GitHub account is not linked to your Unreal Engine account, then you will not be able to see the repository at the link.

anonymous_user_379eea4d · September 1, 2015, 3:01pm

Thanks for the more thorough explanation

anonymous_user_fbe68f781 · September 1, 2015, 8:42pm

Man you guys are fast. Thanks for the quick update !

anon44224379 · September 16, 2015, 3:57pm

I get a page not found too. The link seems to be broken.

Are you guys going to update the plugin for 4.9 on your website? Plugins - Substance 3D

Allegorithmic_Support · September 16, 2015, 4:59pm

Hi quality,

You need to be in the github account linked to your epic account for it to show up:

https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/66686/when-i-go-on-githubepicgames-i-get-a-message-sayin.html

We are no longer going to provide the plugin on our website and will provide it just through the Marketplace and Github.

anon44224379 · September 17, 2015, 6:24pm

So let me get this straight. I downloaded the plugin from the marketplace and installed it yesterday. It says that it installed for 4.9 and 4.8. When I open the editor however (4.9.1) I get a dialog box that says that the plugin is not compatible with my version of the editor. Is this because I’m running the 4.9.1 and not 4.9.0? Or is the plugin that I need only available through the custom fork on github?

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anon44224379 · September 17, 2015, 8:35pm

Never mind, I got it to work. For some reason trying to update the project through the launcher from 4.8 to 4.9 was failing. I copied all the content into a clean 4.9 project and the plugin is working just fine.

Anonymous_4f04e9e3fcc0a2d335aa767ec2ee871d · October 10, 2015, 11:01am

Substance Plugin 4.9.0.10 Released

Naveed · October 13, 2015, 10:13am

So I was playing about with this plugin yesterday and am a little confused about how to correctly instance a substance material. I’ve watched the Allegorithmic youtube vid and googled around but not found a great deal of info on how to do it. When the substance is imported into UE4 we get a substance graph and a substance factory as well as all the source files referenced by the substance (albedo, normal etc.). Now if you right click on the substance factory and select new graph instance it does indeed create a new material instance and substance graph. Problem is it also drags in the source files again incrementing the file name(s). I quickly end up with many duplicates of the source files when I simply want instances with some input parameter tweaks.
Is there an import setting I’m missing here?

If I choose to remove the outputs to clean up the directory, UE4 will complain the next time it is reloaded so I don’t think that’s the path to follow.

Joviex · October 21, 2015, 6:42am

That is correct!

If you want to tweak settings on the SD material, then you need another instance. Otherwise, you’d be tweaking the same “textures”.

Hence, tweaks mean new copies of the maps, since they are the generated output of your tweaks within whatever instance you are manipulating.

While it may seem like holy ****, that is a lot of maps! Remember that during packing, the substance’s outputs will potentially shrink a LOT more than the (current) map outputs. The optimization of the graph network is the other 50% magic in substances (the first 50% being the parameter exposure and re-cooking).

HTH

Naveed · October 21, 2015, 4:07pm

Makes sense, thanks!