Megascan Link Plugin for Substance Designer

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Darkimage

• May 13, 2020 16:42
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Hello guys!

Since the free for Unreal Engine release of the Quixel Megascans library and softwares I found myself importing and processing a lot of assets in Substance Designer before importing them into Unreal Engine so I wrote a plugin to automate and speed up this processes by using the Quixel Bridge Export feature to directly import the Megascans Assets i needed simply by browsing and clicking Export from Bridge.

I then decided to clean up a bit the code writing some code comments and documentation and release it for everyone to use!!
You can find the open source code of the plugin here and if you want to directly downloading it and start using it right off you can go to the release tab of Github (Megascans Link v0.1.0-beta)

How-to-use example

Here a gif showing how the plugin works

How to install the plugin (doc link)

The plugin is been tested in Substance Designer 2019.3.3 and 2020.1.1 previous versions are untested 

• Install it in Substance Designer using the Plugin manager
• you can find it under Tools > Plugin Manager
• then click install and navigate to the path where you previously downloaded it.

Notes:

• Refer to the official doc for installing a Plugin Package

• All the plugin settings are explained here

 

Want to contribute to the development?

If you are willing to contribute you should start by reading the dev docs.

Done it? all right it's time to clone this repository and start coding !!

After you made your changes don't forget to test them!!

And please I'm trying to keep this plugin without any external dependencies for the ease of usage for everyone! so try to rely on what the already build-in python installation of Substance Designer has to offer

I hope this plugin helped you.

Luca

 

PS: my English grammar is not the best so I apologize is advance for all the mistakes i made writing the documentation, if someone wants to improve it, I would be truly grateful to him.

 

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  Jin

  • May 13, 2020 17:30

  Hey! Thank you very much for your forum post. That's really kind of you for sharing it and with a nicely presented documentation!

  I could improve the grammar errors for you if you want? I can edit the post as a moderator. Let me know!

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  Darkimage

  • May 13, 2020 17:32

  Hi Jin, feel free to edit it :) and thanks you and quixel for this awesome tech.

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  Jin

  • May 16, 2020 12:36

  Edited a bit without changing your original text too much. Thank you again! You rock.

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  Darkimage

  • May 16, 2020 20:01

  Thank you Jin for you kind words and for the edits, have a nice day!

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  plazadelmar

  • May 21, 2020 16:58

  Is there Substance Painter export plugin?

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  Darkimage

  • May 21, 2020 17:18

  hi PLAZADELMAR, this is something that i'm currently looking into but i cant promise anything.

  For now as a work around, if you have substance designer, you can make a graph with the imported Megascan Asset and export it as a sbsar file and then import it in Substance Painter as a basematerial resource.

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  Darkimage

  • June 20, 2020 15:32

  i've just released the Substance Painter version of this plugin :)

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  Zombiebobo

  • June 25, 2020 13:53

  Thanks man but I install it and when I export using the default port 24981 in megascan 2020.3.0 I got error message counld not send data over port 24981 !

  not sure what's wrong :(

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  Zombiebobo

  • June 25, 2020 13:54

  

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  Darkimage

  • June 25, 2020 14:57
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  Zombiebobo the Substance painter version need to install  an extra dependency in the python that ships with Painter and it seems that the automatic installation script failed, no worries, as the documentation suggests in the manual installation process you have to install this dependency manually:

  1. Open a command prompt as and administrator (win+r then write cmd and press enter)

  2. Navigate to the Substance painter installation folder, for your specific case write in the prompt  
     cd "C:\Program Files\Allegorithmic\Substance Painter\resources\pythonsdk" 

  3. Install the dependency with this command python.exe -m pip install websocket-client

  Hope this will solve the issue, let me know if you still need help!

  PS: i was a little confused at first because you posted in the Substance Designer thread but you was referring to the Substance painter version, i noticed it for the screenshot :)

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  Zombiebobo

  • June 25, 2020 15:11

  Hi Thank you so much now it's working fine :)

  but I do have two questions)

  1.how do I change the normal to the correct color space opengl

  2.I don't see the icon in the tool bar to the left (to load the plugin) also in the plugin menu the configer is grayed out  :S

  thanks))

  

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  Darkimage

  • June 25, 2020 15:32
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  Glad to hear that it is working :)

  1. ok for changing the normal map color space to the correct one which is for Megascan assets OpengGL you have to go to your layer textures and in the normal texture slot use the little arrow (the one pointing downward) and click color space then select OpengGL. 

  to be more clear watch near the end of this video

  you can also find more examples in the docs!

  2. the icon by default is created in its own tool bar at the top of the screen (below the menu bar with file,edit etc) and with it you open the settings dialog of the plugin (that's why the config is grayed out :) ) see the screenshot below:

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  Zombiebobo

  • June 25, 2020 15:36

  All working great now)) thank you so much =) you saved my life!

   

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  Darkimage

  • June 25, 2020 15:38

  Glad to hear its all working :) Thank you so much for using it !!

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  KigKadriK

  • November 27, 2020 08:36
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  hello,

  does your plugin support Substance Designer 2020 ? i have 2020.2.0 (10.2.0) and seems not working.

  In fact installation works but when i export from Quixel (with good socket settings), nothing happen.

  Thanks.

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  Darkimage

  • November 30, 2020 13:33
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  hi KigKadriK sorry for the late reply I've been quite busy lately,

  Yes the plugin works with Substance Designer 2020 (just tested with version 10.2.0 and latest Quixel Bridge 2020.4.0), if you can share the log maybe I can track down the issue (you can find the log file by going in Tools->Plugin Manager.. right click megascan_link and click Show in file Browser then go down the megascan_links folders and you'll find a log file called megascanlink.log)

  Sorry again for the late reply, I hope you have a good day.

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  KigKadriK

  • December 01, 2020 21:44

  Thanks for your reply, (sorry for my approximative english)

  Ok I have understood !!, if we don't create a new substance (package) before exporting it doesn't know where to import so it doesn't import at all!

  No it works fine.

  Thanks.

   

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  Darkimage

  • December 01, 2020 22:15

  KigKadriK yes you need at least one opened package in Substance Designer before exporting from Quixel Bridge :)

  Glad to know you figured it out and its now working, I hope you having a great day.

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