Substance material .sbsar support

[QuackCola]

For?

S&Box, Other

What can't you do?

Unable to tweak & exposed parameters of a Substance Material .sbsar and view the changes within the S&box Editor.

How would you like it to work?

1. Click on the .sbsar file within the assets browser

2. Inspector will open up with the following

• preview window of the material.
• shader dropdown box ( simple, complex, etc )
• ¹output checkboxes ( color, normal, rough, etc )
• ²All Exposed parameters such as Output Size, Random Seed, etc.

3. A button somewhere to save a .vmat when done tweaking the material. The final generated vtex files will be saved as well.

¹You would be able to toggle what texture maps you want to export.

²You would be able to tweak these parameters and see the material update in real-time in a preview window. Performance would be dependent on how complex the material happens to be.

What have you tried?

Load the .sbsar with Substance Player, tweak settings, export the textures to S&box, then finally create a material with the textures.

Additional context

While using substances player does the job well enough, I'd rather prefer an integrated, in-engine solution to tweak substance materials and view them with the appropriate shaders to see how my material will look "exactly" in-engine without having to first export and manually create a vmat.

[DoctorGurke]

This seems excessive for the editor when it's a proprietary format that has editors/tools already

[QuackCola]

Yea..fair enough 😅 I guess, I don't know why I tend to sometimes suggest stuff like this. Even then integration would be dope though.

[handsomematt]

This is something the community should be able to make a tool addon for really.