Command Line Tools

The Substance Automation Toolkit contains a set of command lines tools allowing you to automate many stages of the Substance Designer workflows. A complete workflow typically involves multiple tools being invoked in chain to accomplish the task.

The available commands are:

• substance3d_baker — Bakes out mesh specific data such as ambient occlusion or normal data to textures.
  • substance3d_baker command line options
  • substance3d_baker Example Command Lines
    • Bake 1024x1024 normal map for a mesh
    • Bake 512x512 material color map from a high resolution map to the texture space of a low resolution mesh
    • Bake 512x512 material color map from a low resolution mesh
    • Bake 512x512 curvature map and control the name and the image file type
    • substance3d_baker run, use a Designer baker preset file as input
• sbscooker — Cooks .sbs files to .sbsar files ready to be rendered with sbsrender.
  • sbscooker command line options
  • sbscooker pattern variables
• sbsmutator — Modifies and specializes .sbs files.
  • sbsmutator command line options
  • sbsmutator Example Command Lines
    • Modify an SBS file to connect bitmap to input nodes of a graph
• sbsrender — Renders out maps from .sbsar files.
  • sbsrender command line options
  • sbsrender example command lines
    • OpenColorIO with sbsrender
  • sbsrender base parameters and pattern variables
    • Base parameters
    • Pattern variables
• sbsupdater — Updates .sbs files to the current version of the batch tools.
  • sbsupdater command line options