Parameters

Parameters are amazing for gaining full control over your graphs, and work even more wonders once you import your custom materials into Substance Painter. That being said, if like me you're more arty than tech-savvy, they can be overwhelming. I’ve simply exposed most of my parameters and tweaked the values. But if you're a beginner to Substance Designer, or have avoided creating your own parameters, I will go over the simplest one that I use very frequently.

This will create a parameter for a random seed.

First, go to your graph properties by either double-clicking the graph in the explore or double-click the grid background of your graph.

Add a new input parameter by clicking the plus.

Name your parameter any way you like and make it an integer 1. As a side note, an integer is a whole number as opposed to a float which contains numbers with a decimal point.