User test / Survey

Welcome to the Project Substance Alchemist beta tester community!

The team is happy to welcome you to our user test/survey program or to see you back as a recurring tester!
Your experience gives us insights that allow us to work through iterations to develop a better product.

Thanks for your involvement in our project development!

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* 1. Which of the following best describes your experience working with 3D?

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* 2. What is your current job or occupation?

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* 3. What sector of industry does your company operate in?

BEFORE WE BEGIN...

Here is a quick evaluation to know more about your personal experience with Project Substance Alchemist so far.

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* 4. Overall, how satisfactory do you find Substance Alchemist?

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* 5. Did you notice any bugs or any odd behaviour in this new version?

SCENARIO - LAB NAVIGATION

Since the first beta, we’ve introduced the "Explore", "Inspire", and "Create" tabs that we call "labs". In the current beta, we’ve added the "Manage" lab.

During this test, you will navigate through labs following these steps:


1- Select the "Explore" lab.
   - Browse a material of your choice.

2- Select the "Inspire" lab.
   - Create a material variation from an image of your choice.
   - Display the generated variation in the viewport.

3- Select the "Create" lab.
   - Create or reuse a material that you add to the Layers stack.

4- Select the "Manage" lab.

5 - Now click on "Explore", "Inspire" and "Create" to identify which content is displayed in each lab.

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* 6. How much of this test did you complete?

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* 7. Rate the following statements regarding the lab navigation. I think that...

  Totally agree Agree I don't know Disagree Totally disagree
... I got used to the navigation logic between labs
... it is easy to predict which material will be displayed in each lab
... it is easy to recall which content is loaded in a specific lab
... it is more frustrating than useful to have one material per lab
... it would be valuable to have one material displayed through all labs

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* 8. How do you see Project Substance Alchemist's lab navigation evolving to fit your needs?

LIBRARIES OPTIONS

New options are available for libraries, you can now export a library, create a board picture of all the materials from a library, and a few other features.

1- Find how to access these features.

2- Export a board from a library that contains at least two materials.

3- Export the same library content to a directory using the setup you prefer.

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* 9. How much of this test did you complete?

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* 10. How valuable do you find each feature of the contextual menu?

  Very valuable Valuable I don't know Not valuable Not valuable at all
Open
Export
Export a board
Delete

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* 11. Do you feel you have enough feedback when you export a library?

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* 12. Could you tell us what type of options or features you expect from a contextual menu dedicated to the libraries

CREATE LIBRARIES FROM SEARCH RESULTS

New collections can be created from a search result list. This is a first step to allow you to develop more categorization and content management in Project Substance Alchemist.

1- Perform a search with the existing resources

2- Create a collection from the results you found

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* 13. How much of this test did you complete?

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* 14. How valuable is this feature to you?

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* 15. Rate the following statements regarding library creation. I think that...

  Totally agree Agree I don't know Disagree Totally disagree
... it behaves the way I expect it to work
... it will motivate me to create more collections
... I'd prefer to have the button in a fixed position
... I'd prefer to have categories available to ease browsing
... I need more filters to find the material I'm looking for

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* 16. As we are improving the collection toolset, how valuable would you find the following features?

  Very valuable Valuable I don't know Not valuable Not valuable at all
Basic sorting content (ie: alphabetical, creation date, tag name, procedural/hybrid. Type, etc.)
Specific sorting content (ie: color, geolocation....)
Create subfolder in collections
Change thumbnail size
Right-click menu to display contextual actions
Right-click menu to display associated metadata
Allow renaming of materials

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* 17. How do you see Project Substance Alchemist's collections evolving to fit your needs?

HISTORY /  USER FEEDBACK

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* 18. Undo and redo have been improved since the previous version.
Do these versions of undo/redo perform the way you expect them to?

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* 19. We learned from previous tests that you, our beta testers, often find that Project Substance Alchemist doesn't inform you when it is experiencing issues or processing something.

For you, where would more user feedback benefit your experience?

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