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PBR texturing and material authoring tools

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How does it all come together? Hi guys,I've been using 3ds Max for a while and just got Substance Designer, I've never used ZBrush and would like to avoid it if I can.I see great tutorials on making stone/brick walls with SD but s…		4 Last	zachagreg Aug 2019
What is the proper way, to Blending multi base materials. I saw the sharing of the Assassin's Creed Odyssey in GDC. I have a Question about blending multi base materials. Just like this picture.It layring multi base materials in Substance Painter.Then …		5 Last	xxwlzfb Aug 2019
Baking issue! Really Stuck Hello, I am a 3D animation student and am new to Substance Painter. I am currently working on a project and am preparing this model for animation. I have retopologized the model, done the UV map…		2 Last	Taylor Brown Aug 2019
[SD] where does "uvwscale" value comes from Just wondering, do anyone know where does the uv scaling value comes from? the mesh itself? I haven't seen an example where this toggle affects anything:In the shader profile:In the shader:		1 Last	poopipe Aug 2019
Substance Designer add channel [SOLVED] Hi everyone, I'm momodaron !I'm new in substance designer and I'm trying to make my first work on it.So I chose the template PBR metallic and then I wanted to add AO and an EMISSIVE map.I took an out…		1 Last	momodaron Aug 2019
Baking HP on stacked shells? I created my 400k low poly meat-stand in Maya, and then I UVed it stacking shells of objects that I duplicated on top of each other to save space in UV map. Then I went to ZBrush to add some det…		0 Last	kat_sta Aug 2019
Access to legacy resources I wanted to follow this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xBMcnx2Kkk hair tutorial, but unfortunately wasn't able to get the same results because the fur procedural in Substance Painter had…		0 Last	Deydranos Aug 2019
Trying to make a procedural normal texture (help) I am trying to learn how to use substance designer and I have a question. I am trying to make a normal texture like this one in the photo below which belongs to Substance Source's Automotive Exterior…		3 Last	gilbr0ther Aug 2019
Solved -- Latest Version of Painter is very slow *** After more testing, the problem is not with any specific version of Painter, but with using passthrough layers and the clone brush. After a good amount of data is accrued, especially with normal …		4 Last	TheMuffinMan9 Aug 2019
Painter not exporting mesh normal map with layers maps. Painter 2019.1.2Exporting my textures exports only normals from layers and not the base normal. I have to use OpenGL. The normal channel is active and the Normal mixing is set to Combine. Project con…		1 Last	kanga Aug 2019
PBR Specular Glossines Material with Opacity Hello. I wanted to say that I indeed googled this problem and I know that it is a known issue with several solutions, but I still have a question. I hope that someone will help me here :smile: I need…		0 Last	Peksio Aug 2019
Procedural stochastic texturing in Substance Painter A while ago Unity introduced this:https://blogs.unity3d.com/ru/2019/02/14/procedural-stochastic-texturing-in-unity/Since that I have asked whether SP/SD has a similar feature on the allegorithmi foru…		2 Last	cubrman Aug 2019
MaterialX and Substance are there any addition infos about MaterialX and Substance beside the Siggraph Slides.?http://www.materialx.org/assets/MaterialX_Sig2018_BOF_slides.pdfhttp://www.materialx.org/		6 Last	oglu Jul 2019
Substance Painter baking AO weird issue (dark spots) HelloI tried to bake AO with the default settings and it yielded strange results. it gives some dark spots as shown in the images. The only thing I changed is to "use low poly mesh as high poly" and …		2 Last	lopan Jul 2019
Water and sea problem Hi friends! I hope to be able to explain my GREAT problem with substance painter.I'm creating a TEST SCENARIO for DIORAMA, a mesh is the bottom. Above is another mesh that is the sea.I set…		6 Last	poopipe Jul 2019
Substance Designer: Normal Map Issue When adding/removing a "default plain normal map" into the normal slot, you can clearly see that the preview changes somehowhttps://images-ext-2.discordapp.net/external/dyW61KpBMqehHwATbxl8ZCFD…		2 Last	goekbenjamin Jul 2019
Substance painter flipping normals on color selected mask areas. HiWin 10Painter 2019.1.2Hipoly model from zBrush 2019, uved Lowpoly from Blender 2.79B and baked in painter using DirectX with ID/Polygroup under ID Mesh Maps. Applying a substance material with norm…		0 Last	kanga Jul 2019
Aged galvanized metal Hi,I'm trying to create aged galvanized metal. Should I put oxide in a metallic map or as roughness? What opacity should i use in metallic map? If I use 100% it no longer looks like made of metal.		4 Last	zachagreg Jul 2019
Substance Painter issues I have three questions of very different natures about what appears to be limitations on Substance Painter 2018.3.3:I) Why can't I visualize modifications when I apply a Displacement texture setting?…		3 Last	poopipe Jul 2019
AO problem in Substance Painter Hi people. I have a problem baking the AO of this object:The tube and the bracket are welded as a single mesh. The AO is fine in the brackets but it's very weak on the tube. I think the corner betwee…		0 Last	arkaneXXI Jul 2019
Substance Painter to Marmoset Normal Problem Hi everyone :) ,I'm new here in the community so all feedback will be really apreciate it.I'm doing some portfolio work with this SG Gibson. The problem that I have is when I export my normal map fro…		1 Last	Barbiturat Jul 2019
3d view material breakdown/channel display shader This is a material breakdown shader for substance designer (for now work in all versions up to 2018.2). This thing allows to post your material breakdown on artstation straight from designer's 3d win…		0 Last	jozin Jul 2019
Tileable texture, Substance Painter and/or Marmoset Toolbag I just noticed (again) inside marmoset that textures can be tileablei was wondering when this should be usefull? especially when using substance painter you can also define that?!Maybe i am wrong :-)…		2 Last	zachagreg Jul 2019
How can I bake color from a high poly mesh to low poly mesh? I have been given a HP mesh in zbrush and I took additionaly steps to Zremeshed it to decrease it's polycount and exported it as LP.With the highpoly mesh I was given a color map. I for the life of m…		5 Last	poopipe Jul 2019
Foliage with Substance I've been looking at some substances created by some awesome artists, and I can't wrap my head around how they can possibly create that with SD. Does anyone know any good other open substances that I…		0 Last	armagon Jul 2019
SP 2019 solo feature I'm using substance painter 2019,I wonder how can I solo texture set?the solo button just gone.I know there's shortcut alt and click ,but it doesn't work,it was normal back to 2018 .Any one know what…		1 Last	Jerc Jul 2019
BM2Material display tiling BM2Material 3.0I would like to set the tiling in the viewport just to check it out. Under Materials/Default/Edit I get the display options but tiling isnt one of them. How do you enable this display …		0 Last	kanga Jul 2019
Free Fabric Generator Substance I created this Fabric Generator in Substance Designer. It's free, too.http://gum.co/fabric_generator		0 Last	yaschan Jul 2019
You can't work with meshes that have the UV outside the 0-1 space in painter right? I tried that but i am getting some visual glitches, i want to ask just to be sure that there is no setting or something that would allow me to do that.		3 Last	poopipe Jul 2019
Substance Designer - Slope blur weird artifact I'm learning from a tutorial on creating stone texture. I don't know if it exactly caused by Slope Blur or i screwed up something before. I do exactly the same thing but get this result as ugly lines…		0 Last	Tony1931 Jul 2019
Free and opensource Substance Designer: Imogen Really fun to play with: https://github.com/CedricGuillemet/Imogen		1 Last	armagon Jul 2019
Bevel not baking correctly in substance painter 2018.3 So ive spent the last day trying to bake the corner correctly on this model and i have had no luck in doing so. I have changed the uvs so they are stitched and tried making a seam aswell. map is 4k, …		3 Last	Hagane Jul 2019
No Normals on UV Border? So I'm having a bit of a problem and I've been wracking my brain for the past couple hours trying to figure out why I'm having issues here. I've got a chest I'm working on, and where my seams in maya…		1 Last	poopipe Jul 2019
How to export patern only with transparent backround? I want to export pattern which i can layer a top of generic texture in another program.How can i export pattern only from painter without gray or any other background?		1 Last	poopipe Jul 2019
Substance Designer - Create texture from atlas Hi guys,I have a texture atlas of loose dry grass blades and I want to combine these to a hay texture.I've loaded the textures into SD and thought I could use the crop tool for it and splatter all th…		5 Last	zachagreg Jul 2019
[RESOLVED] Divide Tile? Is there an operation in Substance Designer that will tile a pattern in place? For example, You can see a pattern that is justified to the bottom of the tile (see 'tile_base'). Can this pattern be ti…		1 Last	cjwidd Jul 2019
Made A stylized energy crystal smart material that got popular on instagram. What do you think? Fully procedural and highly-customizable. I made a tutorial along with a bundle here: https://gumroad.com/l/gemTutI'm looking to improve it so I'd love to see what you guys think.		2 Last	Thomas_Smith Jul 2019
Substance Painter- Mesh fill doesn't fill the entire mesh I'm not really sure why it happen, but I created a new material, added a black mask to it, and tried to used the "Mesh fill" option. Not all of the mesh got the same color, there are some white seams…		2 Last	Yogev Jul 2019
Flipped normals display darker Hey guys I have problem with normals imported from Maya. As suggested I reversed my flipped normals in Maya and imported then back to SP, but it didn't solve issue entirely, as now instead of transpa…		1 Last	kat_sta Jul 2019
Flipped Uvs for no reason or... Hello, Im having this issue in substance painter where, after importing and painting normaly with no problems and no flipped normals, with substance painter (2018.1.1 version), I encountered this whe…		1 Last	Armabelico Jul 2019
Aged wood in Substance Designer I created a tutorial on creating aged wood in Substance Designer.https://gum.co/wood_substance_tutorial		0 Last	yaschan Jul 2019
Painter Tool Brush bug Hi people.I found a tool related bug in painter.- Basically I create a material in substance designer- Once imported in painter I convert the material to a tool by selecting a brush and then the mate…		2 Last	MmAaXx Jul 2019
Substance Painter to Maya/Vray issues Hi,This is my first time exporting from SP to Maya/Vray and it has some issues.I spent hours trying to solve this but without luck!I followed all the Substance documentations and I watched a lot of t…		0 Last	triton Jul 2019
Substance Alchemist to Painter, material looks different So I'm working on this material in Alchemist, and I want to import it into Painter, just so I can export it with custom preset. But material and maps look different. Height map is adding to normal, a…		8 Last	zachagreg Jul 2019
Ugly normal maps in Substance Painter (need help) Hi people.I have these models:And I want to do the Normal Map and AO in Substance Painter. The first model looks like this after the baking:And this is the result with the second model:I can cor…		4 Last	arkaneXXI Jul 2019
Issues with Specular Map in Substance Painter Hi all,I have a question about what I'm showing in my screenshot here. I have been messing with the different layers to have the Specular Map look similar to the Diffuse/Albedo Map I have here displa…		1 Last	kevingamerartist Jun 2019
Issue with I-ray in substance painter Hi guys, a while ago I gave Iray in substance a try but I noticed a lot of oddity with it. Here is a test model I did -right version: smoothed edges on any edge thats less than 90 degreeleft version:…		2 Last	cptSwing Jun 2019
Issue Adding Height Detail in Painter - It's Blending instead of Replacing I've created a character with a leather hood made of scraps stitched together. I want to use Substance Painter to add the stitches, but I'm running into problems.I painted the stitches as Height deta…		1 Last	Bek Jun 2019
Substance Plugin for 3Ds Max / Vray - Different Results Hey ThereI Encountered a problem, at least it seems like one ^^, with the substance Plugin toolIm Using Max 2018 and Vray 3.60.04The Plugin itself works fine for me in this setup, but theres a big bu…		11 Last	VelvetElvis Jun 2019
Substance Painter - Imported HDR files are too dark [HELP] So I was trying to get some custom HDRs into substance to make sure my render will be accurate. However the hdr image is way too dark. I am not sure what to do		1 Last	Jerc Jun 2019