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PBR texturing and material authoring tools

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All bakes aren't visible at the same time. substance doesn't want to display all bakes at once, seems to only display two texture set bakes at once, zooming in and out changes which bake is displayed. individual bakes have no display problem …		0 Last	White_wizard Dec 2018
Export mesh/map type size difference (TIFF, JPEG, ASCII, Binary) As i was trying to export mesh to texture it on Substance Painter. First i used obj. format file size, it was around 45 mb, after that when i exported it as fbx it came out as 14 mb; and i could…		2 Last	CanberkYucekok Dec 2018
TEXTURE STRETCHING along UV Seams HELP Hello everybodyI have a problem...I just painted in substance a component and now that I am rendering it using arnold {maya} I get really badstretchings along the uvseams.. In substance you can use t…		3 Last	neverland Dec 2018
I need some advise regarding transmission maps and thickness maps. I understand the 'concept' of thickness maps.however I cant find any clear documentation explaining how to use transmission maps or thickness maps. I have looked through the polycount wiki.rece…		0 Last	oraeles77 Dec 2018
UE4 - sbsar texture mess up Hello guys, i 've got this problem when trying import sbsar file into UE4 .The basecolor look like this in Substance Designer : and in UE4 : This is the Substance's setting i use in UE4 :&n…		0 Last	dreamee Dec 2018
Failed to import low poly mesh (from Maya) I've tried to import a low poly mesh from maya after uv unrwrapping it, and converting it to a .fbx file.these errors appear:[Project management] Save successfull[Scene 3D] [FBX] : Mesh normals are i…		1 Last	poopipe Dec 2018
[WIP]Matching base color with normal map Hello people, I need some help with substance designers. I'm trying to make a patchwork quilt material with with diffent types of fabric material. Is there a way to get a different col…		2 Last	LaughingBear Dec 2018
Fixed Normal Map Bake Skewing Discovered a new way to fix skewing when baking my normal map detail in Substance Painter and wanted to share for those who have fixed the problem or have ran into the problem of normal map skewing. …		4 Last	musashidan Dec 2018
Artifacting in base color maps Hi all,I have been running into a couple issues whenever I export my textures, and it appears to only affect my base color maps. I have exported a few different versions and all of them will exp…		6 Last	issamask Dec 2018
Substance to 3ds Max - Material gets scrambles up Hi guys,I have 2 problems to which I cannot seem to find a solution. Hope someone can help me out.when I UV'd my model, all checkers were equal and looked perfectly fine all throughout the model.I ex…		0 Last	ometecuthli Dec 2018
Need a champagne/water/beer foam SBSAR I badly need a general-purpose foam maker. An *.sbsar where I could control the size of the bubbles, and the material color. I need the foam-maker to be able to make very small, very white bubbles fo…		0 Last	Forester Dec 2018
HD video ""substance designer simple texturing step by step" ""substance designer simple texturing step by step" free HD video is up on youtube ..almost ashamed of how simple my shader flow is [URL=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gXq_6lAOec]https://www.yout…		7 Last	m2o Dec 2018
Substance Painter Baking - Weird Triangle Artefacts Hi guys!I'm having some problems when i bake my high poly mesh into my low poly with substance. I'm getting really weird artefacts :/Im really new in 3d world and i need help.I'm using the smooth sha…		6 Last	wirrexx Dec 2018
[SD] any procedural paint stroke example? Hi,I am wondering if anyone have seen some examples of substance material where they apply brush stamp based on an input map. Say a height map or something like that.My problem is I want to apply the…		7 Last	Steppenwolf Dec 2018
How well does Designer multi-thread? Looking into building a new system. I would like to know how efficiently Designer multi-threads on the CPU. For instance, can Designer take full use of a 16-core system, or would an 8-core system wit…		2 Last	poopipe Dec 2018
Help trying to get these wear details? Hey guys, trying to get similar wear details to these pictures: I really like the wrinkle-pattern all over the weapon with random scratches all over. How would I achieve this in Painter? What gr…		3 Last	guitarguy00 Nov 2018
Newly added mesh to fbx file not updating in SP (Edit>Project Configuration) I'm really hoping this is more of a PEBKAC issue than a bug. I have a model where I have added additional geometry to the file. As seen below in Maya (note that I have everything assigned to the…		1 Last	MBauer17 Nov 2018
Cancelling annual subscription vs. licence end date? Hi,My annual subscription is about to get renewed tomorrow which I don't really want to happen at the moment as I am not using Substance too much at home since we have Substance at work. Unfortunatel…		3 Last	ant1fact Nov 2018
Simple transform? I'm having trouble finding a way to transform the shape of alphas in Painter. I feel like this should be an exceptionally easy thing to do in a program like this so am really surprised I can't figure…		2 Last	ChrisFraser Nov 2018
Issues with baking normals, from Modo to substance painter Been learning Modo for the past 3 weeks, my first 3D software, now im getting into baking from highpoly to lowpoly from Modo to Substance Painter. So far all good but upon baking the maps in in SP, i…		2 Last	KJKallio Nov 2018
Substance painter UDIM textures vs Material IDs Hello, his is more of a question than an issue, but this thing came across my mind and I wonder if I am right.The thing is, one could add multiple materials in a 3D app to a single object, whic…		5 Last	Filip5 Nov 2018
Painter Export preset problem Whene I try to use my own preset PositionMap for ourput maps like ms_$textureSet_pos export windows show me whis But result is allways like $mesh_$textureSet, and I can't change it at …		1 Last	Sebostian Nov 2018
Help with baking in Substance painter I have had issues baking my model in substnce painter, is there a way I can remove the dark spots when I bake normals and AOI have provided a dropbox link to the high and low poly mesheshttps://www.d…		2 Last	Ed_Zi Nov 2018
How would I create a color vector map for this tile pattern? I'm trying to figure out how I would come up with a vector map that I could use to drive a vector warp node so that I can offset surface detail across these tiles:Basically, I need an image where eac…		3 Last	LorasTyrell Nov 2018
Shiny on marble texture (Substance Designer) Hello everyone,I'm pretty new to Substance Designer and I have been trying to figure out how to finish the marble texture I've been working on.I can't seem to find a good tutorial in how to make my m…		5 Last	LorasTyrell Nov 2018
Filter beta - apply within Hi all,I was working on a new filter for Painter to make texturing an asset a bit quicker. I would like to iron out some bugs, get some feedback and so I need some help.If you use Painter a lot and d…		0 Last	RonanMahon Nov 2018
How to export opacity map? Hey again,A small problem and either google doesn't know the answer or i'm asking it the wrong questions.As you can see, here is an opacity map that i've painted in substance painter 1.When exporting…		3 Last	William3DArtist Nov 2018
I always combine meshes in Maya first when I want a shared texture set. Am I doing this right? Hi, I hope the title is not too confusing! What I meant was:- I model the base meshes in Maya and for sculpting/texturing I place them next to each other and combine them to one asset. I'm also doing…		3 Last	poopipe Nov 2018
Textures are rotating for some reason in random points? So I'm trying to make this sword blade, and I've had no end of problems with it. I finally seemed to have removed all of the shading artifacts, as is shown by the high specularity material I have app…		8 Last	poopipe Nov 2018
How to Approach Glass in Substance Painter? I need some help to guide me through the process for this glass piece on my radio. What technique or workflow should I use to get a close result to the reference? I've never dealt much with glass but…		2 Last	SaltySalter Nov 2018
Normal map acting weird Hello! I'm quite new and I have the feeling I'm making a stupid mistake...I'm creating my own textures in Substance Designer, then I apply that texture in Substance Painter to put it onto a 3D model …		3 Last	poopipe Nov 2018
Best Node Method for reducing color range for Detail Maps. Need to fit color range into half of its current. (So like 4 bit vs 8bit)How would you solve this? We are using a Blend with a 16F 50% grayscale at linear dodge. Then doing a 16F grayscale of t…		4 Last	oXYnary Nov 2018
UDIM texturing in Substance Painter Hello, I have problem with Substance painter and my UDIM-s.UV-s were done via Unfold 3D. But i see those like this in substance painter (look at image). I also get an error when i try …		3 Last	ISUther Nov 2018
Finding guides and tutorials Hey,I've been trying to learn Designer for the last month, and having a blast with it! However i've seen a most guides i could get my hands on, and so far i learned the most from the ones from D…		0 Last	Oskarsson250 Nov 2018
Textures Unlinking on Close Substance Painter 2 to Unity LiveLink Hello there, I had a question regarding the Substance Painter 2 to Unity LiveLink plugin. I am using the plugin to link my SP2 textures to my project in Unity, and when I first link them everything w…		0 Last	DefoNotMike Nov 2018
Substance Painter particle brush issues Here is video where i try to explain the issue. 1. Imported model with UV-s2. Trying to paint with particle brush but has heavy lag and many particles stay in mid of air. * Model was …		0 Last	ISUther Nov 2018
Substance Painter failed to load 3D scene. Why? I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. My workflow is exporting a highpoly fbx from Zbrush of a full character I'm working on, and exporting a lowpoly fbx from Maya with the same subtools (all matching n…		3 Last	Revel Nov 2018
How do I get material blend nodes to use 'overlay' for normal maps? I've been attempting to follow some of the official tutorials for Substance Designer, and I am running into a problem with the material blend node. Whenever the tutorial uses it, it seems to overlay …		3 Last	Alexastor Nov 2018
Flow map painting So, I recently came across this allegorithmic section showing how you can paint flowmaps in substance painter:https://support.allegorithmic.com/documentation/display/SPDOC/Flow+map+paintingI need to …		16 Last	DanaosC Nov 2018
Curvature Baking Problem? How do I fix this? Hi guys I have a problem. When cylinder object cut cube object like the image below, it make a black edge in curvature map. I really want to know how to ignore this or some key word about this. Thank…		2 Last	sprunghunt Nov 2018
[Designer] Perlin Noise field? Just wanted to ask all the Substance experts out there if perlin noise flow is achievable in Designer. I have played around with using slope blur to try and achieve this but failed. Was hoping someon…		3 Last	poopipe Nov 2018
Are there any sales in program for Substance Designer ? Hi, as the title says i'd like to know if there are any sales in program for autumn on Steam or the official Allegorithmic website regarding Substance Designer.I'm asking because i want to buy Design…		0 Last	Andreicus Nov 2018
Baking Materials from high re to low res? Hi,I have models textured in SP that were used for offline rendering. Now we are discussing if we want to bring them to Unity hence doing retopo to get low poly models. Can I bake the High res Materi…		1 Last	poopipe Nov 2018
Normalised roughness maps for vfx workflow Hi I'm looking into how to use this awesome paint software in a vfx style pipeline and was wondering about how I can export roughness maps that are closer to a 0-1 range than the values set inside Su…		2 Last	poopipe Oct 2018
How long does it take you to make a material? I am just making the final touches to my chain mail material. It has taken me 6 hours so far. My material has different user changeable settings like rust, dirt, blood, age, shape, etc. I think i mig…		8 Last	Taylor Brown Oct 2018
.fbx file triangulates in SP? Hey everyone,I exported a pistol as an .fbx file out of 3ds max and then imported it into substance painter 2. However with this particular .fbx file it always seems to import it with all the queds b…		12 Last	Mach_Nasty Oct 2018
Matching artist's etchings and burnishing Hi there I work for a university that wants a local artist's sculptures digitiised to be displayed in a Hololens.The problem is how do I match the etchings and burnishing in the real sculpture, see h…		2 Last	rFranks Oct 2018
Normal Problems Topology Issue ? So i am new here and didnt really know where to post so maybe you guys can give me some tips or corners of this forum where i can get some help.i have some nasty normal problems and i dont know …		6 Last	sprunghunt Oct 2018
Curvature Baking Problem? How do I fix this? Hi guys I have a problem. When cylinder object cut cube object like the image below, it make a black edge in curvature map. I really want to know how to ignore this or some key word about this. Thank…		1 Last	sprunghunt Oct 2018
Tile Sample Color pattern sorting? Hey,Came across a problem for a material I'm working on. With Tile Sample Color the pattern distribution with multiple Inputs Sorts via the pattern number on top of each other and not sort based off …		5 Last	poopipe Oct 2018