SP2 -- does painting normal channels mean I shouldn't bother with hi res mesh?

Alex_J

I am just getting introduced to Substance Painter 2. It seems to me that if I can just paint whatever details I want onto a normal channel, why bother sculpting a hi resolution mesh to extract details from? Is it just a matter of which program has your preferred tools? Or is there something more to this? Or... are people already doing what I'm talking about?

poopipe

you can't paint large scale information in  - eg. for smoothing facets

IMO it's wise to bake off a fairly simple highres mesh and then apply details that are awkward to model/bake (panel gaps, holes, rivets etc. ) via some sort of texture (eg. painter)