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Important points to know about creating textures for Cel Shading?

Hi guys I am investigating about this however I am having a hard time finding something regarding this.Does anyone knows where can I find a tutorial or a video anything regarding important points to …
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Mink

Substance Painter, normal map errors when baking with multiple meshes together

I'm modeling in Maya, exporting with FBX, and using Substance Painter to bake the maps. I'm using bake by mesh name, but I'm getting some really weird results that are acting as if the baker is still…
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poopipe

Normal & AO maps problem

Normal & AO flawed in Substance Painter …
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Silen

[Painter] Baking Issue

Hi guys,I have some experience baking in Painter but I never saw this weird issue on big flat polygons. Check this:Low poly mesh is ok. The same for the high poly.I checked the normal map and I found…
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Jerc

[Substance Designer] Unsure how to add color variation per piece (tile sampler)

Hello, this is my first post on polycount, i hope this is the right category to post in.I've started using substance designer for a few months now, i feel that i still don't know how to color properl…
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Creating FREE Substance Designer Nodes for you

Hey guys.At the moment I am using my sparetime to create some usefull nodes for Substance Designer that I am going to share for free. I was wondering if there are any nodes that you guys desper…
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horrorente

Substance Painter Baking problems - Seams, Seams everywhere!!

Hey guys, I need some help with some baking problems that I am having in SP. I have tried everything I could think of to solve this issue but I just can't get to it so maybe someone can shed som…
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Mink

graphical issue : triangles on materials

hi,I've just bought substance painter. when I create a fill layer triangles are appearing in the mesh. they desappear when I put tiling on 'none' but are appearing again after another task, for exemp…
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Oxyd

Issue When Exporting From 3DS Max

I recently downloaded Substance Painter and intended to try it however whenever I try to import the file from 3DS Max, using the bridge plugin, Substance gives me the error "The Selected Project --.s…
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igotthesauce

[Painter] Weird normal map behavior when using filter.

I was following the tutorials on youtube and im facing this problem, when the normal option is activated on the filter effect, the normal map get weird, The tutorial was made with an older version, a…
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Revel

Polypaint to Substance Painter

Hello! I painted my mesh in Zbrush and i baked color ID map in Substance Painter to a low poly model. Question is, how can I actually see this color? Becouse I want to work with this color further in…
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Pimpek5555

Weird artefact in Iray render

So I'm having some strange problem in renderer. Here are screenshots from viewport, render and marmoset, second one with artefact from Iray.
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19ulrich90

[Painter] - Possible to use a substance's dynamic Height map as mask?

I'm not sure if this is possible as I'm relatively new to Painter but I couldn't find anything on it so I thought I would ask. I'm wondering if there is any way to use a substance's Height map as a …
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bentraje

Generated Mask stretching issue

I'm having a problem with some smart masks. For whatever reason they seem to getting confused and streching the mask, but only on certain parts of the object. As shown, the problem doesn't seem to be…
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Jerc

Substance Painter Baking issues

My baking looks ugly af and I dont know what I did wrong. Take a look at the images. My low poly is 7k polygons. High poly is 7mil.
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Pimpek5555

Substance Designer / Painter - Heightmap best practices

What are the best practices for working with height maps in Substance Designer and Painter?For instance if I'm making a clutter substance that adds bullet casings onto a base floor material, what sho…
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dirigible

Normal Baking problem

In substance painter I am having an issue baking my normal/AO etc maps. Here is my model and UVs. I duplicated a lot of parts after unwrapping them, but that has never caused an issue with previous m…
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Axemeister

Substance Designer normal map Artifacting

Hello everyone, I'm trying to make a rock material from scratch in substance designer and I'm getting artifacts early on in all my normal maps. I've played around with the intensity, tried blurring i…
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robsta156

Substance To Max ISSUE

i transfer my SP textures to Max and i get this weird different texture in MAX when i render (i use vray) ... is this because my materials or because my vray settings? i don't have any other light th…
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musashidan

[SD] Tile generator post processing node?

Hi all,Besides duplicating the tile generator/sampler nodes, is there a way to post-process output with a luminance random effect?For example, after creating a brick wall pattern, one might want to c…
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poopipe

8K Export Question (Painter 2018)

Hi there, I had a quick question when it came to exporting 8K textures in Painter.After adding some more layers to my material the 8K export stopped working and it would freeze every time.Upon this h…
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Nihilus

(SOLVED) Question about integer1 (dropdown) parameter in Substance Designer

Hello. I'm trying to make a dropdown list parameter, very much like an enumeration, and the only way I have found to get it working, is a bunch of branches. Is this how people normally do it?As a bit…
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oblomov

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LoganTMT

How do correct this material Unreal Engine 4/ Substance Designer

Hi, I'm trying to export this material from Substance Designer into Unreal 4 but when I set it up it looks completely different, even ignoring the height maps which I'm not using below the colors, re…
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Batou

Light Stamp Tool

Just released a new Substance painter tool that gives you customizable light detail stamps in one click, renders and videos from marmoset toolbag, More previews and download at  - …
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Jonas Ronnegard

Need help on creating a material

hi i just took me model into substance to begin texturing and have already come in to an issue, im finding it hard to create this type of paint i was wondering if anyone has any tips or things i…
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wirrexx

Triplanar seam hiding in Designer

Hey guys,I'm trying to solve a problem I have been encountering for quite a while now: Hiding your seams.In this example I have a battery which has a concrete texture applied to it through triplanar …
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YannickStoot

Substance Designer to Redshift Material - Specular Level Output

Does anyone know where you should plug a Substance Designer "Specular Level" into a Redshift Material? My first guess is in the "Reflectivity"?
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Three65

budget gpu for substance painter

Is an rx 550 enough to use substance painter? cause that is the only card i can afford and the rx 560 and gtx 1050 have all been inflated in price.Has anyone here have experience using substance pain…
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poopipe

Substance Designer Tri Planar Node Problem

Hi guys!(See the last line for a summary for the whole post)So I came across SP's tri planar projection and wanted to do the same in SD. I looked it up as to how it works and it doesn't seem to work …
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StereoVinny

Skew correction not working?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymRZOvzUKtE I am doing like the video says at 16:00, made a simple low poly cube and a high poly cube with details on it to try this feature.Created an embedded graysc…
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pom

Blend node with more than 2 inputs? All these nodes to add shapes feels dated...

So I'm learning SD currently and I'm finding it odd that the blend node only has two inputs.  I'm thinking there has to be a more efficient node to this with. Why not just be able to "+" to…
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oxygencube

I'm really lost at how to create this particular texture...

Hi,I'm working with Substance Designer for a few weeks now and I didn't have a particular problem with anything yet but this one particular texture. I'm sure there is some simple way to do it, but I …
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LorasTyrell

Cylinder baking issue. Anyway to fix this?

If you look below you'll see the issue I'm dealing with. I'm working with a model that has a lot of cylinders and I'm running into this baking issue so I did this quick test study to figure it out.It…
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Bek

[SP] Paint when brush center is not on the object

Hi,I am not sure this is possible in SP: if I want to stamp a part of alpha onto a layer, but my brush's center is not on the object.I can't find a way to tell SP to paint as if I am in a 2D applicat…
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bitinn

odd smoothing in Iray

i've used substance painter for about 2 years now and i've never had any issue switching between viewport and iray, however this 1 model i have seems to have issues between the two, it looks fine in …
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poopipe

Substance 2018.1.1 issue baking

Hi there,I have an issue with Substance, basically when i try to bake one object it work just used a FBX as Highpoly, but It dosn't work with an OBJ file, in the previus versiono of Substance, I had …
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Jerc

Baking high poly to low poly leaves artifacts?

I'm having some trouble right now, trying to get my high poly to bake down to my low poly. I've tried multiple different frontal and rear distances, but no matter what, I always get these weird artif…
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R3D

Substance Painter: Best export preset for Marmoset toolbag 3

I already posted this in Marmoset forum, but it seems more appropriate here:I can't seem to find the best export preset for Marmoset toolbag 3. There is a Toolbag 2 export guide, but not fo…
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Jerc

3DSMax - Vray Displacement slot from Substance Painter ??

Allegorithmic has nice explanations about exporting maps and integrations for different render engines  on its documentation pages. And i get nice results for 3dsmax and Vray but just wondering …
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Burpee

SP 2018.1 - Material Layering in Unity 2017.3.1 - even supported?

So I'm trying out this material layering technuique from this old official tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhEI_acXjtk . First I get this error when I import material layering package to Un…
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19ulrich90

SPainter 2, and SPainter 2018. Are they different products ?

I was paying monthly for SP2 for a while, before I bought it. Now it seems there's SP 2018. Is that a new product entirely, or is that an upgrade ?Any idea ?
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Jerc

Baking problems

Hello, I'm new to substance and i'm making my first asset.I've sculpted a old stone stair, I first tried a automatic uv to test and it had some artifacts, so I started the retopology and uving by han…
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Domslice

Red wire when connecting my tga normal map bitmap to the normal node in SD

Hi guy's,Just can't believe i have to ask here such a simple question but i am Googling for a solution for more than an hour without success and the substance designer documentation is useless on thi…
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pixelquaternion

[SOLVED] Artifacts When baking normals in substance painter

I'm trying to bake normal map and I'm getting artifacts at the seams. Every help is welcome, files included:
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Itam_17

Blending Alphas?

I was considering cutting out a step of sculpting seams for some pants with some alphas I have by just using the alphas in SP.However.. I do not think there is a way to blend alphas like there is in …
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Mr.Moose

Updating Existing Textures for SP Question

I have some unique color textures previously created in Photoshop that are fixed at 1K or 2K. These used the pre-PBR AO and Cavity multiplied over the diffuse layers method. I know that I can delete …
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Square_Triangle

what is Project Alchemist.?

looks interesting but i have no clue waht it is...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8zE8hvP23I
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pior

SD Slow with no nodes in the graph?

Hey guys, Substance Designer seams to be lagging without any nodes in the graph. This lag goes away when I restart SD but comes back after a while.. any ideas? I've tried adding an exception to the A…
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RashedAlmetrami

How should I create the details of a mesh?

Hi guys,A newbie here! I was wondering how should I create the details of a mesh. I am quite confused about the workflow relating to it.Say I have a low-poly cauldron modelled in Maya. Now I want to …
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