Adobe Substance

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Getting a weird artifact on the Iray render Hi everybody, first post here! This past month I've been trying to learn game props texturing, I think I'm at a good point, but some weird glitch on Substance Painter Iray renderer is driving me craz…	6 Last	Synthdrive Jun 2023
ID map keeps baking red [{"insert":"I keep running into an issue where whenever I try to bake an ID map from the Material Color, the result is just a solid red map. \n\nAs a test, I ran a bake on this mesh (Made in 3DS Max,…	12 Last	poopipe Jun 2023
Substance Painter \| Weird artifacts after baking I've baked my model from High poly in SP, but it has weird artifacts of chamfer in edges.I've made UV seams in hard edges, but this didn't help. There should be Soft chamfer, but instead there is a w…	6 Last	CuriousAn124 Jun 2023
Problem with Normal maps exported from photshop Hello everyone.i got a problem everytime i try to edit 2 normal maps togther in photoshop.after i export my final normal map and view it in substance it shows with alot of artifacts and kinda pixilat…	11 Last	gnoop Jun 2023
Normalize (-1,1) in Designer ? Looking for a way to process a 24bit texture such that the red and green channels will be normalized within a -1 to 1 range, and not include the blue channel. What does the Normal Normalize node…	16 Last	Eric Chadwick Jun 2023
Smooth Curvature node making weird gradients This curvature smooth node has begun to do this weird gradient thing whenever i attach my normal to it. the weird thing is that when i try to disconnect and reconnect with just a plain mask it is sti…	6 Last	poloko61 Jun 2023
What tricks do you do to get realistic color from height map? I do usual stuff . "pick gradient" from photos or just 2-3 colors over some noise. It's all the same , just rare lack when it looks ok . Mostly it's never-ending t…	2 Last	Eric Chadwick Jun 2023
How expose Bitmap input for SBSAR? How do I allow a user to input their own bitmap into a SBSAR that I make?I'd like to make a normalize tool with Designer, which only normalizes RG and passes through B unchanged. Details here: Normal…	2 Last	poopipe Jun 2023
Output a PNG without alpha from SBSAR? When I load my graph in Player it always saves the PNG with an alpha channel. But I'd prefer a 24bit PNG with only RGB channels. Is there a way to force the graph to omit the alpha channel?	1 Last	Eric Chadwick May 2023
Cursor disappears in Substance Painter Hello everyone! I encountred the issue when placing the cursour in viewport it just disappears and I can't rotate, zoom, move as well as paint. It appears when I place it over layers window, material…	4 Last	dushnyla2309 May 2023
[Solved] AO/curvature artifacts Does anyone know what is happening here? It's a simple house siding but AO and curvature bake seem completely random. I made it in Blender and AO node there works normally. Scale is applied, normals …	2 Last	ibex May 2023
I want to bake Substance Painter lighting into color channel - is it even possible? Basically the result I see in the viewport (with all the reflections, normal map details etc.) I want to be baked into base color. Can't figure out how to do it. Baked Lighting filter doesn't do that…	1 Last	poopipe May 2023
curvature map has very hard edge after baking hey everyone, I met some problem when I bake curvature in substance painter, very simple geo, and I use low poly as high, but I get this hard edge, does anyone know why. Thanks!	1 Last	poopipe May 2023
Distance Field bits for Substance Designer Hello, I made This so I thought I'd pop it on Gumroad What you get is a few (more to come) primitive shapes made of distance fields, nodes for boolean operations on distance fields, a…	8 Last	poopipe May 2023
Weird Graph Nodes Hi, i have a problem for which I can't find a solution. And my own experience with Designer is not big enough to solve it by myself.My project has the dimensions 512x512. I have (successfully) crea…	3 Last	poopipe Apr 2023
Add-on doesn't work in Blender Hey, I've installed Adobe Integration Tools and Substance to Blender plugin, everything seems to work fine - earlier I've gotten an error while installing, but I've found a solution and add-on has st…	0 Last	Phiona Apr 2023
Baking Issue Question [{"type":"p","children":[{"text":"Hi I'm sure this may be obvious to many and I'm sure it online but it helps if I have get a direct answer on things I work on, what are these issues I'm getting when…	5 Last	poopipe Apr 2023
Substance painter keeps failing to save [{"insert":{"embed-external":{"data":{"url":"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/5021068\/uploads\/ZM9MTQL8OHVO\/image.png","name":"image.png","type":"image\/png","size":17593,"width":350,"height":636,"displaySi…	4 Last	FishMan Apr 2023
I want to create Stingray Skin using Substance designer [{"type":"p","children":[{"text":"Hello. I am a Japanese student and I am not good at English, so I am writing through a translation machine. How can I generate a texture of a stingray like this usin…	1 Last	poopipe Apr 2023
Animating a single variable of an exposed float3 input in Substance Designer? [{"insert":"I'm trying to figure out how to animate a texture by changing the value of the Y Offset on a Voronoi texture by using a value processor node connected to the exposed Offset input paramete…	8 Last	poopipe Apr 2023
Multiple mesh maps in a single slot [{"type":"p","children":[{"text":"Hi. This is my first time working using Udim Workflow. For my model I use 1 material with 2 Udims (uv tiles) and for each of them I need a mesh map in SP. When I bak…	2 Last	Sani Apr 2023
How to paint through the model in substance painter ? [{"type":"p","children":[{"text":"Hello everybody ! \n\nI'm starting using substance painter and really struggling to paint through the model (example : through a character's body to have nice grades…	0 Last	Natus_000 Apr 2023
[Substance 3D Painter] Problems exporting maps [{"insert":"Hello,\nI have a problem guys, i'm not really used to substance still and i want to export my textures but it seems like when i do export them, all i get are Blank or colored Maps ?\nPS: …	3 Last	poopipe Apr 2023
Normal Map baked good but I see low poly edges in other apps [{"insert":"Hi,\nI applied all the rules to the normal maps baking and in SP it's all good:\n"},{"insert":{"embed-external":{"data":{"url":"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/5021068\/uploads\/IX9IPVKW221W\/ima…	6 Last	poopipe Mar 2023
Importing to Substance painter has redistributed my UV shells? [{"insert":"I imported a mesh from Maya that spans 4 UDIMs into Substance Painter. However, the layout has been redistributed and all the UV shells I made are in different places, but still spans the…	1 Last	wilson66 Mar 2023
My First Substance project: Michelin Pilot Sport GT [{"insert":"Hi guys,\nI'm currently working on this wheel, and I got to the texturing part of the tire now. So far I only used Photoshop for the texture, and It's starting to look descent. But in ord…	0 Last	FP_ Mar 2023
PANIC ! SP crashed on save and when I reopen the file there is nothing !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! [{"insert":"I have been texturing this character for about a week... but the file still weihgt 2.3 gigs so I still have hope it can be open somehow but how ????\nAlso the lock file is still there eve…	5 Last	Stensword Mar 2023
perpetual licenses via steam? [{"insert":"I just found out that these are available through steam...so pardon that i'm a little late to the news.\nCurious how it works (and how you guys like it for those that use it).\nSince it r…	2 Last	pxgeek Mar 2023
Painter giving me some blacks in the normal map?? [{"insert":"Hey guys, I have baked a normal map in Toolbag and all looks great. I bring it into Painter and now I have some black areas in the normal map in the viewer and once the new maps are expor…	3 Last	guitarguy00 Mar 2023
Weird edges when using decimated model as high poly for baking [{"insert":"Hello.\nI am try to bake high poly to low poly. When I used original hp model everything worked as expected. \n"},{"insert":{"embed-external":{"data":{"url":"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/50210…	8 Last	Kritgar Mar 2023
Atlas vs Shape splatter [{"insert":{"embed-external":{"data":{"url":"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/5021068\/uploads\/YOM8FOBI9OL6\/image.png","name":"image.png","type":"image\/png","size":370320,"width":1225,"height":864,"display…	6 Last	gnoop Mar 2023
Copy vs switch blending modes? [{"insert":"Does anyone know the difference? I couldn't figure out it sincevthe first version of substance designer? \nHelp says something cryptic: \nIn copy mode it's just the background \"c…	3 Last	poopipe Mar 2023
Substance Painter - Wireframe showing through high poly bake [{"insert":"So I'm trying to bake a high poly mesh on a low poly mesh. It looks like the low poly wire frame is showing through the bake. You can see in the photo the grid showing through all the map…	2 Last	poopipe Mar 2023
Why does my material look so different in painter vs designer? [{"insert":"Hi , I have recently started to teach myself designer and i have ran into an issue i was hoping someone could help me with . I have made a wood material i was planning on using for a gun…	4 Last	gnoop Mar 2023
Hand Paint - Little question about texture color [{"insert":"Hello everyone! "},{"insert":{"emoji":{"emojiChar":"🙂"}}},{"insert":"\n(I hope someone will have an idea because i am completely lost).\nSo, i wanted to lauch me in the hand painting for …	3 Last	LoicDigitalArt Feb 2023
Passing rotation and other inputs through fx-map node? [{"insert":"Does somebody know an optimal way to do it? For example I do a rotation noise input to rotate things scattered by fx-node. How can I pass that input through fx-node itself s…	14 Last	gnoop Feb 2023
[SOLVED] Substance won't bake my model using a HP mesh [{"insert":"Hello everyone! i imported my LP (and unwrapped) mesh onto substance painter and went to bake my HP mesh that i sculpted off the last one (unwrapped (not the same uv map)) (has the same l…	9 Last	albertobalsalm Feb 2023
Substance Painter - Baking problem with Color [{"insert":"Hello everyone!\n(I am new here and I hope i am in the good section, sorry if that's not the case)\nAfter a baking on substance painter, I have a strange render about my color (I've the i…	0 Last	LoicDigitalArt Feb 2023
Black ambient Occlusion map for thick garment [{"insert":"Like the title says, I exported a garment from marvelous designer using the thick preset. When the file is imported in substance painter and I try to bake maps, I get a very dark AO map. …	3 Last	killnpc Feb 2023
Need help in understanding better the preparations for texturing from Marmoset Toolbag to Painter [{"insert":"So I have this little guy modeled and just created a quick'n dirty normal map including each object (6 in total) in 1 texture set. See 2nd image for the actual model.\n"},{"insert":{"embe…	3 Last	Lifelover Feb 2023
Orientation of UV islands. [{"insert":"Hi. Is there any way to make substance painter remember the orientation setting from 3d software (I use 3dsmax)? Do I have to manually make a second layer rotated by 90 degrees for some i…	1 Last	poopipe Feb 2023
Sampler now features a new photogrammetry pipeline! [{"insert":"With "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Substance 3D Sampler 4.0"},{"insert":", you can use real-world images to create 3D objects with automatic subject masking, texture mapping, a…	5 Last	gnoop Feb 2023
I can't bake normal maps with substance painter, can anybody help me? [{"insert":"Greetings for all!\n\nI don't know if this is the correct place, but, I have original substance painter, bought on STEAM and I can't bake the maps. Can somebody help me? \n2 days ago was …	9 Last	chien Feb 2023
Substance painter does not bake ID colour map properly [{"insert":{"embed-external":{"data":{"url":"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/5021068\/uploads\/P0YA3D46IVB6\/screen-11.jpg","name":"screen-11.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg","size":187285,"width":2560,"height":139…	12 Last	chien Feb 2023
Substance Designer: How do I view non square materials in 3D view? [{"insert":"I'm making a tree bark material that needs to be 2048x4096. So far, I cannot find a way to view this material in the 3D view without it stretching.\nIs there a way to set the 3D object, i…	5 Last	mark lautenbach Feb 2023
Substance painter bake problem [{"insert":"Can you help me understand why I get those artifatcs after bake? \n"},{"insert":{"embed-external":{"data":{"url":"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/5021068\/uploads\/3XAKEDBY9GKN\/image.png","name"…	7 Last	scraffcoff Feb 2023
How do I make a good looking realistic cracked glass in substance painter ?? here is my attempt... [{"insert":{"embed-external":{"data":{"url":"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/5021068\/uploads\/V7YXLTSXGI9O\/image.png","name":"image.png","type":"image\/png","size":321998,"width":447,"height":407,"displayS…	8 Last	Stensword Feb 2023
Weird Flipped Portion of Normals in Substance 3D Painter [{"insert":"This ugly seam is appearing in my normals. I'm assuming its a UV issue but I cannot determine why this portion of my mesh has this weird flipped effect.\nDoes anyone know how to resolve t…	5 Last	Fabi_G Feb 2023
Substance Painter - painting "normal" above "normal" When projecting a normal map above a normal map can I fully replace the below normal with the top normal map (all on the same layer) ?I used a cross-normal-map in the example, I thought when I draw t…	3 Last	Ghogiel Jan 2023
Normal map weired lines after baking [{"insert":"Hi, i hope everyone is healthy.\nI always want to ask this question sometimes i tried alot with this to find out what is going on, but never found a legitimate solution.\nWhat could make …	16 Last	Neox Jan 2023