Adobe Substance

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Substance Painter - Baking in SP produces black maps Hey everyone,I'm having an issue with Substance Painter in trying to bake in the software. I only seem to get pure black maps. I'm making sure the naming conventions are identical and that …	7 Last	Ashervisalis Sep 2017
Substance painter doesn't load designer material. When I try to load my material I made in designer in painter it won't load sp starts getting stuck. And it doesn't put my material on it. I've waited over 5 minutes to load it on 256 and it didn't lo…	4 Last	Sunray Sep 2017
texturing help hi I have completed the engraving part of the weapon but I'm confused because how can I get the gold color on the black surface. And my normal is also baked.	1 Last	Sunray Sep 2017
Black seams on curvature map? Anyone know if this is normal to happen in Curvature Map? This causes dark seams in the edges when using generators with wear in the edges of the mesh inside substance. Every map was baked inside Sub…	3 Last	Zaikoni Sep 2017
SP - can 1 generator include multiple micro detail maps from anchor points? First off, thanks for the addition of anchor points and micro detail maps - it's great and useful.Near as I can tell, the current workflow requires micro detail used by any given generator to be sour…	4 Last	SeveredScion Sep 2017
Trouble baking my first asset - 3ds Max 2018 / Substance Painter Hello Everyone,Over the past three weeks I've started the adventure of learning 3D modelling using 3ds Max 2018.For my first asset I'll be taking from start to finish, I decided to make a simple meta…	1 Last	poopipe Sep 2017
Wood pattern using Substance Hello all! I am new in Substance Painter and Substance designer and now I am trying to make my first project using only these two products for texturing. It will be a medieval wooden crossbow.And it …	4 Last	nefarius Sep 2017
Can I edit curvature map in substance painter? 1) Can I edit curvature map in substance painter? I have one problem. I dont need that dark areas on my model: https://image.prntscr.com/image/rFRYhNIXQ9iTY84zBmuq2w.jpeghttps://image.prnts…	1 Last	Jerc Sep 2017
Tile a custom normal map I'm working on a project doing modular meshes and need this map to be tiledI tried to cut too, as there is empty space in the texture, I cut the vacant part so the whole image gets sharper. In Bitmap…	2 Last	poopipe Sep 2017
How to make a texture tile in SD/SP Hi,I'm sorry but I haven't found solution for this problem yet and don't seem to work around this by myself so I hope someone could help me with this. Im quite new to SD and I'm trying to create tili…	2 Last	gnoop Sep 2017
Painter to Arnold 5? New material setup causing issues. Hi guys -Currently trying to wrap my head around Substance Painter to Arnold workflow. It seems simple enough...export out maps in Painter using the Arnold settings, but things are not looking right …	3 Last	JohnnyRaptor Sep 2017
SD - Batch re-save old sbs files? Hi,is there a way to automatically (re)-save (compile) my library sbs's for every SD version, without learning python?Thx	1 Last	poopipe Sep 2017
Substance looks way better in Designer than Marmoset Toolbag 3 Hey everyone,So I've been learning Substance Designer, and I've made this Mandala pattern following a tutorial on Youtube and while I'm really pleased with it in Designer, in Marmoset it looks really…	9 Last	gnoop Sep 2017
Substance Painter Symmetry Axis not updating I know that the symmetry axis is based on the center of the bounding box of the object, not the origin, which, so far, has done nothing but introduce problems for me, like in the following example:Af…	4 Last	joebount Sep 2017
Muscles... Hey there, any idea if this will be possible?I'm working on a model that needs to show all the muscles in the human body, and I was wondering what the best way would be to create muscles PBR mat…	2 Last	rexo12 Aug 2017
Can I figure out if a material use a particular additional map? Sometimes I want to skip baking thickness map if it's not needed, but I am never quite sure if a material (or a smart material) use it or not.Is there a way to figure it out definitively in Subs…	1 Last	Jerc Aug 2017
Is there any way to change normal blend type during the projection? Hello,I use the projection tool with normal map loaded. I need to make a couple strokes before I'll get what I need...the problem is that I realised that normal map is set to "overlay" or something l…	2 Last	kurt_hectic Aug 2017
Strange substance painter albedo export error Good evenin.This is what i have done so far:Made simple brick shape in 3dsmax, exported to zbrush. Sculpted several bricks, created an insert mesh brush from about 6 different sculpted bricks.then ma…	3 Last	Froyok Aug 2017
Busted Normal Map - Sub Designer I'm getting some really odd effects on my normal maps of late in Designer. I'm plugging in height maps generated in designer into the height > normal node and getting some very bitty quantising ty…	1 Last	Froyok Aug 2017
Whats the difference between using baked AO map in the AO slot and just merging it into my texture? I baked out my normal, AO, and height maps from hi to low poly in Marmoset. Now I've' imported all my meshes into a single Substance Painter file using an FBX and I could apply each of the the indivi…	2 Last	TheDonquixotic Aug 2017
Updating .sbsar base material in Substance Painter Apologies if this is covered somewhere that I haven't dug up in my google / forum searches. Is there an easy way to update a .sbsar base material so that changes made in Substance Designer propagate …	6 Last	Froyok Aug 2017
Substance, 3dsmax and unity for games, unwrap to texture workflow? Hey all,I'm in need of a little guidance when using 3ds and substances for a unwrap to texture workflow.The end goal is to have a library of substances which the team can reference and unwrap models …	2 Last	Chubbs Aug 2017
alpha import is stretched into a square hey i have some alphas that im trying to import but they always get compressed into a square which makes them unusable, any way to stop this?	2 Last	Simon_____ Aug 2017
Is there a way to "convert/import" Quixel Materials to Substance? Hi!As the title suggests... I've been using Quixel for more than a year and while I really like the software, I feel that Substance Painter/Designer have features that will really improve my workflow…	3 Last	goatSQVIDD Aug 2017
Need some help with a substance effect Hello, im quite new to substance and i was wondering how would i go about texturing this type of blade, the hard light part	5 Last	Simon_____ Aug 2017
HELP - Substance Designer - Transparent Substance to Unity Hello,I am trying to create a substance of rust that can be usable on multiple object within Unity. Therefore I wan't a substance with transparency, so I can apply the rust on top of different materi…	0 Last	CVee Aug 2017
Issues with substance textures in UE4 My substance textures don't tile, nor do they appear correctly in ue4 as they do in painter or designer. I've unchecked sRGB and set the compression settings to "Masks (no sRGB) on my Roughness…	4 Last	Larry Aug 2017
substance painter 2 glass? hi i am quite new to substance, and i have not learnt anything about creating materials yet, i was wondering if:is glass even possible? as i've not found any videos or materials on substance sharei w…	6 Last	Simon_____ Aug 2017
Clone multiple texture channels in Substance Painter? Hi,I'm cleaning up some dodgy scans at the moment, there are large holes in some surfaces which need to be patched up and have textures cloned in to make up the missing detail from the good bits. Ide…	9 Last	SeveredScion Aug 2017
Problems with normal maps HI, Im trying to bake normal maps on a low poly but I always get this ugly normal maps someone knows how to fix this?	4 Last	redorb333 Aug 2017
Height map for 3d print? Hey there I have a client who wants 3d printed tokens for his tabletop game he is making and he wants cracks on them, so I thought could I use Substance Painter to do that with just a height map like…	1 Last	DRoss3d Aug 2017
Baking problem behind the ears I'm having problems when I bake my high poly mesh onto my low poly in Substance. I used a tutorial where you separate the different mesh parts into different texture sets and you don't have any overl…	2 Last	plero Aug 2017
Do you need to have a high poly to low poly workflow to paint with PBR I'm having a hard time understanding how to work in PBR. Do I need to sculpt all of my geometry in high poly and then create low poly mesh's to bake to? It just seems like so much work for simple ass…	7 Last	PhantomFox Aug 2017
Burnt plastic (random holes) Hello everybody. I wonder if it is possible to reproduce, with Substance Designer, the effect of burnt plastic (similar to many works by Italian artist Alberto Burri), or the effect of a liquid separ…	2 Last	Larry Aug 2017
Unreal showing maps from sbsar and exact same maps but exported via Substance Painter 2 differently Hello,I have been working on a road texture but found an issue where if I import the sbsar file as is into unreal then the material will look different than if I import the sbsar into Substance Paint…	1 Last	PJPayne Aug 2017
Substance Painter opacity into textures Hey, I've been messing around with opacity in my current project and was wondering when I go to export the textures, how would I go about getting this opacity displayed in Marmoset?Thanks for an…	1 Last	Bek Aug 2017
Possible to combine different projection types and mask from alpha? I`m new to Substance Designer and Painter and stumbled upon a few thing I just cannot figure out how to solve efficiently.Probably you guys can help me easily.1. I created a simple base material subs…	2 Last	Prime8 Aug 2017
Issues combining MatID Texture Sets from Substance Painter into one texture using Designer Hello, I've recently gotten back into things and as such have been trying to learn the PBR workflow via Substance Painter and Designer.Using Max I assigned various Material IDs to the parts of my low…	0 Last	Skamberin Aug 2017
Substance painter file sizes Vs Quixel Hi all.I currently use Quixel suite on a daily basis.I am finding that the workfile sizes are very large being psd's. Ive gotta lot of work on and am finding it to be a bit of a pain to back up. …	4 Last	Froyok Aug 2017
How can I improve my baking in SD6? my normal/height maps come out blurry. I hope the image explains what Im talking about. i made a panel with 4 screws in the corners, if I bake in Blender they come out perfect, nice and flat, and but in SD6 they come out terrible at a wei…	9 Last	NoRank Aug 2017
Making textures tiles with masks I have a texture I'm trying to make tile first with the texture offset (the old fashioned Photoshop way) and then with the clone tool. But it looks like when I duplicate my material, offset it, and t…	4 Last	Froyok Aug 2017
Metallness and or roughness problem? Okay, so I made this render:And honestly, I like it but for the life of me I can't figure out how to export the texture maps to work with Renderman. I followed this tutorial: https://youtu.be/koNef0R…	0 Last	RealityFix Aug 2017
Susbtance Designer - Material for Unity Hello,So I was told that in substance designer you could create these materials that could then be used in unity and control it's color.I have this weapon with a power gauge thing (by default it's gr…	2 Last	CVee Aug 2017
HELP - Marvelous Designer Substance to Unity Hello,I am trying to create a Marvelous Designer Substance for the first time and I have to import it into Unity.I followed a tutorial online from the Allegorithmic oficial youtube account.When I pub…	2 Last	CVee Aug 2017
Substance to Marmoset .sbsar issue Hello, everyone!I'm trying to export a .sbsar to Marmoset, but it isn't working for some reason. Exporting from SD 5 does the trick, but the .sbsar just doesn't load if I'm using the latest SD versio…	2 Last	rosen_kazlachev Aug 2017
Metal material is too dark in viewer (EDIT: I rewrote my question in the reply, because the original question wasn't clear)Basically, in SP viewer they appear too dark, but they look fine in Unity or material preview.Basically I ne…	16 Last	Froyok Aug 2017
Weird Baking Artifacts I've been having some trouble getting my bakes to look decent in substance painter. Below are some pictures of the issues, you can see weird artifacts on my mesh.http://imgur.com/NjVm3CRhttp://imgur.…	6 Last	apollo580 Aug 2017
How to make exposed parameters user friendly in engine? Good morning everybody!So I'm working on a cement tiles substance, which I want highly customisable. The substance is made of several patterns, each one in a separate graph with exposed paramet…	1 Last	poopipe Aug 2017
Any suggestions as to making a 'polished concrete texture' infact this question has popped up before here by other users but was unanswered.https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/og/kblbodropv63.jpgi would like to make a polished concrete like this.I ha…	2 Last	oraeles77 Aug 2017
Any trick to control spacing between hard surfaces? Basically I want to use fill effect to apply a hard surface (normals) onto a layer, but because it's considered a texture, I cannot control the spacing between them.Using paint effect with brush woul…	4 Last	poopipe Aug 2017