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Creating blood for weapons Hey All, So i'm trying to add blood to my weapon here without looking to cheesy, I had tried looking for tutorial videos, and documents but could not find any that would fit my needs....Is there…		1 Last	Kyetja Dec 2016
Substance painter - car paint and baking without highpoly Hello, i'm pretty new to substance software, but i hope this questions would make sense.First of all - how can i achieve carpaint look with substance painter? I'm making a car game model for a first …		1 Last	sprunghunt Dec 2016
Substance Painter 2 - Combine two Projects?! Hello guys,i made a weapon on one uv and the magazine and some other parts are on a seperate uv. i textured the gun first and after it i textured the magazine etc. the gun is on one substance-project…		1 Last	Jerc Dec 2016
[Substance Painter] Emissive Greyscale for Base. How would I setup a project to use a grayscale emissive to then use the Albedo/Base as the color to make emissive?If I attempt at this time to use the standard pbr shader and the emissive grayscale, …		1 Last	Jerc Dec 2016
Substance Designer - Multiple Inputs on a Tile Generator? Hi!I'm currently working on a white tiles texture, and trying to do a cement texture below that, to show whenever a tile is removed by a mask.I'm trying to make some "left-over plaster shapes" below …		4 Last	Soldeus Dec 2016
Tiles - Feedback please Had a go at my own tiles after going through a tutorial by Kyle Horwood. This is very much WIP, I want to revisit it and try to improve it. Right now my main concerns that I'm aware of are;- Roughnes…		5 Last	capone Dec 2016
Realistic Bark in Substance Designer? Need Advice Hi,I'm working on a bark substance and it seems to be a very complicated material. To achieve this I tried different approaches but none of them was really close to my reference image, which is this …		3 Last	Bruno Afonseca Nov 2016
Visible UV seams Hello, There are visible uv seams in my model. I have used tri-planer projection but still visible. I have attached the model. It is a high poly model, not a ga…		8 Last	code7 Nov 2016
How to paint with smart materials? Hey everyone! I am completely new to Substance Painter and I have no idea how to paint with Smart Materials? I can't just drag and drop my smart material into the Paint properties :( Or can I just ma…		2 Last	RedlChris-_- Nov 2016
Inverted normals when openig FBX Im trying to import my lowpoly model to bake it with my highpoly. However the normals are inverted on the mesh so im not getting anywhere. I use 3ds max 2017 and substance painter 2.4.1. In the expor…		3 Last	Ikben Nov 2016
Substance Painter memory usage Is it normal for SP to use more than 10GB of RAM without any project opened?!I have gathered quiet a lot of content in my custom shelf location, and it seems to me that the program is trying to load …		4 Last	Froyok Nov 2016
SD Texture Sheets/Atlas I'm looking to attempt my hand at creating a texture atlas/sheet for modular purposes with hard surfaces in mind. The flat panels and trim with no corners or edges to worry about are the easy p…		0 Last	acealmighty13 Nov 2016
Closed Animated ocean texture -> Maya? Hi all! New to Polycount, excited to start talking to everybody about 3D stuff! Anyhow, I was reading through this topic on Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker's art: http://polycount.com/discussion…		1 Last	Eric Chadwick Nov 2016
Substance Designer for multiple similar buildings? Hi! I'm new to Designer, and trying to integrate it in my workflow for texturing buildings. The buildings have unique UVs and textures (so they are not modular really), but have some o…		3 Last	Bruno Afonseca Nov 2016
Baking Curvature from edited Normal Map I am practicing with Substance Painter texturing this model download from Substance Share: https://share.allegorithmic.com/libraries/2087When I bake a Normal Map and a Curvature Map from the hig…		2 Last	Jerc Nov 2016
Can you bake alphas in Substance Painter. I'm using SP 1.7.3 at the moment. Can I bake an alpha. For example, say I want to bake a chain link fence Hi Poly to a Low Poly flat plane. I'd want the holes in the fence to be alpha'd out...&…		3 Last	Jerc Nov 2016
I need help/ Baking with Substance painter Hey, guys so, i need some help... I modelled a simply cemetery stone in maya and i tried to bake it in substance painter for Unreal engine 4, i have low poly, high poly i named them correctly for sub…		2 Last	juggulator Nov 2016
Substance Painter texture reloading makes file size too big I'm running into an issue where I have a finished fully textured asset in Substance Painter with multiple UV sets all at 4k. The file size of the file is about 2.8gb, but I had to rebake all my bas…		6 Last	demilich Nov 2016
Strange artifacts on bake If I bake from Max, I don't have any issues but when I bake within substance I have these weird artifacts. I've tried breaking up that face so it's on it's own separate island and messing with the sm…		5 Last	Deforges Nov 2016
[SP2] Export producing black textures. I'm having this issue with the export in Substance Painter 2 when I export all the maps they're all 16kb black textures. If I change it from .png it .tga it makes them all 16mb black textures, same w…		6 Last	Froyok Nov 2016
albedo+Transparency map question... Hi, I've exported an albedoTransparency map out of substance painter, and am slightly befuddled as to why i can't see the albedo within photoshop (only the alpha channel) but when i view it from with…		3 Last	Eric Chadwick Nov 2016
Baking Hey all, I'm pretty new at baking models here, and I'm having trouble to where the seams are really showing through my normal map...is there a way to where I can paint over the seams to ma…		3 Last	Steampoweredman483 Nov 2016
issue with my bake and get black normal map hey guys im am following a tutorial and am trying to bake in substance first time trying to bake there and it finishes but nothing changes my normal map looks black and i dont know what i did wrong&n…		3 Last	CVee Nov 2016
Trouble with tiling a mask for my shingles Made a height map for my shingles but creating a flat mask with luminosity seems to be impossible. All I do is duplicate the same tile random I use for my height and plug in the mask but the shapes j…		0 Last	capone Nov 2016
Substance texture export problem Hi,I've tried to login to Allegorithmic's forum, I've wrote letter to support and I've searched in net but my problem isn't solved yet so I write here.Well, my problem is that in Substance Painter I …		0 Last	Johnnyman Nov 2016
Substance designer scaling issue (noob question) Hey I'm new to substance and I'm having this problem with my scale. When I import 2 materials i made into a new graph to blend them they both ignore the absolute size of the base parameters from…		3 Last	gnoop Nov 2016
Normal map issue I've spent few hours trying to figure this out but i'm out of ideas. I'm sure problem is simple and i'm doing something wrong but i can't find answer what is it. I did simple fireaxe in max and now i…		4 Last	Quack! Nov 2016
Substance Designer trouble with shader material ? Sup guys, i have some trouble in SD with my plane. For example my plane is very glossy. I can try changing materialbut it doesnt work for me, can u help me ? Cheers B)		3 Last	Fbink Nov 2016
Problem geting the same result on 3ds max vray Hi guys, i paint a object on substance painter , but when i aply the maps that i exported for vray render in 3ds max, they dont look the same like in substance, some screens:SUBSTANCE:MAX:for s…		3 Last	musashidan Nov 2016
iRay on 10xx GPU's? Hi,Quick question; do Painter and Designer have the latest iRay SDK yet? I can't seem to be able to get past the warm-up phase when initializing iRay on my GTX 1060 in Painter. In Designer, iRay is i…		2 Last	Bluestemos Nov 2016
Substance Designer 5.5.2 crashes when creating/opening graphs. As the title states.Computer Specs:OS: Windows 10 64bitRAM: 24.0 GBProcessor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 920 @ 2.67GHzGraphic: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460I have Substance Designer 5.5.2. Yesterday (10…		8 Last	Devon M Nov 2016
Rate My B2M Materials Hi all. I have just started using B2M and I am still figuring it out. I have created some materials within it for use in UE4 and I was wondering what you all think of them. I have included my materia…		8 Last	Spencer_Holmes Nov 2016
Looking for help with Overwatch-style hair in Substance Designer Heya guys, I'm looking to learn more about surfacing (I'm a 2d Illustrator and ZBrush sculptor) and I'm going to make some Overwatch related busts. Has anyone seen any handy tutorials on how to produ…		1 Last	Chimp Nov 2016
Substance Designer Tiles - Need Feedback I recently purchased a tutorial series from Josh Lynch, it's a pretty complex tutorial that spans many hours for one texture tile. It's pretty intense, check this out;Towards the end I started to get…		1 Last	Sajeet Nov 2016
Border Square graph where? tl;dr: Is the border square brush graph from SP2 somewhere in the root folders?Hey all, so I was trying to build a set of alphas to draw panel lines, in order to stop baking from floating geo and do …		1 Last	Jerc Oct 2016
Please change the default in "UV Tile" for future updates As the topic states I really don't get a complete understanding why the last several versions of this software have a default UV tile set to "3" when it should really be at "1".Please can someone at …		1 Last	Jerc Oct 2016
Need help picking out specific digits out of a long number, within a function? Hey all, I am in need of a little bit of math advice. I have a need to take a really big number (10+ digits) and to get specific digits out of it. From a separate site, I saw this :a=1298first2 = flo…		1 Last	oblomov Oct 2016
Broken floor tile help! (Updated) Updated versionHey guys, in my quest to level up my substance designer skills I made a simple black and white tile floor to get me started on my journey. I decided I wanted to take it further a…		12 Last	MagicFlyingBus Oct 2016
Baking through matching mesh ID whilst using mirrored UVs Firstly, apologies for not posting this in the Substance forum, but it is down at the moment.I have a prop I want to bake a normal map for. I have named all the parts of the low poly with the naming …		2 Last	Gallamanji Oct 2016
question about normal maps with a broken down object on the same UV trying to learn the normal map workflow a bit better in 3ds maxI wanted to try making a house and try using substance painter for the first time. From the tutorials ive read if i want to mess around …		0 Last	hell-dew Oct 2016
(substance painter) -- Generating a colour mask (not an ID pass) for use in Unreal Has anyone found an effective way to export a colour mask? Lets say I have a bin and and I want to change the colour of it. There's a crap load of dirt, grime, mould and god knows what else over the …		3 Last	RossHildick3D Oct 2016
Displacements SP Sometimes using textures to project pores and wrinkles on face for example is easier and faster way instead sculpting all of those in ZBrush.So my question is:Does SP have support for painting displa…		0 Last	nikola3d Oct 2016
Problems with normal map seams I bake normal map in the substance painter and got bad seams. I used different settings, y+, y-, opengl, directx, in maya unlocked normals, made hard and soft edge, also bake in xnormal and all the s…		2 Last	MarianKey Oct 2016
Is anyone else getting crashes every time I load up any mesh? Edit: This only happens with 2.3, 2.2 works fineThis started to happen with Substance Painter 2.3It worked fine with my motherboards IGPU,Intel HD 3000, "fine" meaning it actually opened a mesh witho…		6 Last	fdfxd2 Oct 2016
Color window position doesn't save (OSX) Hey, when I open the color picker window and move it to a location I like it'll stay there while I'm working on that same layer but if I switch layers then open the color picker it goes back to it's …		0 Last	rube Oct 2016
Baking errors in Substance Painter. I'm getting these baking errors when trying to bake in SP.Any idea what's causing the errors?		4 Last	MeshMagnet Oct 2016
Substance Painter 2 to Unity 5 Normal Map issues I'm relatively new to Substance Painter 2 and am experiencing some normal exporting issues. When exporting textures from Substance for use in Unity 5, some surfaces appear to be concave, instead of f…		7 Last	mark lautenbach Oct 2016
[Substance Designer 5.4.0] Color map refusing to adapt proper colors when baking from Mesh. Issue: Color map refusing to adapt proper colors when baking from Mesh. It was working fine before. The only thing I did was add a track behind the cannon and push out that part of the cage. Yet…		3 Last	daniellooartist Oct 2016
UDIM support bridge to s painter/designer/ quixel Suite Hey Guys,Im working on a quick setup and made a few brief videos of a workflow that should let us bridge quickly UDIM supported programs like Mari with any 3d painter or even render package that dont…		0 Last	miko3d Oct 2016
my ID map is just a blank gray I'm doing the bake by same name in Substance Painter 2 using a UDIM workflow. Every other texture map bakes fine except for the ID color map. I exported the highpoly from zbrush as FBX and all the su…		2 Last	Martin_H Oct 2016