Generating pbr maps from texture

demigodssw

so i was just wondeing whether u can generate differnet maps from a diffuse in substance painter and export it or save it as a subsatance if possible can u plz tell me how?:)

1 more doubt, is a height map generated from texture is as effective as one generated from zbrush?

Rob Macko

Allegorithmic Bitmap2Material can do this for you and they have tutorials on their youtube channel that walks you through it

[ame="http://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKQTMHVOMKk"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKQTMHVOMKk[/ame]

demigodssw

ty rob
But i cant use b2m coz i will have to buy it in order to use it, thats y i was wondering whether i can do it in substance designer

Rob Macko

Ah I see. There might be a way in Designer, but I've not done that myself before. Some searches on their own forums may come up with something. But to answer your other question a height map from photo will not give as good as a result as baking from geo, but it might depend on your case. Creating detail normal from an image usually works pretty well.

demigodssw

I was planing to use the maps generated from texture to be used in substance painter for different generators etc so will it work?

Quack!

There is no one stop way to do this. Extracting all of the maps need to sell a PBR material requires work and ingenuity. Often for the extra maps you will need to hand make them rather than extract them. This can be done in Substance Designer by taking your diffuse texture and running it through various nodes, like normals, curvature, highpass, etc. The same techniques that people used to get results from just a diffuse map in crazybump/ndo apply to substance Designer.

myclay

If money alone is a problem, you could use Awesomebump
http://awesomebump.besaba.com/
[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=537mime7Rn8[/ame]
https://github.com/kmkolasinski/AwesomeBump

demigodssw

ty quack and mrclay i will just do it in substance designer or awesomebump then.:)