From Quixel to Painter

kohg

So lately i've been trying out substance painter and am already enjoying it alot. Quixel is a huge part of my texturing workflow, and as much as im liking painter and getting good results with it i don't see myself switching anytime soon, quite the contrary, i want to take advantage of both softwares and what they have to offer.

So there was this texture i was having a hard time tackling in painter and decided to make in quixel. Now that im done in quixel i want to take it to painter and bring it to another level by adding more details and materials.

My question is how would i go about, exporting the normal/albedo/roughness textures i got from quixel into substance and apply them there?

thanks

Steppenwolf

You can import the maps into Substance Designer, plug them to outputs and export an sbsar file, which you then can use in Painter.

Jerc

You can also directly drag and drop your textures in the shelf and choose to save them in your project.
Then create a fill layer and place each texture in the corresponding slot of the layer.

kohg

Jerc said:

You can also directly drag and drop your textures in the shelf and choose to save them in your project.
Then create a fill layer and place each texture in the corresponding slot of the layer.

Why a fill layer rather than just a layer? Since i can't seem to be able to paint masks on a fill layer i usually find myself using layers more than fill.

Steppenwolf

Right click on mask > Add paint.

Jerc

Yes, you can use a fill layer to put your textures and then add a Paint effect on top to paint over it.

kohg

Ok thanks appreciated