How would I create a tileable texture in Substance Painter?

Easton

Hi,

I am about to need to create some metal textures for buildings, and in particular tin buildings. I think I am going to start off in Quixel NDO and add normal details to a blank tile, then move that into Substance Painter to add my metal textures to and make it look like the building I need it to, then I think move it into B2M, but I am not sure how I would do this exactly.

I think B2M would make the extra maps, is this correct? And I think I can then tile it somehow accordingly so that the edges tile well, how is this done?

Thanks!

zachagreg

I think you're thinking about this wrong. Do you want one texture for one building or do you want texture sets to use aa multiple materials within an engine/renderer? Basically think of substance painter as 3d photoshop where the end goal would be to get texture sets for objects. Think of B2M as a way to extrapolate PBR maps from a single image. Basically if you're trying to JUST make a tiling texture set to use as a tiling material you would just put your NDO output directly into B2M as there is a tiling function that works wonders in it.

poopipe

Or.

Export a plane with tiling UVs and paint on it in Painter.

Im struggling to see the need for b2m here (or ndo for that matter) 

zachagreg

Yea or that, remember just because you have a software doesn't mean it's needed for everything.

Easton

I think I found out how I am going to do it. Right now I am trying to learn how to add normal details in NDO then take it into DDO and just paint it, Problem is that I cant figure out how to paint something that is not actually an object...

@zachagreg Yeah that was the idea, but I noticed that B2M likes to mess up my normal details when it comes to something more of like a brick wall, it kind of manipulates the edges so that it looks off.

I am not sure if this way is better, but I was going to try to take a photo of a wall of a building, manipulate the image in PS, take it into B2M or just NDO and get the normal details from the picture, would this be better than hand creating them? And yes I am just going to use it for one building.