Substance Painter - Artifact on UV Seams

prixster

So I am getting this artifact while using Height Brush (with a Blur Filter) across UV seams in Substance Painter. Is there's any way to avoid this artifact? Or I have to sew the edges.

Since the object is rectangular, it's impossible to sew all sides while maintaining good UV space. All I want to do is to draw a line with a height brush to make a stitch (along the red line). The artifact would appear if I try to soften the height by blurring. Just let me know If there's some workaround / fix.

Things I tried:

- Changed the Height Channel quality to L32F which is the highest one and UV Padding is set to 3D Space Neighbor

poopipe

The blur is working in 2d space so it's unlikely it'll ever look right.

Short answer - don't put seams in prominent places you need to paint detail on. 

prixster

Thanks @poopipe a lot. I had to re-do the UV.