Panel Detailing

KeCzajkowski

I'm looking for suggestions on method to automatically generate details that follow around the edges of panels/facets in Substance Painter.

https://i.imgur.com/kS6NiXd.png

As seen in the above picture just some lines that run along the edges of faces and I can fine tune things from there.  I messed around with curvature maps and edge detection for a couple hours today but I didn't make much progress.  Any suggestions or solutions would be most helpful!

zachagreg

 What software and what is your target? Are you rendering these out? Is it for normal baking?

KeCzajkowski

Well I feel stupid that's what i get for posting really late at night.  This is in Substance Painter.  Ideally just a make I can use to add detail in various maps.

KeCzajkowski

I know there has to be some way I'm just not familiar with.  I got fairly close but I couldn't get hard edges in my indents.

zachagreg

You should be able to set a layer with height to something negative like -.1 or something and then a mask with a paint layer on it to paint in the details in the 3D viewport. I would recommend using a thorn brush to do the actual painting. Holding down shift when you click will make straight lines.

Alternatively I believe there is a panel normal stamp in Painter called Bevel Line/ Rectangle/Circle that you can use for specific shapes.

You can also just loft a simple shape along a spline and use it as a floater for your highpoly if you're baking down.

KeCzajkowski

I understand that i can paint it in manually but I was thinking it would pretty useful to be able to generate that sort of thing automatically.  I figured there might be some way with a curvature map to make that happen but I didn't really get anywhere with it.

Taylor Brown

Hmm you could mess with the UV Border Generator on a mask... Maybe auto stitcher with another filter over it. It's not going to get you the random panel line effect but worth trying