New curvature generation with accumulating new layers in Painter?

gnoop

I use Painter not very often   and accustomed  to regularly  re-bake curvature and world normals  again and again with each new layer  added.       Vs Designer where you always can  produce whatever mask you need    at any stage within  a sort of combined   curvature producing   parallel node flow doing it for    for any stage .    

 Constantly re-baking in Painter   gradually turns into a total mess  and gazillion textures.

I once tried to do sbsar  working same way as in Designer but gave up.   Too complicated.   

Am I missing something  and could  do same with anchors or something?         What do you guys use  ?   Python scripts maybe? 

Benjammin

Add a paint layer on top of your stack of normal layers, set its blendmode to passthrough. Add an anchor point to that, and use that inside whatever generators you're using. 

gnoop

Benjammin said:

Add a paint layer on top of your stack of normal layers, set its blendmode to passthrough. Add an anchor point to that, and use that inside whatever generators you're using. 

Use what?  Sorry I am not sure I get it .     I usually  use curvature and world normals    for mask generation .    They are not  represented in the layer stack  usually.     You mean I have to make  a special "curvature" channel and  use  sbsars  to modify  it with each new layer ?

ZacD

Anchors let you reuse a stack of layers in multiple places, they come in handy a lot. 

https://helpx.adobe.com/substance-3d-painter/features/effects/anchor-point.html

Benjammin

gnoop said:

Benjammin said:

Add a paint layer on top of your stack of normal layers, set its blendmode to passthrough. Add an anchor point to that, and use that inside whatever generators you're using. 

Use what?  Sorry I am not sure I get it .     I usually  use curvature and world normals    for mask generation .    They are not  represented in the layer stack  usually.     You mean I have to make  a special "curvature" channel and  use  sbsars  to modify  it with each new layer ?

Then instead of referencing your world normal and curvature directly, use generators that do that for you - they have inputs for anchor points. 

gnoop

Thanks guys.    I've got the idea.    Still  I have to say it's a hell of a pain.  Even more  so than  Designer usually is .  I couldn't  recollect  where  things are  just next day.    

     And whatever I try to do  in Painter the textures   are always blurrier than  same thing  in Designer  where if you code pixel processors and Fx-maps to do all transforms  in pixels  it's as precise as pixelart .