Substance Painter - .nif files

Canlocu · Dec 2014

Hello I was trying to google something on Substance Painter and re-texturing Skyrim Armors and weapons. Substance Painter was on sell on steam and I got it, but I am unsure if I can use it. Wondering if anyone had any knowledge on the subject.

Not sure if everyone is familiar with Skyrim files, but models and Textures deal with .nif (Mesh) and (.dds) for textures. I wanted to know how would one export them to SP and after editing them export?

Thank you for your time if you have it.

/cheers

Brian "Panda" Choi · Dec 2014

Do you have Photoshop?

Zack Maxwell · Dec 2014

I don't know if Painter supports .nif files, but if not all you have to do is open the file in a modeling program like Blender and export it as an obj for texturing, and keep the nif for actual use in game.
The textures would be basically the same. Work with them as something like png or psd, and export the final version from something like Gimp or Photoshop as dds for game use.
-Edit- I've read a claim that Painter actually can use dds files. That would make things a lot simpler.

AshuraDX · Dec 2014

you'll need to find a last-gen shader for substance designer to use it to texture models for skyrim - as skyrim doesn't support the PBR material approach
to convert the .nif files into .obj or FBX you could use Noesis

Borx25 · Dec 2014

Nifskope for converting the model to obj (best to get one of the plugins, for blender or 3ds max, because the exporter of nifskope itself can mess up some stuff.
this for importing dds into photoshop and convert to tga or whatever incase sp cant import dds.

Canlocu · Dec 2014

Thank you all for the replies, I'll try just editing the .dds files. One question is AshuraDX mentioned "last-gen shader", where can one find some of these.

Sorry noob here...

/cheers

Brian "Panda" Choi · Dec 2014

Last Gen Shader =

Diffuse, Normal, Specular, Gloss, etc.

This is a NOT Physically-Based Rendering approach.

These are basically games from XBOX360/PS3 and previous generations.

Canlocu · Dec 2014

Thx again JadeEyePanda for your reply!

Merry Christmas everyone!

Anthony · Dec 2014

Actually, Painter supports a Non-PBR (Diff/Gloss/Spec) workflow out-of-the-box, all you have to do is set it up in the project settings, or even when you export the PBR maps you paint, you can convert them to non-PBR on export, since painter lets you choose which channels to export.

claydough · Dec 2014

Canlocu wrote: »

Hello I was trying to google something on Substance Painter and re-texturing Skyrim Armors and weapons. Substance Painter was on sell on steam and I got it, but I am unsure if I can use it. Wondering if anyone had any knowledge on the subject.

Not sure if everyone is familiar with Skyrim files, but models and Textures deal with .nif (Mesh) and (.dds) for textures. I wanted to know how would one export them to SP and after editing them export?

Thank you for your time if you have it.

/cheers

have u tried the nexus forums?
http://forums.nexusmods.com/index.php?/topic/522532-skyrim-tutorials/
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I do not know if Gamebryo DCC exporters will set up the shader correctly to work in SKYRIM? ( r u werkin on a mod? )

I have assumed so considering Bethesda use to use Gamebryo and it's Creation Engine uses the same format.

At version 7...
XSI came with Gamebryo export in Crosswalk. If you have or can find the older free version 7 XSI mod tool, maybe that would work if niftools ( nifscope ) doesn't?

back when softimage had nif support built in:
https://web.archive.org/web/20141225095143/http://webrel2.softimage.com/open/training/misc/20080804_gamebryo.flv

Substance Painter - .nif files

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