Water Doplets Brush - Substance Painter Physical Paintbrush

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  Benjammin greentooth

  Jul 31 2024

  You're painting with particles, which aren't all that sophisticated, really - particles collide with your mesh and leave paint behind, and when you paint quickly you're moving the emitter faster than it can spawn particles.
  In my experience, the masks you get from these brushes are almost never good enough on their own. I tend to multiply/screen them with some kind of streaky grunge map to get water grunge/damage.

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  Alex_J grand marshal polycounter

  Jul 31 2024

  its been a long time but i recall when using this particle sim brushes, i think you only need to click like once and then let the sim run, rather than work with it like a brush (holding down and dragging)
  if you want streaks of water you can increase particle life span and just click once, wait until the particles die, and click again if needed.
  
  if going for scattered drops i think you can just use a regular brush with high scatter and again, just click once, using it like a stamp
  or alternatively, use a grunge map on  a fill layer and use a mask to expose where it appears

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  Ryan_JJ triangle

  Aug 1 2024

  Thanks guys, I've been doing a mix of both of your suggestions with Grunge maps. 
  
  I set the roughness mask with some grunge but then I wanted to add another layer of realism by adding hand-place water droplet streaks. 
  
  But yea that makes sense Alex_J, click once and wait, no dragging the brush across...

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