Brightness difference between Substance Painter and Marmoset grayscale texture maps

Tonjo · Jul 11 2025

Hey guys! I'm having problems with brightness difference in my greyscale texture maps. After exporting them from Substance Painter (PBR Metallic Roughness), and importing them to Marmoset, they appear brighter and makes my model way more shiny because of that. Anyone know why this is happening?

I have tried tweaking the Color Management settings in Substance Painter which resolved the color differences I exprienced in the Albedo map, but I still have the brightness issues in the grayscale maps.

I have checked that these maps are not set as sRGB in marmoset.

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/p9/4uy1znc4t5ci.png

Current settings in Substance Painter:

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/9l/nl9dnx8fy2aj.png

Thanks!

Axi5 · Jul 11 2025

Looks like you've already exported it as an sRGB image from Substance so it's applied the gamma to the image before it gets to Marmoset

Tonjo · Jul 11 2025

Axi5 said:

Looks like you've already exported it as an sRGB image from Substance so it's applied the gamma to the image before it gets to Marmoset

Hey, thanks for replying! How do I ensure this doesn't happen? I thought I had it set up correctly as it's set to grayscale in export settings.

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/ez/b167dt735l2k.png

poopipe · Jul 15 2025

Nm. You tried that..

Brightness difference between Substance Painter and Marmoset grayscale texture maps

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