Creating generic textures?

[Sagem]

I'm interested in using Substancer Painter, but as well as texturing models I would like to make some generic textures that I can use in other applications as to textures models or use the maps for shader creation. So for example if I wanted to make say a wood texture that I could apply to any furniture model I have in other apps (e.g. daz studio, blender, poser)

But I'm wondering how to start doing this in SP as normally you import a model to work on. So using the same wood example I wouldn't have a model to bring in to create the wood on. Should I do something like just import a sphere or plane, some other primitive object and use that? Or would that cause problems with the maps because of the sphere's UVs? In something like Daz Studio I would be using the model's default UVs and then plug in the textures where I need them (colour, roughness etc.).

I'm new at SP (trying out the trial at the moment) and I haven't used a 3D paint app before, so any advice would be appreciated.

[Fabian F.]

Hey Sagem,

you can create textures and Materials from scratch in Substance Painter, but it is quite limited because Substance Painter is not made for hat purpose. Substance Designer is a better choice to create brand new Materials, to be honest.
You could use a Cube or Plane with one face fill the whole UV space to create standard textures.


Best Regards

[Sagem]

Thanks very much Fabian, I'll try filling the UV space with one face, that might well work.

[vitito31]

Yes you can. Just play with template and make sure you merge the correct maps in the output files. I use spaninter for poser and ds too. I don't know to share the templates I used and if I can do it with other users. Victor

[vitito31]

Also I forgot to mention that sometimes i use 3dcoat to import pbrs and make a final map from there.