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Substance Designer - Discussions - Re: So! I have a file where my meshes are subdividing on import... somehow.

 on: September 08, 2019, 04:15:35 pm 

this looks like an issue with smoothing groups

ind 3dsMax, if there are no smoothing groups applied, the mesh is displayed, as if each face was a separate smoothing group. However, if you import such a mesh into other tools, they display those faces without smoothing groups assigned in a different way (this might be what you call airbagging)

so I would check the smoothing groups (in May it would be soft/hard edge normals) as a first step

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Substance Painter - Feature Requests - Re: Improved Stencil / Projection Behavior

 on: August 28, 2019, 04:26:41 pm 

non uniform scaling of a stencil would save my day right now

hope it will be added at some point

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Substance Painter - Technical Support - Re: What is this Symbol inside the masking?

 on: August 25, 2019, 06:24:33 pm 

looks like a refresh symbol to me

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Substance Painter - Baking - Re: Problem with baking normal map

 on: August 10, 2019, 03:31:56 pm 

All soft edges
Add the following to MEL to the toolbar
Select poly click to add MEL

not sure if making all edges soft is the right answer here? Or am I getting this wrong?
when baking normal maps, applying soft edges for this kind of sharp angle will always cause issues. It really depends on the engine, but a rule of thumb is, that the maximum angle to bake without adding hard edges or bevels lies somewhere between 60 and 90 degrees.

make sure to add enough padding to your bakes. and you could make use of your UV space in a much better way. why not scale up the smaller parts and get rid of those rings (adding them back to the larger UV shells)?

I never use cages for baking in painter, but adjusting the distance settings instead is a good idea. Best to start with too low values (resulting in empty "islands" in your normal map) and then dial the values up until you get a clean normal bake.

and one last advice: don´t drive yourself crazy by looking at your bakes too close up. Sometimes it´s a good idea to apply some materials and look at it from a reasonable distance to get a better understanding of the visibility/relevance of artefacts.

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Substance Designer - Discussions - Re: Tiling circle pattern

 on: August 05, 2019, 10:22:51 pm 

nice

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Substance Painter - Baking - Re: Issue with Baking

 on: August 05, 2019, 10:21:32 pm 

since all of your small elements (knobs and alike) have a modeled outline, I would cut the UVs and give those parts more UV space.

I personally have this rule of thumb: the smaller a part, the more UV space it gets (relative to its size). It´s also a nice way to fill up unused UV space

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Substance Alchemist - Discussions - Re: Saving materials overwrites saved copy?

 on: August 03, 2019, 09:37:17 pm 

sorry, I thought this is about painter :/

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Substance Painter - Technical Support - Re: SOME of my normal map is inverted??

 on: August 03, 2019, 03:38:58 pm 

when you create your painter project, are you using open gl or directX in your normal settings?

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Substance Alchemist - Discussions - Re: Saving materials overwrites saved copy?

 on: August 03, 2019, 03:35:00 pm 

are you talking about smart materials?

if so, then one way to save variations would be to add your smart material to your layer stack, edit it and create a new smart material from it

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Substance Painter - Feature Requests - Re: Merge Layers please

 on: July 31, 2019, 12:26:04 pm 

https://allegorithmic.uservoice.com/forums/261284-substance-painter/suggestions/8437750-merge-layers-like-in-photoshop

cast your vote

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Substance Painter - Discussions - Re: .5 grayscale slider value

 on: July 31, 2019, 12:13:07 pm 

sounds like linear/gamma offset

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Substance Painter - Discussions - Re: Does SP invert normals automatically?

 on: July 24, 2019, 10:57:32 am 

Substances that have a OpenGL normal format by default will display incorrectly though.

This sounds like a bug... is will this be changed in a future release?

not a bug -  you have to make sure, not to mix open gl and dx resources. the only difference between the two is the green channel (flipped) - so if you have different formats (for whatever reason), just flip the green channel of your open gl normal map and it is ready to be used in a dx project

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Substance Painter - Baking - Re: baking a highpoly model onto my low poly model

 on: July 22, 2019, 09:47:15 am 

how about the material IDs? Are they set to 1 for the entire geometry?

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Substance Painter - Baking - Re: baking a highpoly model onto my low poly model

 on: July 21, 2019, 01:41:13 pm 

my first guess would be, that your models don´t line up

I always import my lowpoly into ZBrush as a guide, and to check, if my highpoly and lowpoly are matching.

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Substance Painter - Technical Support - Re: Strange hollow cylinder occurring

 on: July 20, 2019, 12:58:51 pm 

yes, the normals are flipped