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Substance Painter - Discussions - Workflow

 on: February 10, 2020, 10:38:18 pm 

A general workflow question.
Do you manually unwrap your models when texturing in substance painter?
I was taught to manually unwrap, scale them, and pack them as much as possible. That was when texturing was mainly done in Photoshop. I still unwrap them manually. It does take some time. Is it necessary? I have started using auto unwrap for sections where the model doesn't need a lot of detail and manually unwrapping in other areas. It bothers me to see such a mess in the UVs. Just curious how you prepare your models for texturing.

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Substance Painter - Discussions - Color Picker

 on: December 19, 2019, 09:58:22 pm 

What happened with being able to select colors outside of the substance window? If this is no longer an option, what do you suggest for selecting custom colors?

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Substance Designer - Discussions - Need assistance making a flight deck material

 on: July 10, 2019, 09:03:01 pm 

This is the first substance I have created. I want to make something similar to the 1st image. The 2nd image is of the floor I made and the 3rd is of the tie down I made. They are both on separate graphs. I was following the Create Your First Substance tutorial and I wasn't getting the effect I wanted when using he Splatter nodes. Is there another way to distribute the tie downs across the floor?

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Substance Painter - Discussions - Stretching, height issue, and filling in entire uv space question

 on: April 23, 2019, 02:27:18 am 

I'm getting a stretching issue and an odd height issue. I'm going outside of the 0,1 uv space to make a tiled texture for some pipes. I'm using an ID map to mask. I checked the UVs and there doesn't seem to be any stretching.




After turning off all layers affecting these pipes I have a layer from a different section causing this height error. There isn't any bleeding from the masks or UV's going into other areas.




I just need some clarification on how filling works. I thought substance painter would fill the entire space that the ID map is colored to.
If I select the blue section, it would fill the entire area. It seems to fill the objects in that area. Is this just a display option?

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Substance Integrations - Unity - Matching textures from Substance Painter in Unity

 on: January 30, 2019, 02:02:14 am 

I can't get the textures look in unity the way they do in Substance Painter. I exported the textures using "PBR MetalRough" and also "Unity 5 standard metallic" export presets, but still no luck. I  tried different shaders in unity, imported the HDRI image I was using in unity to substance to check if that was part of the issue.
To me the textures look too shiny/glossy in Unity and the color is off. The screenshots are the closest I could get after adjusting lighting and the skybox in unity.

Substance Painter

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Substance Painter - Discussions - Shift Left click to make straight lines

 on: January 25, 2019, 06:23:34 pm 

Is there a way to set the start point when making a straight line (shift+Left Click) without having to click on the model? I want to avoid having to click and undo so I don't get a dark spot where I start the line, especially noticeable if stroke opacity is not at 100%

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Substance Painter - Discussions - Painting Rounded corners

 on: December 14, 2018, 12:30:17 am 

Does anyone have a good technique for rounding off corners?
My attempt didnt come out as sharp as the neighboring edges.

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Substance Painter - Discussions - Model looks odd in substance painter

 on: July 13, 2018, 02:27:00 am 

First two images are from Maya, the last one is how it looks in substance painter. Its one of many parts, but this one looks as if its been run through a smoothing modifier. Getting error
"[Scene 3D] [FBX] : Mesh normals are invalid (some values are null) and will be recomputed"

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Substance Painter - Technical Support - Incremental offset

 on: April 01, 2018, 04:43:48 am 

What happened to the plus and minus buttons on UV offset? I'm trying to align a wood plank material, not trying to adjust UVs again. Is there a way to adjust the slider slowly, its way too sensitive to do this.

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Substance - Purchases & Licenses - Does it matter which option I choose to upgrade?

 on: March 29, 2018, 10:24:04 pm 

I just want access to the newest Painter version and substance source.

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Substance Painter - Discussions - How do you get generators to affect painted normals

 on: March 07, 2018, 01:43:45 am 

I painted in some bumps. I wanted to use a generator to get the basic scratches but it doesn't take the painted normals into consideration. Is there a tutorial on this? Is there a better way instead of exporting the normal map and re importing it?

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Substance Designer - Discussions - Substance Share materials

 on: January 12, 2017, 02:10:14 am 

I'm having an issue with the "PBR Validate" material. when I add it to the layer its a solid green regardless of the roughness of the object. Also other downloaded materials at times don't function properly, they end up being grey.

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Substance Painter - Feature Requests - Masking

 on: March 17, 2014, 07:37:21 am 

Is there a way to undo a mask selection quickly (ctrl + Z)? Or at least being able to switch between the two masking colors, black and white, as in Photoshop. The process slows down work flow if you have to correct a selection. Going to the color palette and picking the opposite color to undo part of the mask and then going back to the previous color to continue masking.