In this tutorial we’ll be looking at how you can use Substance Painter to quickly and efficiently create amazing PBR textures for your models. With it’s vast array of tools and intuitive painting features it’s a must-have for any 3D artist these days.

Substance Painter has quickly risen to become an invaluable asset in the 3D texturing pipeline and a formidable alternative to traditional texturing in Photoshop. It is especially important for games, where textures can make or break the look of a low-poly model. But it is usually much more streamlined than what you find in Substance.Texturing is one of the most important and sometimes overlooked aspects of 3D art. The Bake tool can usually be found as standard in 3D software (3DS Max has one, for example). This can be used to make sharp edges look smooth, or to add finer details that require a higher polygon count (a good solution). Once this map is applied to a low polygon mesh, the engine or renderer will read the normal map, which affects how light reacts to the model. This means that Substance will generate a normal map for you.Ī normal map is a purple type of map that stores lighting data in vibrant color.

Once you have all the detail you want in your high polygon mesh, you can then bake it onto the low polygon mesh. This is especially important on low spec machines.īake allows you to take a low polygon base mesh and use the base mesh as a template for a second high polygon mesh. In games, you are often limited by how tall your models are, and if the scene becomes too dense, you will start to lose performance. One of the most useful and powerful features of Substance Painter is its baking tool.

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