Blade Tutorial - Part 2 - Baking & PBR Texturing - Substance Painter 2

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[@owl5523]

I'm so glad someone actually did the entire workflow . we can't thank you enough for these .

[@ChamferZone]

Thanks for watching Rahul! Appreciate it and I'll keep on producing : )

[@Theicemonkeyjr]

Absolute brilliant free content here, I will definitely consider buying the extended version!

[@ChamferZone]

Hi Kyle, thank you very much! Feel free to share your progress with me. A good platform for that is forum.chamferzone.com ! Cheers, Tim :)

[@VasDas2]

Yet no one dollar has brought me so much benefit. Thank you so much, man, thank you!

[@ChamferZone]

Thanks Dmitry, very happy to hear that! :D Thank you too for the support and glad it helps! Btw. feel free to join us at discord.gg/CeUpmbC !

[@shidlovskyn]

Thanks for turtorial! very nice and helpful for beginner

[@ChamferZone]

Thank you Николай, glad you approve of it! More to come.

[@yathishmundodi]

You are my Substance "GURU" thank you lot..

[@masto1493]

This is just amazing,thank you so much!

[@ChamferZone]

Thank you too! Glad you like it.

[@lernikunusyan5206]

The Fowler

[@Maverick99]

Super helpful. Thanks!

[@cerqueirapv]

Very, very, very good!!! You are the best! Your explanation is great... clear and objective! Thanks for spreading information!

[@ChamferZone]

Thank you Alessandro, I am glad to read it! :)

[@Nastea315]

Seriously the best tutorial out there

[@sandred2814]

Tim Thank you very much! Excellent presentation and explanation educational material. This is incredibly useful! 😆 Thank you so much for the tutorials!

[@eternaltruthstudios1427]

Thank you so much...... I learned so much things from your tutorial

[@ezSonix]

Im newbie on modeling and most amazing tutorials like this are paid... i just want say u thanks for every your tutorial and when i have some extra money i will support your amazing work man ... again thx

[@ChamferZone]

Hello good Sir! Sorry for the slow response and thank you very much for your feedback. I am glad to read it. Next big tutorial out now any day ! (well more like in a week hopefully).

[@TheEzegal]

Gorgeous! It brought me an immense pleasure to create this piece! My wife wants to buy a full Mech Tutorial as a present for me)))) And of course, I'll get your guides for weapon modeling and this extension for blades. You are doing an awesome work, thank you so much!

[@gk4185]

Hi, Tim. Thank you for your wonderfull tutorial. It realy helped to understand the workflow of game ready assets. In the past i would model a super high poly mesh with thousands of faces, caring too much about triangles and ngons. Now, with your help i can model low poly things with quality texture maps, that look amazing. The only thing i used Maya for this tutorial and it felt kinda harder then Max. Best regards.

[@romanmendicant6864]

Great tutorial ! Many thanks and deepest gratitude!

[@ChamferZone]

Thank you Roman, glad you like it and more to come soon!

[@tobiasbagi1978]

Great job as always Tim. Keep up the good work. Your tutorials are the best, by far! :)

[@ChamferZone]

Thanks Tobias! I am happy to read it! =)

[@Nekoshik]

I want to say Super_very_thank_you! it is a very cool tutorial!

[@georgenagulov6548]

That was a lovely tutorial -- clear and concise, with a sturdy workflow and amazing results. Well done! I'm in the process of learning painter myself, unfortunately I may have made the job harder for myself by using a creature instead of hard-surface. Still, I've picked up plenty of great tips here. Thanks!

[@ChamferZone]

Hello Djordje! Happy to hear it, thanks! Yes it might actually be easier to learn Painter on a hardsurface object because usually it doesn't involve so much masking.

[@myakoo1139]

Your Tutorial is easy to understand thank you so much sir

[@ChamferZone]

Hello Ribfan, I am glad to read that. Thank you too for watching !

[@myakoo1139]

and now im using your method for arranging and managing the layer, and it makes me doing the texturing more efficient especially in masking operation👍

[@Rahulsingh-theraha]

ChamferZone Tim I really like substance painter but quixel is going ahead when it's comes to more material ... it is good to use quixel instead of substance

[@centitunes1409]

I swear that Intro Iss smooth as Hell

[@Baxter244]

Amazing tutorial! Thank you very much!

[@ChamferZone]

Thanks for following it Baxter !!

[@ILLAHI_KALIMA_TULLAH]

God bless you for that man Thank you very much for teaching so goood

[@nikolaibondarenko7996]

Wow, videos from Tim? Oh, it's so good!

[@ChamferZone]

Thanks mate :D

[@TitoPricus]

Fantastic tutorial, Thank You

[@ChamferZone]

Thanks Tito! Appreciated :)

[@MCbobalexbob]

Thank you for this tutorial, I just finished and it was very helpful!

[@ChamferZone]

Hello Andrew, glad to read it. Thanks for following!

[@joppe2916]

Yout tutorial helped so much thanks for this!

[@TheScissorhands619]

Excellent Tutorial. Have to rewatch to get your organization and folder creation down.

[@ChamferZone]

Thanks for following the tutorial Akshay! Glad it helps!

[@teamEP789]

amazing tutorial man, thank you!

[@ChamferZone]

Thank you for watching !

[@CherylynnLima]

For any complete newbies out there that couldn't find 'base color', i figured out that you have to go to texture set settings> channels +> then add the base color layer

[@danilohashimoto]

Your videos are the best painter substance tutorials! Thank you. Could you hollow out how to make solder trails the same as you have in military vehicles?

[@ChamferZone]

Hi Danilo, thank you very much for the feedback! I appreciate it and sorry for the late reply. Solder trails you mean as in welding seams? That is certainly a cool thing to add, in that case I would make use of this here share.allegorithmic.com/libraries/579

[@danilohashimoto]

Thank you very much

[@danilohashimoto]

I downloaded the brush, now how do I load it into the substance?

[@ChamferZone]

Hi Danio, it would go in any one of these folders. I am not 100% sure right now in which one i.imgur.com/PnxkYEa.png

[@danilohashimoto]

Thanks a lot for the help =)

[@LEGIT134]

Great talk about the smart masks:)

[@ChamferZone]

Thanks man, glad you like it! :)

[@ramchandran9105]

thank you...i learned little things

[@ChaosWolfNinja]

Thank you so much for this.

[@ChamferZone]

Hello Demenico, thanks for watching !

[@whyrageman1]

at 38m I'm missing a random seed button for some reason o.o other then that I followed both parts of ur tutorial and I gotta say this is the best and most understanding videos on net so far,thank you so such!

[@ChamferZone]

Hi d4rkSide ! Awesome man, thanks for the feedback. I KNOW, this seed thing magically disappeared out of the latest versions of Sustance Painter, why? I have no clue.. its just allegorithmic liking to change things around. Whether its for better or worse ;) Sorry that thing is gone now.

[@whyrageman1]

its allright i did manage to get a better seed by removing mask/adding it a few times ;) a bit of extra work,but it payed off :D im looking forward to more of your videos! also,subbed :)

[@ExacoMvm]

Great tutorial as always! The scratches looks like someone put the dirty knife on a ground and purposely repeatedly stabbed it with another knife or some screwdiver causing these scratches, cant imagine another situation of them appearing on the mid side. Also the handle it's obviously plastic based on its geometry ( hopefully just for the sake of tutorial/look dev ).

[@ChamferZone]

Hello Exaco, glad you like it and yes for this tutorial I pretty much came up with my own concept for the kukri by kitbashing together a few existing ones. Concept art is not my specialty and you are right that the handle was originally for a plastic knife ;) Either way I like to exaggerate certain aspects such as the scratches. Often with all the post processing effects on top you otherwise have a hard time seeing it so good to give it a bit of an extra push to stand out.

[@4ur3n]

OMG! just awesome!

[@phirumyin3825]

Thank you my friend.

[@ChamferZone]

Thanks for watching Phirum!

[@撒旦-l3c]

thank you very much learn very much GooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooD

[@Cloudy0w0]

Hi, I have been watching your tutorials for quite sometime, I have even gone back and watched them over and over as theyre just that helpful and you can pick up on stuff you missed again and again as you gain a better understanding of the programs. I just wanted to thank you for uploading such stuff for us. I wanted to ask a question substance related that would help so many people; Do you have a workflow for exporting textures created in substance for non-pbr games like fallout 4 and such that use .DDS format? Everytime I export them, the specular maps look weird, though they have full detail, there is a flat glossy sheen over the entire object in certain light which ruins it. I am thinking maybe its a gloss map or something, the specular maps exported are green in colour. I hope you can make a video on this subject, it would be extremely helpful to a lot of people.

[@Alanonful]

Amazing !

[@mariorad529]

Hey, Tim, great tutorial ! Do you also use Substance Designer and if yes, can you make some tutorials for it as well ?

[@ChamferZone]

Hello Mario! I have to admit I only used Designer once and I don't have much use for it . If I was an environment artist that would ne a different story but for my needs Painter has everything. Maybe in the future I will dig in to designer but right now I have other priorities, like getting better with ZBrush for example :)

[@KUNIVideo]

great! thank you so much!

[@MCbobalexbob]

When you made a mask for the screws(Purple) you did not have to redo it to remove those areas from the blue mask, what you could have done was copy the purple mask over to the blue mask, then set it to subtract. Same for the handle.

[@ChamferZone]

Hey Andrew, thanks for the heads up. I'll try your method next time I'm in painter.

[@seanore]

Great tutorials ChamferZone really enjoy them and there very easy to follow and understand. If i could ask your help I've followed the tutorial for the blade and have followed or so i thought the tutorial and done what you did. but when i bake my high poly into substance painter my normal, ID, Thickness and AO maps stay black and i cant see the high poly on top of the low. I've downloaded the fbx and obj that you provide and they work perfect so its not the program and definitely something i'm doing if you could please offer some advice or point me in the right direction that would be great. I've been stuck on this for the past couple and have retraced my steps a few time and cant see what i'm doing wrong. I'm using 3Ds max 2016 and i even tried unwrapping in 2017 and still it wont import correctly. Thanks in advance. Sean. P.S keep Making these vids you really are an excellent teacher

[@ChamferZone]

Hi Sean, sorry for the late reply, I was afk over the weekend :) First of all glad you like the tutorials and secondly... when the baked maps turn black then this means either that you... forgot to assign one single material to the lowpoly before exporting it out of 3DS Max.. or... you might have done something wrong with the naming convention. Make sure every name matches 1:1 the highpoly and have it as _high and _low. It's also case sensitive so even if you have it as Low it would already not work. Third thing to check is... make sure to give both your low and highpoly a reset x form and see if anything acts weird. In that case you see what to fix on it. One of these three should be the fix for you I would hope. Let me know !

[@seanore]

Cheers for Getting back to me. You were spot on I forgot to assign the texture to the low poly once i did that everything worked perfectly thanks a million again and please keep doing what your doing your a superb teacher

[@henryzhang1424]

very cool

[@FlowerPower3000]

Good video, thank, but very funny that the floating geometry baked good with Average Normals )

[@kisshukfc]

is extended version also free?😀... sorry I know I'm asking more but you know now I can create my own textures in SP because of you, I'm thankful for you that...

[@kisshukfc]

just now I look into it, cost is 12 dollars, I'm going to buy it soon..😀

[@kisshukfc]

just now I look into it, cost is 12 dollars, I'm going to buy it soon..😀

[@ChamferZone]

Yeah, the free part goes till we nail the base texture version for which we also make a iray render. Thanks for your support kishor!

[@WehrmachtSoldier95]

I'm really appreciated for your workflow on modeling and texturing Mk2 grenade and Kukri knife here. I'll surely try the AKM next. I have a problem, my RAM is always at 100% and my laptop is heated up when I'm using Substance Painter. I can't seem to solve the problem yet, anyone help?

[@pixelion8]

hi! thank you very much for your video, it's really great to have this kind of high quality tutorial in youtube! I have a small question: I finished every thing but at the end I want to go back to 3ds max for animation. To do so I exported the texture in substance painter 2. then I tried to applied thoses textures in 3ds max but I've got some weird results. Is the displacement map in the wrong scale ? like it's a non scare uvw but my texture is scare. How should I do? thanks

[@ChamferZone]

Hello Pixelion, glad you like the channel and sorry for the late reply. So as far as applying the texture in Max goes... you should have NO problem if you follow this guideline as seen here at the bottom: forum.chamferzone.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&p=1384#p1384 3dsmax "might" show it as square even though its non square. But all that matters is what it looks like on your model.

[@cub1ko]

Top level stuff here once again, smudge isn't actually 'new' btw

[@ChamferZone]

Hey Ricardo, thanks! Well, the smudge is a new thing since S.P. 2.x they didn't have it in the pre 2. era so I thought I mention it :)

[@a13579-z]

Thanks for nice tutorial. I have a question! Let say you want to tape the hand grip of knife using green-box-tape or medical bandage. How will you approach :-) ?

[@ChamferZone]

Hello Alex, I would work with splines for that. Splines allow you to simulate any kind of wrapping look and can then be converted to poly. Essentially something like that here but with more adjustment to fit the handle kzbin.info/www/bejne/fHmseaWOYp6ChZY

[@MirceaPrunaru]

Good job! This is indeed a Quality tutorial!

[@skilarbabcock]

When I use the dust dirty generator, it just makes a solid color mask

[@Digital_Guerrero]

Thank you, this was very helpful. Can you make your own masks in Substance? Like if I painted one in Photoshop?

[@ChamferZone]

NP Matt! Yes yes absolutely, you just take a brush and you start painting in on the mask (given that you are on the mask layer). That is how I always do it, first... everything that can just be 'grabbed' through polies, then if something needs some finer masking words the brushes come into play.

[@Digital_Guerrero]

Awesome Thank you for the reply. What about creating the mask out side of Substance like baking it from Zbrush or Maya?

[@ChamferZone]

I am not a big fan of that, I used to do that.. bake color information into the diffuse map, then bring it in to Painter as color ID map. But first of all Painter by now has its own color ID baker setting and secondly.. I don't use this feature. Color ID maps always have the problem that they are based on pixels so on curvy UV segments you get that tiny little zig zagging steps which can look ugly. That is why I prefer to grab the mask information straight from the polygons and if required paint in a bit of extra information. This gives me the max control over my masks.

[@tungsten_core]

I have a very important question, is it fully safe to paint in 2k and then change to 4k resolution? Can i be sure that it will change ALL the textures/effects to 4k res and wont leave something in 2k?

[@ChamferZone]

Hello Combat Garlic, sorry I didn't get to reply earlier then that. Yes that is exactly the case. The only thing that you need to make sure is that you do bake out your textures in 4K. That means you have it always in the highest possible resolution available even if you look at it in 2K which is usually the best for performance reasons. It's a good practice to switch it to 4K every once in a while in the substance painter viewport so that you see what it looks like in the highest resolution. You can also just be in 2K and export it as 4K, it will work perfectly fine.

[@tungsten_core]

thank you for answer

[@Grumpy2832]

Hey Tim, in the video at 16:22 you use the material ''Steel Rough'' and ''Iron Shiny'' Where did you grab them ? Btw , Amazing stuff ;)

[@ChamferZone]

Hello Francois! Thanks, and those should be in Substance Painter 2! Which version are you following with? If you use an older version of Painter, I'd just use any other shiny metal that you can find. You can also look on the Substance Share website if you find a few good ones :)

[@Grumpy2832]

Really :/ I use Painter 2.2.0 :( Strange

[@ChamferZone]

Damn, really? That is super odd.... I already had a few people following the tutorial that seemed to have this material. So when you search for iron you don't get all these? i.imgur.com/BI6SHKa.png

[@Grumpy2832]

Nope I got this i.imgur.com/QALhaVx.png :/

[@ChamferZone]

huh, that is really odd..... it would be awesome if you could ask them in the allegorithmic forum about this. All I can say is.. other people appear to have those materials. It should come as default. Also, try updating to 2.3 there is a new version out. Maybe that adds it?

[@michaelzhang4241]

really helpful¬thanks¬

[@ChamferZone]

Thanks Michael, glad to read it!

[@Saindon3d]

Are you going to allow paypal payments on gumroad or put the extended version on cubebrush? I'd be very interested on the extended version, but I can only pay with paypal at the moment. Awesome job with the tutorial btw!

[@ChamferZone]

Hello Mark! Sorry about that, I am so swamped at work right now that I didn't have time to put it up on other places. I will make sure to upload it to cubebrush asap (probably tonight). Thanks, Tim

[@ChamferZone]

Hey again Mark. It's currently processing on Cubebrush and should come live any minute :) cubebrush.co/tim Cheers, Tim !

[@Saindon3d]

Thanks a lot Tim! Once again you've really outdone yourself with a triple A quality tutorial :) Cheers!

[@Saindon3d]

Thanks a lot Tim! Once again you've really outdone yourself with a triple A quality tutorial :) Cheers

[@lizbathory1169]

Thank you very much! this tutorial is great, very clear and useful! Im working with a smart material, the fabric sci-fi, Im trying to scale down the size of the pattern, Im trying to doing so with the UV scale but nothing happens, I cant find the way to scale the patterns on the material, please if you have any insight over this issue I'll appreciate it!!

[@ChamferZone]

Hello Natalie ! Thank you too for following the tutorial and glad you you like it :) Could you tell me which part of the tutorial you have this problem at? Is it in the extended edition or here in the free part? Are you using the "fill" thing with a procedural texture for that pattern? Because in that case you must go in that "fill" thing, click on the properties in there and change the tiling, instead of the main material. It's a bit confusing but that is what I think you are having as a problem.

[@lizbathory1169]

Hi, thanks for take the time to respond, I've been following the free part of the tutorial and I think I may buy the rest, didn't find anything better than your tutorials and I'll recommend this to my colleges. I'm 3D character artist and recently I had to start using Substance and I dont know how I survived till now without it! Im texturing a character and for the space suit Im using the smart material I mentioned but is very frustrating I cant change the size of the pattern, the fabric pattern is huge :( and when I move slider of the UV Scale size, the material doesn't change!

[@ChamferZone]

Hi Natalie, that is awesome to hear, thank you for putting the word out there for my tutorials :-) So what you want to do in order to change the tiling is open up the folder of the smart material and then click on the mask and change the procedural tiling amount of the hexagon pattern. Since it's an effect that is applied as a separate layer you will only be able to change it there. Have a look at this: i.imgur.com/j0z7m3f.jpg I hope that fixes it for you!

[@ChamferZone]

Oh and the weave pattern you can change here: i.imgur.com/Ekm85cZ.png

[@gurvinderbal595]

amazing thanks a lot :)

[@ChamferZone]

Thanks for watching Gurvinder!

[@ArthurAsPedras]

Followed step by step, but when i bake my mesh appears all messed up :(

[@modernator]

Excellent tutorial. Now my sword is way much better to look!

[@nguyetphan4205]

thank

[@beastyrs2890]

I followed your every move but mine turned out looking like a pigeon. Oh well maybe next time...

[@ChamferZone]

Haha, that's kinda funny. You can always load in my FBX by the way. Maybe it helps to use it as a reference as you create your own.

[@reddyepie7439]

same..

[@mypd1422]

hi tim, very good tutorial. and there is one that I'm still a little confused when I start importing lowpoly mesh, why when in the painter texture set list there is only one mesh kukri? whereas at 3ds max it has been set to 2 mesh lowpoly ie blade and grib? is there anything i missed. please help !

[@jinyuanyu5389]

cool

[@animator99_sculpt28]

Thanks!!!!

[@Yud45]

10:25 You could also invert by adding a level effect, so you don,t have to reselect everything twice

[@ChamferZone]

Good point thanks Lardax!

[@nikhilpimpalkar1699]

Nice tutorial....But I try it on my i3 laptop with integrated graphic...it very annoying to working on it...

[@akshatupadhyay825]

One thing i really didn't get is " high res mesh had no UV and lower poly mesh had them, now how come the high poly mesh will be able to give modified higher level of details onto the lower mesh? ".

[@MegaMaka]

Awesome tuts! Thanks for that :) At 32:00 you used smart material called Exposed Edgewear, but i can't find it in my substance painter 2.2.0 and on Substance Store too. Can you help me with this problem, please? Thank you in andvance!

[@ChamferZone]

Hello MegaMaka! That was a bit of an accident that happened there. So that smart material was one that I created myself a while ago and I forgot about that when I used it in the tutorial. I uploaded it to substance share yesterday and they say that after reviewing it, it will appear there. I guess they don't work over the weekend because it's not on there yet sadly. SO... in the meantime you can download it from here: drive.google.com/open?id=0B0rKo4v9Jhvgd3BubGExMUFqNWM make sure to put it in C:\Users\YOURNAME\Documents\Substance Painter 2\shelf\smart-materials

[@MegaMaka]

Thanks! You helped me out. Your lessons are very detailed and useful. In waiting for new tuts :)

[@BlancaWhitey]

Hi! I'm sorry but I have a question, when I try to bake it, normal map appears in black, I do not know why because I follow your previous tutorial and I have the same of you, if you could help me... Thank you so much!

[@ChamferZone]

Hi Blanca, that sounds like you missed something on the naming convention because that is the #1 case for when that happens. Make double sure that your lowpoly is called _low and the highpoly piece has the same name but with a _high suffix. Substance Painter is case sensitive so even if you have _High it will not bake correctly. If the problem still exists after that you can also message me your scene on facebook.com/chamferzone and I shall take a quick look. :- )

[@Aeronye]

Can you make an Radial Anisotropic Brushed Metal? Please? Thank you.

[@pirotess2]

Your machine baking texture is very fast when compare to may work PC in my company, with 4k normal map it take around 5 minute and half hour for 4k AO, lolz. And did you use 3DO/Quixel Suit yet? I don't really know which is better between 3DO and Substance Painter. And in most of my case with texture from 2k and below, the texture is little blur after export. BTW, I usually use Quixel Suit to turn Normal map to Cavity map or mix both of them, in some generations, cavity map work better than curvature map.

[@zaparine]

I don't think his machine is that fast. Maybe he just cut out a long baking time.

[@ChamferZone]

Hello, yeah I should have probably mentioned that I fast forwarded through that ;) Didn't want to make you wait for 5 minutes. Takes around the same time for me. I tried using the curvature map from Quixel with Substance Painter once and I got really weird results out of it with some of the generators. I also prefer to bake everything within Painter so that I have it all coming from one source for the case I have to rebake. I try to avoid jumping back and forth with too many programs to avoid those extra steps.

[@pirotess2]

BTW, do you has any plans for make tutorial stuff like balistic glasses like this www.esseyepro.com/uploads/product_model/product_model_241_large.jpg I looking for learning techniques to handle curve hardsurface in Max and semi transparent material in SP.

[@yantingye1677]

多谢

[@nelsong5750]

Gracias...

[@amrojjeh]

"put the resolution 4k by 4k" Well Played.

[@TheBubi200]

nice nice nice nice

[@gurdit11]

Wow

[@Ostarrichi996]

How to export the textures that you made in substance painter?

[@MyBadBro86]

how do I move the camera? And how do i engrave or "Reverse Engrave" on my 3D Mesh I'm trying to edit?

[@ChamferZone]

Hello TrustGone for basic 3Ds Max controls I'd recommend you to look up the official documentation. In general ALT + mousewheel does a lot of the movement in Max. I am not sure what you mean with reverse envgrave but it sounds like you could use the Boolean function for it. That will cut out shapes for you given that you have that detail geometry already modeled out. Usually I do engraving in Substance Painter though as Max would get too messy with it.

[@iahmed_s8957]

nice video m8 (;

[@HeyItsCodyAgain]

Any reason why I can bake all the maps fine, but when I try to bake the AO map it hangs? Doesn't do anything just shows a loading icon. I have to shutdown the program completely and restart it. Of course I've been following along so everything is similar to yours. Thanks for your time.

[@ChamferZone]

Hello Cody, yeah whatever they do with the AO and the thickness bake it's quite frustrating. The thing is... as long as it says loading it will finish ! The best thing is really to kick that bake off and leave the house for some lunch or dinner and when you get back it's done. Also make sure to have anti aliasing ticked to 4 and not 8. Otherwise it's insane the wait time. I fast forwarded that baking part in my video (I should have probably mentioned that)

[@Stoparik777]

Are you planing some big tutorial? Like an AK47 ?

[@ChamferZone]

Hey, yes I am working on a big tutorial as the next thing. It will first be exclusively featured in 3Dartist magazine as a big article but after that I'll release it as a video tutorial. Can't spoil it yet because of that :)

[@sandrockification]

At 20:10 you add a second steel material ontop of the original one and you get the details of both combined. I didn't catch how this happens. When I try this, the material ontop cancels out the one below it.

[@ChamferZone]

Hey Scott, apologies about the late reply. That is tough to say why its not working. Make sure that the one on top does not have height enabled, maybe that is it? Basically its kinda pointless what I am doing there at that part (I only just notice it now). You could also just disregard that steel rough material and instead crank the gloss amount on the iron shiny, so that you only have one material for it.

[@AbhishekKumar-yq8je]

It doesn't working for me when i bake .... Even after baking ,my knife is still low poly

[@staticbeepbeep]

So this would be best software for painting over 3D models?

[@ChamferZone]

There are other software packages and it can't really be said which one is the clear winner but for game related production I love Substance Painter. I use it both at work and for personal projects such as this tutorial so it's certainly something that is established in the industry and therefor worth learning.

[@staticbeepbeep]

ChamferZone Thanks for fast answer. Do you work as game developer or do you freelance and if you do work as game developer. Wor what company do you work if I may ask? Yeah I usually used Photoshop for texturing or well I usually start to do base texturing in blender and then move to Photoshop. What I like about substance painter (from what I've seen from your videos) is fact that you can do some high quality texturing as tools provided there seem to be similar to Photoshop.

[@ChamferZone]

I started at Crytek, then moved to Canada to work 5 years for Ubisoft and as of October last year for Digital Extremes. Substance Painter certainly replaced Photoshop for any texturing and for sure.. it's quite similar to Photoshop which makes it pretty easy to get into it.

[@staticbeepbeep]

That's great, good luck! I hope to see more tutorials from you though! You explain things really well and your tutorials are really easy to follow even for someone who never used any of these software's.

[@ChamferZone]

This is the best feedback I could wish for and I'll do my best to keep it up! :) More tutorials soon. Thank you!

[@Jannison]

Whenever I follow your baking at the start the normal map and ID map come up as black (in the video your ID map comes up as black too). I cant get the normal map to work and i'm not sure how to fix this? Any ideas as to why the normal map Isn't working for me at all? I have followed your part 1 tutorial start fo finish but cant work out why, when i bake, the knife looks worse than the low poly model we initially load in with.. Anyone else have this problem?

[@Jannison]

The AO and Thickness map also just come up black ? So confused!

[@_RichardOrtega]

Sorry to keep sounding like a complete noob, but when I imported the fbx to substance painter, my mesh looked like it was inside out. What did I do wrong?

[@MCbobalexbob]

You need to reverse your normals

[@_RichardOrtega]

I ended up reversing thing. When that didnt work, I just reset xforms. That seemed to work for me. Thanks for the prompt reply.

[@ChamferZone]

Hello Richard, yes usually the best way to perform before baking is to reset x form all the geometry and have backface cull enabled (right click the object and make sure it's checked). That will show if you any parts need flipping or not.

[@dv3d]

Alt Key rotates my viewport, It does not deselect =S

[@ChamferZone]

Hm.. Alt + middle mouse wheel button will rotate but left mouse button should deselect stuff for you.

[@Lighnoon]

Maybe someone reads this - who knows. Following the tutorial 1 by 1 but the resolution of the textures I apply are super blurry compared to seen in the video. I used 4K too, so I don't really know. I just know that that kinda changes how much of the details I actually see, as even the dirt layer is very blurry rather then good looking. Anyone here that knows why?

[@andersonbelem2107]

Can you make a tutorial whit exporting textures from Substance Painter to 3DsMax and rendering in Vray?

[@ChamferZone]

Hello Anderson, sorry but I don't render with Vray .. it's all Marmoset and straight to game engines for me.

[@andersonbelem2107]

ChamferZone oh, so in Marmoset you don't have the same problem to match the textures of render whit Substance Painter preview? Thanks for your attetion :D

[@ChamferZone]

You would export the textured from Substance Painter over to Marmoset and then set up your scene there. This goes super fast and made for PBR textures, same as Substance Painter. So you get the perfect results in it.. it's easy and intuitive and I can only recommend you to take a look at this here if you want to find out more: www.marmoset.co/category/toolbag-tutorials/ :) Worth every cent Marmoset !

[@Salvadorrius]

I am following the exact same process but when I am trying to add a smart mask as you do at 16:39. the mask is placed underneath the fill layer with a little circle icon and does not seem to affect the fill layer at all, the mask looks completely black. On yours we can clearly see the shape of your blade on the mask window but on mine it's pitch black. Any idea what might cause that? I do not have the ambiant occlusion map though but I do have the world normal, normal map, and curvature map. Thanks!!

[@ChamferZone]

Hello, could you post a screenshot of your current scene with that mask applied (not working) ? That would make it easier for me to see what's going on. I'd recommend baking all the maps though. Some of the generators needs them. Maybe that is part of the problem.

[@Salvadorrius]

Hello! Sure here you go s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/b6/7a/e2/b67ae25ddaff84237d628bcdb5a03c2f.jpg Yes I don''t know if it is because of an update since I am on 2.4 now... I will bake the other maps and see how it goes. Thanks!!:)

[@ChamferZone]

Hi, sorry for a 3 day long wait.. I get a lot of comments and sometimes I don't see it in times ;/ So to me the cause of the problem looks as if you didn't bake your curvature map properly. Can you post a screenshot of all the maps baked? Make double sure that you really bake them all. Those generators need these maps!

[@Salvadorrius]

Don't worry Tim it's already nice from you to answer :) I think it's because I baked the curvature in Xnormal...big mistake haha

[@Nikos5927059]

Hello i have a question about your PC. What is your config because my pc is really slow with Substance painter ?

[@ChamferZone]

Hello Duff, it's nothing out of this world. I use a Geforce GTX 1080 and then... i.imgur.com/SC0zZyB.png

[@Nikos5927059]

ChamferZone Thank you Tim. I use Windows 10 and i think it is not optimised for a lot of 3d software. I downgrade To 7 and i will say if its ok. Omg i need to learn english.

[@HigashiBashi]

Why did you split the high poly and low poly to different formats? obj and fbx.

[@ChamferZone]

Hey mate, sorry for the late reply. It's just my personal choice. I think that obj is better for highpoly. I did encounter some bugs in my bake when I use FBX as highpoly, some little dark spots appear some times. When I use OBJ that does not happen.

[@HigashiBashi]

Hey! Thanks for replying, That's interesting to know that generally .obj seems to be cleaner on higher poly objects. By the way I don't think I've seen a better weapon modeller than you. Amazing.

[@Levyndra]

Tell me please, at me all baked, but the oval holes in their grip not, just do not parched, why?

[@ChamferZone]

Hello Lev sorry but I would need a bit more information then that to help. If you want you can always sign up to forum.chamferzone.com and post a few images of what's going on. I ll make sure to help.

[@Levyndra]

Ok

[@AllanLiveG]

Where is that extended substance lesson ?

[@trendingmarketing3355]

Hi bro! My normal map looks black, what can I do?

[@ChamferZone]

Hello Sir, sorry for the late reply but the most likely thing that happened is that you have a naming convention mismatch. Make sure everyhing is either _low or _high. Even upper case letters can break it.

[@FourShine_]

What exactly is the point of baking all those maps? I only baked the Normal map and got the same result

[@ChamferZone]

Hi Emiel, we need all the maps for the generators to do their work. For example without the curvature map you would not be able to get any proper edgewear around the little details we added like the screw holes and so on. Each map can have a certain effect if we apply generators. Leakage for example looks at the gradient map to know where up and down is.

[@FourShine_]

Didn't know it worked that way! I'll keep that in mind, thanks

[@Arnov618]

Can you post a link to your smart material in comments or in desription? thanks

[@ChamferZone]

Good point ! share.allegorithmic.com/libraries/2291

[@Arnov618]

Nice !

[@ChamferZone]

NP, i hope it works for you because I had some people saying it didn't work on the substance share page. I wonder if maybe one of the new substance painter updates messed it up. Either way in the end it's really just a pretty basic effect with some generators to get some more highlighting around the edges. Something you could probably just tweak yourself with the generators they have in there (or smart masks)

[@Arnov618]

I've been looking for something like this since whenever I tried to texture sharp stuff they would always look somehow off and I was rarely satisfied with result. I like how you used 3 different materials and edge wear to get the desired look of your sharp metal. really insightful video.

[@Arnov618]

Just checked the material. It's not quite like in the video, every mask editor has no masks assigned. You might want to save whole "Blade" folder as smart material.