Exporting Models from ZBrush to Substance 3D Painter

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In this tutorial you'll learn how to bring your model from ZBrush to Substance 3D Painter using a simple and tested workflow - as well as how to paint an ID Map in ZBrush and bringing it into Substance 3D Painter.
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[@alsikan]

I bought your anatomy tutorial. I already have a ton of knowledge of the human body and you still managed to blow my mind. You really pput things into different perspectives. I really like the idea that artist aren’t trying to get a phd or save somone it’s about making it looking correct and believable not super accurate.

[@evildan777]

I am student learning 3dsmax,Zbrush and substance. love your vids, keep it up!

[@FlippedNormals]

Great to hear!

[@blehfuez4365]

Awesome video! Please keep doing these valuable tutorials! :) Your quality is absolutely unique. If you’re thinking of what your next video should be about, I have a suggestion: I would love to see a discussion about how quick and dirty you can actually get with UV’s. I began learning to make really clean and optimized UV’s for all of my models and always tried to hide the seams and have nice and appealing unfolds and all… but I wonder if that is really necessary, when you just want to get a decent looking piece for your artstation fast. Should I spent the extra time and effort for super nice UV’s or can I just use some automatic unfold on my decimated model and use a ton of udims? What are the options here? I seek for your expert knowledge on this one! :D

[@itselliexoxx]

needed this thanks!

[@kutmanbekiroglu8671]

I am really glad you guys are back and rolling. And now the song of my people. "why are you doing this to us Adobe, stop being a monopoly" Can we have Quixel Mixer videos too?

[@sergeygolovchenko6907]

Helpful video! many thanks

[@JRBontrager]

Fantastic video as always! Great tips on the workflow.

[@FlippedNormals]

Thanks a ton!

[@thebigjago]

I'm just wondering about the loss of resolution in the mid to high frequencies, do you not lose a ton of them when decimating? what's the point of putting them in if you know you're going to transfer it into substance ?

[@sebastianfdelrio]

great tutorial!

[@atomicshrimpFT]

Hi, really informative video as always. Did you sculpt on the retopod mesh for the details? I wasn’t quite sure how you got the good topo as subd 1 level in zbrush. I just thought sculpting it, retopoing in blender, reimporting the blender model into zbrush and the sculpting on that one would be a waste of sculpting in the beginning. I guess you guys projected details on the retopo?

[@_TetKaneda]

Great contribution. Great tutorial. You have my like. Thank you so much. Greetings

[@dhananjayasilva1359]

wooow that was supper duper helpful

[@JonNancyH]

Superb!

[@yashroy1704]

Thank u so much

[@Conahawk]

I would love to see a tutorial on baking normal maps in blender if you haven't already made one. I'm curious on how a normal map could be applied to a rigged character in a way that would adhere to the bones of said character

[@CJSwitz]

I might be misunderstanding your question, but a tangent-space normal map will correctly be applied even to deforming geometry (i.e. a rigged character). It's measured from the UVs and the surface normal, so it just follows along.

[@feralmode]

thanks guys. love your channel. when i have more cash i hope to support you financially by buying some of your assets. appreciate all your hard work and all the amazing content you give for free. thanks.

[@Rev00h]

Great video but did you guys create your low topology & UV’s in blender? Or was that all done in Zbrush?

[@FlippedNormals]

That was done in Blender yes :)

[@johnfrusciantefan90]

I usually export the lowest sub div level for the low poly version and use the high poly to bake. I never tried decimated high poly as the low mesh, does that yield better results after baking?

[@Ptah1130]

It depends what your using it for, as well. You would want to retopo if you're using the low poly for animations. You can decimate and or Zremesh a copy of the high poly model to get a nice low poly version as well

[@Ptah1130]

It should be the same results. I have done it several times.

[@johnfrusciantefan90]

@@Ptah1130 Sometimes the approach goes a bit wrong for me, but since I don'T animate things, I might give it a try with decimating. (But I am also doing a very lazy approach by using zRemesher und UV master. In 8 of 10 cases it works fine for me, but I am a hobbyiest only :D)

[@CryptoFeeders]

U did not mentiion if UVs required for this model before poly painting in zbrsuh or not?

[@zon.23]

can you make a video how to import displacement map to substance painter

[@FlippedNormals]

We've actually tested this before for a video, but it seems like Painter isnt amazing at disp maps so we never got a satisfying result

[@stevefuncke9798]

Blender workflow next? Please 🙏

[@atomicshrimpFT]

no :)

[@ZephrusPrime]

How to make UDIMS in ZBrush?

[@FlippedNormals]

You cant make udims directly in ZBrush, but if you import a model with udims it'll work, and if you export maps from it, it'll also work

[@alieninsectbass]

Hey Henning and Morten, could you guys do a texturing tutorial using Quixel Mixer? It's very quickly getting up to speed with Substance Painter.

[@regiluthfi]

my substance painter said : invalid scene model has no uv coordinates

[@user-gn9ex4zh6z]

I've always used the decimation method for getting the model into Substance, but I often work with creatures that require a very high-fidelity mesh to paint on (like dinosaurs with lots of small, fine scales.) Decimating anywhere below 3 million usually doesn't yield the results I need for painting the small details, but of course that causes Substance to lag. Is there a better method I should use to maintain the tiny sculptural detail?

[@stephaniebellgardt]

​@@cas_sim Yeah I didn't think this was the typical workflow. It's good for a mid-detail sculpt but I'll need to try your method. So for multiple subtools I would still condense everything into one subtool with polygroups for the high and low poly versions? Thanks in advance :)

[@aveecotton5249]

you can give for me Ui zbrush in video your ?

[@canalpan9]

at last 😴

[@nicholash1278]

won't all these tutorials be irrelevant now that we have AI like midjournye and stable diffusion that can make a better render / character than this in seconds?