How to Bake Normal Maps using Substance Painter

Hi Creators,
Have you ever looked at a 3D model and wondered how they kept it so low poly but the model has so much detail? It's probably the normal maps! In this video tutorial, we will go over how to bake a normal map using Substance Painter. We'll be using tools like baking, objs, and so much more.
Let's get started!
Software Used: Maya 2022, Substance Painter
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Thank you so much Monica... I've been looking for the whole PBR pipeline process so i could learn modeling to Low poly ,UV, baking and texture but I couldn't find it anywhere else.. But now thanks to you i can finally do this.. Really appreciated. Have a like and a subscriber.

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i was struggling with this n was finding baking overwhelming thanks for clearing my basics.

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You saved my life...Substance was driving me nuts for not doing my normal maps. The clue to match die transform of both object did the trick. THX! :)

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Just what i need!!! I always want how to bake a normal map, Monica thank you very much!!!!

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Thank you for tutorial

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I love these tutorials they're very easy to follow. Would it be possible for you to make tutorial of how to render ambient occlusion scene using Arnold? Not the ao map, just the rendering process

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Wow, you really explained the process properly. Thanks 😌😌

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THANK YOUUUUUU !!!!! you helped me in my 3d class baking assignment !!!

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[@hanialadham4336]

Thanks, great tutorial! I have a question, for example if I wanted to have the hole or the beveled areas to be colored or textured differently, as I have a pattern and I don't want to color them manually, how can I do that? should I export the pattern alone and then add the new Normal maps on a separate shader and then change the colors? would that work or is there a better way?

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[@dadades690]

Hey, tanks for the tutorial ! Any tips on how to do a correct uv map to not get seams on every faces ? I'm trying to wrap my head around my problem, but my brain is overflowing x) My object is a bit more complex than a barrel, so I don't know if it's because of that that I have these damned seams :/ I know it's because it give a gradient on each face, and so there's a mismatch between each sides of an edge, but I can't separate every faces, or I'll become crazy x)

[@nguyenling4478]

Hi, can I move the point in High poly? I mean the points that have been existed in low poly

[@vexydara]

Damn it! Every signal video I find shows a window with options when they click “bake mesh maps” but when I click it I get a cage that’s all messed up and I can’t find the reset button or the bake button. IDK What the hell I’m looking at. It kinda looks like 3D max settings a little but I still can’t work the cage!

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When i render my 10 second animation its take a lot of time i wait for render its take 1 hour but not render so i cut my render

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I was problem in Maya 2022 bump map and you solve Thanks... (please make some more videos for Maya 2022 bump map please...)

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Hi Monica, is there a way to do this some thing directly in Maya??

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how to make material maps in photoshop for a model?

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Is it same for zbrush

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Yes, ZBrush can bake normals. Or you can take the exported zbrush model, and use it to bake normals in Substance Painter. :)

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[@sirius_black_usa]

I think your Low Poly barrel is not low poly game asset. No optimized and no triangulated.