Preparing Models for Substance 3D Painter in Blender | Adobe Substance 3D

In this video we look at how to properly prepare our 3D models in Blender to make our texturing process more efficient inside of Substance 3D Painter.
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Preparing Models for Substance 3D Painter in Blender | Adobe Substance 3D
• Preparing Models for S...

[@stellaachenbach]

Such a great explainer video! Love it!

[@Ilya_Yatsko]

Was struggling with that, extremely useful information, thanks a lot

[@cgimadesimple]

super cool

[@cazalpine]

Thank you for the great content ! Fast learning curve here ;o) - I still have a little question about the model I want to export from Blender to Substance : do I have to apply the modifiers in Blender before exporting the geometry in FBX ? F.e. I usually use modifiers with my geometry such as "Mirror", "Subdivision Surface" and "Weighted Normal"... Thank you.

[@filthyprimary]

I believe on export Blender applies your modifiers.

[@JDGuio]

@@filthyprimary Exactly, when you are going to export the FBX on blender you can apply the modifiers.

[@S9universe]

thank you

[@PokeHeadroom]

Very helpful video

[@Smoses_senpai]

NICE JOB

[@facu_eze_peralta]

Hi! A love the tutorial! i have a question, how do you export the model fromr blender in a FBX file if you have more elements in de scene.

[@BrunoTicianelli]

During the pop-up window in the export, you have on the right "selected only" option

[@facu_eze_peralta]

@@BrunoTicianelli thank you!!!

[@UnchartedWorlds]

Hi, at 4:15, how can you with one click select such large parts of the model while being in Face Edit Mode? Do you hold a shortcut to enable you to do that? Clicking on one polygon should only select that polygon and not a whole bunch of polygons. Can anyone clarify?

[@graffatee]

You do that by hovering over the area you want to select. You then click L ("L" stands for "Linked"), which selects all the faces that are connected to each others. In the video's model those parts of the model have been split into different meshes, and that's why they can be selected individually with L. You can pick various options from the sub-menu after clicking L to control what works as the limit: normal, material, seam, sharp or UV's. Hope this clarified it for you! :]

[@thomas_gallego]

THANKS.

[@gachecem_yt]

What if I need to have it UV unrap together (on the same texture) is it possible?

[@Malaphisis]

1 material

[@MrAsag]

mid level of displacement texture in painter is 0.5 so the gray color is 0. but how I can change the mid level to 0 value, with is black is 0?

[@mathajar9563]

CAN you make glimpse of how game asset texturing workflow using blender to substance to unreal?

[@joemusyoki3251]

Hi can we please get a tutorial explaining how to prepare models from Cinema 4D to Substance Painter?

[@Substance3D]

We're looking into it! It was definitely on my list, we just picked these 3 first.

[@francivalterlimapereira2943]

Preparing Models for Substance 3D Painter in zbrush, poderia fazer esse vídeo..

[@elcid2651]

I'm getting an error trying to write ID maps in the latest version of Substance using the method illustrated here. The ID maps fail to write and I get the log message: 'Can't create resource from baker result: Failed to write temporary image ... Unknown error.' Any idea why that would be happening?

[@hisbullahkhan]

what other software we could use other than blender

[@AnnisNaeemOfficial]

maya, c4d, houdini... any of them.

[@CoreDreamStudios]

How do I find Pack UV in Blender? Did not see it.

[@BrianLife]

its in the UV editor aria. in there. first in 3D view edit mode. select all. then you'll see your UV. over in the UV window. In the UV window ( not 3d) select all. Then at top go to UV, drop down menue, in the middle you should see Pack UV Islands.

[@CoreDreamStudios]

@@BrianLife Ty

[@davidedezotti2856]

how do you select all that polygons with one click at 4:10

[@shiva-hb3dc]

hello bro i am read your comment make this selection your mouce cursor put on face and press "L" on your keybord

[@coinopanimator]

Substance need a proper exporter. i.e. "Save Scene as..." Blender, FBX, USD and it creates a file that doesn't need to be manually relinked it just worked.

[@juniornxumalo3225]

but why does Substance Painter change my UV Maps from quads to engons ? this messes up how the material looks is applied .

[@wahidlaaleg8315]

what about houdini to painter??

[@Roman-L]

Should have watched this at first before going thru different YT videos :D

[@futureengineer9610]

Souce?

[@animatheg3447]

Perfect but i would like to see videos aswell about import and exporting 3d models from blender and substance because i get a lot of truble when i try to export my final object from substance to blender back

[@Substance3D]

We have a video on this exactly: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oHTahXh7rqmLabs

[@vuxanov]

@@Substance3D You linked this video 💀

[@IrocZIV]

@@Substance3D Yeah, that is a link back the video this comment is in. Good for preparing the model for Substance Painter, but not on how to get the textures back into Blender.

[@MaximumAbility]

Hello Adobe. I have a really nice idea for Substance Painter software. I created model in Blender 3D. In blender I have different objects with different materials. I selected all objects and enter in multi-edit mode, UV unwrapping them into single UV map. After I export fbx and import it in Substance Painter. Baking maps I use also to make ID maps to simply add different materials to individual ID map color. Of course after baking ID maps I get long list of materials such as (metalic part, plastic cover, glass frame, rust bolts and etc.) After my texturing is done I can export it in a bunch of a lot, really lot of textures, but I want something like checkbox to have ability to export all this different list of materials into single map without need to use another software to combine them into one ( Texture Set Combiner for Substance Painter ). Please answer me under this comment if my proposal can be realized in the future versions of Substance Painter.

[@BrianLife]

Wish there was an answer fro this.

[@LeGaLiZeDOOMz]

do a single uv map to having them combined

[@asvalias]

The first part of a video is well explain indeed, but second part (practice) is pretty fast and there is no following from you what and where to press. I'd work on that if these videos meant to be for begginers. EDIT: well, some later parts (assigning texture to specific part of a model is decently explained) but when you've been changing color texture it was way too fast to follow

[@ivoneko6750]

Now blender 4.0, Set vertex color shortcut is " Ctrl X " :D

[@goosesuka]

if i make a lot of materials in blender i will get a lot of textures at the end

[@slackamacgaming6721]

It's easy...shade smooth...add loop cuts, pull/push them toward the edges you need them...use Blender Smart UV unwrap...PRESTO! make texturing magic in Substance Painter...

[@FesliyanStudios]

But if you export multiple texture sets, that isn't suitable for a video game. So wouldn't you want it all UV unwrapped in one texture set?

[@tovermoran4360]

You can use the texture sets for 'organisation' of materials from Blender to Substance, and then export unified final maps to your game engine, so you'll just have one set for your model.

[@miskopisko8833]

6:12 I peed on my keyboard and it didn't help :(

[@goosesuka]

I will then get 30 pieces of textures for 1 small model, its bad story

[@LeGaLiZeDOOMz]

with the geometry mask you get 2 piece of texture or even 1.

[@stardusty]

This is so useless. It's like a powerpoint presentation on the theory of preparing models for substance 3D from blender.

[@Substance3D]

You'd be surprised how many people we meet that struggle with this.. I'm glad you don't have this issue though ;)

[@pitnie8392]

​@@Substance3Dcorrect, the video helped me so much!

[@redsun4187]

Maybe this is useless for you, but why would you judge? It's nice and clear. Also I'm just starting with Substance Painter and find this cideo useful. Why don't you just go watch another video :\

[@singhbisla]

Why are you watching if you know everything, this was so helpful to me.

[@timbridger4681]

​@@Substance3Dcan confirm!

[@leclerc_1652]

Why don't you have fusion 360? That is better

[@WolfGuy1]

better for what exactly?

[@leclerc_1652]

@@WolfGuy1 To make these models

[@WolfGuy1]

@@leclerc_1652 I don't think so, that kind of software always make triangled and messy mesh, not worth for rigging and game dev