Substance Painter PBR to V-Ray 3.6 (no plugins)

Just a quick video on how to get your Substance Painter PBR textures to work with V-Ray renderer. I am using 3DS Max 2018, but the process for Maya and other programs should be similar. No plugins are needed for this to work.
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[@dedegreenlight]

Thank a lot ! It was exactly the info I searched for. At last I found how to do this in the few minutes video. Even with the new version it is very usefull !

[@MANIAKRA]

you're welcome, no problem :)

[@bearwolffish]

We don't all have access to V-Ray Next, you are a G mate. Much love.

[@MANIAKRA]

Haha thanks man, happy to help!

[@Khrizsrage]

you are.. a ... god... so much time having trouble with this exact part of SP to Max, and you saved me month of research, thank you bro!! for real. from chile, thank you! do you have artstation or behance? it would be nice to follow you... CHEERS BRO!!

[@MANIAKRA]

Thanks Khriz glad it helped. I do have an artstation linked on my channel page. Cheers!

[@MANIAKRA]

*NOTE* The reason for not needing the height map at the material level is because it is used instead in a VRayDisplacementMod modifier applied to the model.

[@guxiangguse]

Very good presentation, thank you!

[@MANIAKRA]

no problem dude, thanks!

[@connorb9792]

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[@MANIAKRA]

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[@xcub3z]

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[@MANIAKRA]

no prob ;)

[@3dinovo2]

Very good Congratulations !!!

[@vinatasenturi2099]

Thank you so much! :') GOD Bless you Thankyou :')

[@badbud2330]

Hey thank you so much for this!! I spent about 2 days trying to find a renderer which can make the same results. I've tried Arnold in Maya, I've trid Keyshot and always something has missed. Thanks a lot

[@MANIAKRA]

No problem, my pleasure. Hope it works!

[@WangSeeker]

Very helpful thank you!

[@MANIAKRA]

no problem!

[@user-iu3jc8ln3i]

I subscribe for you for this halpful tutorial!! Sanks, sensey)

[@MechanicmapsBlogspotMods]

Thank you, that works.

[@burgardtvolga4309]

Working in 2024 thanks bro i just had to make that vray option export in substante painter by myself. I guess adobe substance painter changed so i had to do by myself. Although i dont see textures exactly like i do in substante painter but well. No idea how to fix that

[@remakein40k73]

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!!

[@MANIAKRA]

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[@MANIAKRA]

UPDATE: Haha and literally a day later, Chaos Group announces V-Ray Next for 3DS Max. They have added a new Metalness option directly inside of VRayMtl so probably makes this unnecessary. It should still apply to versions 3.6 and lower.

[@Khrizsrage]

yeah... hahaha I saw that yesterday and I was like "... god damn it" but hey bro, you helped me a lot with this tips man, for real, Im working on a small freelance videogame with some friends and this saved me. I will add you on artstation, you can find me anywhere with this nick " khrizsrage ". once again, thanks!

[@TheSEWEGI]

What is Microfacet GTR? I only got Blinn, Phong and Ward...

[@ApexArtistX]

How to deal with model with multisubobject texture . It imports so many pieces in sp

[@RobertoHx]

Lmao, I don’t remember. Good stuff, and thank you.

[@mohamedalashiq1316]

What’s the LUT and gamma setting of this 3ds max scene.

[@crcpeart]

Great video- thank you!! So... no mapping is required at all when you apply the materials? Did you have to prepare the geometry at all prior to applying the material you made?

[@MANIAKRA]

Hey thanks Chris! Yes I believe I unwrapped it. I think things are different with the new substance painter version, but in this video I had unwrapped it first.

[@crcpeart]

@@MANIAKRA Hi! OK, but you unwrapped it how? and at which stage in the process? Thank you!!

[@thebigv5573]

very big help, thank you! i follow and everything worked out, except that my reflection is reflecting too much. I have a bit varnished of a wood that i made in substance, and in max without the reflection map its not reflecting any light and with the reflection its similar to a metallic reflection. Do you know some solution to this?

[@MANIAKRA]

hmm can you send me a screenshot of your material node graph?

[@thebigv5573]

thank you, i think i solved it - the problem was with the lighting, i messed around with vray's options before that and this caused the bad reflection. Thanks for the fast reply and I subbed

[@almadibritanniagutierrez305]

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[@MANIAKRA]

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[@deepaknailwal8517]

there is not any script for 3ds max 2018 , directly import to the texture substance to 3ds max..??

[@maiax3i]

o bro u rules, u, this really worked for me

[@MANIAKRA]

No prob man😊

[@stelviogiaquinto9255]

hello very interesting, with this tutorial I managed to understand many things ... I was wondering would you be kind to do with the same material with the new release substance painter 2020 thanks

[@MANIAKRA]

hi there, I can try but I don't know when I can get to it! It should be very similar the steps wont change much :)

[@stelviogiaquinto9255]

@@MANIAKRA you know I am learning mastering in 3ds max 2017 but substance painter I am learning it ... but compared to your tutorial I now find myself with different options and to be honest I got lost and a lot of the indications are unknown to me and I don't know how to do it .. think I went to bring back the software to the previous versions but it made me annoying and I think it is a bag of the new version but I am really amazed at the simplicity of how I had thanks to your explanation of the steps forward ... if you can and have time so you can understand ... thank you in advance

[@user-sm6ci8vb7w]

Thank you!

[@MANIAKRA]

no problem ;)

[@afra7mamlakia403]

perfect thanks prof

[@MANIAKRA]

no problem!

[@c.realxperimentslane]

GODDAMN i can't like this twiceeeeee

[@MANIAKRA]

Haha thanks man glad it helped.

[@keithtam8859]

but the latest SP do not have direct support for exporting PBR maps that working with Vray 3.6...

[@ytjmodels2152]

Hi, i have a transparent bottle model textures with opacity channel in substance painter...how do i export the opacity map to work with vray...please let me know,any help would be greatly appreciated thanks

[@MANIAKRA]

Hi, in Substance Painter try going to File > Export Textures > Configuration Tab > Duplicate your current shader preset (like PBR MetalRough) and add an Opacity channel output map to the list. This new preset you make should create an opacity map. Then inside V-Ray, just plug in your opacity map into the Opacity slot in VrayMTL. Here is a link to someone who asked the same question on Allegorithmic forums: forum.allegorithmic.com/index.php?topic=10135.0

[@ytjmodels2152]

Thank you so much

[@acrossARTS]

Thanks a lot mate! Can you tell me the reason why the gamma has to be overwritten? (Might be a stupid question but I have almost no experience with shading)

[@MANIAKRA]

Hey man, np. I'm not entirely sure why we have to do this but it's either to do with turning the textures into a linear-colour space (in general you want to work in linear for rendering) or it has to do with how substance exports textures. The substance painter manual recommends these steps though.

[@acrossARTS]

​@@MANIAKRAThanks for the fast response. Now I'm not going to die stupid :D Will take a look at the substance manual though!

[@rahulll_dj]

gamma overrride option is disabled for me what should i do

[@FI4aTV]

Hi! Thank you. Can you get download link on your vray export preset in substanse painter?

[@MANIAKRA]

Hi there, thanks! The VRAY export preset is default for substance painter. You should have it already :D

[@FI4aTV]

@@MANIAKRA I noticed, thanks.

[@duarteperdigao6934]

thank you

[@canaldojohnny8824]

Just saved my life! hahaha

[@DENTNT]

огромное спасибо!

[@jeromeirvinggo]

thank you!!!!

[@bhupendraking9370]

Nice :)

[@MANIAKRA]

thank you!

[@tapanjoshi7710]

thanks so much!

[@MANIAKRA]

you're welcome!

[@yoyoz333]

how do you get a node editor for Vray materials?

[@MANIAKRA]

Go to material editor, at the top left of the pop-up window you should see "Modes" from there select "Slate Material Editor". By default it's set to Compact Editor but I don't like it :) If you have Vray purchased and installed it will show up there.

[@yoyoz333]

@@MANIAKRA no i dont see any option saying modes. in the material editor window, i see the sphere preview of the material, then under that it says "preset" and "custom" then it lists all the channels. thats it.

[@sagitta9891]

Wow, your rendering is so fast. What is your PC rig?

[@MANIAKRA]

Alvian Gilang Sagita hi, that was done on an i7-6700k with a 980Ti gpu. Older machine from 2016z

[@mikhailgerun269]

Where is the place of height map in the vray?

[@MANIAKRA]

Put a VRayDisplacementMod modifier on your model, then link to height map.

[@mikhailgerun269]

Answer one more question please: what to do with emissive map?

[@x3merx3mer]

Substance doesn't export textures that way any more. No Ior map etc

[@joonykids]

henceforth thou shall be called GOD :)

[@lactoslactosinberg4133]

Noisia

[@MANIAKRA]

hell yea

[@ManOfTrades]

This says no plugins, but youre using the Vray plugin haha

[@MANIAKRA]

I'm sorry Mr. Mullins, not all of us can speed paint our way out of problems ;)