Substance Painter 2021 Getting Started - Part 03 - Brushes & painting | Adobe Substance 3D

In this video we take a look at brushes and painting in Substance Painter 2021.
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[@stnayem]

What a clear voice over! very professional.

[@pablolopez6721]

For some reason I was not seeing the preview of the brush in the viewport as you did here (for example in minute 5:16) I found out about the display options for the cursor in the left side of the tool properties shelf at the top of the viewport, in case anyone had the same issue, the full preview cursor option solved it. Thank you for the series, I'm learning a lot.

[@Substance3D]

Glad you are liking the content. Very sorry for not mentioning the preview cursor setting. I should have mentioned that in the video to avoid confusion.

[@ITSG2370]

thanks a lot for telling

[@cupcake5545]

If you dont get what he means just watch this video. the video will show you how to fix the exact problem 'kzbin.info/www/bejne/hojIfp9mpcyEjKs'

[@andrewjwhitus]

Thank you very much, I was having the same issue. if you are like me, even with Pablo's great help it still took me a long time to find the option to turn it back on. It is in the very top left right above the viewport. It is a button directly beneath "edit".

[@bystevenlamb]

@@andrewjwhitus Thanks folks! Ran into the same issue

[@sf4d]

This is an excellent course. I've been learning a significant amount, thank you!

[@whiterice6016]

When I delete the alpha, my brush preview is gone, even though I have it selected. What causes this? The brush still works except for the preview

[@michaelthomas1148]

Love these tutorials. Thanks, I am learning so much.

[@sagarparmar9678]

Very very very helpful for beginners 👍👍👍 keep uploading

[@danteabott9142]

Wonderfull, I love hard surfaces

[@dileeshaabilash5562]

Great explaining Sir wonderful keep it up .You are the best in substance adobe group

[@t2g4_channel]

Thank you! Just brilliant tutorial, and the programm itself!

[@howvfx]

1: to set up a brush to apply a new hard surface pattern, just [ALt+Right mouse key] to click "nrm" bottom of brush in setup panel, then only nrm channel available now. active 7:08 symmetry tool 2: at 4:40 hard surfaces selected: vent 3: 8:50 edge_02 pattern 4: 9:32 vent 07

[@howvfx]

5: 10:45 circle 6: 14:18 screw hax round

[@howvfx]

16:53 add "MaFax HBAO" filter for "AO chahnnel 17:30 add filter layer on hardsurface layer, and drag MaFax HBAO to it. 17:43 at the tab of AO channel,change parameter channel source from "height" to "Normal" ( because we've added all of hard surface details are use Normal pattern, that it! )

[@DarrenLGoldsmith]

These videos are sooo damn good. Super clear, and easy to understand/follow along. Perfect for new users of Painter. The only thing that bugged me with this one was all the brush rotations were 1 degree out. Arrrgghh! Haha. :)

[@the_greck]

Was wondering if that bothered anyone else! One degree can be really noticeable when you're dealing with designs like this. Seems you should always type in your rotations in 90 degree increments if you want it to align properly rather than just eyeball it.

[@vie1418]

m really excite to use this brush! thinking abt all the lill work i'll b getting away with thnx to this one

[@JohnC5]

great, thank you very much and very well done

[@JeroenLapre]

Very helpful. Thanks

[@evilone10]

Just commenting while watching, it would be great if brushes can have a kind of auto "center" snap fonction according to an orthographic view, or a cross point grid in order to place stroke in an better accurate way. Because for example the normal beveled round Hard Surface brush you applied on top wasn't very well centered on the model. Or maybe being able to offset it manually even after being applyed. I don't know how the appropriate fonction could be, but i'm sure you get my point ; )

[@Substance3D]

Thank you for the feedback. I shared this with the dev team.

[@rlsvid]

Yes please! Being able to work with 100% precision would be much better for hard surface.

[@petrosianus]

excellent videos! Subbed!

[@mondainthewizard8514]

Nice course.

[@mcroman-superfeat]

THX , Wes - Ready for # 4 TUT now... ;) Like 4 hours today ...

[@wes.mcdermott]

Thank you! So glad you liked the tutorial.

[@acemaster4310]

Really work

[@josephmelgavisualartist3081]

Que genial tutorial muy bien explicado y didáctico, gracias!

[@gabehesch1]

Hi! One thing that confused me was that the normal maps were disabled in the first video and never baked. How then are the normal patterns like the vents and the screws showing up? I guess I don't understand 'normal' information in these programs.

[@webdeveloper4378]

you are the best

[@vancedaccount572]

crew normal looks very low resolution bu in the video his screws was looking great is something that I should do ?

[@dougieladd]

Hi I'm following your tutorial to the letter... but my alpha stamps do not look like yours... they look very low res??? What am I doing wrong? My settings are the same as yours in the tut... Thanks. Loving it so far though apart from this issue.

[@Scarlov87]

There is something that I think the tutorial misses and is the way that those normals affect effects like edge wear. that happens on the file you use but not on the video :P (i am looking the way to do that)

[@blurrednormals1900]

where do we get the hardsurface option please reply, does these hardsurfaces are built in or plug-in

[@sci_worlds]

Can I use Substance Painter to carve like sculpting? Not stamping. I want to carve a fine line.

[@FattyBull]

How to control the intensity of the Normal Map Stencils?

[@BMHeades]

I switched to full preview cursor and the cursor appeared, but it disappeared again when I removed the alpha, tho it was set to full preview cursor.

[@okamichamploo]

my brush doesn't seem to have a preview. So I can rotate it, but I can't actually see the angle while I'm rotating. Do I have to turn the preview on somewhere?

[@linda-ricci]

I have the same problem

[@bystevenlamb]

Around 12:25 my material for the brush disappeared when I tried typing values under the parameters with my numpad. Solution: The numpad is the hotkeys for cycling through the brush tool, eraser, etc. so just avoid using the numpad when entering in values. (It looked like I had "no material" but really I accidentally hit '2' on the numpad which is the hotkey for the eraser)

[@vzdragon]

Haha, SAME exact thing happened to me. Was fun flipping through menus until I figured out what happened

[@eoghanley]

Haha, exact same thing happened to me, at that exact timestamp

[@deanfitri5219]

Hi. for some reason Ive lost my material mode on the properties and cant use hard surfaces anymore. Example: I right click to see my brush and material preview but only brush have but no material. not even the button for me to drag in the hard surfaces

[@dit.studio5205]

hi there , in minute 6:10 when i delete the alpha for some reason I can't see the preview on the viewport , I tried to toggle the option on left side of tool properties but it has no effect. do you guys know how to resolve this? thanks

[@spyke77310]

Just wanted to say that as soon as you are working in the 2D view inside Substance painter, you wont be able to modify your UVs without losing all of it. So be very carefull inside painter when doing this. I would never recommend to work in 2D view as it is going against the whole purpose of substance painter which is a non destructible/procedural workflow.

[@velstorios9473]

Can you please give a more detailed explanation?

[@alimazhar943]

Hello friends! (Sorry for bad English) My brush preview window is not working (1:40) and when I try to paint it does not appear in viewport also the materials I applied did not appear please answer me fast

[@vicaindrianti3735]

why my brush preview under the propeties-paint show only black color,and i cant draw using paint tool??

[@acidvideothomas8383]

when i delete my stroke's alpha my full preview cursor disappears, and in your video it doesn't. what am i doing wrong?

[@cgnovice2969]

Is there any way to give to hard surface details you painted a material? Or is that not possible since it's just changes to the normal map?

[@Substance3D]

Not with the method shown here. You need to paint them as full decals for that.

[@AmazingRenders]

No entiendo el inglés perfectamente, pero entiendo perfectamente el tutorial, muchas gracias

[@el_jamos]

If i remove the alpha the brush preview is invisible. How do i fix it? its not the preview setting because that is on "Full Preview Cursor"

[@jessemercer5912]

Im having the exact same problem. did you find what the issue was?

[@matthewpalmer8068]

I'm having the same issue. I'm new to Substance 3D. Just installed version 7.2.1 build 1120. "Full Preview Cursor" is set and I see the brush preview. Once I close the Alpha Shape, the brush preview goes away. So I can't see where the hard surface elements will be placed on the model.

[@el_jamos]

@@matthewpalmer8068 Just get a white alpha square and drop it into the alpha folder.

[@el_jamos]

@@jessemercer5912 Just get a white alpha square and drop it into the alpha folder.

[@jessemercer5912]

@@el_jamos thank you!!

[@joyceng9268]

hi i cant turn on the mirror symmetry

[@euclxd8033]

I can't access the symmetry options menu for some reason. It's been greyed out.

[@tiltedtexan2366]

Everything looked good until I stamped the first hard surface brush. It was really low quality. I was doing this in 4K instead of 2K. Is that where I messed up?

[@Substance3D]

It shouldn't be low quality in 4K. I will typically work in 2K as 4K can take longer to process. If you work in 2K does the quality look ok? It could be that at 4K, the GPU was computing the texture and we use a sparse virtual texture solution to control performance. The SVT could show a blurred result until the computation completes.

[@ITSG2370]

same Note:- I'm working in 2k res

[@tiltedtexan2366]

@@Substance3D I fixed it. For some reason in my texture set settings it was 1024 instead 4096. I had set it to 4096 originally which had confused me. Thank you for taking the time to personally respond to me. What a great company and a great software!

[@Substance3D]

@@tiltedtexan2366 You might have confused baking resolution with texture set resolution. They are separate. Baking is a bit more static, you need to rebake to up-res. Textureset you can jump up or down in res more dynamically.

[@BMHeades]

I'm on steam version and I don't have a shelf like that, but assets tab and it's missing alot of hard surface textures. Please help

[@jedrekszczepankiewicz1874]

Did you figure it out? I have the same problem

[@KenmoreChalfant]

They just changed that UI in 7.2. You can see your version in the very bottom right of Painter. In this video he's using 7.1.0. In version 7.2 they renamed the Shelf to Assets and changed the categories from a list on the side to just icons - and in the process they removed some of the categories such as Hard Sufrace from the UI. Really strange to me that they would remove the old way and not keep it as an option. However, the assets all still have tags so you can click the Texture category then search "normal" or "hard surface" to find the right normal textures. The first one he uses in this vid, the vent one, is rotated vertically in the Asset panel now (at least on my screen) but otherwise it's the same file.

[@jedrekszczepankiewicz1874]

@@KenmoreChalfant thanks!

[@macgruber4689]

I have the Adobe Substance 3D Painter (Substance Edition), is that a limited version, i can't find those height, normal Alphas?

[@Substance3D]

There should be no content limitations, not sure why you're not seeing these.

[@macgruber4689]

@@Substance3D Found the normal alphas under Textures, alphabetical mixed with grunge, fabric, gradient textures, very confusing. Thought all normals were in one place. Absolute newbie here.

[@Nexxorcist]

Did you guys delete the 2020 Tutorials? Because I remember seeing a vid about painting out poorly baked Vertex Colors, narrated by the same guy, and I can't seem to find that video any where. Not even in my History.

[@Substance3D]

Anchor points are less work, more dynamic and smarter. Sure there's sloppier ways to work but it gets hard to update or change those.

[@jtrsans5242]

Can you enable automatic subtitles on this video?

[@volkmark2561]

4:44 my brush not show the line, I need help, thanks!

[@tiifdiilon8810]

Very nice and useful tutorials but what happened with subtitles? incorrect text and speaking

[@Substance3D]

Unfortunately we don't have control over those, KZbin auto-generates them.

[@TGSuineg]

Do XP-pen tablets not work with painter? Pen pressure doesn't seem to do anything.

[@Substance3D]

Hey, I use an XP-Pen Deco Pro myself, and yes it does work. But you must set it up to use Windows Ink, otherwise no pressure. In the latest XP-Pen v3 beta drivers you can set Windows-Ink per-application, so it lets you enable it for Painter only.

[@WCCXtra]

How'd you make out? Turning it on for me means I can't use my pen to move the mouse cursor.

[@The9PointStar]

What if i want to add a generator to my hardsurface effects? how can i apply it to my paint normals? like the metal edge

[@Substance3D]

You need anchor points and Micro normals for that. It's a pretty advanced feature, way beyond a beginner tutorial, but we have video's on it: kzbin.info/www/bejne/p2rQfY2HgN2DidE

[@mitchsweden]

@@Substance3D It would be great to have an optional extra part on the end about including edge wear to the painted decals using anchor points and the existing edge wear. I went through the booklet but got confused at page 22 when the images were showing edge wear on decals. This led me to the video series then this comment to find the solution.

[@cryancrinoid]

Why are the transcript and subtitles in Korean?! It really sucks because I use these videos for reference and it's easier for me to read and to look back at the transcript instead of scrolling through timestamps for one thing.

[@oscarkim029]

I'm on version 7.3 and cannot access the symmetry options/settings. It's as if it's locked.

[@Substance3D]

They only become available when you turn symmetry on.

[@oscarkim029]

@@Substance3D Yeah, I had symmetry on. I found out that it's a bug and you need to restart painter for it to work 👍. (Incase anyone else encounters this)

[@ferizsolnai]

Hi, so it's been a few days since Adobe completely took over Substance. The above link has been removed, and apparently a few things changed that render this otherwise excellent tutorial hard to follow. People previously ran into the problem of the cursor preview not showing; and figured it could be resolved by switching to "Full preview cursor" mode. It doesn't fix the problem any more, since even with full preview cursor mode the preview completely disappears as soon as the Alpha is removed. (Adobe Substance 3D Painter v. 7.2.0). Can you please tell me how to continue?

[@art_o_maniac7984]

yep that link is of no use now...:( i want that model to practice :'(

[@Substance3D]

Sorry about that, the links should be fixed now!

[@Substance3D]

The Full preview disappearing when the Alpha is removed sounds like normal behavior, because there wouldn't be any alpha to actually preview. If you can give me a timecode in the video for where you are having trouble I can check if anything is different in the current version (shouldn't be as we haven't changed anything related to brush previews)..

[@ferizsolnai]

@@Substance3D It wasn't normal behaviour 3 months ago. Start at 5:35 and watch until 6:10

[@Substance3D]

@@ferizsolnai Hey thanks for pointing it out. I can confirm I'm seeing the same thing, this is a bug. I've reported it to them team, it will hopefully be fixed in the next update. In the meantime, a workaround is to use a full white square as alpha, this will have the same result, but still work as preview.

[@jessed6838]

Using version 7.1.1(and tried it on 7.4.3 with same results..) all I get is a white square in the paint preview box or in the viewport. I've tried the steps provided by Pablo Lopez and several others on this thread - as well as looking up the issue myself - and have had no luck.. I am stuck unable to paint with the brush.. can anyone help please and ty!

[@jessed6838]

after some playing around I seemed to have fixed it! I was going to delete the comment, but figured I'd drop my solution here incase anyone else runs into this issue, as we're all noobs until we're not! Solution: Under paint properties, I moved over to the 'stencil' sub-tab (square with circle in it) and turned off all the 'material' options [color, height, rough, metal, norm, ao] then activated JUST the nrm one. Then, with the hard surface texture selected under the normal maps (as shown in the tutorial!) the brush works like in the tutorial! I think I must have missed this part or something as I'm watching these bit-by-bit in my free time! Hope this helps someone! Peace.

[@rberchin]

Excellent course. I do have a question. You are able to rotate the hard surface with a shortcut, but I'm on a Mac and I can't find any equivalent. I can increase size and flow, but I can't rotate. Have to do it manually. Am I missing something?

[@Genesis-kv1ze]

I don't know the shortcut for a mac but we can rotate using the parameters in the property panel

[@sooojulija]

ctrl (or cmd) + drag left mouse button

[@michaelthomas1148]

Anyone out there having trouble with the pop-up of the button to the right of Symmetry?

[@julianfuchs5328]

Yeah I think this might be because of the trial version, also doesnt work for me

[@pdvizualize.studio]

i have that problem too.

[@XelNagaMan]

Can you active english subs for the video? i only see corean subs for choose :S

[@sheldondrake8935]

link to project files isn't working

[@iiizeroiii1636]

If it wasn't for youtube comments helping me I wouldn't have gotten this far thanks fam

[@michaelantonio6643]

16:15 awesome tip man

[@rizky_bayuu]

we need subtitle!!!

[@cupcake5545]

Ok. so for some reason my normal material in the brush properties is gone. I cant drag in the material ;c

[@anandaramanarao9347]

Same!! Did u find any solution for that till now?

[@vzdragon]

you probably tried typing a value using the num pad as I did and probably switch to the eraser tool or something. In the left toolbar just select your brush again

[@griffinleadabrand1474]

​ @Substance by Adobe Would it not have been better to teach how to add height details, export the normal map w/height, import the new normal, then bake a new AO/Curvature map in order to use the full power of smart substances? I was waiting for that in this video, and you left it with just minimal AO added to the stamped hard surface alphas that do not look good at all. In the screenshots it's clear you did a lot more than you showed in this video to get the full edge-wear +grime detail into those hard surface alpha stamps. Bit disappointing because it's a really useful workflow and you should be teaching it.

[@Substance3D]

This video is really meant for absolute beginners, we cut and simplified things a lot, as we had many comments about it being too difficult (we still do). All of the advanced topics you mention are covered in other videos, just not in this one.

[@griffinleadabrand1474]

@@Substance3D Thank you for explaining things. Might I ask: Is there a tutorial that specifically teaches how to use displacement in Substance Painter? I had to learn it in a round-about way by learning Substance Designer first, and then it made sense finally what the displacement option in Substance Designer does. You recently held a Meet Mat 2 contest which was dominated by the use of the displacement feature, yet at the time I could not find any tutorial that showed how to use it. So I was left watching and could not participate. Is there a dedicated tutorial that covers displacement? Cheers.

[@Substance3D]

@@griffinleadabrand1474 Hmm I don't think we really do. Displacement features are shown in a few scattered videos but there's no dedicated video for the workflow. It's a good idea though, it should make for a good 10-15 minute video on the workflow. I'll add it to the list!

[@griffinleadabrand1474]

@@Substance3D That would be fantastic. Thanks!

[@howvfx]

4:20 setup specific nrm for brush

[@howvfx]

Alt+right Mouse key togle

[@shandhi5391]

Omg they even changed the name of the channel

[@rberchin]

Nevermind...I figured it out.

[@marinekilwag4853]

People have visibly sabotaged the subtitles of the video, please restore them at least in English

[@Substance3D]

Hey, sorry not sure what happens here. KZbin can go out of control with subtitles, I removed the Korean ones, but we don't have English ones unfortunately.

[@eljohnpro1010]

ao 16:00

[@ysk7035]

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