Texturing Skin in Substance Painter for Real Time Characters

It was always a bit of a mystery for me how artists were able to get high quality skin on a real time character!
In this tutorial, I will offer you couple solutions that can achieve realistic skin material in Substance Painter! Of course this process is new for me as well, I would love to hear how other artists do their skin material in real time!!
I hope you find this helpful and leave a comment if you have any questions!
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[@walleater]

god, i was looking for something like this for months thank you so much for sharing those methods, i've been trying to find ways to add skin detail for so long

[@user-he1ss4gz8v]

This is really helpful. I have been creating displacement maps by hands in Zbrush for years which takes an absurd amount of time. XYZ in Mari looks super cool. Thank you!

[@issacdhan]

I'm working on some project, and your tutorial helped a lot. Mostly about displacement and bump.

[@alexanderherzog3064]

This is probably the best breakdown of a workflow I've ever seen. Thank you

[@felikimchi2936]

Hands down the best tutorial I've seen :) Got really nice results following your advise. Thank you!

[@cameron9225]

ahh you are amazing love it will need to purchase your course soon for my final year project glad i found your channel

[@chasan6978]

I want to try your method, thank you for sharing!!

[@dreamrider7128]

Thank you so much for this, I love how well you explain your process and it's easy to follow up while keeping the content straight to the point!

[@ArtruismDigital]

Thanks for watching!

[@michelleh1464]

thanks for this tutorial, followed it from start to the end, I will need to rewatch this again, when I plan to try to texture skin! :)

[@DhL-kh9jo]

Exactly what i needed. Best tutorial ive seen by far

[@Fred_McBess]

Your tutorial is excellent ! It helped me a lot to learn new things. Thanks a lot !

[@zoltantoth_]

Thank you for this tutorial! very usefull ! thank you so much!

[@jackj147]

Very good tutorial! Thanks for making this :)

[@UAThePunk]

Great channel, i will use your experience for my works!

[@screamsso2790]

Outstanding work,thanks for sharing

[@warmadon1518]

BROTHER, YOU ARE THE BEST!!! You oooh really helped me!! THANK YOU VERY

[@user-vd2ke2uu9j]

Finally! thx so much all time :-D

[@ArtruismDigital]

You are very welcome!

[@sourabhkumarprasad9936]

I love your voice & thanks for the amazing tutorial 💙

[@mercuryghoest]

This is a great session thanks!

[@eobiri]

I just discovered your channel from KZbin's suggestion, and I am glad I clicked to see it. Lots of great and unique contents unlike other channels. Well done and thank you for your efforts!

[@ArtruismDigital]

Thanks for checking out the videos!

[@eobiri]

@@ArtruismDigital The pleasure is all mine. I would be camping on your channel to learn from now onwards!

[@diego.zanelli]

Totally love this tutorial, will be very nice to see how you handle displacement maps with substance painter or how you create displacements using SP. Amazed by your good work.

[@ArtruismDigital]

in substance you create height maps, which is basically displacement.

[@diego.zanelli]

@@ArtruismDigital Huge thanks Miss for clarifying this to me.

[@JakobScheidt]

Phenomenal tutorial!!

[@adosadios]

final render is perfect! :)

[@neenkmr5561]

great as always :D learn something new everytime

[@ArtruismDigital]

I'm glad!

[@Alloniya]

Wow so pretty!

[@altberg__]

wow. amazing. thanks alot!!

[@gv0zdysh0k]

thanks for the tutorial! great result! please make a video about eye drawing in sp)

[@danielzinevych500]

Amazing!

[@jrfk3d]

Tutorial super genial ! Amazing. Peace !

[@StylizedStation]

Just discovered this channel, this is awesome!

[@ArtruismDigital]

Thanks!

[@swarnamukutsen2218]

arigatoo senpai , this was really useful

[@tr3buh]

AWESOME!

[@reke9942]

Thanks for this. Subscribed

[@roqueart]

very good! thanks for sharing

[@user-wm9iz7nh4q]

awesome work

[@EdonGuraziuOfficial]

Beautiful work!!!

[@ArtruismDigital]

Thank you!

[@izabelaparlay]

Hey! Very helpful tutorial! Can you tell me how does it work - sometimes a hat is visible, and sometimes not? Is it possible to add multiple objects into substance? I can't fint it anywhere

[@naoremedisonsingh6035]

Hi that was a nice tutorial. can u share the texture which you used inside the substance painter.

[@Exagerardo]

how many polygons did you use for the mesh? because use displacement map for only do th hi frecuency is a waste of resourse. Use normals or bumps insteded

[@kavindudilshan2402]

No cap you are just the best instructor I've seen! Great work and appreciate this a lot!

[@astronaut3167]

Plz upload more videos of substance painter , thank you ...

[@pauldaniel5415]

Can someone help me,.. When i try to export a displacement map , I get only a complete grey map exr.. I've tried some other models it's all the same grey with no information in it.. I also tested it out in maya,.. But I get the normal maps and the other types of maps.. Only displacement is having this issue

[@valtaoi1586]

If you don't have any maps albedo displacement specular subsurface map how to make those from scratch?? If there any way to make it? In blender?

[@pawanbangera2050]

Hey i have modelled a character in zbrush extracted normal map with good fine details. But when i imported that normal map in substance i can barely see thoes normal map details. Why does it happen? how can i fix them? Please help.

[@artogerilyagames4955]

Hello, I really love to take this tutorial, I have question if the texturing face in substance painter can export in unreal engine?

[@hectorsanchez2866]

So nice tutorial, can put the substance spp for referendos?

[@indigoharvest]

WOW!

[@AshbeeGaming]

Just found your channel and tutorials, and you’re great! Do you have any experience sculpting facial expressions? If you do, a tutorial would be wonderful. You’re a great narrator 😊

[@ArtruismDigital]

I'm not a professional modeler, so prob not the best person to show that. 😉

[@Enz1612]

Great video, I'll be purchasing your full tutorial soon :)!!. Quick question. I was going over your portfolio on your site and saw a render of an old man (which looks amazing btw). Did you do that texture with this same process? Also, did you render it in Arnold or where? Im looking for my renders to have that look also. Thanks in advance!

[@ArtruismDigital]

Thanks for the support! That one is Mari and Arnald.

[@Mantecoli]

i love you!

[@joaoperaa]

Amazing video

[@ZuzuSJUZI]

Hi ! Do you have full course to buy how to texture full body( nipples etc.,...) or only face?Thank you!

[@leeyiran6393]

What's the first software?

[@yujack6893]

Can you make tutorial on chinese traditional grass roof or thatch？ hard to find a video looks photo-realistic enough on old items. You are special.

[@ArtruismDigital]

Thanks. I might not make something that specific but I'm planning on a series of tutorials focusing on weathered, old items with different materials.

[@nilsonfaria6362]

Great content!

[@ArtruismDigital]

Thank you!

[@sci_worlds]

Can't the first part be done with Substance Painter?

[@ratansatvic9727]

superb output

[@ArtruismDigital]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@rahulbisht396]

woow nice

[@ricardogavilanes4715]

muy buen tutorial.... podrias hacer uno explicando cada paso un poco mas lento ??? gracias

[@ArtruismDigital]

can try, this tutorial is already my longest, really wanna keep them short

[@davidgreco3]

Fantastic work!! I know the title says "for real time characters". Would you go through the same workflow when it comes to texturing a character for film or would you rely on photo scans?

[@ArtruismDigital]

that depends on if I am doing it for work or for myself. for my self, i won't have any scans besides texture xyz, so process is very similar. for work, i won't have an option but to use scans, it's not up to me.

[@AlexiosLair]

For film it could be a procedural workflow

[@MrJeneto]

u r great ..

[@ricarldoharris6037]

Yay

[@bikramjitroy6155]

When I click on the link "download my free..... " , that link is not working.

[@nikhilnagar2777]

How can you import eye lashes hair in substance, is this a mesh or something else ?

[@ArtruismDigital]

It's a mesh

[@anxhelo7383]

i didnt understand one part. the dissplacement map u got from tex xyz after importing it to zbrush and refining the details did you export it as a normal map or?

[@ArtruismDigital]

I just use the hi resolution from zbrush to bake height map in substance painter

[@Ferguson011975]

"Texturing Skin in Substance Painter for Real Time Characters" Step 1: Use Mari.

[@vanityvoodoo969]

Exactly. Substance Painter isnt exactly made for skin, that's what mari is for. Kind of clickbait since she uses Mari.

[@DaffyDuck867]

it's because you need to do a projection for both your albedo and your displacement. It doesn't have to be Mari, I used Mudbox.

[@Musiclover6404]

Dang it, I was trying to learn texturing skin with out using mari, I don't feel like buying and learning another program. Thanks for saying that because I was going comments what program she was using at the beginning 😭, I guess I have too buy mari anyway.

[@vanityvoodoo969]

@@Musiclover6404 Nah man. There is always the trial version of Mari. Hell, you can get away with just substance painter, it just wont be as high definition. Many professional artists will use a combination of both. They do the easy base stuff in SP and then move it over to Mari.

[@Musiclover6404]

@@vanityvoodoo969 I'll do trial first then lol.

[@murrowboy]

Can you do a full body paint? I want to know different technique used for the face vs other body parts. Thanks!

[@ArtruismDigital]

maybe in the tuture.

[@kretoskim8555]

@@ArtruismDigital *future

[@WinExploder]

Thanks for the video! Is there a reason you used Mari over projection painting in Substance Painter?

[@ArtruismDigital]

Yes I found it way more precise.

[@eduarte0214]

Great tutorial, how do you import the eyelashes after the baking?

[@ArtruismDigital]

Just need to swap out the geometry you are working with. Import a version with eyelashes.

[@efwfew]

Hey, sorry if I missed it if you said it during the video, the final render is done in substance ? Also I saw that you used mud box, what are you using it for ? Super interested in buying the tutorial, I just never used mudbox x) Ty!

[@ArtruismDigital]

Everything is in substance including rendering. I did surface sculpting of the armor in mudbox because I like the layer system, but you can use zbrush for that if you want.

[@scurvy786]

How does the mask generator get all the skin pore detail? does it take the normal map into account?

[@ArtruismDigital]

Yes.

[@kirrak4587]

Plz tell me software name

[@CGDEVANIMATION]

can you make a tutorial on texturing hard surface objects?

[@ArtruismDigital]

I had some videos about it. Are you looking for something specific?

[@CGDEVANIMATION]

@@ArtruismDigital Yes recently I tried making a knife texture in mari where it had 2 parts the plastic cover and the blade itself I did the texturing for the blade which was having principal BRDF material on it. but how do I make the plastic material should I create another BRDF for plastic ?

[@ArtruismDigital]

Yes

[@gohofe274]

06:03 you can't ignore that sweet Sneakers :)

[@julianriise5618]

I can't get the links in description to work? How can we find the full tutorial and files? Thanks :)

[@ArtruismDigital]

Gumroad.com/artruismdigital

[@analogupstudiosltd784]

I just want to say that it is refreshing to see more female professionals making tutorials. Keep engineering!

[@chickenisspicy476]

can I ignore the beginning part if I sculpt the displacement in zbrush ?

[@ArtruismDigital]

of cause, however you feel comfortable getting skin details.

[@alexandergarvin8011]

God bless you lol!!

[@crazyAlexander23]

where did you get the photos that you projected on the mesh?

[@ArtruismDigital]

for skin pore details? texture xyz

[@dawidwyborski3753]

There is some other to inpose this displacement map from xyz tahn using Mari.

[@kshitijjagdale575]

i havent used mari ,will the course help extreme mari beginner?

[@ArtruismDigital]

Not extreme beginners, it's better you know the basics.

[@kylez1750]

Do you teach Zbrush in this course? Is it easy to follow as beginner in sculpting?

[@ArtruismDigital]

There is not a lot of sculpting in the course, it's mostly about texturing.

[@asismaharjan7431]

Only if these type of texturing courses were available in udemy. It would be a life changing.

[@edvinas643]

but it's available on youtube

[@aaayerus]

what sites u use to get refs, please?

[@ArtruismDigital]

Google images, texture xyz and Pinterest.

[@Danuliq952]

Sorry, but I'm new to this topic. What does the ''real time'' character actually means?

[@FormJune]

It means they're optimized for real-time render engine. For example, games

[@user-hw3zk8nt7t]

by any chance Will the rendering part be released separately? (Google Translator^^)

[@ArtruismDigital]

there is nothing to the rendering really, select the bg i liked and pretty much just press the iray render button in substance painter. what you see in the view port is what it looks like rendered.

[@user-hw3zk8nt7t]

@@ArtruismDigital Yes, I got it. Thank you~

[@murrowboy]

I notice you put skin pours in Zbrush. Is it better done in Substance painter with height map?

[@ArtruismDigital]

in the tutorial I explained that only SP was not providing me all the skin type I need for the face. So I used texture xyz, which I projected in Mari.

[@murrowboy]

@@ArtruismDigital Doesn't Mari do the same as substance painter? Its another texture paint program no?

[@ArtruismDigital]

They are very different programs

[@ankitvishwakarma4974]

How to import this texture in maya?

[@ankitvishwakarma4974]

How to render sss map?

[@ankitvishwakarma4974]

Export sss map

[@nyamkanexus6253]

How to did you convert displacement map like that?

[@ArtruismDigital]

Convert? What do you mean?

[@nyamkanexus6253]

@@ArtruismDigital sorry my bad. Im beginner my displacement map has gray color. So your used map had some blue and green color :)

[@ArtruismDigital]

it's a multy channel map from texture xyz, I explained in the video how to use it. Hope this helps.

[@jovianwirja1100]

Can i get free multi channel face female for mari?

[@DrGameTazo]

What is the software at beginning??

[@ArtruismDigital]

It's Mari

[@DrGameTazo]

@@ArtruismDigital Thx for such a good tutorial !!

[@shubhamshetkar4406]

have you played Garena Freefire game? do you think they handpainted characters in it or photo-scanned?

[@ArtruismDigital]

Never played the game but just check out the character in google. very stylized character so it's hand painted.

[@user-hw3zk8nt7t]

Wow~ I'm very excited. I'm always looking forward to it. Will a separate version of Gumrod be released?

[@ArtruismDigital]

It's already released!😉

[@user-hw3zk8nt7t]

@@ArtruismDigital Wow~ Purchase Right now ! Thank you~^^

[@ArtruismDigital]

Thank you!

[@junechevalier]

I'm new to this, can Substance painter read Fibermesh from zbrush? Thanks 🙏

[@ArtruismDigital]

not the curves but if they are geometry you can import into painter

[@junechevalier]

@@ArtruismDigital Another question about the workflow. If I use xgen for the hair, is the workflow going to be zbrush -> substance painter -> and finally xgen in maya? Thank you in advance!

[@tborth]

Ma'am can you make video clothes texture

[@ArtruismDigital]

I do have a video talking about texturing jeans.

[@tborth]

@@ArtruismDigital thanks

[@yarosyari3516]

smart material plz

[@RuffusJones]

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[@ArtruismDigital]

Thanks for the tip!

[@pavinivfx]

Any advice for eyelashes creation?

[@ArtruismDigital]

If you decide to have geometry eyelashes, it's tedious but make it once you can reuse it forever.

[@pavinivfx]

@@ArtruismDigital is it better to create on zbrush or traditional modeling software? I always try to make it but it looks like a dirty flake on marmoset

[@pavinivfx]

@@ArtruismDigital btw thanks for response

[@ArtruismDigital]

I do it in Maya, make one curved tube, duplicate, adjust, and make another one. Like I said, tedious but you only need to do it once.

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