The ONLY Normal Map Baking Tutorial You Need to Watch

- The ONLY Normal Map baking Tutorial You Need to Watch -
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Join this tutorial to learn how to bake out normal texture maps for a 3D asset using Substance Painter. This is a beginner's masterclass on common issues that texture artists get during the baking process and will show you how to fix them
Become a master at knowing how to avoid bleeding artefacts on your normal map by baking out your asset in separate parts. Also, gain more control over your normal map baking by blending two textures together.
► TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 About normal maps
01:56 Basic normal map baking
05:45 Baking normals by splitting an object
09:08 Combining normal map bakes
17:01 Technical Issues
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[@junior.hamilton]

This is definetively The ONLY Normal Map Baking Tutorial You Need to Watch

[@3DTudor]

Thanks :)

[@prathmeshmali3260]

It was really helpful👍. Its actually ONLY normal map tutorial I needed for sure. Thank you !🤝 You just earned a subscriber to you 😊

[@danteabott9142]

effectively as the title say this is the ONLY normal map baking Tutorial I needed to see!

[@3DTudor]

Thank you!

[@valdolandar534]

Excellent, the title describes the reality. You have explained everything in great detail. Thank you very much.

[@3DTudor]

Thanks and welcome! :)

[@def6415]

It took me weeks and maaany different videos to find all the information in this video. I wish I'd seen this first, thank you!

[@3DTudor]

Glad it was helpful!

[@GustliQspawacz]

amazing tutorial, VERY helpful!

[@3DTudor]

Glad to hear that!

[@mattsalt4189]

I've struggling all week with baking problems and one video solve them all, wish I'd found this sooner.

[@3DTudor]

Thank you for the kind words! Glad this was helpful :)

[@daeuslamb8191]

Brilliant!

[@3DTudor]

Thanks! :)

[@infographie]

Excellent.

[@3DTudor]

Many thanks!

[@ab-uo6rd]

great tutorial. however often the AO, curvature, ID map are also screwed. But I dont know how to blend between those, since there is no AO or ID channel that I can simply overwrite like the normal channel.

[@3DTudor]

AO is a channel that you can add in texture set settings which would allow you to do the same. You can also use the base colour as a setup, then export it out and link it directly to the channel by dragging it within the texture set settings tab option. Hope this helps :)

[@ab-uo6rd]

@@3DTudor helped thanks :)

[@vlad_tlt]

Спасибо, хороший туториал! До него, сращивал варианты в Фотошопе, а можно было сразу в Сабстенсе оказывается.

[@3DTudor]

Рад что вам понравилось. Обе программы кажутся мне похожими, эта идея пришла мне в голову после того, как я сам проделал это в фотошопе :)

[@CamiloTobaria]

Hi, this is a great tutorial, but l have doubts of how to put the curvature, position, thickness and world space map in that layer.

[@3DTudor]

They changed the setup for baking not too long ago, but the overall settings are the same. Curvature, position and all the other generated textures, 99% of the time will be kept with default settings as you can make most of the adjustments within mask parameters itself. Hope this helps :)

[@randomrandom8482]

Хорошее видео. Спасибо!

[@3DTudor]

Спасибо!

[@Bungo71]

Can this (importing the normal map) be cone with UDIMs (where there are multiple texture files per texture normal map)?

[@3DTudor]

Yes, this works just as well with UDIM textures :)

[@Ahmed_Waleed]

how to bake the other maps like AO and curvature based on Normal map i mean i made little small holes in the model in normal map and i want to add some dirt in them by using AO map but there's no AO information in it i saw some one made it before but i lost the video can you explain it please

[@3DTudor]

The easiest way would be, when baking out mesh maps, make sure to have AO and curvature ticked on. Afterwards, add black mask onto fill layer, add generator onto mask, and within generator options, search for dirt, this'll give you a nicely generated mask which you can play around with the settings from within :)

[@Samuele_Lini_ARS]

The tutorial is very well done but the substance painter normal baking is very limited compared, for exemple, to 3D Coat. Painting just the parts that need it is simpler.

[@3DTudor]

Haven't tried 3D Coat personally, but that sounds really cool actually :)

[@wegotguns3325]

You seem to know a lot about normals, is there a way to fix the way normals are baked in blender after ver 3.4? All of the newer versions of blender bake hard edges where they should be smooth and I haven't found anyone talking about a solution other than 'don't use the newer blenders for baking' which sucks because they're a lot faster.

[@3DTudor]

Honestly, using Blender for baking always seemed like a tedious task for me so now i always do it on Substance Painter...

[@wegotguns3325]

@@3DTudor I still need it for bevel baking haha

[@TheNerd]

I do need to watch another video since I want to bake a normal map out of those procedural textures....

[@3DTudor]

Best of luck!

[@IamMrkay]

wow this method is agame changer it can easy be used for other technques

[@3DTudor]

Thanks for liking it :)

[@mindped]

i have seems on every uv split... regardless of soft or hard edge normals.. how do i remove seems?

[@3DTudor]

There are ways to hide the seams, like using tri-planar projection in substance or simply hiding it in less visible areas. There is no way to actually remove seams.. :/

[@mindped]

@@3DTudor actually i found out it was a resolution issue. The seems absolutely do get removed. In fact you can have hard edges and split the uvs and generate that way and still no seems. My problem is the rounded edges were so tiny... no matter what i did the seems were sort of going to be there due to lack of resolution on the uvs. Best thing for cases liek that is merge those uv edges and hide the rest. But otehr wise the seems do in fact get removed if u go high enough in resolution.

[@alinarangi7826]

hi man.recently I finished my first 3d model and did the unwrapping and have 2 tiles, and then some sculpting in C4d.exported low and high res and tried to texture it in Substance painter I tried several methods to get a good result for baking normal map, I really need help..can you please take a look at my model?in addition, I also made a Cage and it does not work...very tired and need your help, please. thanks in advance

[@3DTudor]

Hi mate, you'll have to send a dropbox link or something to it. I'll have a look at it, but no promises, it takes a bit to get a good hang of 3d modeling process. Especially if you only starting it out, sometimes it's best to just start it over. Not putting you down or anything, but that's often the case when you just start out. But anyways, let's have a look :)

[@alinarangi7826]

@@3DTudor special thanks, sry for my late...im trying to solve the issue and get better results but the main issue is , I want to know why the seams appear in sculpted places, im trying lots of methods, if you take a look at my mesh very appreciate it, this is a part of mesh. Thanks in advance drive.google.com/file/d/1hj9iWgLCP-JQ-pjv22TPxEa7Xg8pYPP8/view?usp=drivesdk

[@norwegianmapping868]

my normal map looks inverted how do i fix

[@3DTudor]

Most likely, inverting green channel will do the trip :)

[@norwegianmapping868]

@@3DTudor i got it fixed, i just forgot to use the normal map node when i put the image texture into the principled bsdf

[@3DTudor]

nice!

[@norwegianmapping868]

@@3DTudor yh

[@Wobblywiener]

This seems like a tedious workaround if you want to bake anything more than a normal map because you'll have to repeat this process for every individual map. This is a problem that's fixed by just creating a decent cage mesh.

[@3DTudor]

Actually, you can setup all material bakes (normal, AO, etc.) to be on a single layer. This way it is easier to visualize it and make more precise corrections... Of course with the new Baking in Substance I find using this process less and less :)

[@Wobblywiener]

@JellyBelly wat

[@Daniel_WR_Hart]

@GravyBaby How did you comment on the wrong video, and wtf are you watching lol

[@mercer6323]

0.0

[@3DTudor]

Hope it helped :)