We’ll be making even more improvements to Painter’s OCIO color management in future updates. Note that if an environment variable is set by your operating system (the ‘.ocio’ variable, in this case), this will replace the default config.ocio file shipped in Substance 3D Painter, and your project will use the color settings established by your operating system. This is especially useful for workflows such as those involved in a large-scale studio pipeline in such cases color information will remain consistent as the project passes from app to app. The result of this is that the precise appearance of your colors will remain identical, no matter which software, engine, or renderer you’re using. As your project moves from Painter to other apps in your workflow, the project itself defines how color information will be interpreted. Now, this information is stored in a file within your project (‘config.ocio’), which can be modified at any time. Previously, information on how Painter interpreted your project’s color data was lost once textures were exported – meaning that it was possible, for instance, for your greens or reds to change appearance as your project passed from app to app.

There are dynamic particle brushes that work with physics.This update brings a big change to how Painter handles color information. Add another fill layer and drag/drop whatever type of material.Īdd another layer, add a mask to it and blend between the two. This works great for dirt, grunge and weathering. You can do the same in the Height or Normal. In one paint stroke you’ve affected multiple maps. So you can select a yellow base color with a high reflectivity so the roughness will be smooth and the metallic level will be high. The strong part of Substance Painter, is being able to paint in as many maps as you like at once. You can change the mode for the layer you are painting on like Photoshop and change it’s opacity level. Now you have your base diffuse on, but the UV scale is off. Under your properties tab, scroll down to Materials. There’s a trick to loading these in more easily. Under Textures, you’ll find the maps we loaded with our model.

You have a 3d viewer, 2d UV viewer, layers (like Photoshop), properties tab, and a shelf. This is a little castle tower I created previously. You can also bring in existing maps you’ve created in other app. The type of file format for the Normal map. You will select the Mesh you want to import. Here is will ask you what type of template material/shader. Again a very clean elegant design and UI. Now I am delving into the Substance Painter instead of Substance Designer.

Substance designer to painter