Hello Community,
the last days I spend some time thinking about Substance Painter. What I understood is that with substance you can paint materials on your objects, but there are some question marks. Somebody in a youtube video said you can paint Height Map information on the model in substance and save some sculpting in Blender. How does this work? Would I need to create a Stamp in substance?
In the same video the person said you can paint different layers on your model like you'd work with multiple layers in Photoshop. Has somebody experience with this? Is this helping the workflow? And most important: Which of the features from substance aren't possible in Blender right now?
Next point, there are free alternatives to Substance: Armor Paint and Quixel Mixer. Are they equal with substance or is it more like a Gimp to Photoshop relation?
If you have some experience to share, you'd help me a lot on this topic.
Regards,
tobles
I've got some experience with Substance Painter - largely using it to texture my models and take them across into Unreal Engine or Unity.
It is a great texturing software. There are others available, such as 3D Coat and Quixel Mixer (which is gradually being updated to become more in line with what substance can do). I personally prefer substance painter, but that's only because I'm more familiar with it.
It uses layers, blending modes and masks in much the same way as photoshop does, and can really help with organising and editing your textures in a non destructive way. It also handles procedural textures too - so again, very easy to keep things non destructive.
I like the ease of beiing able to bake out texture maps to take in to other software (I believe blender can do this too, though i've not much experience with doing this in Blender).
One tip, if you want to avoid the monthly subscription, is to purchase it on Steam. Usually goes on sale whenever there's a steam sale, and you get 12 months of updates from the date you buy it too.
Yeah, and after your update runs out, you can still carry on using that version for as long as you like. You'd only have to purchase again if you want continued updates.
For the subscription, you lose all access as soon as you stop paying.