Substance Painter
Learning outcomes
Evaluate how to import models into substance painter
Analyse painting techniques within Substance painter
What is substance painter?
Substance painter is a painting software used in the game industry to paint and apply TEXTURES to 3D models. A texture is a material that is added to a mode, to add colour and other values such as:
Metalness-is the material metallic
Roughness-Is it matte or shiny
Exporting from Blender
With your 3D model selected. One model at a time. I want you to export them.
Make sure you are in object mode with a model selected. Then go to File>Export>FBX
An FBX file is a 3D file format that stores a lot of information of your model and allows you to move it to other softwares such as substance painter, or unreal engine. It stands for FilmBox
Importing into substance painter
Once we have Substance Painter open.
File>New
Then in this menu as shown below, click the little SELECT menu across from where it says file. We are going to look for our FBX file here.
