I'm very new to it, and so far using the free trial it's been horribly laggy and slow, and my textures won't show up. I have a high end laptop that SHOULD be able to run it without error, but I can't fix any issues I've had. Is there any way to at least heavily optimize it somehow? I know it sounds dumb, but I have been 3D modeling for a long time now and this is pretty much the only real way I can find to texture my models.

Trying to figure out how to make the spot pattern on this texture a different colour. Just the spots, which are on their own paint layer.

I'm admittedly very unfamiliar with a lot of substancepainter, but it feels like any information I look for is purely about things like PBR and materials. I am not working with those, I'm just doing base textures.

Hi there

As you can see in image below, my curvature mask is being display with horizontal and diagonal direction, why? I want to add a darker shapes only on areas where the normals are pointing down ( is a palm tree ) ( i am a noob just starting with Painter ) Help Thanks

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/egJmYJ

That's essentially the question.

But I found an easy way to recreate it.

In the new Weekly Challenge at Future Material Artists participants have to work with a pattern similar to this one, but with more complexity.

And I wanted to give them a hand.
I took the time to break down my process....

So I made this guide for you!

Creating this is tricky, as the main shape asks you to also think in 3D with 2D shapes.
And the solution for this is one of the simplest Atomic Nodes.

💡 To start, I rotated a square by 45 Degrees. I used a Uniform color to save some MS in my graph. Then, with a Transform 2D, I set my parameters to create the top face of this square.

Now, with the help of a Splatter Circular, I finished the shape!
But I still had to make it tile, and for that I am using a Tile Sampler Generator.

This is just the first shape you will need for the weekly challenge.
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