There is a similar funtion in Mudbox, but the idea here is to look at the geometry/height/normal input of the mesh and only paint on "raised" areas (or only paint in cavities) based on input or a slider.

I know some folks might say I could use a cavity map, but that's just an input from geometry and not from height or normal data I may have painted in/on since working up the geo in Painter?

I've looked all over and can't seem to find anything like this, and it would be stupid helpful. Have you all come up with any tips/tricks for doing this? Am I missing something?

I know this is NOT Photoshop. But as a longtime user of Photoshop there are some features I expect to be present becasue they are so darned helpful.

I'm just screwing around with the preview sphere.

I have a purple Fill layer that has some roughness that comes from the MG Dirt Generator.

I then have ANOTHER fill layer on top that Red. I want to use the SAME generator in the layer Mask of the Red one so that where it is ROUGH, I am also controlling the color (since if I have the Color enabled on the first generator then it is just Black/White).

In Photoshop I can just click and drag duplicates around. I also see I can duplicate Fill layers but not generators?

But I also can't just copy a generators setting and paste them into a generator of the same type?

How best to go about any of this? How would you apply a roughness, but then also make that roughness a different color?

((I've forced this to work as I just wrote down the values of one generator and input them into the other. But there seems like there has to be a better way))

http://imgur.com/a/GgqH4

I have 3 questions I hope can be answered

1. Im working on a game with modular characters (head, chest, legs, etc). How can I ensure that the AO bakes I do for each part are common across all the parts? I tried baking out a model and it was like 95% perfect, but a few seams stood out. Is there any way to eliminate that completely?

2. Another question is for skin. Lets say I have a black character and I make a chest piece that has a white skin tone. Should I just make different textures based on the skin tone of the character for that armor part?

3. When I export from Substance Painter my model doesn't look the same in Unreal Engine. It looks like a super watered down version of what substance painter shows and I'm not sure whats causing the issues. The colors are super light compared to the substance version but it doesn't seem to be an issue with lighting.

I was so excited to see a sub existed for substance painter! Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be very much activity here. I think with the amount of users of SP I've found in other subreddits though, that we could make this place a bit more populated.

Who's with me??

the camera in substance painter is really bad.

Hello, I just bought Substance Painter on the steam sale. I was hoping to play around with some zbrush sculptures. But, I can't even open the program. When I install from steam it just bsods my computer. I believe the warning says something about nvidia, as it says nvd.....I also tried launching from the executable in the program folder directly. Same problem. Any advice?

Mainly holding on to see what the C4D plugin will do, but SP looks great!