Working With Decals - Any Way To Auto Sync Material Fill Layer and Mask Fill?

Question

Hi

Im importing decals from Quixel Bridge - so the usual material files - normal, diffuse, height, roughness and combining these into a fill layer in Substance Painter. They also use an opacity map, so I created a black mask with it's own fill layer and place the opacity in there.

All good, but when I want to move the decal, the material size/pos is not sync-ed to the mask fill layer's size/pos, so I have to manually transfer over values between the two.

Is there a way to sync them, so I can just move my decal easily? Thanks!

Cyril Dellenbach · Accepted Answer

Hello @pppeepo,

If you don't already know this feature, you're gonna love this.

The easiest way to settle and edit your decal map is simply by using our Decal system instead of a fill layer. You simply have to Alt+drag and drop any material from your shelf.

This way, you can later quickly move/scale/rotate the decal, or even edit the grid of the projection!

Because your Megascan material is divided by multiple bitmap, you can create a fill layer, add all of your textures in the dedicated slots (even the alpha) and right click anywhere in your Properties window > create material preset

Just like that, your Megascans material is inside your Substance 3D Painter library and you can now drag and drop it as a decal !

Hope this will help and have a nice day !

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