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December 26, 2024
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How to make a material from maps?

  • December 26, 2024
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Hey guys, have mercy on me. I enjoy making models and using Substance Painter, but I don't make materials/textures. I went to Free PBR and got all their texture sets, but it's a folder with a bunch of maps. I want to convert them to a material for ease (a .SBSAR file?). I have a free trial of Designer and permanent Substance Painter. Is there anyway to do this? Thanks in advance everyone! 

Correct answer davescm

Hi

In Designer start a new graph using the PBR metallic roughness template.

Import your texture maps (right click on the package in the Explorer panel and choose Import > Bitmap) and then drag them, from the Explorer panel, onto the graph as bitmap nodes

Connect each to the relevant output node (disconnect and delete and default nodes that are plugged into the outputs.

If you have an AO map use it, if not you could try a Height Based Ambient Occlusion node to create one from the height map (as I've done in the example)

Once done you can save the graph as an SBS file, then publish it as an SBSAR material.

 

 

You can of course add additional nodes and parameters to control the look of the material, but the simple example here should get you started.

Dave

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davescm
Community Expert
December 28, 2024

What maps do you have, for each material?

Dave

New Participant
December 28, 2024

A normal map, albedo map, roughness map, metallic map, ambient occlusion map, and sometimes a height map. 

davescm
Community Expert
January 9, 2025

Thank you so much for the help! I fixed it! I'll make sure to check the shader I'm using for my project, but at least in Substance Painter it's working now. It just needed me to up the scale in the Displacement and Tesselation part of the shader settings. I should be all set now, thank you again for your time and help! 


You're welcome 🙂

Dave