Exporting from Agisoft Metashape

[feklee]

What settings are recommended from exporting a textured model to Substance 3D Painter?

For 3D formats, there is a choice of:

For texture formats, here by example of PLY, there is a choice of:

[Cyril Dellenbach · Accepted solution]

Hi @feklee,

I'd personally recommend using .FBX format. For the textures, the common .PNG should perfectly do the job.

Regards,

[feklee]

Thanks! FBX makes sense. But PNG is only 8 bit. Wouldn't it be better to use a EXR?

My intention is to do brightness / contrast adjustments to the texture, not to paint on it.

[Cyril Dellenbach]

Can you not export a 16bit .PNG ? It kind of depends on the intention. It's usually not necessary for Roughness or Metallic maps, but it can be useful for the Base Color, and close to mandatory for Normal/Height map.

Regards,

[feklee]

Thank you! Indeed, PNGs exported from Metashape are 16 bit. So all is good.