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Howdy,
I'm using this resource (Shaved Hair Material) from the substance 3D asset store in 3D Painter.
It has an option for "Flow Map Grooming" which I assumed meant you could feed a flow map to control the direction.
Problem is, I have no clue how to feed a map into this material.
My questsions are:
I've attached screenshots of the Properties panel when its in fill mode. Of note, there is nothing listed under "Image Inputs" when it's opened.
Thanks!
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Hi
If you look at that material in Substance Designer, the button activates an input called Flow_Map with a usage of 'flow_map'. So you are correct in your expectation that the button is activating an input to teh material. At present though I cannot see a way of getting a channel to feed into that input map. There is no dedicated flow_map channel in Painter.
The Painter documentation confirms this (no dedicated channel) and whilst it gives instructions on how to paint a flowmap onto a normal channel it does not show how to get that into the material input.
https://substance3d.adobe.com/documentation/spdoc/flow-map-painting-143327274.html
So I would love to be proved wrong, but at present it looks like a material input made in readiness for a future channel.
Dave
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That's what I feared! Thank you for the thorough answer Dave. That resource on painting flow maps looks great as well