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MSFS Substance Painter

TheJon182

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I have managed to import my own materials into the simulator using the Albedo Map and the Roughnes / AO / Metallic Map.

But as soon as I put the Normal Map on my own material in the "Material Inspector" the texture stops working fine and only the edges of the polygon and an oblique line in the center are shown to me.

I am exporting the Normal Map from Substance Designer with the following settings:

- DirectX.
- Components: RGB.
- Color Space: SNorm.
- 8 bits.
- Exported color space: Raw.
- 2048 x 2048.


EDIT: I noticed my albedo map is not working good either... it is showed always on gray.
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I have the same problem as you. Noticed that if I only use the albedo map it works fine, but as soon as I add the Normal or comp it goes wrong.
 
TheJon182

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Erikk said:
I have the same problem as you. Noticed that if I only use the albedo map it works fine, but as soon as I add the Normal or comp it goes wrong.
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I used your guide so it makes sense hehehe.
I will try to figure out where is the problem and i will post it here as soon as i fix it.

If anybody knows the correct form to create a new PBR material on the SDK please share.
 
Vitus

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Quick FYI:
I uploaded a new version of the Substance Painter export-presets to the resources, pending approval by the moderators.

I made some improvements on the export settings since I uploaded them here:
  • Added two emissive texture sets
  • Changed the format of the Metallic maps to 16 bit PNG, as recommended in the SDK
  • Changed the output format of Albedo /w alpha to TGA. I found that it makes it easier to work with in Photoshop.
 
TheJon182

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Vitus said:
Aaaaaand it's aaaaaliiiiiiive:
www.fsdeveloper.com

Substance Painter export presets for MSFS (2020)

In this zip archive, you'll find four export presets for Substance Painter. To install the exporter presets, copy the files to \Documents\Allegorithmic\Substance Painter\\export-presets The presets will export your textures into a...
www.fsdeveloper.com www.fsdeveloper.com
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Thanks you Vitus!
It work perfect for me when painting my 3D Models.
But im still having problem with the normal map on custom materials.
 
thetford569

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I am just about to download and start learning Substance Painter. I created a building for the first time this week in Blender and baked an AO map for it. I was happy yesterday to be able to get it into the sim and see it. Now my question is one of workflow. This is my assumption... I can now export my mesh from Blender to Substance Painter and it will have my model and AO? Then I can texture the model in substance painter and when it's done I can export back into Blender and it will have my full PBR textures from Substance Painter? Do I then need to assign textures within Blender before exporting to MSFS? Assuming I have to assign the textures in Blender and it's not already done then at that point when I export using MSFS Materials then the model should show in the sim with PBR textures? Am I in the ballpark here with how this works?
 
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I posted my workflow in another thread, if you remember our earlier conversation... you can find it here:
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MSFS - Blender/Substance Painter Workflow

I am still just learning Blender and I think from what I have read I also want to try and use Substance Painter to generate PBR textures for my models for the new Flight Simulator. I am coming from this with a small bit of past experience using SketchUp to design models and Photoshop for...
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Vitus said:
I posted my workflow in another thread, if you remember our earlier conversation... you can find it here:
www.fsdeveloper.com

MSFS - Blender/Substance Painter Workflow

I am still just learning Blender and I think from what I have read I also want to try and use Substance Painter to generate PBR textures for my models for the new Flight Simulator. I am coming from this with a small bit of past experience using SketchUp to design models and Photoshop for...
www.fsdeveloper.com www.fsdeveloper.com
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I remember your post and I had it bookmarked. Just trying to still wrap my head around how this works. Am I going to be able to come out of substance painter with full PBR, normal map, and emissive textures for the model? I guess that's what I'm wondering. I am trying to keep from bouncing back and forth between too many programs.
 
Pyscen

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thetford569 said:
I remember your post and I had it bookmarked. Just trying to still wrap my head around how this works. Am I going to be able to come out of substance painter with full PBR, normal map, and emissive textures for the model? I guess that's what I'm wondering. I am trying to keep from bouncing back and forth between too many programs.
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That is correct... from SP you can get full PBR textures. The only thing you might have to do yourself (using either Photoshop or GIMP) is placing certain maps in their proper channels. If you are using Photoshop, you will want to use tga instead of png. Photoshop doesn't appreciate png files with alpha.

The normal map you shouldn't need to do anything from SP.
 
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Pyscen said:
The only thing you might have to do yourself (using either Photoshop or GIMP) is placing certain maps in their proper channels.
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Actually, you can avoid that - at least for MSFS development, by using a pre-configured exporter set. I added one to the resource section a while back:
www.fsdeveloper.com

Substance Painter export presets for MSFS (2020)

In this zip archive, you'll find four export presets for Substance Painter. To install the exporter presets, copy the files to \Documents\Allegorithmic\Substance Painter\\export-presets The presets will export your textures into a...
www.fsdeveloper.com www.fsdeveloper.com

If you export your textures using a preset like this, you can plug them directly into your texture slots in blender and you'll have ready to go PBR model. Easy-peasy :)
 
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I can't for the life of me figure out how to use the export presets. I've put the files in the ... Documents\Allegorithmic\Substance Painter\shelf\export-presets folder, but I don't see them as selections when I open the export texture dialogue.
 
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Pyscen

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Hello

Show the directory and the preset file. Also, show where you are looking for the preset.
 
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Michael2

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I found the solution. My version of Substance Painter was too old. I downloaded a trial version some time ago, but at that time I didn't really need it for my project. Activated it yesterday and didn't bother to update to the latest version. On doing so tonight, it now sees the presets.
 
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