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MSFS20 Dark textures at certain times of day (Substance Painter)

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Had a crack at texturing my model in Substance Painter and ran into some problems that didn't occur when I made a primitive texture in PS. I'm attaching a pic to explain better :)

Basicly the texture I made in PS was acting ok inside FS at all times of the day. It was a pretty basic texture though and I didn't like the quality so I took the time to redo it in Substance Painter. While it's way more realistic and looks great around midday, it doesn't look good in early morning or late afternoon. The model pretty much turns black. My workflow was as follows:

- New project in SP, template: PBR metallic roughness (allegorithmic), size 2048, model in the fbx format
- Bake all the maps except ID
- Paint the texture using default materials mostly
- Export using the profile that Vitus kindly provided (Thanks!)

In Blender:
blender-mat.jpg


Here is a picture explanation. On the left PS texture, on the right SP

problem-texture.jpg




Any tips how to make that look better?
 
Did you create & place the 2 other maps in the metallic map or was it just the metallic map from SP? Especially, the AO map?
 
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What Doug said! The AO map is very powerful in MSFS and I am still trying to find a good AO balance in my own project. I actually have the opposite problem where the AO maps turn out too bright and thus everything is extremely lit up. Since a week ago I also switched my workflow around and now bake the AO map in Blender and then import it into Substance, which helped a lot.
 
Ahh thanks I'll have a look at the AO map and let you guys know how it turns out.
@Pyscen - I did create the 2 other maps but I didn't do anything with them after that. I assumed they'll be placed automatically during the export. I'll look into that as well! Still learning the software :)
 
Update.
This might come as a silly question but do I have to do something else than bake the textures and then select a preset when exporting? I opened my exported metallic map in PS and it didn't seem like there were other maps in the different channels.

maps1.jpg
 
I think you didn't select the right preset when exporting your textures ;)
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