Blender Addon Substance Painter

Pipeline/Workflow import/export for Substance Painter.

Features

• Blender 2.80+ (Tested on Linux/Windows)

• Export in either FBX or OBJ.

• Exports to export folder and opens Substance Painter.

• Creates SPP Project File "{filename}.spp" or "{mesh}.spp" or "{collection}.spp". * (Excludes 2018.1.0-2018.3.0 - See usage notes below)

• Passes textures folder from preferences to Substance Painter.

• Creates Nodes using the Principled BSDF shader.

• Autosave before export option.

• Use Relative Paths option.

• Creates nodes for Unreal Engine Textures. * (On detection of OcclusionRoughnessMetallic texture)

• Optional Height Maps (Combines Height and Normal maps using the Bump Node, use with care, see screenshots below)

• Checks if Mesh has material and will create one if it doesn't (Can be turned off in preferences "Create Material")

Scene

• One Click Export
• One Click Textures Import

Selected Mesh(s)

• One Click Export
• One Click Textures Import

Selected Collection

• One Click Export
• One Click Textures Import

IMPORTANT USAGE NOTES

* Make sure you have a "saved" .blend file before using the import/export features, then saving before import/export is then not required. The addon needs the file location to know where to create the export and textures folder used for import/export of the files.

• File Naming Convention

  File names are derived from the selected object name or your blender file name.

* For Substance Painter 2018.1.0-2018.3.0 be sure to tick "2018.1.0-2018.3.0 Project File Fix" in the addon preferences. (See "Preferences" screenshot below)

Installation

Download either the tar.gz or zip from https://github.com/DigiKrafting/blender_addon_substance_painter/releases/latest

Installing an Addon in Blender

• [Edit]->[Preferences]
• Select [Add-ons] Tab
• Click [Install]
• Browse to download location of ZIP.
• Click [Install Add-on from File..]

Min Required Blender Version

2.79.0 (1.4.0)

* Mesh Export will likely work in previous versions but untested. * Texture Import requires the Principled BSDF shader in 2.79.0+.

2.80.0+ (1.5.0+)

Screenshots

Opacity

UE4 Nodes

Emissive

Nostalgia

Preferences

Normal / Normal + Height Comparision

Substance Painter Viewport

Normal Map (* Eevee with Ambient Occlusion enabled)

Height Map combined with Normal Map (* Eevee with Ambient Occlusion enabled)