Creating Stitches in Marvelous Designer and Substance Painter - Daz+ Pro Artist Series

Learn to create realistic stitches for 3D clothing and objects using Marvelous Designer and Substance Painter in this comprehensive 2 hour 42 minute livestream tutorial. Master John's complete workflow from Marvelous Designer to Daz Studio, starting with an overview of a provided starter dress for hands-on practice. Discover how to add stitches directly in Marvelous Designer, work with seam line normals, and use the measuring tool for cutting patterns. Explore creating stitch variations, UV mapping, and integrating Substance materials within MD. Learn the process of exporting textures and stitches as height maps, then advance to blending normals with height maps in Substance Painter. Practice applying finished textures in Daz Studio and explore automatic stitch generation in Substance Painter. Master advanced techniques including adding edge indents with the Border Generator and painting custom stitches. Gain access to a downloadable starter dress file to follow along with the demonstrations and includes a Q&A session to address specific questions about the workflow.

Syllabus

00:00 Holding Loop
19:40 Titles and Welcome
24:20 John's MD to Daz Studio Workflow
38:20 Starter Dress overview
42:00 Adding Stitches with Marvelous Designer
52:40 Seam Line Normals in MD
57:50 Cutting Patterns with the Measuring Tool
1:05:00 Creating Stitch Variations
1:10:30 UV Mapping and Substance Materials in MD
1:24:00 Importing Substance Materials into MD
1:28:50 Exporting Textures from MD
1:35:00 Exporting Stitches as Height Maps
1:45:10 Blending Normals with Height in Substance Painter
1:57:00 Applying our textures in Daz Studio
2:12:00 Q&A
2:17:10 Automatic Stitches in Substance Painter
2:29:30 Adding Edge Indents with the Border Generator
2:32:10 Painting Stitches in Substance Painter
2:37:00 Goodbye