Creating Custom PBR Materials with Substance Painter and Daz Studio

This nearly 3-hour tutorial from the Daz+ Pro Artist Series features Jay and Chris Cox demonstrating how to integrate Substance Painter with Daz Studio to create custom PBR materials. Learn the complete workflow from exporting objects from Daz Studio to Substance Painter, applying and customizing materials, and importing them back to enhance your 3D content. Discover techniques for adding dirt and edge wear generators, masking UV zones, creating stitches, working with layer and channel blending options, and utilizing the Substance Assistant Script. The comprehensive tutorial includes a detailed walkthrough of the Substance Suite, saving shader and material presets, creating new material zones, and answers to audience questions. Perfect for 3D artists looking to expand their texturing capabilities and add endless variety to their Daz Studio projects.

Syllabus

00:00 Holding Loop
17:50 Titles and Welcome
22:30 What Substance Painter can do
26:00 Substance Suite Overview
36:00 Exporting for Substance Painter from Daz Studio
46:10 Importing into Substance Painter
55:50 Adding materials to our object
1:01:20 Adding Dirt and Edge Wear Generators
1:08:20 Exporting textures for use in Daz Studio
1:18:00 Saving as a Shader and Material Preset
1:26:10 Creating a new Material Zone in Daz Studio
1:38:00 Masking UV zones in Substance Painter
1:52:00 Adding Stitches with Substance Painter
2:03:10 Layer and Channel Blending Options
2:10:00 Checking out the Substance Assistant Script
2:38:20 Audience Questions
2:48:00 Goodbye