Substance 3D Painter: Smart Material for Human Skin Textures

Substance Painter is typically used to create textures for manufactured objects (metal, paint, etc). In this video, I show how the same philosophy of getting 90% of the way there with procedural patterns can also be applied to organic objects, in this case to human skin.
Substance Painter playlist:
• SP2M: Substance Painte...
Chapters
0:00 Intro
1:44 Base Color
5:34 Color procedurals
9:56 Global scale
12:05 Bump maps
Downloads
The Smart Material shown here is included in my Substance Painter tools:
sharktacos.github.io/VFX-soft...
Digital Emily2 model from the Wikihuman Project:
vgl.ict.usc.edu/Data/DigitalE...

[@Substance3D]

Hi Derek! Your tutorial is a fantastic resource for the 3D community, and we've added it to a playlist on our channel so others can learn from you. Keep up the great work!

[@derekfloodVFX]

Yay! Thanks @Substance3D !

[@laurentcoiffier4891]

Thank You.

[@derekfloodVFX]

You're welcome

[@hotsauce7124]

This is AWESOME!!!

[@derekfloodVFX]

Yay!

[@theburlapchap3644]

I should note that the Transform filter can screw up your uv scale if you use it on certain models, it took me a few years to actually get it working like the video because of that

[@derekfloodVFX]

Yes, this acts as a global scale. You can of course disable it and set the scale for each procedural element manually.

[@Kiraykell]

Esta re buena tu textura de piel chamigo

[@derekfloodVFX]

Gracias chamigo!

[@skallywag6136]

Hi Derek, I'm new to your channel , loved your vid ♥️
I have one doubt however,
Do we import the low poly model or high poly model in substance painter ?

[@derekfloodVFX]

That depends. You want Painter to be performant but you also want to be able to see details on the model. Painter doesn’t currently support subdivision surfaces, so you need to smooth the mesh in Maya before importing. On the other hand of your working with displacement importing the high res mesh may be too taxing so you need to find a happy medium

[@macrobethgaming973]

Thanks!
How can I fix the seam transition between head and body? My character is splitted into two meshes, one for head and one for body. If I take procedural methods to paint the skin textures, for example using a tileable detail normal map to simulate skin pattern, the seam between head/body will become noticeably obvious, since any tileable material won't tile across UVs. I have seen artists using tricks such as putting garments or ornaments on top of the seams to hide it, but these methods apparently are not real solutions.

[@derekfloodVFX]

The common approach is to use triplanar projections.

[@macrobethgaming973]

@@derekfloodVFX Thanks again, I will go have a look.

[@MathiasJ89]

So useful for a newbie. Thanks :)
I've been searching online but I can't find anything about the Epi_Transform layer you are using. What is it exactly?

[@derekfloodVFX]

It came from the Algorhythmic Substance Share, which got taken down when Adobe acquired Substance Painter. Basically it was a cool tool that somebody had posted that allowed you to scale texture map sizes. I had to remove it from the smart shader uploaded on the Adobe site because it wouldn’t let me upload it. However, I do have it on my GitHub and it works just fine in the latest version of Substance Painter.

[@denissegarcia8892]

where can I find the material, I really can't find it :(

[@denissegarcia8892]

ooh, nevermind lol

[@sridharan5172]

Can I make this in mari

[@derekfloodVFX]

You could certainly try. The challenge would be that this shader draws on Substance Painter’s extensive library of complex procedurals which Mari lacks.

[@nobodyhere2156]

Where can i get this face model

[@derekfloodVFX]

It's Digital Emily 2. I put a link in the description of where you can download it.