You mad lad! I think this is the only video on youtube that explains how to paint normals like this in Substance Painter and not in Blender! Thank you, you saved my life!

I hope this video blows up!!! Not only are you the only person I’ve seen demonstrate how to paint DIRECTLY on the WORLD SPACE NORMAL MAP in SUB PAINTER, but you also applied this technique to Maya rather than blender like most 3d Artists! Wish I could have watched this video a month ago!🤣🤣🤣 THANK YOU😮‍💨

I have subscribed to your channel kid You have helped me found my art style after so many years

Hey, ive been working on some handpainted normals recently and wanted to share a tip with you (or anyone in comment section) Instead of clicking the color picker, you can press "P" if youre on a paint layer. This is specially usefull because you can even sample de color of the normal map when seeing the whole PBR Material. When working with normal maps it can quickly become unsure how the colors are being interpreted by the software, so painting while watching the PBR material can be really useful. Great job and thanks for sharing !

If anyone is having trouble with the eyedropper tool when painting normals, make sure you project configuration has been set to OpenGL not DirectX

this really deserves more recognition. I'm a new 3D artist and we're using maya for school, I've been really curious on how they made textures for TMNT, Spiderverse, etc. They've all been demo-ing in Blender, so thanks a billion for doing this video ❤

I´ve learned a lot, like this is the best tutorial ever, thanks a lot

This tutorial is about to single handedly get me through my finals fr fr

Just wanted to drop a quick note to say thank you for the tutorial! It was really helpful and I appreciate the time and effort you put into it ☺

Really interesting approach Never seen anything like that

Thank you so much for doing an in-depth tutorial on this!

Amazing tutorial!

Cool effect, thank you This plus a nice painterly shader will make some amazing scenes

Great demo! I worked out a different method for painting on the world space normal in Substance, but I think yours is a bit more intuitive to pick up since mine requires a custom channel to get started.

god thanks for substance painter explanation !

Nice, im gonna test this out, but on Blender.

Good Video

Thanks so much for this :) If I was to export the textures into Unreal Engine would it still be dilation + Transparent? or would I need to set it to something different?

Your gamma is off for your world space normal, have you figured out how to fix that yet? You can tell because the colors at 9:30 don't match the colors at 5:45, which are lighter versions of those rainbow colors. Also there are shading seams when you import the world space normal. If the gamma was correct, the shading wouldn't have changed when you imported the baked world space normal into the layer. I'm not super knowledgeable about Substance but I have a feeling it's treating the baked world space as SRGB instead of linear, or maybe something gets broken with the bit depth being 8 instead of 16. Other than that one arcane technical issue, your technique is excellent. I'm going to have to try this.

Does anyone know why when I put the World space normal in the normal channel, suddenly the edge of my uvs mapping are showing directly on the model ? Like a straight line clearly splitting my normal, exactly where I cut my uvs ? helpp

Hi ! Thank you so much for your tuto, it's really cool. However, on my side, the color I pick is never the same when I paint it than it looked in the color picker. ( violet is yellow for example ) It only happen when I'm in Normal mode. Did you enconter this problem at some point ?

Hello!!! I really like this video and it's giving me a lot of new thoughts of substance painter! I have a small question about it after I tried, is that in "normal" view, my color is coming together very smoothly, but when it turns into "material" view, the UV line will be very clear, it will be divided into two parts (or more) at the UV line. Do you know how can I fix it? Thank you soooooo much!!

This is great! Only problem I’m having is that when I color pick from the normal map it’s picking the opposite color. If you know what I’m doing wrong lmk!!

im getting darker spots and dots as i continue painting on the model in substance painter... any idea on why that occurs? i followed every step you've shown but it keeps appearing no matter what i do 😭😭

This is a great video, but can SP convert world normals to tangential normals? The browser I am using does not support world normals