Tutorial: Substance Painter > C4D Octane Workflow Tweet

[Nimpsy]

Here is how I get my Substance Painter Textures into Cinema4D for rendering in Octane.

1. In Substance Painter: Export textures from Substance Painter using 'PBR MetalRough' preset.


2. In Cinema4D: Download Substance PBR setup from LiveDB.
In C4D go 'Octane > Octane Dialog (or Live Viewer Window)', then in the window that open 'Materials > Open LiveDB'.
In LiveDB, twirl down 'Materials' in the left column and click 'Misc'. In right column scroll down to 'Substance PBR', select it and hit 'Download' button on the top left of the LiveDB window. 3 shaders should appear: Substance PBR (OctaneMixMaterial), Metallic Part, Dielectric Part.


3. In Cinema4D: Select the Substance PBR and click 'Node Editor'.


4. In Cinema4D: Input your Substance Textures! I've provided a before and after image for where everything goes.
Before /
After /

5. In Cinema4D: Make sure to place your Metallic texture in the Amount field to propery mix those materials.


6. Render! That should get you a render similar to what you'd get in Substance painter.

UPDATE (06/02/16):

7. Height or Displacement: I believe the Height Map (or Bump Map) isn't necessary if using a Normal Map already. For Displacement Maps click 'Displacement' tab (see Image 3 above), in Displacement add a 'C4doctane > Displacement', in that effect add your Displacement texture into the 'Texture' slot and adjust Amount and Level of Detail.

8. Emissive: For Emissive textures I created a new Octane Mix material (Create > Shader > C4doctane > Octane Mix Material), I named it Substance PBR Emissive. I also created another Octane Material set to Diffuse (I named it Emissive in my image). The Diffuse material has the 'Emission' tab, in Emission add a 'C4doctane > Black Body Emission', in that effect add your Emissive texture in the 'Texture' slot.

Apply your new Substance PBR Emissive texture to your model and make sure you have your Emissive shader in the Material1 slot and your original Substance PBR shader in the Material 2 slot. Use Emissive texture again (may need a black and white version of it here) in the Amount slot to properly mix the shaders.


*Hey Axel, the Images are re-linked
Hope this helps.

[Ibycus]

Thanks for sharing!

[themotionist]

Great post, Thanks for sharing.

[lukas8410]

I think I love You man

Thank so much, will test it asap !!!

[lukas8410]

Well it seems to work, my initial test is looks better than any other I've done before.

My question to all of You is: does Substance painter generate height maps usable by Octane c4d?
The one that was generated by PBR Metal Rough did not work, and I wonder if it's an Octane
problem, or substance.

Thanks !
Lukasz

[omardex]

Greetings.

Id like tho know about the height maps too.

Also how to use the emissive maps?

Before I used an export preset from painter to octane ( https://forum.allegorithmic.com/index.php?topic=4023.0 ) is simpler but the results vary from scene to scene.also these don't take into account for emissive maps.

Thanks for sharing.

Best Regards.

Omar.

[JavierVerdugo]

Hey,

thanks for the tips!

You wrote 5 (height) and 6 (emissive) but there is no boxes with that numbers.

In case we need input height and emissive values how do you connect that?

THanks!

[joecurrie]

Thanks for this, been wondering how to get substance to work properly in Octane!

[crowellster]

Hey am I missing something? There should be images attached to the initial post, right?

Thanks,
Justin

[wischie]

where are the images on how to hook this up? they are missing and this post isn't helpful without them.