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What is in the works, if at all, for the Substance Designer materials to be utilized within Octane, standalone and plugin?

Interested in this as well if anyone has seen this? Also their bitmap2substance tool ... they all work with "substances" (material packages with all kinds of maps), which would be nice if you could directly import those to octane.

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If the Modo Substance Designer plugin writes the bitmap to file (as HDR Light Studio does), then it should work with OctaneRender for Modo. If not, then they would need to provide a way to access the bitmap data (via an API).

Paul

I just tested the Substance plugin for Modo, and it is compatible with OctaneRender for Modo. I don't have Substance Designer, but I assume you create the material in that app, and then use the Substance Modo plugin to load it - so everything should work nicely with the Octane plugin.

Paul

I have been trying to use Substance Designer in relation with Octane for C4D. I am having some issues of things looking the same in octane render compared to SD interface. Do you guys have any issues with this? If not could you possibly share some insight on workflow to make things look correct?

Thanks!
Marc

Left chair is modeled in Archicad, middle chair is modified in C4D,
and the right is object after playing around in Substance Painter.
All rendered with Octane Archicad plugin!
I remember the workflow was hard to get correct UV and normals usable in Substance Painter, but it was to be done as you can see.
Hard to explain the workflow, because I did not write it down while experimenting and I will have to do it again to recall.
But as said, it is to be done
Cheers,

Interesting topic. I would like to use substance painter together with blender and octane. The maps substance painter uses when enabling roughness/metal do not directly correspond to the nodes and maps octane uses. Can someone she'd a light on how to do this properly? I guess this is not depending on the tool we use but merely a painter <-> octane mapping question?

Isn't roughness just the opposite of gloss? Metalness might be a bit more difficult to figure out though? I have been waiting for the new version of 3D-Coat, they are adding PBR texture functionality. Should be fun.