Substance and Sketchup Workflow

[applemango85]

Does anyone here use substance designer or b2m to create a material then bring it over to sketchup to render with the vray /indigo plugin?
(Still figuring out if vray or indigo is best for me)

I'm figuring out how substance could help me in my workflow so any experience from other members would be great to read about

Thanks

[JQL]

Substance designer creates textures and these textures can be used in any render engine if they are exported as bitmaps.

I don't know about vray or indigo, but Thea has a Substance Converter where you input a substance .sbsar file, edit all available parameters of the file and create a Thea material with a click of a button.

I use Designer for all material creation.

[juju]

@jql said:

Substance designer creates textures and these textures can be used in any render engine if they are exported as bitmaps.

I don't know about vray or indigo, but Thea has a Substance Converter where you input a substance .sbsar file, edit all available parameters of the file and create a Thea material with a click of a button.

I use Designer for all material creation.

Exporting / saving the various kinds of files for a texture created in Designer, you can compose this in Indigo AFAIK. So, no, not a converter available but still usable in Indigo with a little more effort.

[Rich O Brien]

it is easy set designer to convert maps. but there's no correct roughness/metallic to spec

that needs some extra work to get right. the thea converter matlab is your friend in this instance.

[JQL]

@rich o brien said:

it is easy set designer to convert maps. but there's no correct roughness/metallic to spec

that needs some extra work to get right. the thea converter matlab is your friend in this instance.

But you can use the Spec workflow if needed, instead of the Roughness/Metallic.

[Rich O Brien]

I find the viewport display for that in designer to reflect the render output in Thea.

And because of the difference in how metal appears in SD spec/gloss as compared to Thea it's an uphill battle.

For straight up non-metals it's fine though.

[JQL]

@rich o brien said:

I find the viewport display for that in designer to reflect the render output in Thea.

And because of the difference in how metal appears in SD spec/gloss as compared to Thea it's an uphill battle.

For straight up non-metals it's fine though.

True! PBR roughness/metalic is the way to go with Thea, however Spec/Gloss might be useful for other engines, that's why I posted.