Houdini and Substance Painter
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I think my question may have been unclear. I'm trying to assign multiple materials to a single mesh. In Substance Painter it reads it in as texture sets. I've tried layers to no avail, as well as the Material SOP in several ways and I cant seem to crack the code! Thanks for your time though SreckoM!
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I wrote a script that will take an obj file from houdini and create the mtl file needed by substance painter
place the shelf tool in your home houdini folder or documents houdini15 (win )
houdini15/toolbar
to use it:
group your geos into the material sets
use a material sop to set the materials
use a geometry rop to write it to an obj
select the rop and click the shelf tool
place the shelf tool in your home houdini folder or documents houdini15 (win )
houdini15/toolbar
to use it:
group your geos into the material sets
use a material sop to set the materials
use a geometry rop to write it to an obj
select the rop and click the shelf tool
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I've also been using Substance Painter with Houdini. I haven't used the custom shelf tool posted above as using the fbx export worked for me.
It's a very similar process to the above;
- Group your geos into the material sets
- Use a material sop to set the materials
- Export as FBX
Importing the FBX into Substance Painter creates texture sets from the material sets. I don't know if the shelf tool does something extra/differently but this method works for me.
Rob
It's a very similar process to the above;
- Group your geos into the material sets
- Use a material sop to set the materials
- Export as FBX
Importing the FBX into Substance Painter creates texture sets from the material sets. I don't know if the shelf tool does something extra/differently but this method works for me.
Rob
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robsdesign
creates texture sets from the material sets
This did not work for me. Maybe I am misunderstanding. When you say “Group your geos into the material sets” do you mean to create groups with the group sop ie. primitive or point group etc. and then use a material sop to set materials using those groups? Or is there a way to create material sets? This is what i have tried without any luck. Guidance here will be much appreciated. thanks!
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Hi Nathan,
Yes, create groups using the group sop, then use material sop to set materials using those groups.
In H16, this will work with SHOP materials but I think I read somewhere on the forum that it won't work with the new MAT materials. (Most likely a bug which may or may not be fixed in a daily build)
hope that helps
Rob
Yes, create groups using the group sop, then use material sop to set materials using those groups.
In H16, this will work with SHOP materials but I think I read somewhere on the forum that it won't work with the new MAT materials. (Most likely a bug which may or may not be fixed in a daily build)
hope that helps
Rob
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Hello,
i need to export .obj models with assigned base materials on sections, but i have some problems to run this shelf script.. i create models, assign it to groups, assign basic material to groups via SOP and when i start shelf script with selected rop i got this message:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “fixObj”, line 96, in <module>
File “fixObj”, line 29, in fix_obj
File “/opt/hfs16.5.473/houdini/python2.7libs/hou.py”, line 11178, in attribValue
return _hou.Prim_attribValue(*args)
ValueError: invalid null reference in method ‘Prim_attribValue’, argument 2 of type ‘HOM_Attrib &’
any idea how i make it work?
thank
i need to export .obj models with assigned base materials on sections, but i have some problems to run this shelf script.. i create models, assign it to groups, assign basic material to groups via SOP and when i start shelf script with selected rop i got this message:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “fixObj”, line 96, in <module>
File “fixObj”, line 29, in fix_obj
File “/opt/hfs16.5.473/houdini/python2.7libs/hou.py”, line 11178, in attribValue
return _hou.Prim_attribValue(*args)
ValueError: invalid null reference in method ‘Prim_attribValue’, argument 2 of type ‘HOM_Attrib &’
any idea how i make it work?
thank
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Any new information on this front?
I decided to give Substance a go after years of using 3dCoat.
So far I am not impressed.
Here is my problem. I have one object with 18 groups for various parts. I also set up 8 UDIM tiles. Object parts are scattered over these UDIM tiles based on UVLayout SOP.
1. I have to create 18 dummy materials (which I won't use in the end as I use UDIM's)
2. Create a material SOP and link all the groups to these 18 dummy materials. This takes way to long. Must find alternative method.
3. Import into Substance Painter WITHOUT using UDIM's as texture sets.
5. I have the correct texture sets in substance for all 18 part.
6. Export textures just to realise that I now have textures for 18 texture sets that I will have to combine in comp per channel (that is 90 textures) to get back to my 8 UDIM tiles.
Compare this to 3dCoat.
1. Export the same mesh as is with 18 groups.
2. Get 18 paint objects in 3dCoat all ready to paint on over 8 UDIM tiles.
3. Export to get 5 maps per UDIM tiles.
I must be doing it wrong…
I decided to give Substance a go after years of using 3dCoat.
So far I am not impressed.
Here is my problem. I have one object with 18 groups for various parts. I also set up 8 UDIM tiles. Object parts are scattered over these UDIM tiles based on UVLayout SOP.
1. I have to create 18 dummy materials (which I won't use in the end as I use UDIM's)
2. Create a material SOP and link all the groups to these 18 dummy materials. This takes way to long. Must find alternative method.
3. Import into Substance Painter WITHOUT using UDIM's as texture sets.
5. I have the correct texture sets in substance for all 18 part.
6. Export textures just to realise that I now have textures for 18 texture sets that I will have to combine in comp per channel (that is 90 textures) to get back to my 8 UDIM tiles.
Compare this to 3dCoat.
1. Export the same mesh as is with 18 groups.
2. Get 18 paint objects in 3dCoat all ready to paint on over 8 UDIM tiles.
3. Export to get 5 maps per UDIM tiles.
I must be doing it wrong…
Edited by Werner Ziemerink - 2020年4月30日 06:02:08
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This is one of the many reasons why I concluded my years-long “retesting substances” with a “what a waste of time”. Lack of performance on “normal” resolutions (8k and up), lack of painting across seams, problems with 16bit Int/32bit Float support (which seems to be there now but I couldn't get a linear workflow to work for me) …
Werner, you *could* do most of your pipeline with a few scripts: Converting UDIM (offsets) to material (tags/attributes) and back from those to UDIM offsets works nicely with the FBX import pipelines I have been experimenting with. You could even create an HDA that handles the Substance export/import with a single click per direction.
Marc
Werner, you *could* do most of your pipeline with a few scripts: Converting UDIM (offsets) to material (tags/attributes) and back from those to UDIM offsets works nicely with the FBX import pipelines I have been experimenting with. You could even create an HDA that handles the Substance export/import with a single click per direction.
Marc
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Out of here. Being called a dick after having supported Houdini users for years is over my paygrade.
I will work for money, but NOT for "you have to provide people with free products" Indie-artists.
Good bye.
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