Hi all,

I recently downloaded the 30-day free trial of Substance Painter to try it out and I am attempting to figure out the best node setup to use the maps it provides in Cycles. Below is what I have right now and I am looking for some opinions on if this looks like the right track, or if there is a better way to do this. The model is just something I made in about five minutes to play around with and I only put very basic materials on it in Substance Painter as a first test.

The green box is four of the many maps you can export from Substance Painter. I can also export a height map and I thinking about adding that feeding into the normal input of the two PBR shaders as a bump map to add a little extra detail, but it wasn't worth it on this simple model. The blue box is two groups I created following Cynicat Pro's YouTube videos on PBR in Blender.

Not sure if you've seen this yet, but perhaps something in this video will help?

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No - I had not seen this and it didn't turn up in any of my searches. Thank you! I'll take a look and see if it helps.

He has a new one out that goes into more detail that really has me considering getting the rent to own version of Substance painter and Substance designer tools for a very reasonable price plus he create and sells SP2BLEND: Substance Painter Shader that makes connecting the shaders from Substance painter into blender a bit easier he mentions it in the new video it is a bit longer than the one LuxXeon mentions below

LuxXeon posted at 2:59PM Mon, 08 August 2016 - #4276446

Not sure if you've seen this yet, but perhaps something in this video will help?

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I watched the one you linked to originally, but the newer one you referred to really helped me out a lot more. I am using his techniques from this video: How to create a grimy barrel scene in Blender and Substance Painter for a piece I am currently working on for the weeklyCGchallenge on Facebook. I may still look into the node setup he is selling but the basic setup he goes over at the start of the new video seems to work very well as a starting point. His tip on putting the substance painter roughness maps through a math node (power^2) to get them to work better with Cycles turned out to be really key.

Here's my image so far (still lots to model and texture and some things to fix, plus obviously the final will have much more samples - this is just an early test render) with textures from substance painter on the desk, hat, books and walls (I also used it to create bump and roughness maps for dust on the bottles but you can't really see it in this test).

Think it looks great I really like the contrast between the lighter wood and darker wood truly think it is a fine job