Substance Bakers

Getting Started

• What is Baking ?

• Bake with:

  • Substance 3D Painter
  • Substance 3D Designer
  • Substance 3D Automation Toolkit

• Availability per software

• Compatible 3D software

• Tutorials

Bakers Settings

• Common Parameters
• Ambient Occlusion
• Ambient Occlusion from Mesh
• Bent Normals from Mesh
• Color Map from Mesh
• Convert UV to SVG
• Curvature
• Curvature from Mesh
• Curvature from Mesh (deprecated)
• Height Map from Mesh
• Normal Map from Mesh
• Opacity Mask from Mesh
• Position
• Position map from Mesh
• Thickness Map from Mesh
• Transferred Texture from Mesh
• World Space Direction
• World Space Normals

Guides

• Error and Warning Messages
• Performances and optimizations
• Triangulating before baking

Features

• Geometry Cache
• GPU Raytracing
• Matching by Name
• Tangent Space

Common Questions

• How to export the baked maps ?
• Is dithering applied to baked textures ?
• Should I enable “Compute tangent space per fragment” ?
• Texture baked outside of Substance software looks incorrect
• What are Assbin files ?
• What is the bit depth of baked textures ?
• What is the difference between the OpenGL and DirectX normal format ?
• Why are there strange stretches in my textures after baking or exporting ?
• Why is Matching by Name not working with Ambient Occlusion/Thickness ?
• Why is my mesh fully black after baking ?

Common Issues

• Aliasing on UV Seams
• Baker output is fully black or empty
• Baking failed with Color Map from Mesh
• Black shading cross are visible on the mesh surface
• Mesh parts bleed between each other
• Normal map has strange colorful gradients
• Normal texture looks faceted
• Seams are visible after baking a normal texture
• Seam visible on every face