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🦇 Hexavier 🎃

In case anyone's interested, this is the process I'm using to generate normals for the painterly portfolio project I'm working on. This is in Substance Painter, but you could also do it in Photoshop or 3D Coat I convert them to tangent space after the fact, but you could also do that in a shader

30/5/25, 7:29 pm111 reposts574 likes

@insanefastone.bsky.social

i was wondering how you did that! it’s so subtle with the textures but looks incredible

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@sabtherobot.bsky.social

ooooooo

@tumerboy.bsky.social

@ivysawras.bsky.social

YOINK

@holographic.pink

almost unironically bonked my head with my palm like a fuckin cartoon saying "of course" when i saw posterize

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@glairedaggers.bsky.social

Woahhh that's so fascinating??

@loeiz.bsky.social

Thanks for the tip ! I think i'm going to love this project of yours !

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@urzaz.bsky.social

OHHHHHHHHH I see !

🦇 Hexavier 🎃

This is the type of result you can get if you also tweak some shader and post processing stuff

@dawdledev.bsky.social

Are the scuffed outlines on the first mesh a post-process effect, or are they baked into the mesh somehow? Looks great!!

@erikrobson.net

Ohhhh... that's glorious.

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@riaru.bsky.social

Looks great, Xavier! Thanks for the tip

@dimitrialexis.bsky.social

Never thought of the posterize step, thanks for the tip 😉

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@luluuland.bsky.social

Is the posterize effect a filter you made? Looks so good!

🦇 Hexavier 🎃

Nope, it's a standard filter in the latest Substance Painter

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@luluuland.bsky.social

Oooh! I need to update mine then hahaha

@vincentvenoir.bsky.social

Super neat! Thanks for sharing 🤖🫀

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@nicolebarburne.bsky.social

Looks good! Also looks easy to apply quickly too. Is the smudge effect just an automated one, or do you touch it up?

🦇 Hexavier 🎃

I'm doing these smudges by hand, but if I wanted to do this at volume I'd invest time in automating it

Dylan Psycho 💯 👁️

@urzaz.bsky.social

Definitely makes me want to play with doing this sort of effect in Substance Designer. I haven't messed with altering baked maps that much, mostly tiling stuff.

🦇 Hexavier 🎃

It's definitely possible! You'd want some effective way of controlling the stroke directions, and I'm not sure what that would look like in Designer