Question: How to generate/export a Height Map out of Substance Painter?

[MA-SIMON]

On export it is just a grey plane? There does not seem to be an option for generating a height map? Any hints?

[僕の名前 (仮)]

At least in Designer you can (Normal to Height node). Don't know how in Painter.

[MA-SIMON]

hm... would this work as a workarround? Importing the normal into Designer end then just converting to Heighmap? Or would I lose something on the way?

[MA-SIMON]

Converting Normal to Height map is not really getting the desired results.
Is there no way to get SP to bake height maps?

[BushPig]

you need to have height information by importing a normal map add it to normal chanel then export material and you get a height map you can also paint it in or bake it...

[MA-SIMON]

Unfortunally in SP normal information is not showing up in the height map export, its just a blanc image except my additional painting. So its useless. I am using Xnormal for now to get height maps.

[BushPig]

export a combined normal map like directx works for me i can add information to my normal and then after importing it to the normal channel slot i can rebake the other maps to get curvature and ao and so on from the combined normal map...deselect the normal map bake in the baker it will then use it to bake the others

found you a tutorial on how to do this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2PN6sEBqfA&index=15&list=PLSPj9KRNnuH60UNKvOMO6fz-YXvJkx1r_

[MA-SIMON]

Thank you for linking this, I will give it a look! :)

[Lebofly]

Originally posted by BushPig:

export a combined normal map like directx works for me i can add information to my normal and then after importing it to the normal channel slot i can rebake the other maps to get curvature and ao and so on from the combined normal map...deselect the normal map bake in the baker it will then use it to bake the others

found you a tutorial on how to do this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2PN6sEBqfA&index=15&list=PLSPj9KRNnuH60UNKvOMO6fz-YXvJkx1r_

Big bump but this helped me, thank you