Hi! I'm back with a new post!
So, I made a Mamagen with some custom textures for my best friend! Her name is Agmine, and she's based off of Rain World's Train Lizard... which means good luck stopping her from rolling over you!
ooooh boy. OOOOOH BOY YOU DO NOT WANT TO KNOW THE AMOUNT OF PAIN I HAD TO SUFFER AND ENDURE IN ORDER TO MAKE THIS SASSY GAL RIGHT HERE. It was INCREDIBLY rough, took me about two hours with about 50% of it being learning features I didn't know before (pose mode on Blender, changing black masks in Substance Painter for new bits and pieces, etc)
No joke, getting this CUSTOM TEXT to work was the hardest part. Substance Painter broke MANY times while I was trying to put it on, for basically no good reason. I'd choose the text-ure (badum tssh) and try to apply it... and out of NOWHERE, I can suddenly not change the text! Or the Alpha being used! Maybe I can't change the black/white for the mask of the texture! WHY NOT ALL AT ONCE???
I think the part that I could have done way better on, though, was the custom Emission icon. I used an Eel Lizard icon from Rain World to make it look nice, and it's on the hip/visor sides.
Making this as an Alpha brush was a lot harder than it needed to be. Importing it was fine, but it was making the Alpha not look unbelievably blurry that was the big problem. For the life of me, I could NOT get rid of the blurry edges, no matter what I did.
So, fun fact: The lizard icons are about 25x25 PIXELS. It is absolutely miniscule. I'd be completely fine with this, if it weren't for the fact that I can't cleanly upscale the texture, and make it... y'know, actually look good. It goes from charming little pixel art to a blurry-edged mess. This can be seen surprisingly easily in the visor image, as the icon looks like it has a thicker outline.
Oh yeah, also, for SOME REASON, Substance Painter doesn't have the ability to mirror Alpha brushes.
YEAH. YOU HEARD ME. MIRRORING BRUSHES DOESN'T EXIST. I don't know if this is because I'm using an old version of Substance Painter, or if it's just something Adobe opted to entirely ignore, but you gotta have TWO separate brushes to have a mirror image. If I didn't do this, Agmine's emissive icons would have been looking completely opposite directions, and one would have been flipped.
But, in the end, I managed to conquer it. It was horribly unintuitive, but god damn, if I didn't persevere. The blender side of things was fine, except for trying to find where Pose Mode was on the model, and frankly, I prefer having to spend ten minutes looking around in Blender rather than two hours.
So, yeah! Thanks for listening to me ramble about how poorly made some of the "professional" software is. I swear, there really needs to be a better new-user experience for this software. I'd rather sit through five hours of understandable tutorials that are built-in rather than have to go and find tutorials on Youtube for the one specific thing I need to do.
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