Kylo Ren

Thought I'd try to make Kylo Ren, well his helmet anyway. Not a lot of reference images of the side or back of his helmet so it may be a bit off. Modelled in Maya & Zbrush, textured in Substance Painter and rendered with Vray.

Substance Painter to Vray Tutorial

More than a few people have been asking me how to export and use texture maps from Substance Painter in Vray, so here is a quick tutorial.

Step 1

Before we start texturing, we need add in additional maps Vray uses. Glossiness, ior and Reflection. I'd recommend doing this before applying any materials as I have noticed that sometimes the additional maps can export as blank. If you already have a custom material then save it and reapply after setting up the additional map slots.

Step 2

Apply your materials as you normally would. I purposely used two materials that will have different Glossiness, ior and Reflection values so we can clearly see some variation in the maps. A pure black or white map could be a result of the material having the same overall value OR step one wasn't setup correctly (blank maps)

Step 3

Export the textures maps using the Vray preset.

Step 4

In vray we just need to plug in the corresponding texture maps. Although I'm using Maya the standard Vray material attributes are the same in other programs like 3ds Max etc.

Here is the final result with zero tweaks. Just plug in the texture maps and render. Done!

I hope this helps anyone having issues using Substance Painter maps in Vray. If you have any questions then please ask :)

Substance Painter 1.5.0 to Vray

 I've been testing out the new Vray export option in Substance Painter and it's pretty awesome. Automatically converts maps into maps that Vray understands like glossiness and IOR. These comparisons have had ZERO tweaks after export and ZERO shader tweaks in Vray. These show the results of just plugging in the maps and hitting render. Very impressed! I love Substance Painter but being a Vray user it was painful to say the least to manually try to adjust maps like metallic etc to something that works in Vray how it looked in Substance Painter. Great work team Substance Painter!

The red car paint does look different, but that may have been due to human error on my part. For the most part being able to just plug in the maps and render is fantastic. AAA+++

EDITED:

To achieve the rich red reflection in the car paint material in Vray I had to bump up the red values in the reflection color map as the map was more of a pink than red resulting in a faint red reflection rather than the rich red one seen in SP. The difference in saturation reminds me of the difference between linear and srgb colour space but the map is set to srgb.

concept WIP fo fun

Proof of concept pitch for a feature film I worked on.

Avengers of Oz: Age of Tin Man

Jurassic World Parody

Caesar update 02

Had some spare time to pick up this project again. "finalized" sculpting and started on texturing.

Cute creature

Felt like making something cute so I started making this little fella.