Substance 3d Texturing
Comprehensive skill for Adobe Substance 3D Painter texturing and material creation...
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npx skills add freshtechbro/claudedesignskills --skill substance-3d-texturing -g -a claude-code -y- Repository
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- Category
- Media
- Updated
- 12mo ago
- License
- MIT
- Context cost
- Mediumabout 3,000 tokens
- Runs scripts
- Yes, review before use
What it does
Comprehensive skill for Adobe Substance 3D Painter texturing and material creation workflow. Use this skill when creating PBR materials, exporting textures for web/game engines, optimizing 3D assets for real-time rendering, or automating texture workflows. Triggers on tasks involving Substance 3D Painter, PBR texturing, material creation, texture export for Three.js, Babylon.js, Unity, Unreal, glTF optimization, or Python API automation. Creates optimized textures for threejs-webgl, react-three-fiber, and babylonjs-engine materials.
Substance 3D Texturing
Overview
Master PBR (Physically Based Rendering) texture creation and export workflows for web and real-time engines. This skill covers Substance 3D Painter workflows from material creation through web-optimized texture export, with Python automation for batch processing and integration with WebGL/WebGPU engines.
Key capabilities:
- PBR material authoring (metallic/roughness workflow)
- Web-optimized texture export (glTF, Three.js, Babylon.js)
- Python API automation for batch export
- Texture compression and optimization for real-time rendering
Core Concepts
PBR Workflow
Substance 3D Painter uses the metallic/roughness PBR workflow with these core channels:
Base Texture Maps:
baseColor(Albedo) - RGB diffuse color, no lighting informationnormal- RGB normal map (tangent space)metallic- Grayscale metalness (0 = dielectric, 1 = metal)roughness- Grayscale surface roughness (0 = smooth/glossy, 1 = rough/matte)
Additional Maps:
ambientOcclusion(AO) - Grayscale cavity/occlusionheight- Grayscale displacement/heightemissive- RGB self-illuminationopacity- Grayscale transparency
Export Presets
Substance 3D Painter includes built-in export presets for common engines:
- PBR Metallic Roughness - Standard glTF/WebGL format
- Unity HDRP/URP - Unity pipelines
- Unreal Engine - UE4/UE5 format
- Arnold (AiStandard) - Renderer-specific
For web engines, PBR Metallic Roughness is the universal standard.
Texture Resolution
Common resolutions for web (powers of 2):
- 512×512 - Low detail props, mobile
- 1024×1024 - Standard props, characters
- 2048×2048 - Hero assets, close-ups
- 4096×4096 - Showcase quality (use sparingly)
Web optimization rule: Start at 1024×1024, scale up only when texture detail is visible.
Common Patterns
1. Basic Web Export (Three.js/Babylon.js)
Manual export workflow for single texture set:
