How to use the Path Tool in Substance Painter

foreign [Music] welcome to this channel my name is mehti and today I'm gonna talk about a brand new tool in substance painter this tool is a great game changer tool and you can easily adopt your text streaming process with this tool and it can help you to increase your speed quality and accuracy in your workflow so let's play with this tool and see what happens if I know the parameters of these two and what can I do with that so I'm going to create a paint layer for using the path you need to have in paint mode so I'm going to call with this layer test and for using this new tool you need to change paint mode to path mode so after changing you can see there is a path layer here and the options over there they are going to be change so for starting I'm going to create a simple curve on this curved surface so what's happening right now so you can toggle off and on the visibility of the curves with this option here and you can access to the different path under one layer and you can change the display help or display guidance over here for example I'm I can turn off path direction or just turn on or changing the color of that or for example turning on the normals so I can see what happened and that's it so you can change the size you can change the flow or maybe a stroke opacity and absolutely you can decrease or increase in spacing for example for now I'm going to increase spacing to 150. okay so you can reverse the direction of the path with this option and you can change the type of the vertices to linear or just busier okay you can delete with selection and press delete on your keyboard or just you can delete with this option and you can close your Loop and your curve with this option open and close the path so you can do these things with these options and you can come over here in the path layer and you can manage your path here very easy for example you can remove duplicate copy paste or cut and for example cut this path from this layer and go another layer and paste over there so for creating new path let's remove this path and turn on the Symmetry and see what happen if I use the path with the symmetry so I can create a path easily without any hesitation in Symmetry and for example changing the size okay I can select any vertices and use pressure to do such a things okay yeah and after that you can come here and change everything everything that you want so you can even change the alpha so let's go and for example change it to Celsius cross and as you can see you can even change it like that and you have access to modify your Alpha and even you have access to change your material so this is the main concept of the path so you can use it in this way or you can choose between six materials that came with this tool in substance painter you can you can see the icon and the names of these materials so you can choose between them I'm going to put the names in the descriptions so you can just copy and paste in your library and search for this material to test it so let's go and create some stitches for this object with the path okay I'm going to create a paint layer call it stitches and came here in a brush menu I'm going to search for purpose teaching and for choosing these materials I prefer to use the brush preset not the material itself so I'm going to double click on it and it's going to be load on my brush and I have access to change the material parameters here and let's create my curve and for First Step I'm going to turn off the symmetry and now it's done you can create these curves and project your detail on any surface and no matter to the form and it's not related to the complexity so it's it's amazing because after that you can select your path and come over and for example change the stitches type or maybe plastic or just zigzag so you you can you're able to control everything with this tool and it's amazing and it can push your work further and you can increase your accuracy on your texturing process and that's amazing so uh you can create separate layers with separate path and material and even you can came here and create mask to avoid details on the surface that you don't want so that's it this is how you can use and work with the path tool in substance painter if you have any question you can ask in the comment section don't forget to like subscribe and share this video thank you for supporting us and watching us goodbye

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Length: 8min 8sec (488 seconds)

Published: Sat Jun 24 2023