ABN Painterly Normals - Easy Painterly Normals
ABN Painterly Normals - Easy Painterly Normal Tool
Albedo Based Normal Tool for Substance Painter
A Substance Painter tool that turns your base color / albedo brush strokes into stylized normal detail, with both automatic and manual painting workflows.
ABN Painterly Normals is a Substance Painter tool designed for stylized, painterly, and hand-painted assets.
It uses your base color / albedo data to generate stylized normal detail automatically, helping your painted brush strokes react better to light without manually painting every normal detail from scratch.
The tool also includes a manual painting workflow.
So you can paint your own brush stroke data directly and see it affect the normal detail in real time. This makes it useful for both quick automatic normal generation and more controlled hand-painted normal workflows. Baked Maps are required.
Features:
Automatic Normal Generation
Albedo / Base Color to Normal Detail: Uses your base color / albedo value information to create stylized normal detail automatically.
Painterly Brush Stroke Response: Helps hand-painted brush strokes react better to light while keeping the painterly look.
World Space Normal Based Conversion: Uses baked World Space Normal data to create more consistent stylized normal results inside Substance Painter.
Value Sensitivity: Controls how strongly the tool reads value changes from your texture.
Normal Intensity: Controls the overall strength of the generated normal detail.
Custom Normal Opacity: Blends the generated normal detail with your existing normal map.
Manual Painting Workflow
Manual Brush Stroke Data: Lets you paint your own custom stroke data directly inside Substance Painter.
Real-Time Normal Feedback: Painted manual stroke data updates the generated normal detail while you work.
More Artistic Control: Useful when you want to add, reduce, or guide normal details by hand instead of relying only on automatic generation.
Normal Direction Controls
DirectX Normal Mode: Switches the tangent normal direction for DirectX-style normal map workflows.
Invert WSN Green Channel: Helps correct World Space Normal green channel direction when needed.
Flexible Normal Setup: Useful for different projects, baked maps, and normal direction conventions.
Workflow Features
Drag and Drop Setup: After installation, you can drag and drop the ABN setup asset onto your model.
Control Layer Workflow: Main settings are controlled from a single layer inside Substance Painter.
Designed for Stylized Assets: Made for hand-painted, painterly, and stylized PBR workflows.
Works With Existing Textures: Uses your existing base color / albedo data, so you do not need to repaint every normal detail from scratch.
Roughness Features
Albedo-Based Roughness Variation: Generate optional roughness variation from your base color/albedo values, helping your painted strokes feel more connected to the material response.
Seam Fix Features
Seam Fix Support : Seam Fix feature has been added to help reduce visible UV seam artifacts and create cleaner normal results across texture seams.
Need help?
If you run into any setup or compatibility issues, feel free to contact me for technical support.
*Substance 3D Painter 12.0+ is recommended. (If your Substance Painter was installed through Steam, please manually import the Smart Materials included in the downloaded files.)
**Substance Painter 11 support will be available soon.
***Please wait for future updates for 4K and UDIM support.
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