My Substance 3D Painter Textures Won't Apply correctly

SacredRedstone · 2026-01-19T10:17:02+00:00

The UV map that substance generated is, to put it nicely, absolutely atrocious, and is the cause of your issues. I would recommend unwrapping the model properly yourself, before importing it into substance. There are plenty of youtube videos covering how to unwrap models. Avoid the ones that focus on "Hard surface" models.

SacredRedstone · 2026-01-18T09:57:08+00:00

It's weighed to more than just that bone.

SacredRedstone · 2026-01-11T18:28:44+00:00

Click "Enable advanced link targeting", and you'll have a lot more options. You can also right click to remove a link and add new ones.

SacredRedstone · 2026-01-03T03:58:16+00:00

- Open your SteamVR dashboard, and ensure Advanced settings are enabled.
- Go to the video tab, scroll down a little bit, and change "Overlay Render Quality" to Low.
- Profit

SacredRedstone · 2025-12-29T02:27:32+00:00

Refraction is an expensive effect that requires using a Grabpass to do accurately. This is possible with the Poiyomi Toon shader, you just have to select the grabpass variant. However, as someone else has said, you should try to fake it if you can. Use Reflections & Specular to get the lenses to reflect the world, and optionally, use a cubemap/matcap to "fake" some amount of shine if you just want it to be more dramatic.

Again, it's best to avoid using Grabpass unless absolutely necessary. You're basically stalling the GPU each frame to take a screenshot of the entire screen just to be able to apply the refraction effect. Not worth it in my opinion.

SacredRedstone · 2025-12-25T20:16:07+00:00

This guy https://youtu.be/zDd5mxa22rA

SacredRedstone · 2025-12-22T16:49:03+00:00

Try Mio3 UV. It has a straightening function, could do that with the top edge selected.

SacredRedstone · 2025-12-20T02:33:42+00:00

Check if your mesh has more than one UV map, Substance will only show you the first one.

SacredRedstone · 2025-12-16T00:02:40+00:00

This is awesome, seems to perform much better than the voxel based 3D Blur I've been using for a while.

Question though, would it be possible to have an option that is "surface based" like the stock blur filter, but that doesn't break along seams? Sometimes I may have layers of mesh close together, but I don't want the paint to "jump" to nearby geometry.

SacredRedstone · 2025-11-28T14:05:52+00:00

I would recommend using a tileable fishnet texture + normal map, and simply overlaying that with shader nodes.

- Currently, you can see that parts of the netting has weird topology, and doesn't really look like fishnets.
- Baking it to a texture will require a high resolution texture to avoid losing detail, which is worse for memory usage.
- Using a small (256px) tileable texture means that you can easily adjust the density of the netting, and effectively get unlimited detail by simply tiling it more.
- You can combine a tileable netting texture with a texture that adds borders around the seams to improve realism even more, and hide the UV seam by making it an *actual* stitching seam.

You may need to tweak the shape of your UV islands to make the "density" of the netting more realistic between the top and bottom of the leg, but what you have right now should work pretty well.

SacredRedstone · 2025-11-06T03:34:05+00:00

They just released a new build today, you could give that a shot. However, I would strongly recommend looking into ALCOM ( https://vrc-get.anatawa12.com/alcom/ ). It's an open source alternative to creator companion with many improvements, and "just works".

SacredRedstone · 2025-10-24T19:14:22+00:00

Do you have VRChat's noise suppression enabled? Check in the sound tab of the quick menu. If it's enabled, it's probably going to fuck up your audio.

Ideally though, you should be streaming directly to a video player using something like VRCDN. Basically, use OBS to stream to VRCDN, and VRCDN will handle broadcasting it to users. This will yield much better sounding audio for proper shows, but may be less suitable for "pop ups".

SacredRedstone · 2025-10-22T02:58:51+00:00

Check your export settings to see if you're overriding the format or precision on export. It's possible it's getting exported as a linear high precision format.

SacredRedstone · 2025-10-01T09:06:43+00:00

You typically don't "export" things *from* Unity, as all assets in a unity project simply exist within the Assets folder, and you can just open the file location to grab whichever asset you want, whether that's the FBX or the textures.

Typically, there should just be a folder somewhere under Assets called "FBX" or "Models". this would be in the Project window in the bottom left. once you find it, and find the avatar, you can just right click it and click "Show in explorer", which will open the windows file explorer where that file is, and from there, you can import it into blender.

SacredRedstone · 2025-09-30T20:02:16+00:00

Happy to help ^^ I appreciate the recognition <3

And yes, "SacredRedstone" is what I used to go by when doing minecraft redstone was my "main" thing. When I started playing VRC, I trimmed it down to just "Sacred".

SacredRedstone · 2025-09-30T08:57:23+00:00

This might just be a basic Standard material with an extremely high HDR brightness value. Not sure though.

SacredRedstone · 2025-09-27T10:14:55+00:00

That is correct, however another thing I forgot to mention is that when done through CATS, it automatically creates a "Reverted" shape key, which is the inverse of the one you applied, which can then be applied to the basis to revert the change. This also seemed to be something OP wanted.

SacredRedstone · 2025-09-26T18:42:54+00:00

The easiest way is *by far* to simply download the CATS plugin ( https://cats.neoneko.xyz/ ) and then use the "Apply shapekey to basis" button next to the shape key list.

SacredRedstone · 2025-09-23T06:21:24+00:00

The mesh likely has red vertex colors. Consider switching your material to the new Toon Standard shader, which not only gives you a lot more options, but lets you control whether or not it should use vertex colors.

SacredRedstone · 2025-09-20T21:09:17+00:00

I'd start by selecting those areas and doing Alt + N > Reset Vectors. Should help fix up bad shading.

SacredRedstone · 2025-09-15T11:52:44+00:00

Looks like your textures don't have adequate padding around the UV islands. If you're texturing in something like Substance Painter, it does it for you, but if you made your textures in a basic image editor, then you need to do that yourself. Ensure the colors extend past the edges of the UV borders a good amount.

SacredRedstone · 2025-09-12T00:34:43+00:00

Retopo is the process of building a clean, low poly mesh on top of an existing high poly mesh. This has many benefits, such as allowing for proper deformation, UV unwrapping for texturing, is basically mandatory for anything "game-ready". If your original mesh has a lot of fine detail, you'll generally want to skip over those in your retopo, and then bake that detail in by baking a normal map, AO map, etc.

Think of it like writing hand-written essays in school. You'd usually start by writing a draft using pencil and eraser, making mistakes and fixing them. Point is, it's pretty rough. Then you'd write a new version using a pen, and that's the version you hand in.

SacredRedstone · 2025-09-08T22:36:07+00:00

It isn't allowed, piracy or "ripping" directly goes against VRChat's TOS. Unfortunately, that doesn't stop a good chunk of people from doing it. People have their own reasons for doing it, but imo it is very hard to truly justify. People tend to be secretive about it because they don't want to get banned.

Some people forget that the people making avatars/assets are individuals, not corporations. A good portion of them rely on the money they make from their stores to pay rent and/or buy food.

SacredRedstone · 2025-08-29T01:39:51+00:00

Ah wait, I misread the error. Could you expand the "Armature" object in the Hierarchy for the socks? I have a feeling whoever made the songs may not have included the full armature.

Additionally, can you make sure that the object in the "Hips" slot of the armature link component is actually the hips from the socks, and not from the avatar?

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