Disable brush pop up menu when holding pen pressed on the cintiq for a couple seconds.

1. Go to Control panel
2. Pen and Touch
3. Select "Press and hold" and hit "Settings"
4. Uncheck the "Enable press and hold for right-clicking"
5. Click "OK" and now the brush menu won't pop up when the pen is pressed on the cintiq.

Robot Entertainment

My last day at Robot Entertainment is tomorrow. It still hasn't settled in yet that I'm leaving Robot tomorrow.  Very surreal and strange just thinking about it.  The other day I was cleaning up my pc and noticed the old files that I haven't touched in years and years.

Color Scheme

Go to Color Scheme / Wheel

Substance Painter - Roughness Map

- Roughness map determines the shininess of the texture.  Shiny = Dark (black) / Flat = Light (white)

Substance Painter - Painting over a baked normal map

Painting over a baked normal map

In some situation, it can be useful to paint over the baked normal in order to hide details or even fix baking issues.
The default setup of a project in Substance Painter doesn't allow that, as it computes the normal channel  and the baked normal separately. However it is very easy to change.

1 - Changing the texture set blending mode

By default a texture set is created with the "normal mixing" set to "combine. In order to change the normal map it's important to set it to "replace" instead. The normal map will disappear from the viewport, but that is expected.

Changing this mode to replace indicate to Substance Painter to only export the normal map channel and the height channel when generating the final normal map. When you need to export the other textures (mra, bc and ect), you need to change the "normal mixing" to "combine".

2 - Setting a fill layer with the baked normal map

Create a new fill layer and put the baked normal inside the "normal" slot, via the properties panel. Don't forget to change the default tilling of the fill layer if it not set to 1.

3 - Changing the fill layer blending mode

By default, the blending mode of the normal channel on any new layer is set to "Normal map details". Since it is preferable to use the fill layer as the base, we chose the "normal" blending mode since the bitmap don't have any alpha, it will replace everything below (including the default color of the shader).

4 - Creating a layer to paint over the baked normal map

Create a new layer (regular or fill) and change its blending mode to "normal" for the normal channel. Once this setup is done, anything painted on the normal channel will take over the baked normal map that is on the layer below.