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14. Substance Anchors

Abhishek Kumar1 
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Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India
 

Anchors are another procedural tool of Substance Painter. They allow users to add further details to a mesh without manual labor. In this chapter, you will learn how you can leverage the power of anchors. To be effective at using Substance Painter, it is important to know how they work.

What Is an Anchor?

Anchor points in Substance Painter are user-defined references of certain elements or resources present within the layer stack that can be used later to perform certain actions or operations based on their information. This allows you to effectively link layers or masks and have ...

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