substance-3d-texturing

substance-3d-texturing is a skill for Claude Code from freshtechbro/claudedesignskills. It costs 119 tokens per session (3,994 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to Adobe Substance 3D Painter, a tool for painting surface details and materials onto 3D models. It covers physically based rendering, texture export, compression, and automation for web and real-time engines.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create metallic, rough, transparent, glowing, and other surface textures; export them for formats such as glTF and Three.js; and automate batch exports with Python.
Why use it?
It helps turn 3D models into assets with realistic surfaces while keeping their texture files suitable for real-time use.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

Good fit Use it to create metallic, rough, transparent, glowing, and other surface textures; export them for formats such as glTF and Three.js; and automate batch exports with Python.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/freshtechbro/claudedesignskills/substance-3d-texturing
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add freshtechbro/claudedesignskills --skill substance-3d-texturing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/freshtechbro/claudedesignskills

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 119 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,994 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 18 Mar 2026
  • Snyk pass 27 Feb 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00119 $0.03994
Opus 5 $0.00060 $0.01997
Sonnet 5 $0.00024 $0.00799
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00399

Measured 11d ago against content hash 89c052fdb27d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

substance-3d-texturing scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 11d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 3 executable files (scripts/batch_export.py, scripts/generate_export_preset.py, scripts/web_optimizer.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

.claude/skills/substance-3d-texturing/SKILL.md · 507 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 507 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Substance 3D Texturing

Overview

Master PBR (Physically Based Rendering) texture creation and export workflows for web and real-time engines. This skill covers Substance 3D Painter workflows from material creation through web-optimized texture export, with Python automation for batch processing and integration with WebGL/WebGPU engines.

Key capabilities:

  • PBR material authoring (metallic/roughness workflow)
  • Web-optimized texture export (glTF, Three.js, Babylon.js)
  • Python API automation for batch export
  • Texture compression and optimization for real-time rendering

Core Concepts

PBR Workflow

Substance 3D Painter uses the metallic/roughness PBR workflow with these core channels:

Base Texture Maps:

  • baseColor (Albedo) - RGB diffuse color, no lighting information
  • normal - RGB normal map (tangent space)
  • metallic - Grayscale metalness (0 = dielectric, 1 = metal)
  • roughness - Grayscale surface roughness (0 = smooth/glossy, 1 = rough/matte)

Additional Maps:

  • ambientOcclusion (AO) - Grayscale cavity/occlusion
  • height - Grayscale displacement/height
  • emissive - RGB self-illumination
  • opacity - Grayscale transparency

Export Presets

Substance 3D Painter includes built-in export presets for common engines:

  • PBR Metallic Roughness - Standard glTF/WebGL format
  • Unity HDRP/URP - Unity pipelines
  • Unreal Engine - UE4/UE5 format
  • Arnold (AiStandard) - Renderer-specific

For web engines, PBR Metallic Roughness is the universal standard.

Texture Resolution

Common resolutions for web (powers of 2):

  • 512×512 - Low detail props, mobile
  • 1024×1024 - Standard props, characters
  • 2048×2048 - Hero assets, close-ups
  • 4096×4096 - Showcase quality (use sparingly)

Web optimization rule: Start at 1024×1024, scale up only when texture detail is visible.

Common Patterns

1. Basic Web Export (Three.js/Babylon.js)

Manual export workflow for single texture set:

Steps:

  1. File → Export Textures
  2. Select preset: "PBR Metallic Roughness"
  3. Configure export:
    • Output directory: Choose target folder
    • File format: PNG (8-bit) for web
    • Padding: "Infinite" (prevents seams)
    • Resolution: 1024×1024 (adjust per asset)
  4. Export

Read the full file on GitHub · 507 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 11d ago First seen · 507 lines · 119 tokens per session scan A 89c052fdb27d

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substance-3d-texturing is a skill published in the GitHub repository freshtechbro/claudedesignskills (882 stars, last pushed 9mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 119 tokens to every session and 3,994 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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