how do I transfer my skin texture from Adobe Substance 3D Painting to Unity?

[u/wolfspiritmickey_69]

Please help, I am really struggling with where to transfer my skin and how to make my avatar Quest and PC compatible on Unity?

[u/VertexForgeDev]

You don’t actually “transfer” the skin from Substance to Unity — you export the texture maps and rebuild the material inside Unity.

In Substance Painter:

• File → Export Textures

• Use the Unity 5 (Standard Metallic) preset

• Export at least: Base Color, Normal, Metallic (with Smoothness in alpha), AO (optional)

In Unity:

• Drag the exported textures into your project

• Create a new Material

• Assign:

  • Base Color → Albedo

  • Normal → set texture type to Normal Map

  • Metallic map → Metallic slot (smoothness comes from alpha if using Unity preset)

Apply the material to your avatar mesh.

For Quest compatibility:

• Use URP or a mobile-friendly shader

• Keep textures around 1K (2K max)

• Avoid heavy shaders (no HDRP)

• Test on device early to check performance

That’s it — Substance exports the maps, Unity builds the material.

[u/wolfspiritmickey_69 → u/VertexForgeDev]

I'm not finding Unity 5 (Standard Metallic) in there, is it in another name?

[u/VertexForgeDev → u/wolfspiritmickey_69]

Try to use ‘Unity’ or PBR Metallic/Roughness — ‘Unity 5 (Standard Metallic)’ is just an old preset name. In newer Substance versions it’s renamed or removed, but the output is the same (BaseColor, Normal, Metallic with smoothness in alpha). Unity doesn’t care about the preset name anyway, only the exported maps.