Export Textures for an ArcBrush Round Trip
This guide covers the ArcBrush destination on Export Texture and the matching ArcBrush source on Texture Folder. It is the round trip: the channel names are the role names, so a folder written here reads back with nothing to configure. Use it for a folder you will re-import later, or to hand a whole asset to another ArcBrush project.
| Setting | Value |
|---|---|
| Destination | ArcBrush |
| Filename Template | {name}_{channel} |
| Normal Convention | OpenGL |
Files written
Section titled “Files written”Shown for a set named oak_bark with all eight roles (how to read these tables). A set with fewer roles writes fewer files.
| File | What it holds | Container and depth | Encoding |
|---|---|---|---|
oak_bark_base_color.png | Base Color in RGB, and an alpha that is opaque unless the Opacity row sends the cutout here | PNG 8-bit | Color |
oak_bark_normal.png | Normal | PNG 16-bit | Packed normal, OpenGL |
oak_bark_roughness.png | Roughness | PNG 16-bit | Linear data |
oak_bark_metallic.png | Metallic | PNG 16-bit | Linear data |
oak_bark_ao.png | Ambient Occlusion | PNG 16-bit | Linear data |
oak_bark_height.png | Height | PNG 16-bit, or EXR 16-bit (half) for a height outside 0 to 1 | Linear data |
oak_bark_opacity.png | Opacity | PNG 16-bit | Linear data |
oak_bark_emissive.png | Emissive | PNG 8-bit | Color |
Nothing is packed, and every role has a file of its own.
A set that is not fully opaque writes its Opacity as the opacity file and leaves the Base Color’s alpha opaque, because two copies of one plane under two names would come back as a role conflict.
After export
Section titled “After export”Nothing to set. The folder is meant to be read by Texture Folder, and the panel’s Engine Import section says so.
Reading it back
Section titled “Reading it back”Point Texture Folder at the folder. Source Auto matches the ArcBrush names, and picking ArcBrush explicitly does the same thing.
The opacity file comes back as the set’s Opacity. A cutout written into the Base Color’s alpha comes back as the set’s Opacity too, listed under Opacity in the panel with the carrier’s (A) lane named; an Opacity file in the folder wins over it, and an alpha that is opaque everywhere reads as a fully opaque set.