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Originally Posted by AWhite I do not recommend using Maya at all. Use 3d max or blender 3D, and do texturing in these programs. GTA: SA is made on an old engine, so forget about Substance Painter forever.

There's nothing wrong with using Substance Painter lol. You could make an argument if you're being pedantic but there's not much to worry about in 2019.

Disk space comes in plentiful, so there's less of a need for reusable modular assets. San Andreas had severe storage issues because they had to fit their huge game onto a disc, they combated this by having the same textures used across hundreds of objects. IE a concrete wall texture isn't just used on houses, it's used on props, floors, and hundreds of other objects, and all these assets need to have basic planar UVs to accommodate this idea.

In 2019 you can afford to have way more textures, and that remains true even with SA. They don't need to be reusable, and you can tailor textures to the UVs of props, instead of tailoring the UVs of props to accept most textures.

Export a model from Maya in a format readable by Blender of 3DS, like FBX then make sure the materials are correct and you're good to go. Use 3DS / Blender to fix vertex colors if Maya can't or use kdff to generate them, and then export as a DFF. Substance Painter only exports textures but SA doesn't support PBR so you only need diffuse. Add these diffuse textures to a program like txdworkshop and use that to generate your txd.

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You can have multiple types of objects, just choose which benefits your server most.

1) reusable / modular. These are objects made to be like lego. The benefits of this are you can fit in more detail, reduce file and bandwith size but up server strain because there's more objects to handle. Buildings can be made up with multiple modular objects, which can be used in entirely different scenarios too. You see this in furniture systems. Like 1 wall might be made with a door, and another with a window. These can be stitched together in SA:MP to make a full interior.

2) props . Props are usually made with 1 object, and this is where Substance Painter shines. You can paint, and add cool effects to your model, and SP will generate a texture which you use with it. You can't reuse the texture because it was generated to fit the UVs of your model, and only your model. It will look stupid on others.