Yeah I’m definitely dumping the axe exercise. Absolutely hate the Blender painting workflow.
I guess I’ll try learning Substance once I decide to purchase it. I’d like to hope I don’t need designer for the full range of stylized aesthetics because building materials procedurally isn’t my cup of tea (something I learned through Houdini tutorials).
I actually already have Quixel but it seems very heavily PBR-focused. I’ll look into that more too.