@tomasplasil thanks for the tip. Yeah substance it quite familiar in the forum but I am glad to hear ‘use cases’ explained like this.
I decided that I want to learn shading theory better in blender and got a few mask tools like bPainter and MaskTools add-ons. I’m still very novice compared to how substance does things but the node package in blender is extremely powerful as well. Jonathon’s post during nodevember was impressive.