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Substance Designer: Material Techniques

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Overview

Go beyond the basics in Substance Designer. Learn advanced techniques for building new materials from scratch, as well as how to recreate real-life materials in Substance Designer.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Create innovative materials with Substance Designer
  • What you should know
1. Overview of Substance Designer
  • Overview of the tools
  • Nodes and graphs
  • Work with multiple materials
2. Scan with Your Smartphone
  • Introduction to scanning materials with your smartphone
  • How the scanbox works
  • Preprocess the images
  • Initial steps in Substance Designer
  • Final material in Substance Designer
3. Procedural Sculpting: Forest Floor
  • Introduction to procedural sculpting
  • Sculpt the main terrain
  • Sculpt large rocks in the terrain
  • Sculpt small rocks in the terrain
4. Material Techniques: Forest Floor
  • Add albedo details to the base
  • Add albedo details to rocks
  • Add roughness to maps
  • Explore the final material
5. Material Techniques: Metal
  • Create a rusty metal material: Sculpt
  • Create a rusty metal material: Colors
  • Create a rusty metal material: Final output
6. Material Techniques: Wood
  • Create a wooden plank material: Sculpt
  • Create a wooden plank material: Colors
  • Create a wooden plank material: Final output
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Emmanuel Henri

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