Weekly Substance Challenge

Tejay

How it works

• Each week I will be posting a new texture for us to make.
• You are free to approach it from any way you would like.
• Deadlines aren't enforced. Just encouraged, but feel free to do any you have miss.

Guidelines

• Rookies to pros, all are welcome to join in.
• Please critique when possible, this is for learning.
• Ask questions. If you are struggling you can ask for help.
• Posting WIP's is encouraged. It's always good to see peoples process and development .
• Use of height/displacement maps are welcome.
• Display the textures in any real time engine. (Marmoset, UE4, Cryengine, Unity, etc.)
• Procedural only, no importing masks, diffuse or normals. It's rough at first but the best way to learn.
• If you display your nodes please make them close enough to read.
• Sharing of substance files is most welcome. It's a great resource to learn from. (please list your version for ease of use)
• If you are game, go further and use parameters to create alterable textures.

If you feel anything should be modified or added to these guidelines, please let me know.

There is a skype group, PM me if you'd like to join!


Resources
http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/Substance_Designer
http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/PBR
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-toy9WMImypmLAiU9h_SzQ
http://www.thegnomonworkshop.com/store/product/1149/#.VgeXwJeunDY



Week 1- Concrete tiles

Week 1 thread

A nice easy one for beginners but plenty of places to take it for more advanced.
Reference 1

Reference 2

Week 2- Bronze/Copper Slab

Week 2 thread

This week has more focus on using shapes to help achieve more unique designs like bolts/rivets.

Reference 1

Week 3- Wood Planks

This week we focus on warps. Controlling a warp for the thread of wood or marble can be essential. From this week on we will have two references for different skill levels. You are welcome to do both should you choose.

Begginer

Reference

Intermediate+

Reference


Week 4- Fabric
You can change the colours if you'd like.


Begginer

Reference

Intermediate+

Take the fabric texture you've made and add the input parameters so you will be able to turn off and on a pattern you've added, with a button. Expose parameters so you able to add creases or bumps ontop of your flat fabric.

If you'd like to go even further; make it so that your texture can be altered to look wet or dirty or both.

Week 5- Sand
We're begining to move into organic territory!

Begginer

Reference

Intermediate+
Mad respects to anyone who uses parameters to merge both of the skill levels together. So wet, clumps, seaweed, etc

Reference



Week 6- Asphalt

Begginer

reference

Intermediate+

I would like to see people to try and encorparate the line over the cracks.

reference


Week 7- Roof shingles


Begginer

reference


Intermediate+

reference


Week 8 - Cliff faces

Beginner

reference

Intermediate+

reference


Week 9 - Cobble stone


Begginer

reference

Intermediate+

To take the texture to the next level you are to make the above but in an arch tile set.
reference


Week 10 - Metals


Begginer

reference

Intermediate+


reference


Week 11 - Ground

Begginer

reference

Intermediate+

reference


Week 12 - Barks

Begginer

Birch
reference

Intermediate+

oak
reference


Week 13 - Ceramic roof tiles


Begginer

reference

Intermediate+

reference

Extra credit: Its been a slow week with allegorithmic's new contest so I will be extending this week. New subject will be next week. For anyone finished and still eager here is another texture you can make. should you choose.
reference

Karen Stanley produced an awesome tutorial recently for ceramic tiles for anyone needing help. http://kazperstan.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Kazperstan_Rooftiles.pdf

Week 14 - Bricks


Begginer
Reference

Intermediate+
reference


Week 15 - Leather
leather tutorial

Begginer
reference

Intermediate+

referenece


Week 16 - Leaves

Because leaves scattered about can really add more variation to textures we will attempt to make some procedurally. Be sure to make that mask output.

Begginer
reference


Intermediate+
reference


Week 17 - Lava

Begginer
reference

Intermediate+
reference


Week 18 - Tiles


Begginer
reference

Intermediate+
reference


Week 19 - Metal plates
Begginer
reference

Intermediate+
reference

Week 20 - Plastic flooring

Begginer
reference

Intermediate+
reference

Week 21 - Pavement Skylights
Inspired by @garcellano recent substance : link
Begginer
referenece

Intermediate+
reference

Week 22 - Snow

Begginer


Intermediate+

Tejay

We've moved to a master thread, all future challenges will be added to the first page from now on. People are welcome to go back through the past weeks should they choose.

walklikethis

Can i suggest a alternative Intermediate texture. Mainly because i would use actual geometry for the fence beams, rather than a flat texture. Can i suggest something like this?



It has more variation than the beginner and works better as a flat material.

Tejay

Hmm ok fair request I'll change it up.

Jakub

I am fairly new to substance, so I'm glad that the challenge like that is here!

My try on the floor, I do not really know how to create those Growth rings on the wood, so I just went without it.

I also had an issue in decreasing space between each "desk", levels couldn't do it

RobeOmega

Jakub wrote: »

I am fairly new to substance, so I'm glad that the challenge like that is here!

My try on the floor, I do not really know how to create those Growth rings on the wood, so I just went without it.

I also had an issue in decreasing space between each "desk", levels couldn't do it

Try using Dynamic Gradient:

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8AtdW1oFC8[/ame]

Jakub

Thank you for the link Robeomega That worked just fine

Tejay

Oh cool I didn't know the dynamic gradient method. I'll have to give that a try. Thanks for that Robeomega.

Jakub: This is exactly why I created this challenge. Have a crack if you get stuck ask questions and people are wesome enough to help out and teach us all new things.

Stavaas

Loving these challenges, really helpful for me who is bad at technical stuff and want to learn Substance Designer!

This is my first pass at this week's texture

What I'll do later today is make sure the boards have their own age rings and don't share them!

Jonny10

Any pointers on how to approach doing things to individual planks? I would love to try that out next and go for those cracks and rings.

Tejay

For plank variation play with the Lumicance variation values. You can easily use levels to crunch values if you want black and white masks. You can use blends and all sorts of tricks to make different masks quickly.

Stavaas

Made another variation, because practice makes perfect!

RobeOmega

I admit I did not follow the reference as much as I should have done, I may amend this when I get back after one week of being away but by then I will have the next challenge to deal with so I may not end up going back.

Substance file:
https://www.mediafire.com/?yxc5w6m99hdza60

Swarm22

Hope i'm not breaking the rules by using a different floor pattern

RobeOmega

Swarm22 wrote: »

Hope i'm not breaking the rules by using a different floor pattern

This is looking great! I would say to lower the amount of AO however.

Korann

Hey, here's my attempt of the day. I tried to go for the complex one. It doesn't exactly feel like the one in the references but it's just a reference right ?




By the way does anyone knows why my texture looks so different depending of my lighting in Toolbag ? It feels like the contrast in the albedo is not the same depending of the angle of the camera. I used "Ennis House in both shots btw. (and my texture just look so much brighter in the substance viewport)

tigerheart

Damned,I sould have looked the video before, but i managed something another way. Here is the easy one, maybe i'll update it to be able to change to the other one:

Jerc

Still working on the wood grain, I'll post the sbs when I'm finished with this guy

Jerc

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roboy

Ah man - gotta jump on this one! Missed the last one

Plenty of hard looking woods in here :poly124:

Love your take @Swarm22 and @Jerc, you should be banned from these challenges - too good! Can't wait to perv on your sbs

Micaki

Haven't got time to do a last week, this time someting realy simple and quick. Such simple i'm not sharing my graph
http://imgur.com/a/jErBs

@Jerc i hope you are not going to stop taking part in this challenge , its realy helpfull to see your sbs files. There are not enough tutorials for creating complex and such bueatifull susbtances imho, your work is slowly filling this gap :P
@Swarm22 are you going to share your substance file? :P

Dave3d

Here is my attempt at the Intermediate version,added a painted version as-well, substance file is at the bottom for anyone wanting to take a look:





substance dropbox download: https://www.dropbox.com/s/lch5r17e6q0e32p/W3_substanceChallenge_woodpanels.sbs?dl=0

Jerc

Final version with the (messy) sbs

tigerheart

Made my update, my wood substance now go from the beginner state to the intermediate:

WarrenM

Jerc wrote: »

Final version with the (messy) sbs

I gotta say ... I dunno, I wish people would stop posting those kinds of graph shots. That is basically a bunch of colored boxes with no useful content. I'd LOVE to zoom in on a few things like the chipped box. But I can't.

Sadness...

roboy

@WarrenM - I agree with you but in this instance, he's actually attached the SBS for all to see :poly124:

Looking awesome @tigerheart!

@Dave3d - I don't think that render did that substance justice, I checked out your SBS and damn does it look nice

Cay

haha yeah it's great when there's a pic of a huge substance graph but the resolution doesn't allow you to understand anything.. probably more of a ego thing.. no offense

PrimePriest

WarrenM wrote: »

I gotta say ... I dunno, I wish people would stop posting those kinds of graph shots. That is basically a bunch of colored boxes with no useful content. I'd LOVE to zoom in on a few things like the chipped box. But I can't.

Sadness...

Well Jerc attached his .sbs file so you can infact zoom in to your heart's content.

tigerheart

@WarrenM, I disagree, even though it would be nice to be able to zoom in. but when everything is framed you can at least see how the different layer of details are tought. wich is often less easy than to just choose the right node.

Jerc

The sbs was linked in my post, I agree it wouldn't make much sense to have a tiny screenshot of the graph without the actual sbs file. Even a high res screenshot wouldn't help at all since most of the interesting stuff happens in the parameters of each node

WarrenM

Jerc wrote: »

The sbs was linked in my post, I agree it wouldn't make much sense to have a tiny screenshot of the graph without the actual sbs file. Even a high res screenshot wouldn't help at all since most of the interesting stuff happens in the parameters of each node

Yeah, fair enough.

electricsauce

The base for my oak planks. It has options to switch between plain sawn and quarter sawn oak and eventually I'd like to figure out a rift sawn option. Now I need to come up with a convincing way to make knots.

Swarm22

Jerc wrote: »

The sbs was linked in my post, I agree it wouldn't make much sense to have a tiny screenshot of the graph without the actual sbs file. Even a high res screenshot wouldn't help at all since most of the interesting stuff happens in the parameters of each node

Jerc, your .sbs link doesn't work. When I click it, it's just a page of text.

Edit: Nevermind, I swear I tried right clicking it yesterday and it was giving me the option to save as a .txt file.

electricsauce

Swarm22 wrote: »

Jerc, your .sbs link doesn't work. When I click it, it's just a page of text.

Right click, save as.

electricsauce

Jerc wrote: »

Final version with the (messy) sbs

Awesome sbs, I'm learning a lot digging through it but I did find one thing that I thought I should critique. The saw marks you added are a very nice touch but they seem a bit off to me.

There are 2 main tools that are used for ripping down planks of wood. The band saw which make perfectly straight lines that run perpendicular to the board length and a circular saw blade which leaves a rounded cut in the plank.


The cutting rate also determines the uniformity of the banding. If the plank is hand fed through the saw (not common) then there will be variations in the density of the saw marks. Industrially cut wood will have uniform saw marks.

Tejay

New week as been added to the first page. This week fabric and parameters! If you are still finishing up last week dont worry we still want to see your work!

ed_3D

Hey! Thought I'd join in. Not sure if I like it, but here's my attempt at the fabric with some input parameters



default


large+small wrinkles


tiled more with some wet patches


pattern toggled off

luthyn

Hey! Been a busy week (and also got done in with a cold) so I've only managed to get a base height map worked up for last weeks Intermediate level. No parameters exposed yet, but they will be soon . I'll keep working on it and add an update later this week.



Also, big shout out to @Jerc, seeing how you managed to get the wood splits on the edges of the planks was very helpful. I'm hoping that the way you did it will help keep the cracks in the right spot even if the plank size is changed. Always fantastic to see how you approach your graphs.

@Dave3D Your's looks really sharp. I think it was smart to add the paint option, gives the graph more versatility.

Tejay

Bit late but here is my wood substance for last week. SBS File

maatin

Hi everyone!
Here is my take on the woodplanks. I kinda landed somewhere in between the references i guess.




Thanks to @jerc and @Dave3D, it helped alot to look at your graphs!

@luthyn looks great so far!

luthyn

@maatin thanks! I like yours too! An interesting mix of the references. If you keep tweaking it, maybe you could increase the roughness variation across the planks. Have some areas that may have been used more be a bit dull. It looks like you started to do that towards the bottom left, at least in the diffuse. What does your height map look like if you don't mind my asking? Keep it up Excited to see your next one!

maatin

@luthyn Thanks for the feedback! I made some changes and tried to get a bit more variation in the roughness

I´m calling this done for now, need to start with the next one!

Here is my .sbs :poly122:

CreativeHD

Better late than never! Here is mine.

Clean Planks (Substance File)


Damaged Planks (Substance File)

luthyn

@maatin very nice! Looks well worn now. Good luck on the next one!

3DKyle

Gave the fabric ago. Might come back to this if I got the time as not 100% happy with it.

god3ila

Nothing to show this week, I'll be back in the field soon.
I've made a document talking about shapes generation with Substance Designer, I hope this could help some artists to be more comfortable with shape construction inside of SD.

Here it is, the picture is linked to the file :

Ignacio_G

Sweet! This is awesome god3ila!

god3ila wrote: »

Nothing to show this week, I'll be back in the field soon.
I've made a document talking about shapes generation with Substance Designer, I hope this could help some artists to be more comfortable with shape construction inside of SD.

Here it is, the picture is linked to the file :

CreativeHD

Thanks god3ila will check it out!

CreativeHD

I wasn't happy with my old damaged wood so I spent some time and remade it:

EpicBeardMan

Thanks for sharing this stuff withus @god3ila

Cheers mate!

Grusti

@god3ilathank you so much! I'm diving in substance routine and your script are very helpful