SD Materials Critique?

acealmighty13 · Mar 2016

I'm trying to improve my work with metals in Substance Designer and I need a clean brushed metal and would like some feedback. I'm heading in the right direction, it still needs some work but maybe some direction might help.

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/9o/29reuokc2huh.jpg

TheWarlord18 · Mar 2016

The feathering on the surface could be a little tighter, for brushed metal its usually very densely covered. the reflections look very nice though and i think if you just tile the detail a bit more that would help.

sltrOlsson · Mar 2016

Finner grained details and tighter.. Show us you're reference?

acealmighty13 · Mar 2016

TheWarlord18 said:

The feathering on the surface could be a little tighter, for brushed metal its usually very densely covered. the reflections look very nice though and i think if you just tile the detail a bit more that would help.

Here's an update.

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/tt/gco24idhhj41.jpg

acealmighty13 · Mar 2016

Here is another update. I removed the Transform 2D nodes to originally squash the mask and replaced them with Tile Generators. I like the way it's turned out thus far. As I finish up materials, I'll use this thread to post here, instead of starting a new one. I don't know if this thread should be moved to Sketchbook or not.

TheWarlord18 · Mar 2016

its getting better but still a little loose, end game you want it to look closer to this

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/5k/6idtfmzyfynw.jpg

lots of little surface details in-between the bigger ones

TheWarlord18 · Mar 2016

try adding some darker values as well, it will make the surface detail stand out a lot more

acealmighty13 · Mar 2016

TheWarlord18 said:

its getting better but still a little loose, end game you want it to look closer to this

lots of little surface details in-between the bigger ones

Ha ha! I'm actually using this image as reference. I'll continue to play with it.

acealmighty13 · Mar 2016

At the moment, I'm not really adding any nodes, just tweaking the Histogram nodes or the Blends if need be.

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/o3/hdbzr1bmis2p.jpg

acealmighty13 · Mar 2016

Here are three new materials I've been working on. All still a work in progress to an extent, I'm happy with where they are at for the moment. The anodized metal I came upon via "happy accident". Is the other metal too clean? Or will the scratches work? I have a gradient map set up with the mask set to zero at the moment just to get some input from others. I can post an image with the mask, if anyone wants to see it.

SD Materials Critique?

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