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Great news guys, we have 2 big Substance related announcements coming, second announcement on Wednesday, December 4th!.
The first one is probably what you would expect, we can't wait to see your reaction to the second.
I think some polycounters already know what it's all about, their wait is almost over.
[size=+2]Substance Designer 4 is out![/size]
Steam SD 3.x users get SD 4 and all future SD 4.x updates for free
All Substance Designer versions are [size=+2]on sale at 50% [/size] during the Autumn sales on Steam, starting right now!
The first one is probably what you would expect, we can't wait to see your reaction to the second.
I think some polycounters already know what it's all about, their wait is almost over.
[size=+2]Substance Designer 4 is out![/size]
Steam SD 3.x users get SD 4 and all future SD 4.x updates for free
All Substance Designer versions are [size=+2]on sale at 50% [/size] during the Autumn sales on Steam, starting right now!
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Red, or green? xD
(I can live in hope)
Not this time, but that's in the works too and looking pretty good already
Send me a PM if you need more details.
The main new features are:
BTW, any of you who bought SD 3.x on Steam get SD 4 and all future SD 4.x updates for free, you will see the upgrade automatically in your Steam library.
And finally, all Substance Designer versions are on sale at 50% during the Autumn sales on Steam, starting right now!
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Looking forward to this !
Im very curious about the previewer. Does it make a cache image somewhere that I could point another game engine at to see inside it? Or is the preview window very customizable in that you can make emulate old school engines before Gi and PBR?
The previewer allows you to load any glsl shader. It comes with a default PBR shader and also Relief mapping and parallax shaders that uses the typical Diffuse/normal/spec/gloss outputs.
Yes by yourself it's much harder to get started unless you're really into the technical stuff (like me), but in a company it makes much more sense. Still hard to convince your artists though...
I'm thinking this could become interesting if people on Polycount start releasing some cool nodes, i might in the future, though I'd be remaking a bunch of stuff from work first lol.
Substance is indeed first a technical artist toolset, although it allows those tech artists to help more traditional artists immensely by easily building custom tools for them, like rogelio said.
Hopefully the second announcement will please everyone, technical or not
Oh wow
Are there any drawbacks to using the Steam Version? IF for any reason the steam account is lost is the license to use Substance lost as well?
In the car video he uses base materials like paint, chrome, etc, are those standard? Also he chains them into effect nodes like edge wear, dirt, etc, what about those ones?
We can provide you with a stand alone license even though you bought it over Steam if need be.
There is no base material library built-in, as we figure everyone want to create their own stuff, for their own style and project, maybe even for their own shader.
We will provide a library of pure materials though that can be useful as a base to build upon.
There are multiple effect nodes, that range from full material weathering to simply specialized mask generation for edge wera, dirt, etc.
The philosophy behind SD is really to give you all the elements you need to create your own content, your own tools and your own workflow.
This may sound noob-ish, but what is
"physically based shading and rendering"
-and what advantages does t have over "regular" shading and rendering?
EDIT:
" We can provide you with a stand alone license even though you bought it over Steam if need be."
How do I get that?
I bought my version on steam.
I believe its PBR... which gives the best most natural looking renders. I believe marmoset toolbag uses the same kind of rendering approach. Anyways it makes stuff look good! Ryse uses it as well.
A stand alone version feels safer I agree.
Ahh I see. That's cool. I was mainly asking for educational purposes, like to train a new artist on the job for instance.
Like say that video you guys released of the car texturing. It would be nice if that project and its files were made available so new folks can follow along.
Also, yeah, it would be cool to build some repository like how zBrush did with Matcaps. Maybe we should do one here on Polycount. I can imagine people putting up all sorts of useful nodes.
The PBR stuff is really just a combination of shading and lighting technique (energy conservation, image based lighting, fresnel, etc.) that gives a lot more natural and realistic look to materials. It is going to become the new standard for pretty much any high end game engine out there in the coming months and years.
It requires artists to be a bit more careful when it comes to authoring specularity related maps, but working with base materials and non destructive tools like SD allows you to keep consistency between all your assets.
Bigjohn> Indeed a repository like this would be nice, we wanted to create one on our website but time flies by and we haven't managed to do that yet. We could definitely create one on Polycount. I have a few things I could share already and I'm sure others do too.
Can I load my own HDR 360 panoramas into SD4?!?!?!!?!?
I create them for IBL in keyshot, toolbag, maya etc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-9BQnkMo4s
edit: Oh right, you baked them from an existing normalmap...but why import the highpoly mesh then?
So yeah, it was 2 separate bakes in the end, with no cage, no parts separation, using a very low ray distance since the high and low poly were very close, so it gave almost no artefact, even on the engine area where everything is kind of close and interpenetrating.
We could have used a cage though, but it was good enough with the default bake, not perfect, but good enough
Even if you have very small ray misses due to a low ray distance, we fill these misses with gradients so that will most of the time "heal" the artefacts pretty effectively.