Seven days of Substance
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I bought Substance Designer a long time ago, and I messed around with it for a bit, but after seeing the AC:U art dump I was inspired to learn it for realsies. So I decided to try and make one new substance a day for a week. I'm over halfway there!
Crits please!
Crits please!
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I can post my graphs if anyone is interested too.
@C22Dunbar - Thanks man! Yea it really is powerful, I just gotta get better at it. I'm having a lot of fun trying to figure out how to make the textures procedurally too.
Hell yeah post your graphs. These are looking great.
Are you doing these all inside of Substance with no imported maps or anything?
@HaydenZammit - Yea this is all in Substance, I haven't used any imported maps at all.
I also tweaked the roughness on the brick a bit.
Brick Graph
Wood Graph
Concrete
Sand
Tile
The rocks were made using a procedural rock generator. I followed his tutorial for making it so huge thanks to him for that, you can watch the video on his vimeo here.
I wasn't sure how to do the water, does anyone know what should the albedo be? It should have a high gloss and low reflectivity, but since I'm trying to use the metalness texturing workflow I'm having some trouble trying to control it. I have the albedo at kind of a dark brown right now. I also have a height map for the mud but I couldn't get it to work properly in the viewport with my maps. Ah well time to stop looking at it I guess.
Bigger screenshots where I could see node names without a problem would be nice.
@Mantragora - Sure man I'll post some closer pics after work. Anything specific?
Nope. It can be even in puzzle state, just to show each section. I can stich it together myself. Those that you posted right now will work as minimaps
Thanks!
But in general these graphs look small compared to something I would do
I think the thing youre missing in the mud is more variation in the roughness. Having areas of dryer bits will help add to the spec variation.
As for the albedo of the water I would try a more milky look of the mud like this. Right now it is too mirror like. Also things that are wet become more staturated so think of that when doing wetness/water on material or textures.
@Rogelio - Hey, thanks for the feedback, much appreciated. Yea, I never really thought of texturing based on topology before but I messed around with some height based automatic texturing this time around. I increased the variation of the roughness and changed the albedo of the water, what do you think? Again, thanks for the Substance tutorials!
@AdvisableRobin - I was just gonna do 7 days but I'm hooked now, I want to try some other stuff too so this definitely isn't the end
@Vincent_DEROZIER - Cheers man, thanks for the inspiration!
For the mud, I made it so the larger rocks are biased towards the top of the height map and small stones are placed towards the bottom. So when the map is more flat there's less small rocks and when the map is bumpy, the large rocks will disappear. The water albedo has a some of an alpha too to show a bit of the albedo of the mud underneath so the water gets a bit darker where the puddle is deepest.
By moving 4 sliders in my substance, I can get this much variation on the mud in about 20 seconds.
Day 7, leather. You can change the coverage of the cracking, change all the colours on the albedo and the wear is based off of the height of the map and that colour can be changed as well.
Here's the link:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ai13eq5p1tpgbmt/sevenDays.rar?dl=0
Enjoy!
One think that I can add, when you have uniform color that you blend later on with something, you can set its size to 1x1 pixel. One green pixel scaled later on to 1024x1024 will look exactly the same like 1024x1024 green pixels
Now, you have to be careful, because if this 1x1 uniform color ends up in primary input (the one with dot) it will also rescale your operations later on. So if you are blending this 1x1 uniform color with something, make sure it doesn't end up in main input.
Or if you are blending two 1x1 uniform colors, make sure to set resolution multiplier correctly on a blend node.
Oh, and you can skip Invert Grayscale node if it follows Levels node. Just can do whole remapping in one node, by switching places of lower zippers in Levels node, while still using upper zippers for tightening scale.
In Marmoset, the sphere on the left has .02 spec, 1.0 gloss and the right one has 0 metalness, 0 roughness and they both look about the same.
And here's this water in Marmoset, with 0 metalness and 0 roughness. Again, thanks for the help, I'm having a tough time nailing down this water.
Chimp, sorry! I added that into the download, my apologies
https://www.dropbox.com/s/22lehcqzhzmctf5/sevenDaysv2.rar?dl=0
Also for anyone checking out the mud, here's the main nodes I use to get different results.
although sure they look "about the same" you can see the specular reflection is dimmer. That said, I've been working on an advanced metalness module for Toolbag2, which will include the same "specular" feature that UE4 and Frostbyte engines support.
Lee, Yea you're right. I see the difference in the reflection now. Looking forward to that advanced metalness
Still trying to push this mud further. I might re texture the albedo and rougness, I think missed a lot of the subleties in the mud and relied too much on gradient maps.
Added grass though, it biases towards the topmost mud parts. Same philosphy as the rock, I made one blade, two clumps of grass, then splattered it around. Here's a couple screens from Substance.