Learning to texture in Substance Designer Hard Surface Mech

sleepygiraffe

I am currently learning Substance Designer and decided to texture a mech asset I made a while ago. So far I'm super impressed with SD and wanted to share my progress. C&C welcomed along with any tips for Substance designer.

sleepygiraffe

Update

I took my graph for the body section of the mech and applied the leg maps and colour ID. Did a bit of tweaking and added in some glow effects. Used the bitmap nod to do some hand painting to adjust the glow shape and colour.

Grusti

nice metal material!
Can you show your material graph plz?

teknomancer

i have recently got hold of substance designer, any chance of showing how you did this?

sleepygiraffe

@ IlyaIvanovArt

Thanks, I have attached a pic of my graph along with a basic workflow breakdown

@ teknomancer

If you are just getting into Substance designer some parts of the graph may not make sense. I learned by watching the Getting Started tutorials and got my basic workflow from watching a tutorial by Christophe Desse "Substance designer simple texturing step by step".




More to come.

Grusti

I mean your base painted metal

sleepygiraffe

Quick WIP render in marmoset, next step is to add some normal detail in zbrush and decals.

xtrm3d

I learned by watching the Getting Started tutorials and got my basic workflow from watching a tutorial by Christophe Desse "Substance designer simple texturing step by step".

glade that i did at least help one person :-)

Kaine123

I think the edgewear is a bit cartoonish and noisy. Also I think you might want to mute the colors overall a bit.

sleepygiraffe

@ xtrm3d - Thanks for tutorials, I'll be sure to pass on a sandwich

@ Kaine123 - Thanks for the feedback, overall I'm happy with the edge wear but agree the colours are a bit saturated.

I have made some adjustments to dirt levels, overall roughness and paint colours. Next step is to pose and add more decals.

tac0m

good choice on the color change. the green on green wasn't working. To take this one step further i'd make some warning labels or some kind of technician stickers on the back of the unit. It'll give some scale to this mech. Although, if this mech is really large then technician warning stickers might be too small to even read.

tac0m

Also, what PBR method are you using? Metal/Roughness or Spec/Gloss?

miamigator09

The overall color scheme is better than before. One thing that sticks out to me is the spec/gloss properties of the paint don't match a paint job over metal (as you are implying with the worn edges revealing metal). Maybe bump up the gloss a bit on the white and blue paint to give it a little more realism?

pmiller001

So i'm not sure if you're trying to make this look remarkably realistic or not. Because the first view of this I really enjoyed, with the over saturated green.

sleepygiraffe

@ tac0m - Thanks for the feedback, Im using the metal/roughness workflow. I have added some decals but still feel it needs a better sense of scale.

@ miamigator09 - Im going for paint on metal, I have been playing around with the roughness values of the paint and agree it was too glossy in the last render. I have made some adjustments thanks.

@ pmiller001 - Im going for a more realistic look glad you like the first render, but I feel it looks a bit too cartoony.

WIP 3

I have made changes to the roughness values of the paint along with the dirt levels. I have moved out of Designer and into Painter and am now adding custom texture deal such as leaks, decals, scratches and dirt. More to come.

Mstankow

This mech would totally fit inside the Dragonball universe.

tac0m

i like the new gloss values. Could you render a closer image so we can view the painter details you added? Looks pretty solid, keep it up.

sleepygiraffe

@ tac0m - Thanks! You should be able to see the added details below.

I have moved from Substance Designer into Substance Painter and added custom detail such as panels, bolts and grunge. Next step is to pose and keep adding detail. I'm really impressed how easy it was to move into painter and continue texturing. Rendered in Toolbag 2.

sleepygiraffe

Created a simple rig to pose.





More to come.

Jerc

Awesome progress between the first iteration and these last renders!