Would this be possible with Substance Designer?

MeshMagnet

I'm at a loss as to what the plugin is called. I'm pretty sure it was for Maya.

Basically you could plugin a regular normal map and an object space normal map and then the plugin would fake chamfered edges for you.

Would it be possible for Substance Designer to do something similar? Just find the edges and fake a chamfered edge on hard surface models?

Xoliul

It doesn't do it yet afaik. It would have to be a baked thing, not some graph effect. I think they mentioned having this on their list for sometime in the future.

MDiamond

What's the name of this kind of effect? Never heard about it before but got me curious.

dzibarik

In Modo it's called rounded edges in the material properties. You can bake them.

Jerc

Having a similar baker as in Modo is in our short term to-do list.

MeshMagnet

Here's the Maya plugin if anybody is interested:

http://cgi.tutsplus.com/tutorials/quick-tip-using-mayas-mia_roundcorners-shader--cg-6008

It's called Mia_Roundcorners.