Substance Learning Thread

ansh0488

So, finally it's time to learn substance. Started with a basic brick texture. Lots of cool stuff learned from pipesfranco, joshua lynch, and many other great artists. For artists, who haven't tried it out yet, give it a chance. You'll never regret it. It's fun to work with, and can make things quicker in your existing pipeline.

Here's my very first substance material, with a very unorganized graph.

luthyn

How much control do you have over everything so far?

ansh0488

It's pretty under control right now. But as of now, I'm using a lot of nodes, to avoid the repeating factor. I think I've to work on that as well.

luthyn

I meant more, what controls do you have exposed? Can you change the size of the bricks, the color, offset, how dirty they are? Or is that something you have yet to do?

ansh0488

I haven't exposed any of these yet. But yeah, i have control over all the above you said, plus, slopng of bricks under grout, and damage intensity.

ansh0488

Cobblestone material created from scratch in Substance Designer, rendered in Marmoset Toolbag 2.

Special KBS

Wow, thats a beast cobblestone pattern, what nodes are used to pull off an effect like that?

Great work!

Myging

That is some great work, I am going check those artists out that you mentioned in your first post right now. I am going to learn substance as well. Thank you very much.

ansh0488

@Special KBS - Thanks for your appreciation. Base pattern is made with a shape node attached to splatter circular, and then transform2d from there onward to get the arc shape.Stone pattern can be changed at any point.

@Myging - Thanks for your appreciation.
Here are some links to get you started -
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWxUhn1cKgy5jaTVueK_VAQ
http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=145615&highlight=josh
http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=145660&highlight=josh

Myging

@ansh0488

Wow, even more thank you! Keep up the awesome work!

raul

Great looking texture, and pattern! Any chance you could zoom into the pattern itself and share how you did that?

ansh0488

Concrete tiles made entirely in Substance Designer

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ansh0488

UE4_Substance_Designer_Materials_WIP

Here's a little sneak peek of the procedural materials I'm creating in Substance Designer and Unreal Engine 4. Final outputs will be different design patterns (all procedurally created in Substance_Designer), with 3 levels of ageing. 
Hope you guys like it and thanks for watching.

artquest

EDIT: the search function got me lol... meant to post this in the substance sticky in tech talk...

Hi all! so im pretty new to SD... I'm looking for a way to create panels in substance designer at a large scale that look like they were painted in batches and then assembled onto a hull so they have slight color variations per panel group but not too noisy. This is what I have so far...

here's an example (the panels on the disk):
noisy http://static1.squarespace.com/static/5504ba81e4b030d1c7f9ce00/55105a54e4b0c289fce6c5f2/551076c4e4b01eb6529252d7/1427142342246/130_Vfx_Ext_YankeeStadium_110801_Rendering01A_JC.jpg?format=2500w

ansh0488

Here's a procedural stone design entirely made in Substance Designer. Hope you like it!!