Darg's substance designer improvement thread
Hello guys, new member on the board here !
I'm currently learning how to use substance designer in order to make fully procedural textures. I started following some tut's on youtube so I could get to know the basics (yeah, the usual bathroom tiles everyone ends up making). I really start to enjoy the soft, looks a lot like the engineering stuff I use for the studies
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Since I started to feel a bit more comfortable with the basics, I tried to make my first fully custom texture: some roman styled roof tiles.
I would like to improve the diffuse by adding some color variation between the different roof tiles. Usually, I would do this by copying the tile generator, make a black and white version of the tile and add some luminescence variation. However, for this texture, I've made the tiles overlap each other by using a max blend mode, and therefore this technique tends to screw up. Do you guys have any idea on how to realize this effect ? I would also really appreciate some general critics and advice on the texture, I'm here to learn ! Btw, here is the substance file, for those that are interested :
https://www.dropbox.com/s/uhoq9ex9j0cs0o0/roof.sbs?dl=0
I hope it won't melt down my dropbox... I'm not using a PBR workflow here, as the texture will be used in a quite old engine (Creation kit).
- Thomas
I'm currently learning how to use substance designer in order to make fully procedural textures. I started following some tut's on youtube so I could get to know the basics (yeah, the usual bathroom tiles everyone ends up making). I really start to enjoy the soft, looks a lot like the engineering stuff I use for the studies
.Since I started to feel a bit more comfortable with the basics, I tried to make my first fully custom texture: some roman styled roof tiles.
I would like to improve the diffuse by adding some color variation between the different roof tiles. Usually, I would do this by copying the tile generator, make a black and white version of the tile and add some luminescence variation. However, for this texture, I've made the tiles overlap each other by using a max blend mode, and therefore this technique tends to screw up. Do you guys have any idea on how to realize this effect ? I would also really appreciate some general critics and advice on the texture, I'm here to learn
! Btw, here is the substance file, for those that are interested :https://www.dropbox.com/s/uhoq9ex9j0cs0o0/roof.sbs?dl=0
I hope it won't melt down my dropbox... I'm not using a PBR workflow here, as the texture will be used in a quite old engine (Creation kit).
- Thomas
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I managed to get something close to the effect I wanted. I used a tile generator with a slight luminescence variation so the tiles would stay in the right order. Then I've used a slope blur with this map in both of the inputs. By playing with the intensity, I was able to cancel most of the gradient.
Here is the same texture with some color variation :
The specular map still needs some work, but I think I'm going to take a break from those tiles for a while.