Material Preview Model

Jimbo007

Hi Wes,

I've just started working with Substance Designer and find it extremely versatile. One small feature I would really like to see added would be the ability to automatically generate the material icon using Substance Designers 3d material preview model (the one shown in the attachment); to enable users to easily visualize new materials they created, rather than an image of one of the output maps.

Would it be possible for you to post the 3d model used to create the Substance Designer material previews?

NicolasW

Even if their is a 3d model for the sphere, we actually composited maps to get these thumbnails (to keep consistency and make the mask effect the most visible as possible).

So we rendered ambient occlusion, world space normal, curvature..etc in 2D and applied the mask generator on it.

I'll post an example later..

Jimbo007

Thanks for the reply. I look forward to seeing the example.

NicolasW

here it is

http://1drv.ms/1NjXK0K

Jimbo007

Thanks for the info. I'm on vacation at the moment but will check it out when I return.

MDiamond

I couldnt open the .sbs here, I'm still using Designer 4.6. "Application is too old open URL." Should I use 5.X to open it?

I made a similar request some time ago, but maybe those composite maps could be even more useful. If a make a file to look-dev like Christophe Desse did:

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6FT35Rqkk0[/ame])

I could generate the previews, right?

NicolasW

Yes, this is a SD5 file.

And it is very similar to Christophe's workflow.