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Hi Everyone !
I will try to keep working my Substance Designer skill regulary.
Here is my first material since a while, a Bark texture, what did you guys think about it ?
Hi Everyone !
I will try to keep working my Substance Designer skill regulary.
Here is my first material since a while, a Bark texture, what did you guys think about it ?
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Also, never render with a black background, use a grey, blue-grey, or a blue tone.
If you use the metalness workflow you don't need to show the metalness texture flat for a non-metal material, at least that is my thought. Especially considering we could see 25% of the other textures instead.
It's my first attempt with the metalness workflow it's true that the metalness map is useless to show.
Let's go to the next.
Your graph is simple, yet you already have a good result for a WIP (the stone floor). I'll follow this thread with great interest.
Sympa de voir un compatriote ici !
DanielR17 >>> Yes I always try to keep my substance graph simple for my mental health
Micaki >>> I agree that that shapes are not the best to show a material, still searching for it. Sorry for the graph I always try to share the more I can on a community forum, bad habits die hard
And some "Substance Factories" I'm working on, trying to think about how to use the best of procedural and connected stuff for a level production :
The last two ones are still really rough, need to work my underneath materials, remove a lot of artefacts, polish the Albedos and create more complex Trim Layouts
Here is my material after polish :
That's amazing? Any chance that's landing on Substance Share anytime soon?
armagon //// I don't think that all that stuff is powerful enough to land on Substance Share but I will think about it
Shinigami //// I will see if I can breakdown some stuff for you, which one did you want to see ?
Here is my last stuff, wooden planks, still need some tweaks and polish but I'm pretty happy with the result so far
Here is my last Substance Factory, a wooden one to create every type of object material :
Don't know how I will share my previous stuff with you guys but I'm thinking about it. Before that here is my next Substance Factory, a marble/ Laiton material. Working on the marble right know, what did you think about it ?
Do you plug any albedo maps, for example from cgtextures ? And then work the normal map from it? Or all your colors for wood and marble and stone are coming from nodes from Substance Designer ? I cant wrap my head around it.
And can you link any specific tutorials to Substance Designer? Maybe some unknown channel or smth. I cant break through Substance :<
Basically if you know how to use photoshop you know how to use Substance
The way you work is completely depending on which material you want to do.
For exemple if you are working on bricks or others materials with strong surface patterns, it's better to start with your Height map, then you will create your Albedo reusing your heights informations for gradient maps, after that you will obtain everything you need for your Roughness because you have worked in black and white you can reuse any step as a mask or a add or subtrack to any other stratas. Link everything to everything and you will obtain a nice Substance Factory
There for the Marble, because it's suppose to be a flat and polished surface I had to start with the Albedo but in black and white, like always.
If you want to start in Substance take a look at the amazing Rogelio Olguin Gnomon which is the most complete tutorial right now :
http://www.thegnomonworkshop.com/store/product/1149/#.VhqEy_l_NBc
There is a lot of good video directly on the Allegorithmic channel as well, really clear and efficients tips right there :
https://www.youtube.com/user/Allegorithmic
And something else maybe no one does really, open the materials which are already in Substance and take a look at them, they are the source of everything, made with the first version of substance so they are pretty efficient. Don't be scared by the size of the graphs, just click on the first node and the next and try to understand what is happening at every steps. You will find a lot
Hey GED , can't wait to see your result man and steahl your secrets
Can't achieve to have the same result in Marmoset without hacking it too much, so for now the render on the Left is coming from Substance and don't have shadows
Back to the marble now
I often work in Designer with the Tesselation Parallax shader to start things up. Then I move on to the physically_mettalic_roughness shader to finish.
You seem to be using the physically_specular_glossiness. Is this correct? And if so, is it because you use Marmoset Toolbag to render the textures?
DanielR17--- You are right, for this texture I use the Specular/Glossiness workflow, but I'm working with both depending on my mood and the engine I want to put it in afterward
Here is my last stuff, my entry to the Substance Share Contest, an Abandoned Hotel Marble Floor :
Will submit it when my graph are clean
Here is my cartoon entry for the substance share challenge. I have try to create an Overwatch texture which can be use on a lot of architectural elements.
Working on my last entry for the challenge in the fantasy category, still a lot to do but almost finish the first part
If I may ask, how do you make those greyscale masks?
Cheers!
Cheers!
what did you guys think about it ?
Here is my entry for the Fantasy Category on the Substance share challenge
I'd love to know more about how a texture this complex grows from the first node to the final form.
Do you work all in one graph to begin with then separate bits out as you're done with each?
The values you separate out into parameters (for example the weathering and pit amounts on the stone graphs) do you create the entire stone graph then find two sets of good values for the cleaner/weathered stone sections, or do you have two variations on the go?
To be honnest everything in those my material is pretty simple. Here are the main steps of that Overwatch Fanart :
I always start just with the layout, working on what I call "naked material", the layout is never final but help me to find the level of detail I want and how I want to work my edges. I work it in a classical way just trying to get a good simple result.
Because I want to be able to use it as a dynamic material and change my Layout or add height detail, I focus on keeping everything clean and always put aside all my Masks or layouts generators. Those will become my "Inputs".
Most of the time only 3 types of Inputs are needed to get enough variations :
-Layout
-Height Adds
-Mask To break the tiling
I work in a way that at the end those Node will come from outside my material as an "Input".
When I'm happy with the result I expose my parameters, not before.
When I have that I work the same way on all my "naked material" to have all my material before going into my master node which is the final texture.
Then I start my "Master Material" which is the final texture. I link all my "Naked materials" with a Multi blend Node and set all the entries according to a different color. Then I spend a big amount of time on a black and white material just creating my layout and all the mask I will need according my Layouts Inputs and a simple color Mask which will say to the multi blend node where to show which ID.
At this step I set all the exposed parameters of the naked materials as well.
Then I can start breaking tiles and patterns with more masks according to all the Inputs I have created on my Naked Materials. The more Inputs you have, the more Mask you will have to do
To finish I Blend on the top of it all my secondary materials like Paint, Sand or Dust.
Useless to say that that stuf was not made straight forward but a lot of back and forth between my Master Material and my Naked ones to fix issues, expose new parameters or create new Inputs.
By the way the link to the SBS :
https://share.allegorithmic.com/libraries/898
I hope that's help.