Substance Designer Feedback

Earthyn

Hey guys,

I have been trying to bring Substance Designer into my arsenal of software's.

Dirty Tileset


 Garden Tileset



Clean Furnished wood



Any feedback, tips tricks to improve them, or things you plain hate!

Thanks

EJtheArtist

Hiya! Did you happen to use any reference while working in substance designer? For example:



If you look closely at the image, you'll see that the wood floor has a sense of character about it. The wood grain had lots of detail, the coloring is very drastic, and even the dirt splotches have their own sense of character too. 

Do your best to pull the sense of character from your reference and you'll see a great improvement in how unique your textures look. Try creating groupings of nodes for each characteristic, and then combine them all together. I think what you have here is a great start, good shapes and patterns, but picking out those characteristics and getting them in your work would be delicious.

Of course this is easier said than done, i'm still trying to perfect it myself, but what do you think? 

EJtheArtist

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musashidan

EJtheArtist said:

If you look closely at the image, you'll see that the wood floor has a sense of character about it. The wood grain had lots of detail, the coloring is very drastic, and even the dirt splotches have their own sense of character too. 

Do your best to pull the sense of character from your reference and you'll see a great improvement in how unique your textures look. Try creating groupings of nodes for each characteristic, and then combine them all together. I think what you have here is a great start, good shapes and patterns, but picking out those characteristics and getting them in your work would be delicious.

Of course this is easier said than done, i'm still trying to perfect it myself, but what do you think? 

Good general advice, but OP's wood material is titled 'clean furnished wood' so I'm assuming he's going for more of a modern futniture/floor look

EJtheArtist

Thats true it is named that, but even still, I think it could use a little more push in character even for clean wood. It appears very flat imo

Chase

I agree. Needs some contrast and some knots to make it pop

http://previews.123rf.com/images/annaeremina/annaeremina1504/annaeremina150400076/38862239-old-dry-wood-planks-with-knots-and-cracks-close-up-Stock-Photo.jpg