Substance designer - Brick wall feedback

Max_Kutsenko

Hello guys,

I just started to build a brick wall in Designer, working on basic shapes for now(just height map), what do you think so far? I will be posting a progress pics. However I run into a bit of a problem. I am struggling to create those large chips on the edges of the bricks. I highlighted in my ref pic. Slopeblur node with clouds does not chip away big chunks of brick realistically. Substance masters, is there another technique to achieve this effect?

Thanks a lot.

Zack Maxwell

You could probably run Slope Blur on some type of noise to help get the right shape, and then Subtract that from your base Height.

Max_Kutsenko

Hey Zack,

Thanks for the tip. In the end it worked out, I ran Slope Blur with "perlin noise zoom" node, then amplified the black values with Levels to get deeper cuts and finally applied "Tile Generator Random mask" to it to cut those chips only on some selected bricks. 

I have added some surface damage, cracks , holes to my height. Here is the progress pic so far (AO added for depth). Will be working on Albedo now.

Max_Kutsenko

Sill work in progress, I have been working on Base color trying to achieve a nice variation of colors as in reference, still need to add those white salt patches on the bricks and then start working on roughness.

Max_Kutsenko

I have finally completed Albedo and Roughness, here is the final material rendered in Marmoset.