Nature with Substance Designer

armagon · Feb 2014

I've been able to make some nice sci-fi and concrete/plaster textures from scratch with Substance Designer, but i never found tutorials or examples of good nature substances: grass, rocks, cliffs, etc. Do you guys have any links or tips for this kind of workflow?

cman2k · Feb 2014

I need to tackle this soon, but I haven't done much yet. It doesn't sound impossible to me though. There are some example substances that are included for things like Leaves, wood and what not, I believe?

iskandar80 · Feb 2014

You should find lots of rock/stone/wood/grass textures in the Substance Database: http://www.allegorithmic.com/products/database. All substances come with the sbsar and the sbs (source) file.

Xoliul · Feb 2014

Also nothing stops you from just starting with a few bitmaps, like you would in PS. You don't have to be 100% procedural. You can then do things that are impossible in PS; scatter leaves around randomly, but in a tiling fashion for example.

armagon · Feb 2014

I wanted to go full-procedural. I started with some cgtextures sources, but the results were terrible (at least, in grass).

Jerc · Feb 2014

I posted a quick grass example in the SD master thread if that can help.
http://www.polycount.com/forum/showpost.php?p=1983439&postcount=49

Uzziel · Feb 2014

We also provide some samples that can help you (at least for stones/rocks), directly with Substance Designer .

On SD welcome screen ("Help"=>"Welcome screen" in the menu), click on the "Learn" tab and on the "Samples" button.
You'll then have the possibility to install samples in a folder. You will find a "substance" subfolder with various examples.

armagon · Feb 2014

Yeah, i saw some of the included examples, but they don't look so well. @Jerc, thanks for the grass example! Looks awesome.

Nature with Substance Designer

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