Substance Designer: Wood studies

DanielR17 · Apr 2017

Hi guys,
I'm working on different wood materials. They're made with Substance Designer 5. Here's my first one. I have four other variations coming next. Critiques and suggestions are welcome! Thanks!

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Tobbo · Apr 2017

Looking good. Looking forward to seeing more.

DanielR17 · Apr 2017

Thank you Aaron. I'll post a new one on Monday. A painted version. Cheers!

Bek · Apr 2017

Looks great.

DanielR17 · Apr 2017

Thanks Bek! Here's a new one. Same pattern, different wood and surface.

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hmm_rock · Apr 2017

These are looking nice, I really like the depth you've achieved in the planks in the painted wood. I will say, while these shots look great individually it seems to me that they may be too noisy in a larger scene or tiled across a floor. The paint chip chipping is a little intense and might benefit from larger swaths of noise rather than so much small chipping. The glossy floor looks really nice, and I like the variation in the luminescence of the wood, but it could also be toned down. Nice work!

DanielR17 · Apr 2017

Thank you Meggie!
I feel the same way, if they were to be tiled on a larger space. On the other hand, in a real environment, other objects would be present and would break this "noisy" feel. The lighting could also hide the micro details on the surface.
I'll make a small scene later with some of those materials to really test them in context!
Here's a new one, a rustic wood planks:

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DanielR17 · Apr 2017

And a stylized version:

Elithenia · Apr 2017

This is really nice

Xelar · Apr 2017

Great work but I think the gradient from dark to light wood in some of these is too linear and blurry.
Maybe try to get a bit of variation and noise into that mask.

DanielR17 · Apr 2017

Thank you Elithenia and Xelar! Good remark Xelar, I'll try to alter the gradients.
Here's my last one for this wood series:

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skullfaceguy · Jun 2017

How do you show the Substance designer material like this?
Or that spinning ball thing?

DanielR17 · Jun 2017

Hi skullfaceguy,
I use Marmoset Toolbag 3. You just import a model (plane, cylinder or a cube or whatever you want) and then apply your material on it, which is set up with your Substance Designer texture maps.

StormyBA · Jun 2017

Would be great to show off some graphics too!

Carabiner · Jun 2017

I love the diversity of materials you've got here! Really shows off how powerful Substance is (and how talented you are).

DanielR17 · Jul 2017

Hi StormyBA. I've done some video presentations of those materials on my YouTube channel where I explain the main steps and techniques that I used.

Carabiner, thank you very much! It's true that Substance Designer is powerful enough to produce every kind of materials, although the challenge is big and there's still a lot to figure out.

Erwannd2d · Jul 2017

I really like the stylized one, definetly going to try substance designer now that I saw this

Substance Designer: Wood studies

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