I've done similar things in the past with hundreds of nodes linked to a surface and not had any unexpected performance issues I've not had cause to do anything like this in the last 6-7 years though so it could be that they've managed to outweigh advances in computing hardware with shitty code. in terms of use in…
I'm taking the plunge from working with shaders in node based editors (like UDK's material editor) to writing code out by hand. It looks like I'm going to have to use GLSL because for various mysterious tech reasons (this is beyond my control). Is there any rendered out there that will let me load in GLSL shaders and…
In search of a Unity Level Designer who is experienced with node based material editors like ShaderForge or the Unreal Material Editor. We are looking for someone who is comfortable working with light baking and very experienced working within the Unity Engine. Please send code samples and portfolio links to…
I am making a landscape autoMaterial. I have finished most of it, but I ran into a problem. I want the transition to not be a gradient, but use the heightmap to blend between the rocks and sand. I managed to do that in a simple material, but I can't figure out how to do it to the autoMaterial that is using a…
You can use whatever in Substance Painter , you just wouldn't be able to tweak procedurals in Painter directly until they are properly exported from Substance designer . Painter is still able to use rasterized bitmap images you would export from Blender. Saying all this you should understand that you can use Blender…
I had an idea for a way to create wavy sand. Heres where I'm starting. It's pretty terrible but it'll do for this example. I'm assuming that you don't know anything so I don't leave anything out. Sorry if some of this is stuff you already know. What we're going to do is do some UV distortion to introduce some eddies into…
Hello, We are happy to announce Substance Designer 4.3 with Yebis Integration! Yebis provides state-of-the-art viewport post process rendering directly in Substance Designer. Digital artists ultimately want to feel unconfined by unnecessary layers. They want to make a change and see what its actually going to look like…
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This is not a good way to share a shader code. There is nothing like "combine shaders". You need to modify the shader or write it from scratch. Or you can use shaderforge or amplify shader for creating it from scratch with nodes, instead of writing it. But on both ways, you need to understand how shaders work, what…
Does backburner have a linux network render? I guess you could use windows as well, but Linux wouldn't cost you any more.* You could make a cheap headless render box with the same internal specs for half what you would pay for the imac. Just defer all your renders to that box on your network.* *EDIT: NM "Install Backburner…