Substance Designer: Material Techniques

2h 9mBeginner2019-04-10

Authors

Emmanuel Henri

Executive with 20+ years of experience in programming and design

Course details

Ready to go beyond the basics in Substance Designer? If so, then this course is for you. Join Emmanuel Henri as he shares advanced techniques for building new materials from scratch in Substance Designer, as well as how to photograph real-life materials, import them, and recreate them in this powerful node-based material authoring tool. Emmanuel also covers procedural sculpting with Substance Designer, along with how to build out specific materials such as rusty metal, a wooden plank, and a forest floor.

Learning objectives
Working with multiple materials
Scanning materials with your smartphone
Using a scanbox
Procedural modeling
Adding albedo details
Adding roughness to maps
Creating metal, wood, and forest floor materials

Skills covered

Substance DesignerPrevizAllegorithmicVisualization and Real-TimeAECProduct and ManufacturingDeep Dive (X:Y)

Concepts

Introduction

Create innovative materials with Substance Designer
What you should know

Overview of Substance Designer

Overview of the tools
Nodes and graphs
Work with multiple materials

Scan with Your Smartphone

Introduction to scanning materials with your smartphone
How the scanbox works
Preprocess the images
Initial steps in Substance Designer
Final material in Substance Designer

Procedural Sculpting - Forest Floor

Introduction to procedural sculpting
Sculpt the main terrain
Sculpt large rocks in the terrain
Sculpt small rocks in the terrain

Material Techniques - Forest Floor

Add albedo details to the base
Add albedo details to rocks
Add roughness to maps
Explore the final material

Material Techniques - Metal

Create a rusty metal material - Sculpt
Create a rusty metal material - Colors
Create a rusty metal material - Final output

Material Techniques - Wood

Create a wooden plank material - Sculpt
Create a wooden plank material - Colors
Create a wooden plank material - Final output

Conclusion

Next steps