Unreal: Substance Designer Workflow
2h 6mIntermediate2018-01-19
Authors
Scott Pagano
Procedural Architect
Course details
Explore the integration of Substance Designer—a powerful tool for creating textures for 3D art, visualization projects, and games—with Unreal Engine. This course provides a solid foundation of the principles of texture creation in Substance Designer for use in Unreal Engine. Instructor Scott Pagano explains how to import a model into Substance Designer and bake AO, curvature, and ID maps. He discusses the advantages of system-based procedural texture creation, and shows how to create both image file output and substances which can be used and modified directly in the Unreal editor.
Learning objectives
Creating a substance graph
Stone, gold, and copper material
Combining materials using an ID mask
Exposing parameters and preparing resolution
Exporting Substance materials
Building a scene
Substance with displacement
Learning objectives
Creating a substance graph
Stone, gold, and copper material
Combining materials using an ID mask
Exposing parameters and preparing resolution
Exporting Substance materials
Building a scene
Substance with displacement
Skills covered
Substance DesignerPrevizAllegorithmicUnreal EngineEpicVisualization and Real-TimeAECProduct and ManufacturingDeep Dive (X:Y)
Concepts
Introduction
- Welcome
- What you need to know
- Exercise files
Create Substance Graph
- Import model
- Bake model information overview
- Baking AO
- Baking curvature
- Baking IDs
- Viewing material
- Stone material
- Gold marerial
- Copper material
- Combining materials with ID mask
- Map overview
Substance Export
- Expose parameters
- Prepare resolution
- Image compression
- Export Substance material
- Export image files
Using Substance in Unreal
- Substance plugin
- Build a scene
- Substance material 1
- Substance material 2
- Material with exported textures
- Emission example
Substance with Displacement
- Rock material
- Substance export and import
- Rock material in Unreal
Conclusion
- Next steps