Blender and Substance Painter: Architectural Visualization

Course details

Interested in creating realistic environments for animation, architectural visualization, or games? This course can help you get started. Join instructor Darrin Lile as he steps through how to create a scene with Blender and Substance Painter. Darrin shows how to model rooms, explaining how to create the walls, doors, and windows of a coworking space. He goes over how to create furniture and appliances using key modeling tools and modifiers in Blender, as well as how to UV map the office desks, stools, chairs, and other 3D objects in the scene. Darrin then discusses how to bring your files into Substance Painter and apply realistic textures to your models. To wrap up, he demonstrates how to add lights and render your scene using both the Eevee and Cycles render engines in Blender.

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - A Blender and Substance Painter pipeline
02 - Course goals
03 - Importing a reference image
04 - Setting the proper scale

1. Modeling the Rooms

05 - Beginning the walls
06 - Creating the interior walls
07 - Tricks for aligning the walls
08 - Continuing with the walls
09 - Using the Boolean modifier
10 - Creating the openings for the doors
11 - Finishing the window openings
12 - Beginning the window frames
13 - Finishing the window frames
14 - Starting the office frames
15 - Finishing the office frames
16 - Creating the door frame
17 - Inserting the door frames
18 - Beginning the doors
19 - Creating the door handle
20 - Creating the door lock
21 - Placing doors and organizing the scene
22 - Creating the closet doors
23 - Finishing the closet doors
24 - Beginning the kitchen island
25 - Modeling the cabinet handles
26 - Beginning the kitchen counter
27 - Adding the kitchen cabinets and drawers
28 - Creating the kitchen handles
29 - Fixing smoothing errors
30 - Organizing the scene

2. Creating the Furniture

31 - Modeling the end tables
32 - Modeling the sofa
33 - Beginning the stools
34 - Continuing the stools
35 - Finishing the stools
36 - Modeling the first chair
37 - Continuing the chair
38 - More work on the chair
39 - Finishing the chair
40 - Beginning the table
41 - Finishing the table and rug
42 - Beginning the second chair
43 - Continuing the second chair
44 - Modeling the chair arms
45 - Creating the legs of the chair
46 - Working on the wheels of the chair
47 - Finishing the second chair
48 - Batch renaming multiple objects
49 - Beginning the third chair
50 - Creating the arm rests and back
51 - Modeling the back frame and legs
52 - Adjusting proportions of the chair
53 - Finishing the third chair
54 - Populating the offices
55 - Beginning the refrigerator
56 - Finishing the refrigerator
57 - Extruding along a path
58 - Finishing the faucet
59 - Beginning the coffee machine
60 - Finishing the coffee machine
61 - Creating the drop ceilings
62 - Modeling the kitchen hanging lights
63 - Creating the large hanging lights
64 - Modeling the air vents
65 - Placing the canister lights
66 - Modeling the conference room glass
67 - Adding the glass for the offices

3. UV Mapping the Scene

68 - UV mapping the office desks
69 - UV mapping the stools
70 - UV mapping the conference room chairs
71 - Creating the UVs for the end tables
72 - Working on the chair and sofa
73 - Chair, lights, and drop ceiling
74 - Kitchen lights and canister lights
75 - UV mapping the kitchen
76 - Finishing the UV mapping

4. Texturing with Substance Painter

77 - Exporting to Substance Painter
78 - Importing in Substance Painter
79 - Exporting textures out of Substance Painter
80 - Finishing the end table and beginning the chair
81 - Texturing the chair
82 - Preparing the coffee machine for export
83 - Texturing the coffee machine
84 - Adding an image texture in substance painter
85 - Creating the vertex colors for hanging lights
86 - Creating and applying an emissive texture
87 - The direction of normals
88 - Using an opacity channel in Substance Painter
89 - Using an alpha channel in Blender
90 - Adjusting mask tolerances in Substance Painter
91 - Sampling colors in Substance Painter
92 - Exporting multiple objects as a single FBX
93 - Texturing the kitchen counter and appliances
94 - Exporting textures for multiple objects
95 - Applying textures to the kitchen objects
96 - Selection tricks when applying vertex colors
97 - Copy and paste layers in Substance Painter
98 - Using the Node Wrangler add-on in Blender
99 - Preparing the floors for texturing
100 - Texturing the floors

5. Lighting and Rendering the Scene

101 - Adding lights to the scene
102 - Adding a glass material
103 - Rendering with cycles
104 - Using the Denoise node
105 - Rendering with Eevee
106 - Conclusion

6. Bonus Lectures

107 - Bonus lecture - Reflection Cubemaps in Eevee
108 - Bonus lecture - Auto UV Unwrap in Substance Painter