TUTORIAL ARTICLE
Beginner
274 min
Getting Started with Substance 3D Designer
In this course you will learn how to create your first Substance Material using a practical, real world example. You do not need any previous experience with Substance 3D Designer.
The course is divided into four chapters:
Ch1: Discusses workflow, Substance 3D Designer and node architecture
Ch2: Creating the height data
Ch3: Creating maps such as roughness, base color
Ch4: Material layering, exporting textures and publishing sbsar files
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Ch1.01: What is Substance Designer?
In this video we take an introductory look at what Substance Designer is and what it is used for.
Ch1.02: What is a node?
In this video we take a look at what a node in Substance Designer represents.
Ch1.03: Understanding the material workflow
In this video, we take a look at the workflow used to create the material in this course.
Ch2.01: Creating a Substance package and project setup
In this video we will go through the overall project settings when creating a Substance package.
Ch2.02: Setting up the base material node
In this video we setup the base material node, which we will pipe all of our data through.
Ch2.03: Working on large form shapes
In this video we start the process of creating the main large form shapes.
Ch2.04: Working on small shapes part one
In this video we start building out the small shapes.
Ch2.05: Creating small shapes part two
In this video we finish up creating the small shapes.
Ch2.06: Creating spatter shapes
In this video we will create shapes we can use with the Shape spatter node.
Ch2.07 Using the Shape Splatter node to create medium dirt mounds
In this video we will use the Shape Splatter node to create medium level shapes (dirt mounds ).
Ch2.08 Using the Shape Splatter node to create small dirt mounds
In this video we will use the Shape Splatter node to create small level shapes (dirt mounds ).
Ch2.09 Creating rocks/pebbles
In this video we are going to create some pebble shapes and scatter them across the ground using Shape Spatter node.
Ch2.10: Creating twig shapes as a subgraph utility
In this video we will create a subgraph in our package for creating twig shapes.
Ch2.11 Exposing parameters on the twig subgraph
In this video you will learn how to expose parameters.
Ch2.12: Scattering the twig shapes using Shape Splatter
In this video we will scatter the twig shapes across the ground using the Shape Spatter node.
Ch3.01: Creating the roughness map
In this video we will create the roughness map as well as a parameter for controlling the overall roughness amount.
Ch3.02: Creating the base color for the ground
In this video we will begin work on the albedo map by first colorizing the ground.
Ch3.03 Creating the base color for the rocks
In this video we will create the base color for the rocks/pebbles shapes.
Ch3.04 Updating the twig shape with more details
In this video we go back to the twig subgraph and add some cracks to the twig shape.
Ch3.05 Creating the base color for the twigs
In this video we will create the base color for the twigs.
Ch3.06: Understanding color depth
In this video we take a look at how to control the color depth per node in order to optimize the RGB compute of the graph.
Ch4.01: Using material layering to create a dirt layer
In this video we will add a dirt pass across the surface as an overall integration layer for all of the shapes in the material.
Ch4.02: Exporting textures
In this video we will discuss how to export textures out Substance Designer.
Ch4.03: Publishing an sbsar file
In this video we take a look at publishing an sbsar file.
