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

0. Introduction

01 - Create innovative materials with Substance Designer
02 - What you should know

1. Overview of Substance Designer

03 - Overview of the tools
04 - Nodes and graphs
05 - Work with multiple materials

2. Scan with Your Smartphone

06 - Introduction to scanning materials with your smartphone
07 - How the scanbox works
08 - Preprocess the images
09 - Initial steps in Substance Designer
10 - Final material in Substance Designer

3. Procedural Sculpting - Forest Floor

11 - Introduction to procedural sculpting
12 - Sculpt the main terrain
13 - Sculpt large rocks in the terrain
14 - Sculpt small rocks in the terrain

4. Material Techniques - Forest Floor

15 - Add albedo details to the base
16 - Add albedo details to rocks
17 - Add roughness to maps
18 - Explore the final material

5. Material Techniques - Metal

19 - Create a rusty metal material - Sculpt
20 - Create a rusty metal material - Colors
21 - Create a rusty metal material - Final output

6. Material Techniques - Wood

22 - Create a wooden plank material - Sculpt
23 - Create a wooden plank material - Colors
24 - Create a wooden plank material - Final output

Conclusion

25 - Next steps