So, I’m messing around with Substance Designer some more from doing some tutorials through CGMA class. Can’t believe how easy and intuitive this program is.

I’m just doing a simple dirt ground texture. Let’s fire up Substance.

Here you get an initial prompt on what type of PBR material you want to create. Then you just name the graph for what the material is, select the output size and bit format. Substance will create default map place holders like baseColor, Normal, Roughness, and Metallic based on the template we picked (you can add more later).

Here you can see the generic setup, cube with 4 placeholders for the maps. On the right of the cube the checkered box is a represenation of our 2d texture inputted into the material on the cube to it’s left.

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I’ve been hearing a lot of good things about Substance Painter and Substance Designer, so I decided to try them out.

Substance is created by the company, Allegorithmic. They have created a major player in  texture creation. Tons of AAA game studios utilize their software. Substance has become a leading industry standard in creating PBR (Physically Based Rendering) authored materials. Games like Call of Duty or Uncharted were made with Substance. It is now gaining ground in VFX and Animation.

Substance Painter allows you to texture with brushes, masks, and particles; render and export easily to game engines and portfolio sites. Use and reuse presets and integrated bakers to speed up your texturing. It supports Linux, 8k export, UDIM management, and Scripting API.

Substance Designer allows you to author textures and materials using a non-destructive, node-based, procedural and scriptable workflow. You can edit complete texture sets with the non-linear workflow and see changes apply instantly to all your outputs. You can Continue reading “Substance Painter/Designer”