Character Texturing for Games in Substance – Saurabh Jethani
Release date:2019, April
Author:Saurabh Jethani
Skill level:Beginner
Language:English
Exercise files:Yes
This class will go over how to use Substance painter as a tool for texturing game characters. We will go over good practices on how to UV a character, bake required maps inside substance, and setting up a scene. We will also go over how to texture props, cloths and skin for a character’s face and body (all required mesh provided). By the end of this class, students will have their textured assets presented inside their engine of choice. This course is about learning techniques using Substance Painter that students can later apply to their own projects.
Week 1 | Painter Basics
Going over substance UI | Creating a new scene | Baking from high to low poly, to get the necessary maps. | Texturing in painter. Using generators, procedruals, brushes, particles etc. with mask to maintain a non destructive workflow. | Going over smart materials and how to create own. | Exporting textures and making own presets for exporting. | Rendering inside substance painter
Week 2 | PBR Fundamentals and Texturing
PBR explanation | Briefly going over Uvs and best practices. | Exporting meshes from external software for substance | Using naming convention for baking | Importing externally baked maps | Texturing metallic/non-metallic props of a character. | Telling a story with textures
Week 3 | Texturing Cloths and Baking a face for texturing
Going over Uvs for cloths | Texturing Cloths | Going over Uvs for Face | Opening the high res sculpt in zbrush and going over how to bake a face with minimum bleeding in the bakes. | Extracting a cavity map in zbrush for the pore details. | Preparing it inside substance for texturing | Going over how to divide a character to maintain performance and save memory.
Week 4 | Texturing a Face in Painter
Going over principle of skin texturing | Demo on texturing a skin using painter.
Week 5 | Finishing the Face Textures
Detailing the skin albedo and adding specific details on it like mole, scars, tattoo,war paint etc. | Finalizing the Albedo | Creating the supporting maps inside substance : Gloss/Roughness, Translucency, Scatter, Detail weight map | Using the same knowledge to texture other parts of a human body
Week 6 | Presenting the Assets in Engine
Exporting the maps out of substance painter for either marmoset/unreal engine. | Setting up materials in Marmoset. | Setting up maretials in Unreal engine. | Getting some presentable images to showcase our textures
Week 1
Character Texturing for Games in Substance week 1 – 1 – Instructor Introduction
Character Texturing for Games in Substance week 1 – 10 – Exporting and Rendering
Character Texturing for Games in Substance week 1 – 11 – Assignment
Character Texturing for Games in Substance week 1 – 2 – Course Introduction A
Character Texturing for Games in Substance week 1 – 3 – Course Introduction B
Character Texturing for Games in Substance week 1 – 4 – Substance Painter UI
Character Texturing for Games in Substance week 1 – 5 – Setting up a scene and baking
Character Texturing for Games in Substance week 1 – 6 – Layers and Masks
Character Texturing for Games in Substance week 1 – 7 – Texturing in Painter Part 01
Character Texturing for Games in Substance week 1 – 8 – Texturing in Painter Part 02
Character Texturing for Games in Substance week 1 – 9 – Smart Materials
Week 2
Character Texturing for Games in Substance week 2 – 1 – Introduction
Character Texturing for Games in Substance week 2 – 10 – Character Texturing 08
Character Texturing for Games in Substance week 2 – 11 – Exporting
Character Texturing for Games in Substance week 2 – 12 – UVs and Emissive
Character Texturing for Games in Substance week 2 – 13 – Assignment
Character Texturing for Games in Substance week 2 – 2 – PBR
Character Texturing for Games in Substance week 2 – 3 – Character Texturing 01
Character Texturing for Games in Substance week 2 – 4 – Character Texturing 02
Character Texturing for Games in Substance week 2 – 5 – Character Texturing 03
Character Texturing for Games in Substance week 2 – 6 – Character Texturing 0 4
Character Texturing for Games in Substance week 2 – 7 – Character Texturing 05
Character Texturing for Games in Substance week 2 – 8 – Character Texturing 06
Character Texturing for Games in Substance week 2 – 9 – Character Texturing 07
Week 3
Character Texturing for Games in Substance week 3 – 1 – Introduction
Character Texturing for Games in Substance week 3 – 2 – Cloth Uvs
Character Texturing for Games in Substance week 3 – 3 – Cloth Texturing
Character Texturing for Games in Substance week 3 – 4 – Texture Resources
Character Texturing for Games in Substance week 3 – 5 – Face UVs
Character Texturing for Games in Substance week 3 – 6 – Face Baking
Character Texturing for Games in Substance week 3 – 7 – Cavity Map
Character Texturing for Games in Substance week 3 – 8 – Optimizing
Character Texturing for Games in Substance week 3 – 9 – Assignment
Week 4
Character Texturing for Games in Substance week 4 – 1 – Introduction
Character Texturing for Games in Substance week 4 – 2 – Texturing XYZ
Character Texturing for Games in Substance week 4 – 3 – Skin
Character Texturing for Games in Substance week 4 – 4 – Skin Painting Techniques
Character Texturing for Games in Substance week 4 – 5 – Skin Painting Demo Part 1
Character Texturing for Games in Substance week 4 – 6 – Skin Painting Demo Part 2
Character Texturing for Games in Substance week 4 – 7 – Recap
Character Texturing for Games in Substance week 4 – 8 – Assignment
Week 5
Character Texturing for Games in Substance week 5 – 01 – Introduction
Character Texturing for Games in Substance week 5 – 02 – Finalizing
Character Texturing for Games in Substance week 5 – 03 – Tatoos and Projection
Character Texturing for Games in Substance week 5 – 04 – War Paint
Character Texturing for Games in Substance week 5 – 05 – Damages
Character Texturing for Games in Substance week 5 – 06 – Supporting Maps A
Character Texturing for Games in Substance week 5 – 07 – Supporting Maps B
Character Texturing for Games in Substance week 5 – 08 – Assignment
Week 6
Character Texturing for Games in Substance week 6 – 01 – Introduction
Character Texturing for Games in Substance week 6 – 02 -Exporting
Character Texturing for Games in Substance week 6 – 03 – Marmoset Material
Character Texturing for Games in Substance week 6 – 04 – Marmoset Cloth Material
Character Texturing for Games in Substance week 6 – 05 – Marmoset Skin Material
Character Texturing for Games in Substance week 6 – 06 – Skin Look Dev
Character Texturing for Games in Substance week 6 – 07 – Unreal Material Part 1
Character Texturing for Games in Substance week 6 – 08 – Unreal Material Part 2
Character Texturing for Games in Substance week 6 – 09 – Unreal Skin Setup
Character Texturing for Games in Substance week 6 – 10 – Bonus Eye Video
Character Texturing for Games in Substance week 6 – 11 – Lights
Character Texturing for Games in Substance week 6 – 12 – Presentation
Character Texturing for Games in Substance week 6 – 13 – Assignment
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