3ds Max – Substance to V-Ray Workflows

On November 1, 2018

Release date:2018, October 12

Duration:01 h 35 m

Author:Brian Bradley

Skill level:Intermediate

Language:English

Exercise files:Yes

Discover how to leverage the substance-based toolset from Allegorithmic to create photorealistic texture maps for your 3ds Max projects. In this course, you can explore the workflow for integrating Substance Designer, Substance Painter, and the Bitmap2Material (B2M) node with 3ds Max. Brian Bradley explains what substance-based tools are and how to use them within the 3ds Max application as well as the V-Ray rendering engine. He demonstrates how to create materials from photographic assets using the B2M node, how to work with substance materials from Substance Designer, and how to export bitmap textures from both Substance Designer and Substance Painter for use in 3ds Max and V-Ray.

Topics include:
Why you should use substances for texturing
Adjusting your Substance workflow mode and settings
Creating materials from photos with Bitmap2Material
Working with texture maps from Substance Designer and Painter
Exporting maps as EXR and PSD files
Using the exported maps in V-Ray

Table of Contents

Introduction and Important Information
Course overview 1m 55s What you should know 57s
The 3ds Max project folder 1m 34s
A note on gamma and units settings 2m 39s
3ds Max bugs to work around 2m 53s
1. An Overview of the Substance Toolset
What are Substance files and why use them? 3m 27s
The Substance toolset 4m 4s
Choosing our workflow approach 1m 25s
Using Substance files in 3ds Max 2m 30s
The substance settings dialog 5m 7s
Using the 3ds Max asset library 3m 57s
2. Using Bitmap2Material inside 3ds Max
Loading the Bitmap2Material node 3m 43s
Adding the input image 3m 20s
Tweaking the material 5m 33s
Creating bitmap output files 4m 49s
3. Working with Substances from the Designer Application
Exporting a substance 3m 44s
Using the substance with V-Ray 3m 59s
Improving our substance results 2m 55s
Tweaking the scene so far 3m 29s
Other plugin features 4m 24s
4. Working with Maps from the Designer Application
Exporting map types 4m 4s Using floating-point maps 3m 30s
Using 8-bit maps 3m 11s
5. Working with Maps from the Painter Application
Exporting EXR files 3m 24s
Exporting PSD files, part 1 3m 57s
Exporting PSD files, part 2 1m 50s
Using the EXR files in V-Ray 2 m 43s
Using the PSD files in V-Ray 3m 8s
Final render settings 2m 11s
Conclusion
Next steps 1m 24s