Substance Designer Essential Training (Updated 2/8/2018)
Release date:2017, August 25
Duration:05 h 44 m
Author:Joel Bradley
Skill level:Beginner
Language:English
Exercise files:Yes
Substance Designer is a powerful, procedurally based tool for creating textures for 3D art and games. This training course provides a complete overview of Substance Designer, the 2017 version of the application. New texture artists can use this course to get a jumpstart in the field, while experienced artists will find plenty of advanced tips and tricks to take their skills to the next level.
Instructor Joel Bradley begins with an overview of a prebuilt substance graph, demonstrating the strengths and nondestructive workflow of Substance Designer, and walking through basics such as navigating the Substance Designer interface, adjusting important preferences, importing meshes and maps, and using the 2D, 3D, and Graph views. He then moves onto the large array of essential “atomic” nodes in Substance Designer, including the Blend, Curve, Slope Blur, Normal, Gradient, and Water Level nodes. These nodes comprise the heart of the Substance Designer workflow. Then learn how to create a custom panorama from scratch, and explore more advanced topics such as MDL materials, functions, and FX maps. Finally, Joel closes out the course by putting a substance to use. Learn about the advantages of using a published substance file (SBSAR) over hard-coded bitmaps for in-game materials, and see how to import a substance package into a game engine such as Unreal.
Topics include:
Choosing a graph template
Importing meshes and maps
Navigating the Explorer and Library
Working with the Graph view
Using 3D and 2D views
Using the atomic nodes
Creating and combining normals
Blending shapes together
Creating MDL materials
Building an FX map
Publishing a substance
Using a substance in a game engine like Unreal
00. Introduction
01 – Welcome
02 – What you should know
03 – Using the exercise files
01. 2017.1 to 2.1 Updates
04 – Welcome
05 – Updated exercise files
06 – UI – Baker interface
07 – UI – Baker reset resource
08 – 2D View – Enable and disable tiling
09 – Patterns – Arc Pavement
10 – Patterns – Cube 3D
11 – Patterns – Gradient Linear 3
12 – Patterns – Shape Mapper
13 – Patterns – New Splatter Circular
14 – Graph – Copy and paste to graphs
15 – Patterns – Star
16 – Patterns – Scratches generator
17 – Adjustments – Histogram Select
18 – Effects – Flood Fill
19 – Effects – Flood Fill to Gradient
20 – Effects – Flood Fill to Random Color
21 – Tile Sampler – Multi-image input
02. Quick Start Substance Overview
22 – Using shapes
23 – Using custom inputs
24 – Advantages of the multiswitch node
25 – Transformation 2D nodes
26 – Inner-panel masking
27 – Creating edge detailing
28 – Edge masking
29 – Rivet generation
30 – Normal map creation
31 – Diffuse creation
32 – Ambient occlusion
03. Substance Designer Setup
33 – The Welcome dialogue
34 – Preferences and important setup
35 – What is a Substance Package
36 – What is a substance graph
37 – Choosing the correct graph template
38 – Setting our graph properties
39 – Mesh setup prior to export
40 – Importing meshes and maps into Designer
41 – Baking out mesh specific maps
04. UI and Tool Locations
42 – Adjust the UI layout
43 – Menu items and options
44 – The Explorer section
45 – What is the Library
46 – The parameters section
05. Using Designers Graph View
47 – Navigating and using the Graph view
48 – Using the graphs quick access options
49 – Setting up graph information feedback
50 – Using the Graph View toolbars
51 – Utilizing the preview size
06. 3D and 2D Views
52 – Using the 3D View
53 – Geometry and Materials menu
54 – Lights and camera controls
55 – Enviroment and scene settings
56 – Display and render options
57 – Navigating the 2D View
58 – 2D View essential Controls
07. Using Atomic Nodes
59 – Adding bitmap nodes
60 – Discussing the power of the Blur node
61 – Using blend nodes
62 – Utilizing the Curve node
63 – The Warp node
64 – Adding detail with the Slope Blur node
65 – Using shape nodes
66 – Creating patterns with the Splatter node
67 – Creating normals
68 – Combining normals
69 – Creating height maps
70 – Creating color with the gradient nodes
71 – Adding procedural dirt
72 – Using the text tool
73 – Adding realism with the Water Level node
08. Creating Custom Environment Panoramas
74 – Adding the panorama shape node
75 – Blending shapes together
09. MDL Materials
76 – What is MDL
77 – Creating the MDL graph
78 – The basics of an MDL shader
79 – Finalizing the Anisotropic BSDF
10. Functions and FX Maps
80 – What are functions
81 – Adding the FX map
82 – Building an FX map, part 1
83 – Building an FX map, part 2
84 – Finalizing the functions
11. Exporting and Using a Substance Package
85 – Exposing substance parameters
86 – Exporting bitmaps
87 – Publishing a substance
88 – Importing a substance into UE4
89 – Adding finishing touches
12. Conclusion
90 – Next steps
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