3ds Max: Substance to V-Ray

Explore various workflow requirements and options that are available when using Substance Designer, Substance Painter, and Bitmap2Material with 3ds Max and V-Ray.

Introduction

• Welcome
• What you should know before watching this course
• Using the exercise files
• Working with a 3ds Max project folder
• A note on gamma settings
• HDRI environments
• Scene setup

1. Overview of Substance Based Tools

• What are substances and why should we use them?
• The substance toolset
• Choosing your substance workflow mode
• Using substance files in 3ds Max 2014 to 2018

2. Using Bitmap2Material inside 3ds Max

• Loading the Bitmap2Material node into 3ds Max
• Building your material
• Swapping out the bitmap input
• Creating bitmap output files

3. Working with Substances from Substance Designer

• Overview of your material
• Metal rough to V-Ray spec gloss conversion
• Exporting a substance from Designer
• Using the substance with 3ds Max and V-Ray
• Improving your substance results
• Augmenting a substance using Max nodes
• One final tweak
• A nice little surprise

4. Working with Maps from Substance Designer

• Exporting the map types
• Using the 16-bit spec/gloss maps in V-Ray
• Using the 8-bit metal/rough maps in V-Ray
• Setting up a custom output

5. Exporting Maps from Substance Painter

• Overview of your material
• Exporting your map types
• Exporting PSD files
• Using the JPEGs in V-Ray
• Using the flattened PSD in V-Ray
• Creating the grass with VRayFur
• Final render settings

Conclusion

• What's next?