3ds Max: Substance to V-Ray Workflows

Learn how to use Substance Designer, Substance Painter, and Bitmap2Material with 3ds Max and V-Ray, and create photorealistic substance-based textures for your 3D models.

Introduction and Important Information

• Course overview
• What you should know
• The 3ds Max project folder
• A note on gamma and units settings
• 3ds Max bugs to work around

1. An Overview of the Substance Toolset

• What are Substance files and why use them?
• The Substance toolset
• Choosing our workflow approach
• Using Substance files in 3ds Max
• The substance settings dialog
• Using the 3ds Max asset library

2. Using Bitmap2Material inside 3ds Max

• Loading the Bitmap2Material node
• Adding the input image
• Tweaking the material
• Creating bitmap output files

3. Working with Substances from the Designer Application

• Exporting a substance
• Using the substance with V-Ray
• Improving our substance results
• Tweaking the scene so far
• Other plugin features

4. Working with Maps from the Designer Application

• Exporting map types
• Using floating-point maps
• Using 8-bit maps

5. Working with Maps from the Painter Application

• Exporting EXR files
• Exporting PSD files, part 1
• Exporting PSD files, part 2
• Using the EXR files in V-Ray
• Using the PSD files in V-Ray
• Final render settings

Conclusion

• Next steps