Substance Designer: Material Techniques

Go beyond the basics in Substance Designer. Learn advanced techniques for building new materials from scratch, as well as how to recreate real-life materials in Substance Designer.

Introduction

• Create innovative materials with Substance Designer
• What you should know

1. Overview of Substance Designer

• Overview of the tools
• Nodes and graphs
• Work with multiple materials

2. Scan with Your Smartphone

• Introduction to scanning materials with your smartphone
• How the scanbox works
• Preprocess the images
• Initial steps in Substance Designer
• Final material in Substance Designer

3. Procedural Sculpting: Forest Floor

• Introduction to procedural sculpting
• Sculpt the main terrain
• Sculpt large rocks in the terrain
• Sculpt small rocks in the terrain

4. Material Techniques: Forest Floor

• Add albedo details to the base
• Add albedo details to rocks
• Add roughness to maps
• Explore the final material

5. Material Techniques: Metal

• Create a rusty metal material: Sculpt
• Create a rusty metal material: Colors
• Create a rusty metal material: Final output

6. Material Techniques: Wood

• Create a wooden plank material: Sculpt
• Create a wooden plank material: Colors
• Create a wooden plank material: Final output

Conclusion

• Next steps