totally random texture thread

    Quote from Dosentti

    22 hours ago, Dosentti said: I see Substance Design is pretty HC tool. I gotta try it too. Is it any good with creating textures for csgo since there are so many limitations?

    Sure you can. I'm about to wrap up the material below (normal map needs to be toned down obviously, haven't tweaked it yet).

    Personal opinion: don't go crazy on the noise when designing textures for CSGO and you'll do great.

    In-game screenshot from just above player height. The only editing I did on the diffuse in Photoshop was to grab the normal, desaturate it and set it to Soft Light, just to give it a nudge of depth for low shader users and/or in shadows. As an amateur I'm very happy with the results.

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    Quote from Pampers

    On 10/4/2016 at 3:58 PM, Pampers said: what limitations?

    Sorry, I didn't notice your question until now. Umm.. dunno if you are familiar with source engine's textures. I don't know if the texture system is old or is it different than other game engine's texture system too. Anyways.. for example.. there's no height map, there's no roughness map. All reflections are a bit hard to create(at least for me) when you have to guess correct values for the parameters. Everything is named differentely and everything looks a bit second hand.

    I generated today two textures with Substance designer 5 and I gotta admit it's pretty damn good tool. It's good for csgo also. At least for creating good diffuse texture. For normal maps it wasn't as easy as I wished, but it was doable.

    Spoiler I don't know if this looks any good to you guys :D But I was amazed how well it turned out.

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    Spent the past two evenings trying to make this bark for my tree. I swear this material will give me gray hair. I just can't make it look the way I want it. I was going for european white elm, but ehh yeah not even close. I need to figure out how to do the smaller "flaky" parts.

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    Update: messed around a bit during lunch. Might be getting somewhere now.

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    Looks very nice. One thing that "worries" me about Substance is we get the nicest normalmaps to go along with our textures and people will likely be playing on low settings so the texture becomes less effective so to say.

    Quote from Vorontsov

    2 hours ago, Vorontsov said: Looks very nice. One thing that "worries" me about Substance is we get the nicest normalmaps to go along with our textures and people will likely be playing on low settings so the texture becomes less effective so to say.

    As in low settings would use lower mip-map levels?

    Quote from Sjonsson

    3 hours ago, Sjonsson said: As in low settings would use lower mip-map levels?

    On low shaders there are no normals at all. Most people tend to turn it low in order to reduce bloom, envmaps, rain and such effects.

    Quote from Vorontsov

    17 hours ago, Vorontsov said: Looks very nice. One thing that "worries" me about Substance is we get the nicest normalmaps to go along with our textures and people will likely be playing on low settings so the texture becomes less effective so to say.

    That's a risk in all pc games. Hitting the highest mark is better than only going half way.

    Losing my substance designer virginity:[Blocked Image: http://i.imgur.com/hhXpP2a.png] I don't think I'm using it very cleverly yet. In order to give the individual bricks wibbly wobbly edges I had to export a basic pattern generated by the Tile Generator node to Photoshop and do some handpainting then bring it back in on a bitmap node, but obviously that somewhat defeats the purpose of SD's dynamic workflow.

    Yea you don't need PS for that. You can play around with warp, directional, warp, slope blur, non uniform blur to name just a few of your options. Takes some practice and experimenting to understand each tool and get a good feel for when to use what. The only time you should have to rely on PS is for preparing decal bitmaps or something like that.

    I'm seeing some pretty impressive stuff coming out of SD in this thread :)

    So my question is how hard is it for someone who is "intermediate to advanced" in PS to make the jump to SD? steep learning curve? too similar? very different?

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    8 minutes ago, will2k said: I'm seeing some pretty impressive stuff coming out of SD in this thread :)

    So my question is how hard is it for someone who is "intermediate to advanced" in PS to make the jump to SD? steep learning curve? too similar? very different?

    It took me pretty much a whole morning and afternoon with tutorials/documentation open on one screen and SD open in the other to make the green brick texture three posts up. I've tinkered in node-based programs before but never to this extent, so I think the basics are pretty intuitive. Most importantly it seems to be the way everything's going, so if you want to keep up with everyone else it's worth putting the hours in to get to grips with it sooner rather than later I think!

    Quote from will2k

    41 minutes ago, will2k said: I'm seeing some pretty impressive stuff coming out of SD in this thread :)

    So my question is how hard is it for someone who is "intermediate to advanced" in PS to make the jump to SD? steep learning curve? too similar? very different?

    It can be intimidating at first but with the right tutorials (i used Rogelio Olguin's Gnomon tutorial) it "clicks" quickly. You build up the materials layer by layer just like you would in PS and many of the filters and blend nodes are similar so PS skills translate well in some respect.

    Quote from text_fish

    22 hours ago, text_fish said: It took me pretty much a whole morning and afternoon with tutorials/documentation open on one screen and SD open in the other to make the green brick texture three posts up. I've tinkered in node-based programs before but never to this extent, so I think the basics are pretty intuitive. Most importantly it seems to be the way everything's going, so if you want to keep up with everyone else it's worth putting the hours in to get to grips with it sooner rather than later I think!

    Quote from Steppenwolf

    21 hours ago, Steppenwolf said: It can be intimidating at first but with the right tutorials (i used Rogelio Olguin's Gnomon tutorial) it "clicks" quickly. You build up the materials layer by layer just like you would in PS and many of the filters and blend nodes are similar so PS skills translate well in some respect.

    Thanks gentlemen :)

    Just a quick gothic roof shingle material I made for my map during lunch break. This software is so much fun I wish I did this for a living.

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    Quote from text_fish

    On 2017-02-01 at 1:24 PM, text_fish said: Losing my substance designer virginity:[Blocked Image: http://i.imgur.com/hhXpP2a.png] I don't think I'm using it very cleverly yet. In order to give the individual bricks wibbly wobbly edges I had to export a basic pattern generated by the Tile Generator node to Photoshop and do some handpainting then bring it back in on a bitmap node, but obviously that somewhat defeats the purpose of SD's dynamic workflow.

    Can highly recommend slope blur greyscale with something slightly soft such as clouds 2 as your slope input. It's a really quick way to chip corners:

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