totally random texture thread

    Quote from Steppenwolf

    On 29.5.2016 at 1:13 AM, Steppenwolf said: I started learning Substance Designer few weeks ago after being super hesitant for a long time. I always thought it wouldn't feel like proper art making but now i'm loving it. This is one of my first attempts at a proper Substance, all procedural:

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    did you create multiple masks for every roof tile to get an individual shape or is it some generator?

    Quote from Steppenwolf

    3 hours ago, Steppenwolf said: I created the shape of a single tile and then i plugged it into a tile generator with some parameters to randomize things a little, like size, rotation, offset.

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    I did the same but my result didn't even look half as good as yours. It seems like you used multiple generators and blended them together...


    you should make a Tutorial on that als roof tiles are more complicated then bricks ;)

    Well, once the shape is fed into the tile generator it runs through a whole other contraption of filters, noises and masks to create variation and get rid of the procedural look but it all follows the basic principle of adding layers of ever smaller details on top of each other.

    This Substance got pretty complex in the end and getting the roof tile shape took some experimenting but as with everything in Substance it can be broken down into very simple parts. When you take a look at the graph it's really just some basic geometric shapes, gradients and 2d transforms blended and masked together. For getting some of the round and skewed shapes i used simple directional warps with gradients to drive them. I didn't use any advanced tricks.

    On another note: when you make something like the tile shape always use tesselation and crank the scale up so you see exactly what's going on and how your tweaks affect the shape. For your large shapes in the early stage the heightmap is king, gives you a much better impression of what you're doing then looking at a flat surface with just a normal map.

    This threads been a little quite lately. I've been plugging away at another substance. Got all inspired by various horror things recently, so I made a body horror type meat tunnel.

    The graph got a little out of hand along the way.

    Thanks guys <3

    And yeah, I kinda agree Pampers but like Steppenwolf said, if I didn't post it someone would ask for it. It's as much insurance to the claim it was made in SD as it is breakdown of the graph. That said if anyone wanted any specific shots I'd be happy to share.

    I wish Allegorithmic would add some function to quickly output a high-resolution shot of your graph.

    Quote from PogoP

    On 9/15/2016 at 2:24 PM, PogoP said: Fuckin hell man thats insane. Nice work! Is it all one texture? Wrapped around a cylinder and displaced?

    Thanks :) It's 4 textures I exported from the one graph with vertex blending done in UE4 using tessellation. These are the individual ones I used:

    Quote from Dosentti

    18 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?

    You can use Substance for CS:GO but I wouldn't do it. I used it a couple times for CS:GO and it's just not very worth it compared to "last gen" techniques. Now if you were in a proper engine that doesnt suck dick balls like UE4 or Unity 5, Substance is amazing.

    Speaking of Substance and CS:GO, I patched together a Source engine looking shader for substance.

    Get it here: http://gortnar.com/vmt/shaders.7z and put it in ...\Substance Designer 5\resources\view3d\shaders

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    It has cubemap looking reflections and a phong specular highlight. Values in the shader are similar to these .vmt commants: Envmap Tint = $envmaptint, Specular Tint = $phongting, Specular Glosiness = $phongexponent, Specular Boost = $phongboost, but I don't think the numbers translate 100%, so you'd probably need to adjust a bit in the vmt to make it look the same. The parameters after Specular boost are for controlling the lighting inside the Substance Designer.

    And for creating presentable stuff for source I usually overlay a light node, ambient occlusion and curvature on top of diffuse.

    Quote from Yanzl

    54 minutes ago, Yanzl said: Speaking of Substance and CS:GO, I patched together a Source engine looking shader for substance.

    Get it here: http://gortnar.com/vmt/shaders.7z and put it in ...\Substance Designer 5\resources\view3d\shaders

    This deserves it's own thread!

    I expanded on this by making a template for Substance Designer to be used with the Source Shader. Download here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/dvkakn8mlij5…emplate.7z?dl=0 Instructions on how to set up are on the read me file

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    I also made a Base Source Material node. You can use this node to get up and running the source shader for quick results, then later on plug in custom maps for env mask, and specularity (Phong). You can also work with height map and then the node will get the normal map.

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    Example Node. To explain the very basics.

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