Overview
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Discover how to create 3D textures with Substance Designer 2020. Find out how to use the atomic nodes, graphs, and other features to generate texture maps for game engines.
Syllabus
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1. Becoming Familiar with the Application
- Menus and preference settings
- Viewports and how they work
- Using the Explorer pane
- Navigating and understanding the library
- Accessing and changing properties
- Making good use of the Scene menu
- Using the Materials Menu wisely
- Camera and rendering options
- How to make environment and lighting changes
- What are packages and graphs?
- How to use Atomic Nodes efficiently
- Adjusting and working with node connections
- Important Quick Access Toolbar functionality
- Discussing mesh preparation prior to import
- Importing meshes and maps into designer
- Elements, Output, and Values sections of the bake dialogue
- Bakers render list and parameters
- Color to mask
- Color
- Blend
- Grunge maps
- Gradient map
- Normal
- Base material
- Dirt generator
- Metal edgeware
- Tile Generator: Start of new material
- Warp
- Crop Grayscale
- Shape Splatter
- Shape Splatter to mask
- Ambient Occlusion
- Curve
- Normal to height HQ
- Water level
- How to expose useful parameters
- Organizing exposed parameters for ease of use
- Exporting and importing packages from Designer
- Next steps
