Substance Designer: Material Techniques

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Free Online Course: Substance Designer: Material Techniques provided by LinkedIn Learning is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 2-3 hours worth of material. The course is taught in English and is free of charge. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from LinkedIn Learning. Substance Designer: Material Techniques is taught by Emmanuel Henri.

Overview
  • 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.

Syllabus
  • 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