- Marmoset
- Substance Designer
- Unreal Engine
- Full Course
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- Over 17 hours of training!
Substance Designer Essentials
with Javier Perez
- Marmoset
- Substance Designer
- Unreal Engine
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Substance Designer is one of the fastest-growing procedural texturing solutions in the industry today. In this brand new course, games industry veteran Javier Perez will guide you through everything you need to harness this powerful tool.
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Course Lesson Plan
Here's the low-down on everything covered in this course.
- 17 hours 58 minutesTotal Bundle Duration
- 95 VideosVideo Lectures in Bundle
- 883.29 MB of FilesDownloadable Project Files
Tools Used ?The tools listed below are used throughout the lectures of this course. Using alternatives is definitely possible depending on your proficiency, but we can only recommend using these listed softwares.
- Marmoset
- Substance Designer
- Unreal Engine
Lesson 1
Substance Basics
Here Javier will cover the basics of Substance Designer. After going through the UI and its features, you'll become familiar with all the nodes that will help you to craft your projects. Lastly, the Tile Sampler node will take center stage, and you will see the limitless potential of this powerful tool. By the end of this Lesson you will have created your own set of bricks or concrete tiles.
- 4 hours 35 minutesTotal Lesson Duration
- 25 VideosVideo Lectures in this Lesson
- Project FilesDownloadable Project Files
Guidance
Introduction
Basic Interface
Node Types
Shapes
Patterns
Damages
Conclusion
Lesson 2
Hard Surface
Now that you've learned how to create organic shapes, you will apply those same principles to design hard surface metal paneling. You'll also create singular one-off pieces which can be added to your main graph. Then, you will expose the graph's parameters so you can easily customize various settings going forward.
- 4 hours 26 minutesTotal Lesson Duration
- 27 VideosVideo Lectures in this Lesson
- Project FilesDownloadable Project Files
Guidance
Introduction
Complex Shapes
Detailing
Overlaying Details
Damaging
Texture Outputs
Conclusion
Lesson 3
Full Production
In this Lesson you will begin creating your final Substance material, integrating all the things you've learned so far. After this, you'll learn how to organize your graphs for future use, a necessary skill when working professionally as part of a team. By the end of this Lesson you'll be ready to bring your textures into Marmoset.
- 6 hours 19 minutesTotal Lesson Duration
- 30 VideosVideo Lectures in this Lesson
- Project FilesDownloadable Project Files
Guidance
Introduction
Height Map
Detailing
Extra Details
Combining Elements
Albedo
Roughness
Optimizing the Graphs
Conclusion
Lesson 4
Presentation
In this final Lesson, you will take your completed material and render it inside of Marmoset. Here you'll see how much of a difference lighting and post-processing can make for your presentations. As a bonus, you will also learn how to render your material in Unreal. By the end of this Lesson, you will have multiple polished images for your portfolio.
- 2 hours 36 minutesTotal Lesson Duration
- 13 VideosVideo Lectures in this Lesson
- Project FilesDownloadable Project Files
Guidance
Introduction
Exporting Outputs
Marmoset
Unreal
Conclusion
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