Blender and Substance Painter: Architectural Visualization

Introduction

• A Blender and Substance Painter pipeline
• Course goals
• Importing a reference image
• Setting the proper scale

1. Modeling the Rooms

• Beginning the walls
• Creating the interior walls
• Tricks for aligning the walls
• Continuing with the walls
• Using the Boolean modifier
• Creating the openings for the doors
• Finishing the window openings
• Beginning the window frames
• Finishing the window frames
• Starting the office frames
• Finishing the office frames
• Creating the door frame
• Inserting the door frames
• Beginning the doors
• Creating the door handle
• Creating the door lock
• Placing doors and organizing the scene
• Creating the closet doors
• Finishing the closet doors
• Beginning the kitchen island
• Modeling the cabinet handles
• Beginning the kitchen counter
• Adding the kitchen cabinets and drawers
• Creating the kitchen handles
• Fixing smoothing errors
• Organizing the scene

2. Creating the Furniture

• Modeling the end tables
• Modeling the sofa
• Beginning the stools
• Continuing the stools
• Finishing the stools
• Modeling the first chair
• Continuing the chair
• More work on the chair
• Finishing the chair
• Beginning the table
• Finishing the table and rug
• Beginning the second chair
• Continuing the second chair
• Modeling the chair arms
• Creating the legs of the chair
• Working on the wheels of the chair
• Finishing the second chair
• Batch renaming multiple objects
• Beginning the third chair
• Creating the arm rests and back
• Modeling the back frame and legs
• Adjusting proportions of the chair
• Finishing the third chair
• Populating the offices
• Beginning the refrigerator
• Finishing the refrigerator
• Extruding along a path
• Finishing the faucet
• Beginning the coffee machine
• Finishing the coffee machine
• Creating the drop ceilings
• Modeling the kitchen hanging lights
• Creating the large hanging lights
• Modeling the air vents
• Placing the canister lights
• Modeling the conference room glass
• Adding the glass for the offices

3. UV Mapping the Scene

• UV mapping the office desks
• UV mapping the stools
• UV mapping the conference room chairs
• Creating the UVs for the end tables
• Working on the chair and sofa
• Chair, lights, and drop ceiling
• Kitchen lights and canister lights
• UV mapping the kitchen
• Finishing the UV mapping

4. Texturing with Substance Painter

• Exporting to Substance Painter
• Importing in Substance Painter
• Exporting textures out of Substance Painter
• Finishing the end table and beginning the chair
• Texturing the chair
• Preparing the coffee machine for export
• Texturing the coffee machine
• Adding an image texture in substance painter
• Creating the vertex colors for hanging lights
• Creating and applying an emissive texture
• The direction of normals
• Using an opacity channel in Substance Painter
• Using an alpha channel in Blender
• Adjusting mask tolerances in Substance Painter
• Sampling colors in Substance Painter
• Exporting multiple objects as a single FBX
• Texturing the kitchen counter and appliances
• Exporting textures for multiple objects
• Applying textures to the kitchen objects
• Selection tricks when applying vertex colors
• Copy and paste layers in Substance Painter
• Using the Node Wrangler add-on in Blender
• Preparing the floors for texturing
• Texturing the floors

5. Lighting and Rendering the Scene

• Adding lights to the scene
• Adding a glass material
• Rendering with cycles
• Using the Denoise node
• Rendering with Eevee
• Conclusion

6. Bonus Lectures

• Bonus lecture: Reflection Cubemaps in Eevee
• Bonus lecture: Auto UV Unwrap in Substance Painter