Learning Substance Designer

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

2. Substance Graphs and How to Use Them

• What are packages and graphs?
• How to use Atomic Nodes efficiently
• Adjusting and working with node connections
• Important Quick Access Toolbar functionality

3. Baking Maps to Improve Texture Creation

• 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

4. Texturing a Mesh with Atomic Nodes

• Color to mask
• Color
• Blend
• Grunge maps
• Gradient map
• Normal
• Base material
• Dirt generator
• Metal edgeware

5. Building Materials with Atomic Nodes

• Tile Generator: Start of new material
• Warp
• Crop Grayscale
• Shape Splatter
• Shape Splatter to mask
• Ambient Occlusion
• Curve
• Normal to height HQ
• Water level

6. Getting the Most Out of Published Substances

• How to expose useful parameters
• Organizing exposed parameters for ease of use
• Exporting and importing packages from Designer

Conclusion

• Next steps