Substance 3D Designer for Beginners

Explore tiling techniques in substance designer using tile generators, samplers, and shape splatter to create seamless textures, adjust randomness and masks, and apply height, normals, and ambient occlusion.

Create complex shapes in substance designer by building polygon forms, applying tiling and transforms, blending splatter effects, and using shape mapper for variation.

Color and render a basic material by applying background color, masks, and gradient maps, then combine textures to generate color, normal, roughness, and ambient occlusion for a final render.

Build your first Substance 3D Designer material for beginners, shaping a door frame with displacement, normals, and collision, then add glass with a tile generator and basic lighting.

Learn to add displacement details for a door and window in Substance 3D Designer using 2D transform, tile generator, masks, histogram scans, bricks and framing.

Apply surface damage to frames and bricks in Substance 3D Designer. Use cloud textures, cracks, and noise flows with blend, transform 2D, and normal maps to achieve believable wear.

Learn to create and blend normal details from height data, using masks and noise to add bricks and mortar textures. Refine normals with blending, depth, and tweaks in Substance Designer.

Build brick and mortar color textures in Substance 3D Designer by masking, blending, and adjusting color values using histograms, frames, and door and brick masks.

Apply ambient occlusion and dirt effects, adjust curvature and normals, use gradient masks for grunge color, and configure renderer and lighting to finish materials in Substance 3D Designer for beginners.

Create a branch displacement using trapezoids and shapes, apply non-uniform transforms, directional blur, and mask-driven fractal textures to simulate wood grain and stones.

Apply base color using masks and gradient maps, sampling from resources, and blend ambient occlusion with soil and stones to create a textured ground in Substance 3D Designer.

Refine the base color and water level, layering moss and stones with masks. Export textures and preview the material in Marmoset Toolbag, then prep SPG vectors for fabrics.

Learn to import and convert SVG vector graphics into Substance 3D Designer, create fabric patterns, and bake mesh maps for texture workflows.

Learn to design fabric patterns in Substance 3D Designer for Beginners by combining circular splatter shapes, pattern inputs, and blend techniques to create editable, tiled fabric textures.

Finish fabric in substance 3d designer by building a base material, applying patterns, and tweaking color, roughness, metallic, sheen, and opacity, then export the material.

Expose inputs such as opacity in grouped sliders, export the material graph with dependencies, and publish the package for use in Substance Painter.