Substance Painter Basics for Beginners

Kick off a full project in Substance Painter for beginners, learn tips, tricks, and techniques with Maya and the provided files to achieve the final result.

Learn how to generate clean uv maps for 3d assets using camera-based projection, 3d cut, unfold, and layout tools, ensuring even density and hidden seams.

Learn how to bake maps in Substance Painter, align UVs with wood grain, create an ID map with vertex colors in Maya, and export 4k textures for an Arnold material.

Construct basic textures in Substance Painter by using wood materials, aligning grain with rotation and scale, masking with black masks, overlays, and dirt generators for depth.

Learn to use paint layers in substance painter to color the Majora's mask with red, orange, and white decals, employing masks, symmetry, overlays, and height-based displacement for detail.

Learn to add detail layers in Substance Painter by painting colors, applying masks and generators, adding scratches and damage, and exporting textures for Maya with Arnold.

Render with Maya and Arnold using hdr environments, a sky dome light, and GPU compute to achieve realistic lighting; connect textures like base color, roughness, normal, and displacement.

Create a cinematic render by adjusting camera focal length, area lighting, color temperature, and depth of field, then composite in Photoshop for a Majora's mask scene.