Substance Painter Master Course

Set up a military hat in Substance Painter with clean quad square topology, use opacity and displacement for details, proper UVs, and organized color ID layers before baking maps.

Create a realistic leather material in Substance Painter by loading a leather rough, applying displacement, edge damage, grunge, and stitching with anchor points and control layers.

Learn to build a bronze metal material in Substance Painter by layering base metal, surface details, masks, anchor points, and micro details for realistic edge and dirt effects.

Create a realistic hat pin material from an AI-upscaled image using Substance Sampler, then refine base color, height, roughness, and alpha in Substance Painter for a PBR result.

Build fabric materials in Substance Painter by creating four color variation layers with soft light blending, masks, blue noise, tiling, and ambient occlusion for a realistic fabric.

Adjust hat paint edges with bevel, refine leather and stitches, and build punch details using masks and mirror in Substance Painter. Prepare 4k textures and studio lighting for final render.

Develop detailed displacement in Substance Painter using height channels and masks to texture a Nordic axe, then bake normal maps and export to a low-poly model for real-time engines.

In this part, sculpt a wood base with a black mask, height adjustments, and projection-driven detail layers, then refine with gradients, symmetry, and subtraction to shape the handle.

Master substance painter techniques to add detailed wood texture to a Nordic axe handle, using tiling patterns, arc details, alpha maps, AO channel data, and bevel and blur for realism.

Learn to build a wood material with metal accents in Substance Painter by layering masks, alphas, and edge details using symmetry and anchor points.

In this NordicAxe wood material lesson, build realistic wood with dust, dirt, imperfections, and color variations using curvature generators, ambient occlusion, and roughness maps.

Create the metal head pattern in Photoshop with a generated UV-border mask, export it, and apply it in Substance Painter to drive base color, normal, and height.

Create a two-material metal head for a Nordic axe in Substance Painter, using base and second materials with masks, color and roughness variations, dirt, and scratches, then export textures.

Load the model in Marmoset Toolbag, apply Substance Painter textures (base color, normal, roughness, metallic, height, ambient occlusion), and configure lighting, HDR, and ACES tone mapping for final render.

Optimize uv layouts to reduce space, then bake high-poly details to a low-poly model in Substance Painter and transfer to Unreal Engine with albedo, metal, roughness, normal, and AO maps.

Add level two details with a black mask and anchor points, subtract level one from level two to reveal blue, red, and gray layers, then apply ambient occlusion.

Create detailed textures in Substance Painter by building push-out and push-in details with gradients, masks, alpha layers, and blend modes like linear dodge and subtract, and apply ambient occlusion.

Create plastic and steel materials in substance painter using smart materials, masks, height and roughness controls, then enhance edges with metal edge, grunge, and dirt, with hue and color adjustments.

Build blade material in Substance Painter by creating base, first, and second layer folders with masks and anchor points, applying metal brushed, dirt, scratches, and color variations.

Learn to craft a multi-layer blade material in Substance Painter, combining base color, ambient occlusion, dirt, scratches, metal lines, and edge highlights for realistic texture.

In this substance painter master course lecture, learn to apply decals to a surface and material using emissive layers, masks, gradient, and text, then export textures for Marmoset Toolbag.

Finalize textures and emissive masking, export 4k textures using a custom Unreal Engine 4 template, and render in Marmoset Toolbag with precise lighting and post effects.

Master a clean explode baking workflow in substance painter for large models by using same mesh name parts, high- and low-poly pairs, and geometry masks to bake separately across udims.

Set up a low-poly and high-poly bake in Substance Painter using udim textures, suffix naming, and match-by-name to bake normals, ambient occlusion, curvature, and thickness.

Texture glass and plastic for the snipe gun by building color variation with gradients on UV maps, adjusting roughness and edge wear, and layering dirt, grunge, and ambient occlusion.

Learn to build a wood material in Substance Painter from scratch by stacking multiple texture layers, masks, and color/roughness variations, including noise, grunge, and warp effects.

Create a wood gun handle texture in Substance Painter by layering dust, dirt, grunge, and color variation with masks, edge effects, and scratches to control roughness and detail.

Apply metal materials to gun parts in Substance Painter, using steel paint, masks, grunge, tiling, and edge highlights to achieve realistic metal surfaces.

Create a diamond-pattern metal barrel by building a layered material in Substance Painter, applying color variation, grunge masks, and tiling for realistic roughness and metallics.

Create a metal diamond-pattern material in Substance Painter by layering black masks, f layers, and bevels, adjusting curves, tiling, and color, then export textures for Unreal Engine 4.

Render a sniper gun in Marmoset Toolbag, configuring cameras, lighting, and materials with ACES curves, depth of field, and soft light. Optimize aspect ratio and resolution for close-ups and shots.

Texture the air conditioner as a hero game asset in substance painter. Balance UV density across UDIMs and use explode baking and clone techniques for precise maps.

Master RizomLab basics for creating and managing UV maps. Load, save, unfold, and pack UVs across 3D and 2D views.

Learn to maintain the same texel density across UV tiles and materials by packing UV islands, using udims or separate tiles, and setting texel density targets for 1k textures.

Bake mesh maps for the explode technique in Substance Painter, using 4k output and 64x super sampling. Explore normal maps, ambient inclusion, curvature, and thickness to texture the assembly model.

Create a rust and peeling body material for an air conditioner in Substance Painter by layering rust textures, color variation, and height-based transitions with masks.

Learn to generate rust and dirt masks from photos using Photoshop black-and-white filters, invert and level, then import masks to Substance Painter and use projection to paint them for surfaces.

Apply edge wear and decals in Substance Painter through layered paints, masks, and anchor points. Create realistic body details with AO, roughness variations, and grunge effects.

Create realistic air conditioner body materials by dialing roughness and height, applying warp and grunge decals, masking with anchors, and painting color and roughness variations with decals and filters.

texture the fence and screw components by creating a grid surface, applying masks and gradients, and layering rust, dirt, steel, and decals with smart materials.

Texture the air conditioner fan and structure in Substance Painter by applying bronze armor, adjusting roughness and dirt, and layering masks, edge wear, and decals for realistic detailing.

Export textures from Substance Painter and render in Marmoset Toolbag. Prepare UDIMs for Unreal Engine by assigning unique materials and configuring lighting, camera, and post effects.

Bring a Substance Painter model into Unreal Engine, enable virtual texture support, and import as an asset; create udim materials—body, leg, fence—mapping to base color, normal, ambient occlusion, roughness, metallic.