Intro to Substance Designer for Beginners -

Udemy

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English

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Game Design

What you will learn

Create Color Channels in Substance Designer

Create Roughness Channels in Substance Designer

Create Normal Channels in Substance Designer

Create Height Channels in Substance Designer

Create procedural textures and materials

Connect a logical network of Nodes

Export from Substance Designer to Substance Painter

Why take this course?

Creating a Custom Brick Material - Substance Designer Tutorial
[1hr 28min] Project Files Included

Learn how to create bricks from scratch in this beginner Substance Designer Tutorial! This course is designed for anyone new to Substance Designer. I'll walk you through step-by-step on how to create a material and show you how to export it to Substance Painter. This 1.5 hour tutorial will get you up and running quickly.

Learn how to connect various nodes to create realistic materials. I focus on creating normal maps, height maps, roughness maps, ambient occlusion, height variation per bricks, height variation for the cement and exporting to Substance Painter.

Course content:

1) Intro
2) Overview
3) Normals
4) Normals - Facets
5) Normals - Cracks
6) Normals - Damage
7) Color Part 1
8) Color Part 2
9) Height Maps
10) Roughness
11) Ambient Occlusion
12) Height Variation per Brick
13) Height Cement
14) Exporting to Substance Painter

Files:
All files need Substance Designer 2020 or newer to open

Video Tutorials:
There are 13 Video Tutorial each averaging under 10 minutes. These can be viewed in order or feel to jump into any lesson to just learn a specific technique

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Creating a Custom Brick Material - Substance Designer Tutorial
[1hr 28min] Project Files Included

Learn how to create bricks from scratch in this beginner Substance Designer Tutorial! This course is designed for anyone new to Substance Designer. I'll walk you through step-by-step on how to create a material and show you how to export it to Substance Painter. This 1.5 hour tutorial will get you up and running quickly.

Learn how to connect various nodes to create realistic materials. I focus on creating normal maps, height maps, roughness maps, ambient occlusion, height variation per bricks, height variation for the cement and exporting to Substance Painter.

Course content:

1) Intro
2) Overview
3) Normals
4) Normals - Facets
5) Normals - Cracks
6) Normals - Damage
7) Color Part 1
8) Color Part 2
9) Height Maps
10) Roughness
11) Ambient Occlusion
12) Height Variation per Brick
13) Height Cement
14) Exporting to Substance Painter

Files:
All files need Substance Designer 2020 or newer to open

Video Tutorials:
There are 13 Video Tutorial each averaging under 10 minutes. These can be viewed in order or feel to jump into any lesson to just learn a specific technique

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Reviews

Christopher

November 12, 2022

OK... a few things about this rating. I put 5 stars because I've learned a ton! I like that he speaks understandably, but one thing that is so annoying is that his mouse disappears and you can't see where he's pointing. Now this may not seem like a big deal...but it is a big deal, because when someone explains something, their mouse points to what they are talking about...and not having a mouse pointer kinda kills that concept. Also... please (and this goes for everyone doing these courses) - please don't fidget and move the boxes left and right and up and down and zoom in and out when you're speaking... this is really annoying. Also... in 6:50/Chapter 8 - he tries to plug "spots" into a blend, but the blend won't take it after because the background was color. He then tried to get a grayscale conversion node...but that didn't work. He never explained why it wasn't working and kinda moved on. This happened a few times, and this is really what I'm trying to learn... why things like this don't work. Also... he keeps saying "Substance Painter" when this is Substance Designer. Yes... I'm being a bit tough, but after 4 or 5 times. lol It's a great course... overall.

Lucas

June 18, 2022

This is an amazing course for beginners. I personally am not a beginner, but I did this course to refresh my brain on the concepts of Substance Designer. Although if you are a beginner then you should buy this course. Personally I don't know how much I spent on this course because I bought it a while ago, but it still is very much so a good course for the present day. Although if this course is over 15$ I personally wouldn't buy this course because you only learn how to make one material, but this one material is realistic and it is a very short course. Because it is a 1 - 2 hour course, I wouldn't spend over 15 bucks on this. Other then that everything he explains is very clear and there is no need for the Q&A section because he takes us through the course very well. But that might not be the same for you if you are a complete beginner. I would HIGHLY RECOMMEND this course for YOU if you want to learn the concepts of Substance Designer. Reminder this course will not make you advanced in Substance Designer, but It is a VERY GOOD start on your journey of a Substance Designer.

Ed

June 2, 2022

EXCELLENT COURSE! - It takes you from knowing nothing to actually using the new material on Substance Painter. The whole process is explained EXTREMLY well.

Christian

January 31, 2022

720p is not crispy enough for this tutorial and the mouse pointer keeps disappearing. Content is helpful but those two things are distracting and making it a bit harder to follow.

Stewart

October 16, 2021

Its a great course (so far) I have learnt more in two videos than I did following the adobe dirt texture tutotorial. My only criticism is that I just wish it was recorded in 4K.

Alexandre

February 18, 2021

Nice, detailed but very short. I would expect at least 2 more examples going through more complex stuff.

Sandra

February 17, 2021

This course was very helpful in terms of the concepts of where and when to use certain nodes and reuse of existing nodes. Many tutorials out there show you how to make materials and all of the nodes being used, and they do not explain the reason for their placement in the whole scheme of the graph. I now have a better understanding of what to look for in material creation in SD.

Keith

December 9, 2020

An excellent introduction to Substance Designer. Quite a short course, but it takes you through the basic steps of creating a moderately detailed brick substance at a pace that can be quite easily followed even by a beginner. I would recommend following the advice given by the author, which is to go through the course in its entirety once just watching the lectures, then going back and repeating the lessons, this time following each step in Substance Designer, stopping and restarting as necessary.

Jamie

July 24, 2020

Goes through and explains all the basics, a very good starting point. One of the few times I've started a new program and felt I could just experiment comfortably after the course

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