In this video, learn how to browse the Substance Source website. Discover who this website is available too, and again why an artist might want to take advantage of it. Getting familiar with its UI and where everything is will help you get the kind of textures that you want.
- [Instructor] Substance source is yet another … repository of Substance-based materials … that we can gain access to, only in this instance, … we will need to have a current Substance subscription … in order to be able to do so. … Let's take a look at the website, then, … found, this time, at source.algorithmic.com, … and see how we might go about putting it to use … on our projects. … First of all, we will need to be logged in … with our Algorithmic account … and have a page for Substance subscription … in order to be able to download … any of the materials that we are about to look at. … Indeed, once we are logged in, we should see … our allocated Substance points up in … the top right of the site's UI. … These allowing us to download a set number … of materials from the website at any given time. … To help us find the exact material type … that we want to add to our project, … we have all of the categories sitting on the left … that we can click to browse through. … Or, if we prefer, we can be more specific …
Author
Joel Bradley
Released
3/14/2019- Geometry detail vs. texture detail
- Advantages of bitmaps in Unreal
- Building materials inside Unreal
- How and when to use the Material Editor
- Building flexibility into materials
- Using Substance Source and Share
- Using B2M inside Unreal Engine
- Benefits of procedural texturing
Skill Level Intermediate
Duration
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Introduction
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1. Important Workflow Considerations
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Why texture procedurally?2m 45s
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2. Building Materials Inside Unreal
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Creating a new Material3m 10s
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Setting up the base colour4m 26s
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Adding the roughness3m 46s
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Blending the normal maps2m 48s
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3. Using Substance Source and Share with Unreal
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Using Substance Share2m 43s
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4. Putting Bitmap 2 Material to Good Use
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Working with patterns in B2M2m 41s
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5. Benifits of Procedural Texturing
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Creating tileability2m 52s
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Conclusion
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Next steps50s
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Video: Accessing and navigating Substance Source