Using photographic bitmaps is a quick way to texture the arch viz presentations, however, the old adage of garbage in, garbage out still applies. This video discusses a few key points to keep in mind that will ensure photographs work as well as they can inside the Bitmap2Material application.
- [Instructor] Bitmap2Material, an application developed … by the team at Allegorithmic, … lets artists use an input image such as a photograph … to create a whole bunch of control maps for a material. … So base color, roughness, metalness, and so on. … There are a few similar programs on the market, … and so if you use or would prefer to use one of those, … don't worry, as the principles that we will cover here … are exactly the same for each of them, … and so can be applied in those applications as well. … Now whilst there are lots of controls and parameters … that can be used in Bitmap2Material 3 in order to … try and make our input image as usable as possible, … it does have to be said that starting with a good photo … at the beginning can save us both time and effort … when it comes to creating a good looking material. … And so what we want to do here is cover a few quick tips … that can hopefully help us do just that. … Firstly then, where at all possible, … we will want to avoid having any kind of …
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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