Building substance textures

In my opinion one of the most exciting features to be added to Maya in recent…years is the Substance Texture Node.…This is a procedural texture that will produce realistic results for things like…concrete and bricks and bronze and things like that.…Substances are procedural textures, but they behave as if they were file textures.…In other words, you have to link to a particular substance file.…That could be problematic, especially if in the future the substance library that…ships with Maya changes.…

I've been bitten by this before with 3ds Max and other programs that use texture libraries.…If the texture library changes in the future and you haven't backed up the files…that you used in your project, then your scene will not open correctly and you…may actually not be able to open the scene completely.…Therefore, I strongly recommend that if you do use substance textures, that you…simply just copy the entire substance library into the source images of your…current Maya project. They're such tiny files, you're not using up any disk…