Last updated 11/2022Course Language EnglishCourse Caption English [Auto]Course Length 10:35:31 to be exact 38131 seconds!Number of Lectures 54
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• Following through a complete guide on texturing a stylized Wild West aka Western-styled saloon and creating a living scene around it
• Using Substance Painter and understanding its interface and shortcuts
• Upscaling the details on low-poly 3D props to give them the look of high-topology AAA game assets
• Learning how to sculpt and alter normal maps on the fly in Substance Painter
• Automating the UV Mapping Process through a full material projection guide
• Making materials from scratch using any downloadable image
• Learning how to use transparent shaders to create water and glass see-through materials
• Mastering material creation through SMART materials using SMART mask generators such as curvature, ambient occlusion, light, and position generators in Substa
• Creating mask generators for wood edge wear that complements Wild West aesthetics
• Finding out how to add height map detail without the need for masking
• Building massive texture libraries using smart materials we created
• Bypassing years of training and getting the look and feel of hand-painted 3D models in a few hours
• Revealing the secrets of getting perfect baked maps all the time
• Understanding, creating, and using alphas, decals, and layer stamping to propel your Substance Painter texturing skills
• Creating organic sculpting layers to achieve a more organic-looking shape in a non-destructive manner
• Maintaining and optimising stylized art aesthetics reminiscent of the Wild West or Western style
• Rendering professional portfolio renders within Substance Painter itself
Course Description - Substance Painter Beginner's Guide to Game TexturingHave you ever wanted to learn how to texture 3d models to a professional level? What about creating game assets that look like they were created by a AAA games company?‘Substance Painter Beginner's Guide to Game Texturing’ is a game texturing course devoted to complete beginners.Even if you have never textured anything before, this course will help you learn how to texture game props and environments to an industry-standard level in a few short hours.This course will give you access to just over just over 10 hours of 3D art step-by-step tutorials.Learn how to texture game assets and scenes in Substance Painter in 53 lessons.Substance Painter, as you may or may not be aware, is a pretty complex programme for both beginners and veterans alike. The goal of ‘Substance Painter Beginner's Guide to Game Texturing’ is to simplify the process. We aim take complete beginners with no prior experience to the course finish line where they will be leaving with the skills and knowledge to texture their very own assets and environments.Best of all, Substance Painter is now free to download for students from Adobe so there’s never been a better time to get started on your journey!So, let’s dive into what you will be learning with ‘Substance Painter Beginner's Guide to Game Texturing’ and how we have made this possible.Our ‘Substance Painter Beginner's Guide to Game Texturing’ top 6:1. Build Massive Texture Libraries using SMART Materials we created;2. Master the Art of Hand-Painted Texturing Effects;3. Learn all about Layer Stamping and Boost your 3D Artwork Skills;4. Find out the Secrets of Getting Perfect Baked Maps all the Time;5. Complete a Full Material Projection Guide to Circumvent UV Mapping;6. Become a Mastermind at Taking any Image and Turning it into a Material.Course Project‘Substance Painter Beginner's Guide to Game Texturing’ allows you to upload a project as part of your learning process.Your project will be to use Substance Painter to texture a stylized Wild West aka a Western-styled saloon and create a living scene around it following our course lessons. We will be texturing a stylized scene featuring two cacti, rocks, a water tank, a wagon, a wooden coffin, and a couple of barrels. There will also be a double swinging saloon door on the property for you to texture something special. You will be able to hear the typical Wild West revolver hammer clicks and mysterious hissing sounds of the desert as you create this.Of course, you could set yourself a challenge and diversify aspects of the model such as adding different smaller assets or increasing the structural complexity of your scene by adding other Wild West buildings around the saloon.Part 1: Setting up Models for TexturingIf you are a beginner, it is important that you learn the right techniques from the very start of your game texturing journey. We will be going through the most common issues people have when it comes to baking out texture maps. This will give you the best base possible before you learn about game texturing.You will learn how to add additional detail to your low-poly props to make them look like they have high topology, similar to a AAA game asset. We will make use out of Substance Painter’s particle brushes to generate cracks in one of our secondary assets - the skull. We will also project a pattern onto its horns and highlight mesh edges to get the most out of our asset.Part 2: Smart MaterialsAs we move through the course we will be creating a wide variety of materials. You will learn how to turn these materials into something usable in all your future creations. In Substance Painter, these are known as SMART materials. We will be creating SMART meterials for wood, metal, stone, cactus, glass, and fabric.The best news is that you will be able to use these SMART materials in all your future projects, including this one.Simply put, the more of these special materials you have created, the faster your workflow will become. As part of ‘Substance Painter Beginner's Guide to Game Texturing’, we will learn how to use the SMART materials we created together with PBR material textures to get the best of both worlds.Part 3: UV MappingNow, we all know how frustrating UV unwrapping and UV mapping can be - especially if you are new to the world of 3D texturing. So, I am happy to say as part of ‘Substance Painter Beginner's Guide to Game Texturing’, we will be covering amazing techniques to make the process a lot more automated.Using cutting-edge technology, we can now pretty much bypass the whole marking seams and UV mapping process entirely. We will use a variety of projection techniques to avoid UV seam artifacts in our textures. We will use tri-planar projection and cylindrical projection to help us get the patterns within seemingly plain areas.Part 3: Creating your Own MaterialsCreating materials using textures you can find anywhere on the internet, puts the power back in your hands. ‘Substance Painter Beginner's Guide to Game Texturing’ will show you how to use your imagination to make your materials unique. This will include learning how to use transparent shaders to create water and glass see-through materials. And for sure, all of this will be done in Substance Painter exclusively.This keeps the process simple at the same time as applying professional 3D textures to your 3D models.Part 4: Create the Look & Feel of Hand-Painted 3D ModelsIf you’re a fan of stylized game art and believe you had to have years of practice to get anywhere with your own texturing, I am here to prove you wrong.I will show you how to start the process and get amazing results in a matter of hours rather than years!Part 5: Alphas, Decals & Layer StampingGone are the days of sculpting every detail for every 3D model you create. Most of the work can be done through texturing.By completing ‘Substance Painter Beginner's Guide to Game Texturing’, you will have conquered a true Substance Painter experience and you will have learned one of the best game texturing comprehensive workflows out there.When we sat down as a team, our brief for this course was to take a complete beginner to Substance Painter and find the best ways of having them create a professional-looking textured 3D game asset in a few hours.‘Substance Painter Beginner's Guide to Game Texturing’ will see us stamping out detail using alphas and normal map textures and blending their created information with mask generators using anchor points. This will help us blend in the textures with the newly created elements.You will find out how to work with multiple layer blending options such as multiply and overlay settings to get the best layer build up for your materials. You will also learn how to use a layer’s single channel workflow to have more control over your material PBR values. This will help you find out how to set up your materials to be easily overlayed on top of one another without any of the detail bleeding through.Course Resources & FreebiesThe ‘Substance Painter Beginner's Guide to Game Texturing’ course resource pack includes a Blender File Mesh Example, an FBX Bad Mesh Example File, an FBX High Poly Mesh of Cactus and Rocks, an FBX of Desert Environment, 6 unique alpha stamps, 1 PBR texture sign stamp, and 5 PBR seamless materials.Be creative! Make your Wild West aka Western-styled saloon environments bigger and grander. Even though this is not part of ‘Substance Painter Beginner's Guide to Game Texturing’, also think about creating different Unreal Engine 5 (UE5) environments in which to place your scene, including a busy Western town street or a shady part of a cul-de-sac. Use this game engine’s power to its full potential.Engage in roleplay thinking as you texture your saloon and surrounding Wild West environment and create something that breathes life!So, come give us a try and be blown away by just how much you can achieve from one course.Until next time, happy modelling everyone!Neil – 3D TudorWho this course is for:• Beginner 3D modelling artists and game designs eager to learn how to texture a stylized Wild West aka Western-styled saloon environment• Enthusiasts of Substance Painter who want to fast-track their understanding of its features even if you are a complete beginner• Mid-Level 3D modellers who want to take their texturing to a new level and improve their workflow with tips and tricks• Stylized fans who want to create a Western-style scene featuring two cacti, rocks, a water tank, a wagon, a wooden coffin, and a couple of barrels
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5 Lectures | 50:16
Introduction Substance Painter Beginner's Guide to Game Texturing
03:51
This is the introduction to the course and gives a short and compact outline of what will be covered.
In this lesson, we will look through the layout for Substance Painter. We will familiarise ourselves with the programme and all of its functionality setup.
Lesson 2 - Preparing Mesh for Texturing
10:46
In this lesson, we will start going over the asset that we will use in ‘Substance Painter Beginner's Guide to Game Texturing’. We will start by setting ourselves up with a broken mesh and going over Substance Painter's camera controls.
Lesson 3 - Fixing Bake Mesh Map Issues
10:22
During this lesson, we will continue identifying the issues commonly seen within the mesh. We will use Blender to visualize the issues and see how we can fix them.
Lesson 4 - Importing and Checking a Mesh
13:43
Lesson 4 will help us update the Substance Painter mesh after fixing all of its issues. We will make sure to have baked out all the mesh maps to help us with generating additional detail for our 3D texturing process.
3 Lectures | 33:35
Lesson 5 - Setting up Custom PBR Material
13:13
Starting from this lesson, you will be introduced to the texturing process in Substance Painter. We will make use of PBR textures provided in the resource pack to create materials for ‘Substance Painter Beginner's Guide to Game Texturing’.
Lesson 6 - Blending in PBR materials
12:33
This lesson will focus on creating a terrain texture for our 3D Wild West aka a Western-styled saloon environment. We will make use of our newly created PBR materials to blend the textures and get a ground texture without any visible repetitive pattern.
Lesson 7 - Adjusting PBR Material Color
07:49
In this lesson, you will be introduced to the adjustments of PBR materials and their colours to better fit the overall setup of our scene. We will make use of the fill layer overlay techniques to get custom colours out of textures while keeping all of its detail.
4 Lectures | 49:17
Lesson 8 - Creating Base Stone Material Folder
12:06
In this lesson, we will look through the setup of creating a basic material group for a stylized stone with detail. We will make use of Substance Painter’s asset library to get an organic-looking detail for our environment props within the scene.
Lesson 9 - Baking All Mesh Maps
14:10
In this lesson, we will start making use of smart masking capabilities in Substance Painter. This means we will have to make sure we set ourselves up with baked mesh maps. We learn how to bake out partial high topology detail onto the low-poly mesh for the Wild West aka a Western-styled saloon environment.
Lesson 10 - Creating First Smart Material Layer
11:26
In this lesson, we will start making use of generated textures in Substance Painter to create our first smart mask generators for our materials. We will use curvature generators to highlight the edges of our stylized rocks and give them a nice overall look within the scene.
Lesson 11 - Setting Up Smart Material Preset
11:35
In this lesson, you will find out how to add a smart material group to our asset library to be used within our current project and within any of your future texturing projects as well.
3 Lectures | 35:37
Lesson 12 - Creating Cactus Spikes Texture
13:28
This lesson will introduce you to organic asset texturing. We will make use of the 3D cactus within the scene to create stylized textures for it. We will make use of height channels to create additional spike detail for our assets.
Lesson 13 - Using Position And Directional Smart Masking
10:20
In lesson 13, we will teach you how to make use of position and direction-based mask generators to help us get the desired texturing results. We will learn how to quickly create additional depth to our plants by automatically blending in the materials using masking techniques.
Lesson 14 - Cactus Flowers Using Mask Painting and Layering
11:49
Starting from this lesson, you will be introduced to custom brush painting in combination with the fill layer tool. We will make use of a basic smart material for the cactus flowers to blend in the colour more efficiently.
1 Lectures | 11:24
Lesson 15 - Creating Stylized Rope Material
11:24
In lesson 15 we will use our newly created smart materials in combination with a UV pattern texture to create a rope PBR material that follows the curvature of a mesh.
4 Lectures | 48:06
Lesson 16 - Setting Up Base Metal for Smart Material
11:04
This lesson will focus on creating the base material PBR values for a metal. We will make use of what we have learned about masking generators to create to get basic visual detail out of PBR metal.
Lesson 17 - Highlighting Metal Detail Using Smart Masking
10:10
In lesson 17, I will show you how to make use of more advanced layering techniques to set ourselves up with a nicer metallic texture. We will make use of cavity masking in combination with the metal edge wear generator to create some quick highlight detail for the metal.
Lesson 18 - Color Variance Using Light Generators
11:55
In this lesson, you will learn how to fix issues relating to colour similarity throughout the metal mesh. We will make use of a directional generator to overlay colour information and give us more depth out of the asset.
Lesson 19 - Setting up Smart Metal Material and Adding Grunge Roughness
14:57
In this lesson, we discuss the importance of overlaying additional PBR value information in our Substance Painter materials. We will make use of roughness texture maps to add additional microdetail to our mesh and break up the metal surface of our PBR smart material.
5 Lectures | 59:09
Lesson 20 - Setting up Smart Wood Material Base
11:33
In this lesson, we will start the creation process for a smart wood material. We will make use of the pattern existing within the Substance Painter to apply our custom grain onto the mesh.
Lesson 21 - Adding Edge Smart Masking to PBR Wood
11:42
Lesson 21 will begin with adding edge highlights to our wood material using masking generators. We will learn how to get the most out of our wood plank shapes within the asset and bring out the detail within the ‘Substance Painter Beginner's Guide to Game Texturing’ asset.
Lesson 22 - Creating Wood Dirt Detail
12:28
In lesson 22, we will be setting up our grunge layers to get micro details out of our wood material. We will make use of the dirt and colour overlay techniques to set up a grittier-themed texture.
Lesson 23 - Aging Stylized Wood Smart Material
12:36
Lesson 23 will see us finish our wood texture layers. We will make use of grunge overlays in combination with height map texture information to create a quickly adjustable ageing wood detail.
Lesson 24 - Adding Paint to Stylized PBR Wood
10:50
In this lesson, we will begin to make use of our newly created stylized wood within the scene to create some additional detail within the wood parts of our asset. We will learn how to overcome smart material detail inconsistencies by custom painting out mask detail in Substance Painter.
4 Lectures | 44:45
Lesson 25 - Creating Wood Variations
11:44
In this lesson, you will find out how to make use of the UV colour randomizer to give us colour variation for the stylized wood material.
Lesson 26 - Texturing Rooftop Using Custom Smart Wood
11:06
In lesson 26, I will teach you how to make use of the custom wood PBR material together with the custom smart wood material to achieve a unique wood grain effect in our stylized 3D environment for ‘Substance Painter Beginner's Guide to Game Texturing’.
Lesson 27 - Adding Plank Detail Using Material Projection
10:35
Starting from this lesson, you will be introduced to a more complex use of 3D projection in Substance Painter. We will use a wood pattern to create a seamless wood plank detail on a cylindrical object.
Lesson 28 - Texturing a Wooden Sign
11:20
This lesson will use everything we have worked on so far to texture wood and paint additional wood detail for the wood sign.
2 Lectures | 26:38
Lesson 29 - Creating Glass Smart Material
13:37
Starting from this lesson, you will be introduced to the creation of a smart glass material. We will learn how to create glass PBR textures that automatically generate detail onto our stylized glass.
Lesson 30 - Texturing 3D Window Framework Using Smart Masking
13:01
In this lesson, you will learn how to add additional reflective detail to our smart glass material. We will learn how to add grunge mask fills and use them to overlay roughness values with the cavity layers.
2 Lectures | 24:34
Lesson 31 - Changing Wood Grain Texture for Chair and Coffin
15:03
This lesson will focus on creating detail in our smaller assets within the Wild West aka a Western-styled saloon scene. We will make use of the smart materials we already created to get the most out of our texture work within the 3D environment.
Lesson 32 - Reusing Wood Smart Material Groups
09:31
Lesson 32 will continue with the work of setting up wood material within the environment. We will make use of masking techniques to quickly fill in the needed detail within our mesh.
3 Lectures | 38:38
Lesson 33 - Setting up Base Skull Material
12:11
In this lesson, we will begin to create a skull material for our dried-up decoration at the front of our 3D building. We will make use of alpha patterns in combination with tri-planar projection to give bump detail to the horns.
Lesson 34 - Creating Additional Detail For Lowpoly Mesh Skull
14:04
This lesson will teach you how to make use of Substance Painter’s new projection functionality. We will learn how to set our mask overlay to use physical scaling to keep the pattern based on the 3D object’s scale.
Lesson 35 - Adding Cracks to 3D Skull Using Particles
12:23
This lesson will introduce you to creating additional detail for low topology mesh. We will learn how to make use of mask overlays and particle brush painting to give crack detail to our skull.
5 Lectures | 57:18
Lesson 36 - Texturing Crates and Wagon
10:39
This lesson will focus on painting the background assets of our environment. We will be making use of our custom smart material to create wood variations in the crates and the wagon.
Lesson 37 - Creating Rusted Metal Detail for Wheels
12:46
In this lesson, we will start to create additional metal detail. We will learn how to make use of our custom smart material for the metal to add a rust surface detail on our asset.
Lesson 38 - Using Anchor Points to Generate Mask Detail
11:06
In lesson 38, we will be setting up our custom-created height detail to be used within the curvature mask generator in Substance Painter. We will make use of anchor points to help the software pick out additional detail from our masks.
Lesson 39 - Changing Wood Grain in Smart Material
08:40
In this lesson, we will look through texturing wood for the additional parts of our mesh. We will learn how to set up our smart wood material to work better within certain masking areas.
Lesson 40 - Sculpting Using Textures
14:07
In this lesson, you will find out how to make use of the height fill layer to set yourself up with additional bump detail within the wood prop. We will learn how to create a non-destructive material that will help us make our wood look more organic.
2 Lectures | 24:27
Lesson 41 - Texturing 3D Asset Duplicates
09:50
This lesson will introduce you to working with asset copies in Substance Painter. These will help us save UV texture space. We will learn how to set up UV coordinates and use them with the generated smart masks without getting any artefacts in the mesh.
Lesson 42 - Creating Fabric Wrinkle
14:37
In lesson 42, we will teach you how to create a fabric material with a shrinkwrap generator for extra detail in Substance Painter. We will set ourselves up with a smart material for the wagon cover within our stylized Wild West aka a Western-styled saloon environment.
1 Lectures | 10:32
Lesson 43 - Creating Transparent Water and PBR Seethrough Glass
10:32
Starting from this lesson, you will be introduced to the shader setup in Substance Painter. We will learn how to use a transparent PBR shader to help us use the opacity values during the texturing phase.
4 Lectures | 42:11
Lesson 44 - Setting up Stamp Tool
09:41
In this lesson, we will learn how to make use of layer functionality to set ourselves up with a full PBR set-up for a brush for a western stamp.
Lesson 45 - Making use out of Alpha Brushes
11:07
Starting from this lesson, you will be introduced to the alpha texture and its uses. We begin by learning how to import the alpha and set it up as a wood stamped texture with a variety of colour detail for a better look.
Lesson 46 - Creating Wanted Sign Stamp
09:31
In this lesson, you will learn how to stylise paper material and stamp out a custom poster design for the wanted sign.
Lesson 47 - Spacing out Alpha Stamps on Windows
11:52
In this lesson, you will learn how to fix issues concerning the layout of alpha brushes. We will make use of the layering techniques in our texture to quickly readjust the spacing of our letters for the windows.
2 Lectures | 24:40
Lesson 48 - Using Decal Alphas
12:37
In this lesson, we will be using another one of Substance Painter’s tools called decal projection. We will make use of our alpha textures to quickly apply the mask directly onto the mesh in a less destructive way. This is because it allows us to readjust and scale the detail on the fly.
Lesson 49 - Using Normal Stamps
12:03
This lesson will focus on creating additional detail in the environment using normal map textures in Substance Painter. The lesson will also teach you how to set up micro detail with anchor points for the normal texture map information.
1 Lectures | 16:58
Lesson 50 - Tweaking Material Values for Better Environment Composition
16:58
This lesson will use everything we have worked on so far to tweak the overall values of our 3D environment and its textures. We will be going through the entire mesh and readjusting our smart materials and their values to help us get a better texturing result.
3 Lectures | 37:26
Lesson 51 - Iray Render Basics Video
18:02
In this lesson, you will be introduced to the built-in I-Ray renderer. It will teach you everything you need to know about it to get the best rendering experience for our textured environment.
Lesson 52 - Rendering an Image
11:01
This lesson will focus on creating a render shot set up prepared with a nice composition within the scene.
Lesson 53 - Exporting an Image
08:23
Lesson 53 will see us finishing our project by going through a nice-resolution image out of our scene.
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