Substance Painter & Designer

[Zeus]

I saw a war paint i liked and tried to recreate it using one of my new util nodes. Titanium!
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2255415115

I actually found that it was really hard to get that tight bevel that i wanted and i tried a lot of things.

What i ended up doing tho is pretty clever imo:
- Used the normal output from the bevel node (cranked to ridiculous intensity) that goes into a "light" node
- The light node usually takes a worldspace normal but can techincally take any normal data
- project the light precisely at 45 deg
- Clean up the artifacts by just adding a solid color in the 'grout' lines

 

[Zeus]

Attempt a recreating the floor texture from the Santorini asset pack.

One thing I think i need to figure out how to do better is give it more than just a single gradient map so that i can have more color variety. I think thats what i stuggle with the most.

Here i made good use of my utility pack.

 

[Zeus]

Krio from Emporium created a great shader for Substance! This is fantastic, makes the development of assets so much faster since we have substance actually closely render to how source does!

Please give it a try and donate if you can!

https://gumroad.com/l/gyOSY

 

[radarhead]

Raising this thread from the grave to say, I made a node that handles SSBump generation right in your Substance workflow!

SSBump Node for Substance

Generates a Source-engine compatible Self-Shadowing Bump (SSBump) map from an input Normal map.

tf2maps.net

It should provide similar enough results to Valve's generator, though it uses Substance's lighting and normal nodes to generate. Now you can see the ssbump result as you edit the rest of the material, and export it alongside everything else! It comes with several tuning options as well, to account for surface complexity.

 

[Zeus]

Raising this thread from the grave to say, I made a node that handles SSBump generation right in your Substance workflow!

SSBump Node for Substance

Generates a Source-engine compatible Self-Shadowing Bump (SSBump) map from an input Normal map.

tf2maps.net

It should provide similar enough results to Valve's generator, though it uses Substance's lighting and normal nodes to generate. Now you can see the ssbump result as you edit the rest of the material, and export it alongside everything else! It comes with several tuning options as well, to account for surface complexity.

This is fantastic! Huge addition! Thanks for sharing

 

[iiboharz]

Raising this thread from the grave to say, I made a node that handles SSBump generation right in your Substance workflow!

SSBump Node for Substance

Generates a Source-engine compatible Self-Shadowing Bump (SSBump) map from an input Normal map.

tf2maps.net

It should provide similar enough results to Valve's generator, though it uses Substance's lighting and normal nodes to generate. Now you can see the ssbump result as you edit the rest of the material, and export it alongside everything else! It comes with several tuning options as well, to account for surface complexity.

What do the results look like (and how do they look vs height2ssbump?)

 

[Pocket]

Don't normal maps have height maps built in, in the blue channel? I mean, assuming they're made correctly.

 

[iiboharz]

Don't normal maps have height maps built in, in the blue channel? I mean, assuming they're made correctly.

They don't. Normal maps are generated *from* height maps.

 

[radarhead]

What do the results look like (and how do they look vs height2ssbump?)

Ah! I knew I forgot something...
normal2ssbump on the left, my node on the right:


My result is currently a bit brighter on the greyscale, so I might go and clamp the light range down a bit, but I can't see too much difference in-game.

EDIT: Actually I've gone and updated it already (v1.1) because the fix turned out to be easy, I'd left some extraneous features in from early experimentation- they should be gone now and parameters should be a bit clearer. You might have to play around with the input normal's intensity, but results should be way closer now.

 

[Zeus]

 

[Zeus]

 

[Zeus]

Cool substance addon for making ornate shapes

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/14VJYe

 

[Zeus]

Another cool addon:

Allows you to setup inputs to parameterize multiple nodes at once.

https://www.artstation.com/marketplace/p/bbG9K/

 

[Zeus]

Heres some Youtube channels that use Designer / Painter:

https://www.youtube.com/@nvector6088

https://www.youtube.com/@Kalyson

https://www.youtube.com/@3dextrude

https://www.youtube.com/@JulioSillet

https://www.youtube.com/@ninashaw-gameart

 

[Pocket]

You've never actually released this texture, have you? Seems like it'd be useful.

 

[Zeus]

You've never actually released this texture, have you? Seems like it'd be useful.

I havent released it; it was originally made for a particular map and I was going to release a pack from that but that hasn't happend. Instead im planning to release a grab bag of basically all the textures ive done

 

[Zeus]

You've never actually released this texture, have you? Seems like it'd be useful.

Zeus' Texture Grab Bag

Textures Included: • Cobblestone (Snowy, Mossy, Blends) • Roofing Tiles • Cliff walls + system to hide tiling for large walls (As seen on pl_sabotage) • Office Wood paneling (As seen on pd_mall) • Office Carpet (As seen on pd_mall) • Diner Tiles...

tf2maps.net

 

[Zeus]

 

[Zeus]

Very in-depth analysis of how slope blur works. this is great!

 

[Brokkhouse]

Thanks for sharing. This is an incredibly valuable thread.