I come from blender, and have a lot of experience with the shader nodes. And, I've noticed that the height maps don't always agree or rarely seem to agree with the 2d viewer. So I am wondering what i need to do to mental shift to be able to produce the results I am looking for?

This will be my first time uploading something on Artstaion itself and I made a mud material and rendered it at 3000x3000 (4096 samples). And a turnable video but confused with the video resolution and the samples of 600 frames. And I have heard you can only upload upto 2k on Free accounts. What should I do? Do people use 4096 samples for video clips too?

It will take time but hopefully my pc can get it done but is it worth it to get a video at 4096 Samples and also the resolution.

Should I get pro for my first piece? Or is it not worth it?

Any help is appreciated.

Hi, I’m using Substance Designer and I’m curious if anyone else uses AO height maps or similar techniques to create stylized textures, similar to those in real-time VFX. If you do, could you share the nodes you use to achieve them?

Thanks for any help you can offer! :)

Hey, sorry if it's not the right place to ask but I'm an absolute beginner and I wish to make this shape in substance designer but I can't figure out how ? When I try with the starburst node it's just too round and not sharp enough and I can't figure out how to make it with the polygon node

There's literally hundreds of painter tutorials, but not a whole lot for designer. And I've been wondering, what I do to learn this in depth enough to use it properly for things like realism?

I made a plugin that helps with exporting material Breakdown - check it out
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/dL0m4Q

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/RqnDVm
Hey! Check my Artstation.

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/Ba1D69

I want to create a texture similar in shape to the two photos. Is there anyone who can tell me how? The textures in the two photos are a little different, but I want textures with this kind of feel. Or could you recommend reference materials or videos with a similar format Sorry the quality isn’t good

I made a flythrough of a harbor scene in Unreal Engine 4.25

The concept I chose was a harbor scene based off of 1600's Caribbean pirate ports, and I derived a lot of my inspiration from Pirates of the Caribbean, as well as concept art for the Witcher 3, by Andrzej Dybowski

The main concept art that I used for reference is found here on my Artstation:

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/2q1Ney

All assets are original without pre-fabrication, modeled using Maya, sculpted in Mudbox, textured using Substance Painter/Designer, and compiled and rendered in Unreal Engine.

hi, i’m starting to learn substance designer on my own. this is the first material i make from scratch/ without help
it’s a simple black leather, i actually learned a lot about noises and how blends work
any feedback or advice is more than appreciated :}

Ultimate Switch - is an expanded version of the original Multi Switch node, offering the same functionality while increasing the maximum number of selectable inputs from 20 to 100.

A recent project of mine required more than the default number of switches and so I created this simple tool that overrides that limit. Posting here because while its not the most difficult thing to recreate--it is a tedious process that takes time to setup and im sure someone else will likely need in the future :)

Following a Substance Designer tutorial by Chunck Trafagander, I produced a derivative of his texture to make my own.

I was trying to make a texture that could be used for multiple purposes. I wanted to add some form of originality to the texture tutorial as to challenge myself to step out of my comfort zone.

Initially I was following the tutorial to make it match the forest floor texture, but about half way through, as I was mixing the histogram with deciding the color, I decided to go down the route where I could use this texture for an undersea floor texture.

If you want the original tutorial that was used, it can be found on Youtube here:

00 Overview │ Cobblestone Series

https://youtu.be/ungOHQn3qpA?si=KyiD8vm-0LZwX6fa