Substance Painter Beginner's Guide to Game Texturing

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.

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.

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 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.

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’.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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’.

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.

This lesson will use everything we have worked on so far to texture wood and paint additional wood detail for the wood sign.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In this lesson, you will learn how to stylise paper material and stamp out a custom poster design for the wanted sign.

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.

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.

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.

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.