Testing Substance

[sboerner]

Busy here today! Nice to see. 

Learning Substance Designer and running some tests in Terragen. Here is an early effort, the result of a tutorial. Much more to learn, but it looks very promising. 

Water surface added in Terragen. The texture files are tiffs and too heavy to upload here. If anyone's interested I'll try to get the sizes down and share.

[WAS]

That's a pretty convincing material to use around trees and stuff. Like jungle scenes or something. Great work!

[bobbystahr]

beauty, I use sendspace to share stuff too big for forums. The free version uploads only last a week but usually enough time for everyone interested,

[sboerner]

Here are the files for basecolor, ao, height, and roughness. (Just multiply basecolor and ao.) These are pngs, slightly smaller than tiffs but still too large to upload here.  I'll keep them on Dropbox for a week or two. Watch out for tile repetitions. (Need to find a way mitigate those.) Enjoy.

[Hannes]

Thanks a lot! A question: the roots' displacement looks more than just heightmap based. They almost look like geometry. Is ther something special?

[Dune]

That looks good indeed. That's one of the 'noises' I miss; procedural root structures, for semi distant details like these roots or fallen branches.... All the rest can pretty well be made from existing.

[WAS]

Thanks a lot! A question: the roots' displacement looks more than just heightmap based. They almost look like geometry. Is ther something special?

May be mixing normal and lateral displacement like I do with PBRs for a non-straight edge displacement look.

[mhaze]

Thankyou these will be great under veg

[sboerner]

You're welcome!

A question: the roots' displacement looks more than just heightmap based. They almost look like geometry. Is ther something special?

It's just a normal-based displacement, nothing fancy here. The ambient occlusion layer accentuates the contact shadows around the roots, small stones, etc. In the color shader, ao was used as a mask to distribute a layer of dirt around those, too. So maybe it's just a case of the visual cortex filling in missing information.


Fyi the base color is srgb but ao, height, and roughness are linear. So you'll need to use image maps and set the color and displacement data accordingly.

[j meyer]

Thanks Steve, interesting subject, keep us posted.

[SILENCER]

Turn that stuff red and it'd resemble HG Wells red weed form War Of The Worlds

[DocCharly65]

That's a pretty convincing material to use around trees and stuff. Like jungle scenes or something. Great work!

Echo!

Cool and interesting experiments!