Article · The Rookies
Tips For Creating Your Own Custom Material in Substance Designer
By Marco Vitale
- Type
- Article
- Level
- Intermediate
- Price
- Free
- Published
- 2020
About this lesson
A month-long breakdown of an LED-strip material in Substance Designer, from references to separate subgraphs for the PCB, resistors and LED chips, with notes on gradient-built shapes, curvature-based roughness and emissive blackbody colour. Dozens of process screenshots.
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