Aged Wood Planks: 01 - Creating the wood pattern | Adobe Substance 3D

Substance Designer Material Series: Aged Wood Planks
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Aged Wood Planks: 01 - Creating the wood pattern | Adobe Substance 3D
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[@shannasportelli]

man. these tutorials transformed me into a monster obsessed with Substance Designer. I am really enjoying myself. Thank you so much!

[@Substance3D]

Great to hear!

[@spydergs07]

That blue pop up is really helpful for the newer versions.

[@Substance3D]

Thanks! I'm sorry I had to add them. The version changed right when I had almost the entire course done : (

[@CeresOutpost]

If you can't find the Wood Grain noise node in newer versions, it now appears to be Directional Noise 2 and has some different settings, but works the same. I'm finding all kinds of differences in my nodes/settings in version 2017.2.2 that makes this tutorial series much more challenging. Don't expect the tutorial to be a 1:1 copying experience unless you are using the same version of SD as the tutorial.

[@KuzunE]

Yes. I was using 2017.2.1 and the Perlin Noise Zoom is nowhere to be found.

[@Substance3D]

Yes, very sorry for this confusion. The 2017.2.2 update did change a lot. In the tutorial, I did mention in a lower third graphic that the wood pattern is changed to directional noise to help. I had recorded most of the series and the very next update changed so much on me : ( I'm sorry for this confusion.

[@CeresOutpost]

Thank you very much and sorry if this sounded like complaining, I just wanted to let everyone know that things were significantly different in the latest version. I'm still learning a TON from this series and I'm looking forward to more!

[@user-zj5lm4de4h]

u can add perlin nose zoom and wood fibers from /resources/packages directory of your installation path to the project explorer, and then just drag and drop it to node graph :) i didnt find method to add this to library, rebuild library option dont help

[@adamman8627]

откройте файлы в пути установки, чем в атрибуте - включите -Show в библиотеке - сделайте это Yes- затем сохраните файл.

[@DrPeeper]

These tuturials made my life so much easier, thank you!

[@filippo2185]

I could listen to these tutorials all the day long.

[@Substance3D]

Thanks! Hopefully I'm not too annoying. : )

[@waltage]

such mindwarp technology!

[@InquisitorSama]

Yes, finally here it is :) I was waiting for this series since I saw the overall walk through video of this material :)

[@Substance3D]

Very sorry for the incredibly long delay : ) Very glad to finally get this published

[@InquisitorSama]

Allegorithmic yeah, so am I. Thanks for the great tutorials :)

[@PashaDefragzor]

This Substance tools is priceless

[@DavidLeeSirHope]

Now this was awesome of you guys/gals to make this series....You all rock....

[@Substance3D]

Thanks! So glad you liked the videos

[@Jonathan_Lippert]

Just when I need it the video appear like 40 mins ago . Perfect timing !

[@Substance3D]

Awesome!

[@danielmontoyagomez6381]

Please, update the tutorials to the new versions. I love you.

[@FatalCrest6]

Thanks for making these!

[@Substance3D]

You are most welcome : )

[@satyakimandal6572]

where is output computation in substance designer 2020? Can't find it. Please help.

[@Substance3D]

Sorry for the confusion, it was renamed to "Exposed in SBSAR." Select the graph in the Explorer view and go to the Attributes section in the Properties.

[@gnightrow4020]

I can't wait to use Substance, you managed to create within 10 minutes what I would create in about a few hours painting in photoshop XD

[@Substance3D]

Thanks! Glad that the video was helpful in showing the workflow. Please let us know if you have any questions about getting started with Substance.

[@gnightrow4020]

it seems to be the same as working with layers in photoshop but you can have multiple inputs rather than one so it seems to be a lot more easier customization and categorisation of the initial material and the decay of said material and embedded lighting etc

[@nobocks]

too bad this software is still beta in 2019 :/

[@Ashino1122]

Brillant!

[@skywalker778]

you are a god! i hope i can do this someday

[@Substance3D]

Thanks! Greatly appreciate it. I'm just trying to be more like Daniel Thigher an Josh Lynch : ) Those guys are the real masters.

[@harrysanders818]

OMG, I always wanted to use Transform2D like this but was afraid I couldn't because of the breaking of the tiling. Now that "MakeItTile" nodes make it possible! Opens the door for some more creative use of grunges and noises. Great. I always thought these nodes where jus for images you bring in from outside, it never occured to me to simpy use them on transformed nodes inside my graph. Very cool!

[@harrysanders818]

hoh? I thought copying nodes would not cost any performance? That assumption seems to be wrong? Like if you copy/paste a grunge around, it doubles the calculations?

[@harrysanders818]

I am also really having problems with the bevel node, it barely behaves like I'd expect it to. The distance setting is alwys around 0.001 and even then, It won't produce the same output as you have shown. I experienced this on every of my custom substances as well. I would think this is one of the most important nodes in the sculpting stage, but I am not sure how to use it properly. I'm kinda always stuck on 0.01 or 0.001 with a kinda "meh" result :) Could it have nyhting to do with the output size ? I'm using 2kx2k and I notice you use 1kx1k. And if so, how could I work around this?

[@Substance3D]

It can have an impact. It's best to reuse nodes when you can, especially very heavy nodes like grunge maps.

[@patricksurace1399]

2018 is missing a lot of the nodes used in the first 5 minutes. I figured out that I can scale my perlin noise, but what do we do for "Wood Fibers 1" in 2018.1.2?

[@Substance3D]

Some of the nodes were renamed and replaced right after the video was completed. I indicate in the video the changes. Please see this part. kzbin.info/www/bejne/f5TadXSlmsx-qckm56s

[@natebaird]

I think they fixed the need to have use the 'Make It Tile Photo Grayscale' node. Mine look perfectly fine, even after using the 'Transform 2D' to stretch it vertically.

[@Substance3D]

It can still break depending on how much you transform. Sometimes you can get away with it : ) Just be sure to always check the tiling in the 2D view.

[@sams_3d_stuff]

Is there a way to bypass the nodes like houdini or nuke? To see the effects with or without the node.

[@sanketvaria9734]

I pressed space but when i tried to type the name of base, it didn't typed. Just nothing happened. There is no bar to type to search after pressing space.

[@rogamur]

At 17:57, when you add the Bevel, there is just a single output called "Material" and the dotted line (when you left-click & drag towards the Blend Background) is green?? (I'm using Substance Designer 2017.2.2 build 687). It won't connect. I can click and drag from the Blend background to the Material output on the Bevel...and it connects. The line is green by default (not grey as per usual). Wasn't expecting this...any idea what's happening?

[@Substance3D]

The issue is that you are in Material Mode as indicated by the material output. This mode only allows you to connect nodes that can make material (multiple channel) connections. You just need to hit number 1 key on the keyboard or set the mode of the graph to standard. In the video, I am in standard mode.

[@rogamur]

Thanks...appreciate that

[@ShiiroK]

Hey Wes, I was just wondering if there were any specific reasons to separating the wood pattern and planks pattern from the main material. Is it purely for organization purposes or does have an effect on performance ? Is there any difference in keeping everything together or splitting them up ?

[@Substance3D]

It's mainly organizational purposes. It doesn't have a drastic effect on performance. I like to break up graphs so I can more easily reuse elements.

[@ShiiroK]

Thanks for the clarification!! ^-^

[@reojack5665]

they removed perlin noise zoom when they introduced scale, instead just use gaussian noise and set the scale to 16

[@madiseningalls5847]

Hello! I followed this tutorial all the way but I can't publish it without it crashing. How do you set up the environment toolkit? I can't get it to work properly and I need the sbsar file to put into Unreal.

[@lastprophet9904]

24:22 wow !!

[@Substance3D]

Thanks. Glad you liked the video

[@joukyt]

"wood fibers" equal "Directional Noise 2"?

[@Substance3D]

Yes in the latest version of Designer the wood fibers was renamed to Directional Noise 2

[@spydergs07]

Well, even using the blue pop ups for the newer versions hardly anything I try to create turns out the same as is it in the video. Hopefully these tutorials will be updated to follow the new version. I've been able to branch off and make a few of my own materials and stuff but ones like this I can not get the same result even after watching the video 3 times and re-watching certain parts 2-3 more times.

[@Substance3D]

The new version shouldn't be producing different results. I was able to open the graph and rework some of the content using the latest version. Please let me know what is not working on your end.

[@spydergs07]

I'll go through the video again and post the end results. Thanks

[@RDD87z]

are procedural textures, tilleable/seamless? i mean obviously they can be but is it something you've to be specific in order to do that, or will they come like this automaticaly no matter the size you choose? sorry for my noob question

[@Substance3D]

Everything in Substance Designer tiles automatically. You have to specifically break tiling to get rid of it. Only one to watch out for is using Transform 2D node and doing some arbitrary transforms.

[@RDD87z]

@@Substance3D oohh cool thank you so much.

[@serane4426]

Hi sorry im currently at 17:16 right after you connect the normal map and im losing bump on my normal map the normal map is just blank , everything is connected as it should be but its blank and im getting red dotted lines,,

[@worldofgaming5072]

2019 why have thps up if so much changed

[@danieldutch8621]

Hi Wes, in my version of Substance Designer the Normal Map node doesn't contain an 'Alpha Channel Content' parameter section. So there is no 'Force Alpha to 1' button to click in the GUI. Consequently it looks like the resulting Normal map is rendered semi transparent in the (ie. the checkerboard is showing through) 2D view. Any way to resolve that (short of upgrading to the latest version)?

[@Substance3D]

To fix the alpha, just add a levels after the normal node. On the levels set it to alpha and then take the output black and drag it to the left to the output white.

[@danieldutch8621]

Sweet! That did the trick! Thanks!

[@SakoresDark]

I have a problem where whenever I use the base material, nothing I plug in will show up on the 3D view? I do th right click "show outputs in 3D" thing but...nothing! When I make a new material with several output nodes lined up, copy the input nodes and feed them in to the normals (at around 6:55) it works just fine though! Not a big deal, just means my graphs will be more messy than they could be :/ Ver 2019.3.3 if it helps

[@Substance3D]

You should be able to right-click and drag the base material node into the 3D view to view it's outputs. To view custom inputs, you can enable the custom inputs on the properties and feed in the normal and height data. I start this way to get a base material with height and normal data to work from when building shape and form.

[@SakoresDark]

@@Substance3D This worked thanks!, but now with the planks themselves, when I plug in height data to it, nothing seems to happen, except on the edges??

[@icarustanovic3097]

I can't find noise zoom, any substitute for that particular noise?

[@Substance3D]

We updated the noises to include a scale parameter on them. Because of this, we removed the noise zoom.

[@YuriKruglov]

How to learn about which range of gray is perfect for which task? It's skill or there is a way to do it systematically?

[@Substance3D]

I'm sorry which range of gray are you referring to?

[@YuriKruglov]

Tutor is great but all workflow is about to blend some ranges of gray and bnw maps. And there is no understanding which range of color is ok and which is not, on the beginning of workflow very difficult to choose right range, fault in some first steps will ruin whole substance on higher levels, that is my problem )

[@Substance3D]

I'm sorry if I am misunderstanding, to mean the range of gray values for blending the height maps?

[@YuriKruglov]

Allegorithmic yes, height maps, normal details. Tutor shows workflow but some things are not explaining. Its like "make gray range like this, oh, I think its ok", but why this range, and why its ok?

[@brittanybell8753]

My bevel looks really different to the tutorial? Using v2018.2.1?

[@murtazarizvi368]

mine too. i think the settings need to be lowered

[@harrysanders818]

Same here. Decreasing the vaue wouldn't help. No difference between 0.01 and 0.001 for me. I have the suspicion it could have somehtign to do with the graph output size mabye

[@jaseem7]

Right click and drag and drop to the 3d view not working. 1:04 . Right click just opens a context menu.

[@Substance3D]

Be sure you right-click over the node you want to drag into the 3D view. Are you having issues even when right-click over the node? This shouldn't open a context menu.

[@hyoon7685]

Hello, im trying substance designer for the first time and i got just test substances to learn first steps etc.. but with everyone i open i cant see height at all... in all videos on youtube and in general.. you can see height of the ground, rocks etc.. but all i can see is everything but plain texture.. everything is just plain.. any help please?.. when i put it in marmoset everything is ok

[@Substance3D]

You need to set the shader in the 3D view to tessellation and then set the Scale to a high value. You can see that setup here. kzbin.info/www/bejne/rZaXnYCuip5neaMm4s

[@alexmorgan2334]

then with the texture i can place on top of a uv unwrapped model? ty :)

[@Substance3D]

Yes : ) You can then tile the material so that it fits the texel density. This can depend on the mesh size and UV layout.

[@alexmorgan2334]

Substance by Adobe ty

[@158Gamer]

at 8:40 i dont have the heighpass grayscale in 2017.2.4. Is there a new node for that?

[@Substance3D]

Highpass greyscale is not a new node. It should be in 2017.2.4. Can you please post in our forums and I can provide more support.

[@158Gamer]

Okey nevermind after a restart it is there. Thank you anyway!

[@hansdietrich83]

I hope the quality will change to higher than 360p.

[@Irkie500]

hansdietrich83 KZbin uploads the lowest quality first and higher quality versions will be available in a little while, they take much longer to process.

[@Substance3D]

Yes, the videos are all in HD 1080p. KZbin uploads low quality first. I'm in the processing of uploading all of the videos now

[@dreidrey]

As a new user trying to learn Substance designer I must say, I'm finding it really frustrating and difficult to follow. This is the 3rd tutorial I try to follow from Substance by Adobe and i continue to struggle. Any plans for these tutorials to get an update closer to the latest version 2020 version?

[@Substance3D]

This is a very old tutorial. Please take a look at our newer course here. academy.substance3d.com/courses/Creating-your-first-Substance-material/youtube-y8q6-tgQjZc

[@harrysanders818]

I also find it very hard. I used Substance Painter for years and recently am learing more of Designer. It's kind of a complex soup at first but if you keep at it and try stuff out for yourself you'll probably have one aha moment after another, and I must say that keeping at it is really worth it. It also helped me further with understanding more of Painter. At some point I got that feeling that everything is just like working in an image manipulation program, but instead of a stack you have that left to right node based structure. That's basically the confusing part. Like being reluctant to copy nodes multiple times and being confused by what node does what, but the more you try it, the more you realize that this complexity really boils down to creative use of masking, blending, adding and subtracting stuff. As always. It's still just good ol' 2D images you manipulate, if you subtract all the intimidating looking graph structure. An I must say, once you are able to relatively quickly create our own tiling materials non-destructively and are able to iterate on them by jus altering a few parameters, it's really worth it to break through that difficulty. I always feel dumb while working in Designer and I think I am doing dumb things most of the time. But often, I see Wes or other tutors doing the same things (literally just throwing in histograms or levels etc. or adjusting blend modes, which seems trivial at first glance but is very powerful). Don't be discouraged brother, we will master it. :) Here is a tut that really helped me with understanding: 80.lv/articles/how-to-master-substance-designer-001agt/ Also, with all those complex looking graphs out there, it's really just because when we look at a graph by someone else, we are not the one who have made it, it kinda naturally looks overwhelming, but the person who did the graph mostly knows what is done where and why. It's the same as with program code, you can't understand another persons code at a first glance. It's the same with Substance Designer graphs.

[@danyilbulavskyi8395]

3:23 more looks like Gaussian Noise from 2017.2 version and higher

[@shirokisaragi168]

can't find wood fibers please help

[@Substance3D]

It was renamed. You can use directional noise 1. Sorry for the confusion : )

[@InquisitorSama]

Hey there. I can't activate "Force Alpha to 1" option. It says "Parameter value not supported in this compatibility mode".

[@Substance3D]

To fix this, you need to switch compatibility mode to the version 6 engine. Go to Edit>Preferences>Projects and in the Compatibility mode drop down change it to v6.

[@InquisitorSama]

Thanks again.

[@ReignOfAnimosity]

What do I do if I only have V4 and V5? This is a huge issue I just spent 30 min on trying to troubleshoot

[@ReignOfAnimosity]

NVM another comment contains the levels node after the NRM node

[@samthegaylord]

when i plug in the normal part to the base material nothing happens...

[@samthegaylord]

nevermind figured it out

[@savin0279]

@@samthegaylord How'd you figure it out?

[@samthegaylord]

@@savin0279 sorry it was a year ago i dont remember

[@KaoukabiJaouad]

this software is very confusing to me, pretty complex it's sad that it doesn't have advanced books on it, the nodes labeled either advanced, medium or Complex are pretty overwhelming, the documentation is just describing breifly what each node do, to wrap your brain around it, you have to spend hours experimenting, and reverse engineering examples from people who know how to use the software ...... , pretty neat stuff

[@Substance3D]

I'm sorry for the confusion. Please take a look at our beginner course. tutorials.allegorithmic.com/courses/538aff9f48cd9442b6001a528682ffc6/youtube-NzKtubDsC9o

[@KaoukabiJaouad]

I saw a lot of beginner courses, thanks for the link, iam more comfortable with Painter than this one, with designer i just find myself repeating what others do, than doing something original of my own, i will get there eventually(to illustrate my point with an example, what is the "distance node", i get the idea but you have to experiment a lot with to be creative with it, it's not the only one, kudos to the engineers, complex and exiting stuff), that has nothing to do with software or you , it's all me, and by the way you are pretty good at explaining things, keep up the good work ......

[@Substance3D]

Thank you very much! Please let me know if you have any questions. I am happy to help

[@mcplayshow7282]

when I set relative to parent, the resolution is still 256x256... version SD 5.6.2...

[@Substance3D]

You are using a very very old version. 5.6.2 does not have this functionality.

[@mcplayshow7282]

@@Substance3D it's a pity I have to use the old version, because it's no longer possible to buy the program in my region.

[@Substance3D]

@@mcplayshow7282 I'm not sure about all the region specifics, but I think the permanent licenses should be available for you on Steam?

[@mcplayshow7282]

@@Substance3D Not available in Russia............

[@DavidLeeSirHope]

PLEASE GET A RADEON PRO GPU RENDER ENGINE.......I have 2 WX 7100's but cant use on your vray renderer..... Damn NVidia....

[@Substance3D]

Thanks for the feedback. We are looking into more rendering options. The Iray renderer will work in CPU mode so you should still work on your system

[@gherat]

@4:30 The order doesn't matter because multiply blending is commutative.. kzbin.info/www/bejne/fZ_dfpSwmN6YqKc

[@rbdz310]

going crazy when you said "Enable roughness" and you click "Normal" instead... O_O

[@Substance3D]

Sorry for the confusion :)

[@jameshandshoe]

You, sir, create tutorials that I find to be just great. Your manner of tutorialing is just wonderful.

[@Substance3D]

Thanks very much! That really means a lot.