Animating Materials in Substance 3D Designer

Learn how to quickly animate your materials in Adobe Substance 3D Designer.
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[@slb902]

Just what I needed, I'm surprised there's not much tutorials on animated materials, it's such a great way to make VFX's. Thank you a lot!

[@ItsFresnel]

Thank you! I was surprised to find so few resources too. I'm currently working on a longer video on making simple vfx, there will be an effects library to accompany its release too.

[@darkage2639]

🔥🔥🔥

[@wafflepresents]

Perfect! I subscribed!

[@wafflepresents]

Sorry if I'm late.

[@cgrealism]

You are the best, Thanks you !

[@dylanthomaswalter]

Hey thanks, this video was super helpful and answered some specific questions that Adobe's documentation doesn't address. This has got to be one of the most challenging programs I have ever tried to use. As you said, tutorials are hard to come by, probably this is not Adobe's most widely-used product. But it seems like it has a lot of potential if you can manage to figure it out.

[@ItsFresnel]

Glad it helped!

[@ItsFresnel]

Hey, I just learned this technique today and decided to setup a demo as soon as I figured it out. If there are any tips or tricks that you know of to speed up the process, share them below!

[@AyushBakshi]

Thanks !

[@lanceuppercut8220]

Do you know if it's possible to animate a single indexed input from a float3? I'm trying animate just the tiling on the Y access, but the input parameter I have to pass to the value processor "Offset" is a float3 and the output of the value processor $time is a float. All I've been able to manage is passing the value of $time to all 3 components at once. I can't figure out how casting and passing variables works in Designer because the current documentation seems like it was written by someone who speaks English as a second language and it's kind of confusing.

[@ItsFresnel]

Hi! You should be able to animate a single axis by passing the $time variable into a Vector Float2 node, and then into a Vector Float3 which will build up a new float 3 type with your desired inputs. I hope that helps!

[@lanceuppercut8220]

Thanks, I ended up figuring it out last night ,but I couldn't figure out how to cast a float back into a float3 without swizzling the variables around. What sequence of nodes did you use?

[@MrMadvillan]

Lum-ocity. theres a "in" in there.