Beginner: Stylized Brick Wall in Substance Designer

Let's create a brick wall in Substance Designer from scratch. This tutorial will take you through the whole process from beginning to end while explaining the reasoning for all of the steps involved. Enjoy!
Chapters
0:00 - Introduction
2:16 - Creating our "final blend"
3:21 - Base brick shape
5:41 - Grout first?
14:05 - Filling in the grout with bricks
26:23 - Adding micro detail
31:36 - Cracks
38:55 - Albedo
43:48 - Roughness
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[@Skrek-tq3ip]

This really helped me with my final! I'm definitely coming back for more tutorials.

[@barchtic]

This is actually an amazing tutorial. It explained so many different nodes and how things work together.

[@JeremySeiner]

Thank you very much!

[@arunaldo1089]

Thanks much man...Finally, after a week's search, found a very worthy tutorial of building things from ground up...And with this voice of yours, you would make a great tutor...

[@JeremySeiner]

Thank you! So happy I could help.

[@funnyfox07]

Now I need to rewatch video cause I was thinking of that bumpy cement for the first 30 minutes 😂 Your videos are always helpful. Thank you!!!

[@reecoreeco5556]

man i like this. amazing voice!

[@jpviegas]

This is actually a really good tutorial. Much better than paid ones that are around the internet

[@JeremySeiner]

Thanks!

[@tamvu9909]

Amazing tutorial! Nicely structured, explained and delivered! I'm in a substance designer training course in my company and I have to say, not everyone who know how to use a tool can actually train other efficiently. And you did an amazing job explaining so many thing. Thank you! +1 Sub

[@JeremySeiner]

Thank you very much! I really appreciate your kind words and it means a lot. So happy to hear that you liked the video and good luck with your training course! 😊

[@lchan409]

great tutorial, thank you!

[@artemkovalevskyi1265]

Yeah, your tutorials are amazing. It's my second texture and I have changed some things so it's not completely the same. Thanks for your tutorials, full of useful information and nice explanations. Will continue learning Designer with you

[@JeremySeiner]

Thanks! I’m glad to hear that you like the tutorials and that you are changing things around. I think that’s one of the best ways to learn. Best of luck on your material making journey!

[@phennessy]

Your videos are truely high quality, You are one of a few people on youtube who actually walks through the thought process of material design. Awesome work man, looking forward to more 🙂 also hope you get that AC goin haha

[@JeremySeiner]

Thank you very much! Your kind words are very much appreciated. =)

[@just_yisah]

Amazing Tutorial! Gracias!

[@JeremySeiner]

Thanks!

[@yaenlauper7272]

My most sincere thanks, Mr Seiner! This was a great help with a school project. I've subscribed and look forward to watching more of your videos.

[@JeremySeiner]

Thanks! So glad it was helpful!

[@jiggling86]

im looking forward to watch you while youre pooping

[@xenoamirul2827]

Thank you very very much!!

[@adamplechaty]

Hey dude, great commentary, keep it up!

[@JeremySeiner]

Thank you very much! ☺️

[@LaybalYT]

Thanks so much for this tutorial! Just downloaded the trial of substance designer today and your tutorial was VERY helpful! Really appreciate you taking time to make this.

[@JeremySeiner]

Thank you! That’s exciting! So glad it was helpful. Let me know if you have any questions. 😊

[@nightdragon9249]

How do I get my new material over to UE4 now?

[@JeremySeiner]

@@nightdragon9249 you can export the maps with the wrench icon above the graph view and drag them into the content browser in UE4. Then you can drag the maps from the content browser into a new material graph and hook them up to the proper inputs.

[@chavdadharmesh942]

Very very very nice tutorial

[@JeremySeiner]

Chavda Dharmesh thank you!

[@zachwilkins8392]

The only issue I have is when adding the Paraboloid Tile Sampler for the 'breaking up bricks' there is little circles appearing on my bricks when blended in with the existing texture... Otherwise though, fantastic tutorials!

[@morena-n5e]

I have a such problem)

[@ERIC-nj4yp]

Hello, I also had this problem but it disappears afterwards, phew!

[@trulyclumsy08]

Very informative

[@JeremySeiner]

Glad you liked it

[@bad_gamer6451]

Thank you, brother! I did not understand English, I understood everything that you were trying to convey in this lesson. Sorry, I'm writing through Yandex translator.

[@JeremySeiner]

Thank you! I am happy to hear you were able to understand the video without English. That means a lot to me. 😊

[@johninglis2622]

the non uniform blur doesnt work for me like it does in the video any reason why its very dark and doesnt blend

[@vijaysridhara]

Wow. This is fantastic! IS it this amount of work involved in making a simple brick texture? Or you went for finer details and made it this much?

[@JeremySeiner]

Thanks! ☺️ I think the actual process goes a lot more quickly. I wanted to go into a lot of detail in explaining the reasoning and steps behind everything. However much like any artwork, there’s always more to do to push the detail so I suppose it could be as simple or as complex as you’d like it to be. Once all of the work is done however, you can spend a fraction of the time creating a random variation of the brick with the random seed, or change the brick size very quickly.

[@vijaysridhara]

@@JeremySeiner agreed

[@joer.531]

is there a specific way to export it to painter? I tried just publishing the sbsar file and dropping it in, but while the thumbnail looks correct any time I put it on an object the vertical gout appears to be missing

[@JeremySeiner]

Hmm I’ve experienced this too. Maybe try fiddling with the displacement and tessellation properties in Painter? You could also try exporting the outputs as bitmaps by going to the wrench icon above the graph and exporting them from there. You could then bring in the maps and assign them to the proper channels in a new fill layer in Painter.

[@2PACBRB2014]

My height scale wont work , everything just stays the same height on the material

[@jonasvirsila4179]

21:35 at this point I was so annoyed with the tile sampler giving a strange sun reflection for the "Reshape Bricks". I don't know why, I was annoyed but later when I continued watching your tutorial, all of that is gone and its now reflecting perfectly after the "Surface Noise" was added. Though, the tutorial is amazing, thank you ;)

[@JeremySeiner]

Jonas Virsila I completely understand. =) It’s really great how adding small bits of surface noise can not only break up the texture from straight on, but also the reflection and roughness from an angle. Thanks for watching!

[@jonasvirsila4179]

@@JeremySeiner is there away to prevent that to happen in the future? Is there a setting for it? Cause there was a similar thing with Grout part. :) and sorry for asking again.

[@JeremySeiner]

No problem at all! To reduce the reflection “aka increase the roughness” as you work, you can go to the Uniform Color node that is connected to the “Roughness” output on the right of the graph and increase the slider or bring it further towards right. This will bring down the reflection. You can then adjust it as you go. You can also blend in masks into this output to further refine and specify where you’d like these types of reflections to occur or not occur. Hope that makes sense? Let me know if you have any other questions. =)

[@speedyplays5356]

Nice tutorial, but how can I connect it to the outputs for export? 😅

[@JeremySeiner]

Great question haha if you have them connected to the nodes on the far right and can see everything displaying correctly in the 3D view, go to the wrench 🔧 icon above the graph and choose to export those outputs as images/bitmaps. You can also right click the package “not the graph” in the explorer tab and choose to export as an “sbsar” file for programs that use the substance plugin. 😊 Hope this helps!

[@speedyplays5356]

@@JeremySeiner Thank you, it worked great🙏🏼

[@JeremySeiner]

@@speedyplays5356 great!

[@bultenlol]

4:57 hahaha

[@SentinelOfTheFirst]

I am grout?