How to create a rust effect with streaks using Substance 3D Painter

In this video, we take a look at creating a custom rust effect with streaks. The effect will be driven by a brush stroke as input.
*IMPORTANT: Substance Painter 8.1 and higher have an issue with Slope Blur Filter. Please use the version in the project files. Replace the slope_blur.sbsar file located in the install directory with the version in the project files.
Project Files: www.dropbox.com/s/vto69o1lpen...
PC: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Substance 3D Painter
esources\starter_assets\effects\Standard
Mac: /Applications/Adobe Substance 3D Painter/Adobe Substance 3D Painter.app/Contents/Resources/starter_assets/effects/Standard
00:00:00 Intro
00:00:59 Creating Rust Streaks
00:07:27 Adding Inside Rust Streaks
00:09:26 Creating the Rust Material
00:12:59 Creating Rust Edges
00:17:46 Bubbling the Edges
00:24:22 Fixing Metal Channels

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Now this is what I call a tutorial. Step by step, full knowledge of what you're doing. This is one hell of a tutorial for realistic rust. Love and sub

[@wes.mcdermott]

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Thanks much! Lots more tutorials on the way.

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Very nice!

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[@wes.mcdermott]

Hope you like it!

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[@wes.mcdermott]

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[@wes.mcdermott]

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[@wes.mcdermott]

You are so welcome!

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that's amazing, as always SUPER THANKS WES!!!!

[@wes.mcdermott]

Thanks much!

[@esponru5602]

This is incredibly useful! Thanks for this

[@wes.mcdermott]

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[@madeeasy7148]

Thanks for the turorial, this was useful bu hell to follow along to.

[@wes.mcdermott]

Thanks! Please let me know what parts you found hard to follow and I will work to improve.

[@ricardovandebeek4187]

Thanks so much Wes! Learned a lot.

[@wes.mcdermott]

Glad it was helpful!

[@dimitriskoutris6139]

You're a huge help to my everlasting journey of learning Wes! I started learning with your substance series and seeing you keep giving back to the community is awesome. Thx for all your hard work making all these tuorials available

[@wes.mcdermott]

Happy to help! Thank you much!

[@potter1511]

Thank you Wes, awesome tutorial as usual. I wish Adobe let you do more tutorials like this on their official channel as well, just like what you did back in the day :)

[@wes.mcdermott]

I will be doing that again on the official channels! I was working in a different role previously, trying out new things in the team. But now, I am taking a new role as the Lead Substance 3D Evangelist. I'm also posting on my own channel as well to focus on all kinds of content.

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Glad you like them!

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[@wes.mcdermott]

More to come!

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[@wes.mcdermott]

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[@wes.mcdermott]

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[@wes.mcdermott]

Thank you so much! Glad you like the videos

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Very good tutorial!

[@wes.mcdermott]

Thank you!

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Thank you for sharing your knowledge, I have learned so much from this single video! All the best and can't wait to see your next content!

[@wes.mcdermott]

Awesome, thank you!

[@_b3591]

great tutorial

[@wes.mcdermott]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@systematicpsychologic7321]

Great tutorial, thank you. Really clearly explained everything and opened my eyes about different ways you can use alpha data, particularly with the outlining. Subscribed.

[@wes.mcdermott]

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Mind blowing 🤯 thank you so much for sharing this tutorial

[@wes.mcdermott]

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[@michaelllrobson]

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[@wes.mcdermott]

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Thank you so much its was super helpful and so much needed. Thank you for this tutorial.

[@wes.mcdermott]

You are most welcome! So glad you liked the video.

[@forcews]

You are amazing person who even shares project files which are super helpful for references and for fast custom expansion. Thank you so much.

[@wes.mcdermott]

Thank you so much! I do my best to try and make learning as accessible as possible. I am self-taught and struggled so hard to learn.

[@stupidgiant9790]

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[@wes.mcdermott]

Awesome to hear! Thank you much.

[@MarioAndYoshi1409]

Awesome, didn't know you could plug in the Position information into the slope blur! Great video

[@wes.mcdermott]

Glad I could help! Yeah, it's such a cool aspect of Painter that is never shown.

[@PeterEriksson3D]

The Grand Master of Great Tutorials. Keep up the good work!

[@wes.mcdermott]

Thanks man! Much appreciated! More to come : )

[@artyommitrius9466]

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[@wes.mcdermott]

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[@alexbobyr8076]

You are a great teacher. Thank you for such an amazing tutorial.

[@wes.mcdermott]

Thank you very much! Greatly appreciate it : )

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[@wes.mcdermott]

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[@amatanalina5838]

That was really amazing, I couldn't understand when I was watching other tutorials. And I finally found you and this video where you describe this things as simple as it is. Thank you!

[@wes.mcdermott]

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[@wes.mcdermott]

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From this one tutorial I learned like everything I need to texture in substance painter

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So THAT"S how magic is done! Beautiful, thank you!

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[@bohdan_lvov]

@@wes.mcdermott it was SO USEFUL that I understand now how Blur Slope and Position maps are working in genearal!

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My first teacher and mentor, and now i'm close to senior texture artist in Game Industry. Big props to you, always happy and willing to share your experience and knowledge. :)

[@wes.mcdermott]

Wow, thank you! That really makes my day and so thankful.

[@dawidwyborski3753]

thank you for that video.

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You are most welcome!

[@cjellichheissen2379]

How you create edge mask is genius man, well done

[@wes.mcdermott]

Thank you much!

[@TitusKrakenDesigns]

Mister! this is oneof the best tutorial on KZbin! thank you, I learned a lot from it. and you even shared the good plugin and the smart material with a leak. thank you very much! keep it up!! now you have one mor subscriber! ;)

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Thank you Wes! This is an amazing tutorial. You are the best tutor out there for substance painter. Please also make one video for fabrics and leather material in substance painter. Thanks Again! God bless you

[@wes.mcdermott]

Thank you very much! Great appreciate the suggestions.

[@Medal71]

I started using SP listening to your unmistakable voice in the official tutorials. I follow you on Twitter. I follow you here on KZbin. Sooner or later we'll have a beer together!! Hahahahah I wanted to thank you very much for the multitude of information you offer us to make us improve and grow! Thanks Endless :) P.S: Soon we will see tutorials on saving masks, paints, etc. reusable in other projects? I'm a a very small indie game and I would like to reuse the things I learn :) Thanks!!!

[@wes.mcdermott]

Thank you so much! This really made my day to read. Thank you! Totally up for a beer someday. I am always at our conferences like GDC and we have community get togethers often. Hope to meet up at one of our events someday! Please let me know what type of tutorials you'd like for saving masks, paints and reusable projects. I think you are looking at some tips for smart materials and masks that can be reused?

[@Medal71]

@@wes.mcdermott "I think you are looking at some tips for smart materials and masks that can be reused?" Exactly. Sometimes you save smart materials etc. but then they don't behave as they should. It would be nice to analyze further the aspect you mentioned in the answer. For example in this tutorial you touch the subject quickly (creation of smart maps) but more in-depth and wide-ranging tutorials would offer more interesting answers!! Thanks again for the work you do and I hope one day I can attend some conferences etc. :)

[@adrianngangi]

Thank you Wes the tutorial really helps a lot, I wish you could make something similar with organic object like burger patty, bun or anything food related. since I could not find any tutorial out there both on KZbin or Paid Courses.

[@wes.mcdermott]

Thank you much for the suggestion!

[@peterrandall6761]

Hey Wes, thanks for the great substance painter content! Is there a way to use normal map info to produce ambient occlusion channels for masking? Im trying to add a normal map to a metal floor but I would like to add dust based on the risen/sunken areas of the normal map.

[@wes.mcdermott]

Thanks! Good idea. Sometimes I will add an anchor point on the layer that contains the normal data. Then in another layer mask, I will grab that Anchor, set it to normal channel and use levels on the blue channel. This is the Z channel and help in making masks. You might need to invert this channel to get the occlusion.

[@user-gq5oz3uh2n]

Как мало лайков для такой классной работы.

[@wes.mcdermott]

Thanks! Glad you liked the video : )

[@georgeluna6217]

Amazing video as always! The leaks though are too straight how would you approach so to make them more uneven?

[@wes.mcdermott]

Thanks! That is a good question. You can use the warp filter to bend the streaks. I do use it, but just very subtle. You could also use the slope blur filter as well to break up the streaks.

[@davidperyman]

You rule Wes

[@wes.mcdermott]

Thanks much!

[@swati5487]

Firstly thank you so much, it's so helpfull . But i didn't have blending option when i right on folder. 😕

[@wes.mcdermott]

Are you looking for the option to apply all blending modes to channels?

[@kirkir4123]

That's amazing Wes, thank you for sharing! You said that it is possible to download this project and the link is in the description, am I right? because I can't find the link for downloading in the description

[@wes.mcdermott]

Oh yeah! I am so sorry. I forgot to put the link in the description. The description has been updated with the dropbox link : )

[@kirkir4123]

@@wes.mcdermott thanks a lot!)

[@ranger7460]

edge maskinggg

[@HalitHarun]

an exciting tutorial. Everything is normal up to the Blur Slope point though. No effect is seen when Position generator is added in Custom Noise. (Object Bake is done) The software is up-to-date and I am using the latest version.

[@wes.mcdermott]

Unfortunately, this is a bug in the latest version. I reported this to the team. You need to use the slope blur filter I supply in the project files. The Painter team will update this in a future release. You can grab the files here. Project Files: www.dropbox.com/s/vto69o1lpen...

[@HalitHarun]

@@wes.mcdermott thanks for feedback. I solved this effect somehow. But it doesn't work exactly. No problem. I subscribe to your channel to find out this kind of clever filters from you. I discovered this place from Linkedi. Thanks. By the way, the link does not work.

[@jepzu]

I love all your tutorials. One thing though. The intro material looks spot on. However, the one created in the tutorial itself, the final output seems that the rust is floating. It's like its above the geometry instead of below. Can you create a quick video on how you fix that? thanks so much.

[@wes.mcdermott]

Thanks! Yeah, I was thinking that as well. The issue is just in the tweaking of some of the blur and levels filters. For the video, I was trying to be more streamlined and didn't spend all the time finessing the settings. Please take a look at the project file as I made that result better.

Hello, thank you for sharing! where can I find that damage brushes?

[@wes.mcdermott]

Thanks! I think these brushes are default in Painter. I also found a lot of good alphas on this site. www.badking.com.au/site/

@@wes.mcdermott Thank you; I used that website for zbrush assets :)

[@sleepyreapy1222]

Awesome! Could you do a flaked paint with border blend? Something that mixes 3 materials? This border blend was show in the last of us 2s GDC, A painted wall layer, a material under the paint like paper where it's torn and then the actual wall base layer, say plaster on which the wallpaper is laid upon, great video!

[@wes.mcdermott]

Thank you for the suggestion! I will check this out

[@sleepyreapy1222]

@@wes.mcdermott thanks Wes! The video in question wasn't from their GDC but from their technical art SIGGRAPH video, it's unlisted but I can grab you the link!

[@sleepyreapy1222]

9:55 here it is! The border blend feature and the height layering looks so nice :) kzbin.info/www/bejne/qqeleqSGfcZ4rrM

[@tintinolho]

Great stuff, I did it and found out that it works perfectly on a vertical wall... not really on an organic mesh... any idea on how to overcome that issue? Thanks!

[@wes.mcdermott]

Thanks! It should work on any asset. What trouble are you running into with the organic mesh?

[@tintinolho]

@@wes.mcdermott on a human figure the streaks work great on the front facing chest but as mesh planes shift sideways the steaks dissociate form their origins... they can turn into diagonal angles also...

[@ScaryBarryDairy]

Hey Wes, how do I stop an invisible border from cutting off the rust slope effect? when I paint in a certain area it works fine, and another area the effect completely cuts off. I am using a Preview Sphere sample, if it could have anything to do with that. Thanks for the tutorial by the way.

[@wes.mcdermott]

Thanks much! I am wondering if the cutoff is related to UV seams. On the sample sphere, there are UV seams and that can break the displacement. In cases like that, I try to avoid painting the displacement right on the UV seam. I have another trick in this video kzbin.info/www/bejne/gH7XqGNreM9knac&lc=UgyAlrHYO5H2ln47fHt4AaABAg where I show how to blur the height. It would help in cases where the displacement is hitting right on the UV seams.

[@yetidown7822]

Can this be done in Photoshop? I need a realistic rust brush and put it randomly on the canvas.

[@wes.mcdermott]

I think this could be possible. PS can now work with Substance Materials as filters.

[@vraj1345]

Hello Thank You For Tutorial , But i am having some problams like when i made effect my self ( from Looking Your Video ) i am only able to use it for once when i reopen my file i am not able to paint anything same thing happen with smart material when i use on any object i am not able to paint so please give me some solution

[@vraj1345]

and yeah i try to delete paint layer and make new one but same problam happen

[@wes.mcdermott]

I am sorry for the late reply on this. So after you have applied the smart material and select a layer you are no longer able to make any changes?

[@vraj1345]

@@wes.mcdermott yes

[@tonidinkic]

I have problem, don't have those light brown smear leaking down. Tried making mine material in substance- same problem, downloaded your's - In your's file - it works. I convert it to smart material and import in my project, again no smear. Downloaded and updated this Slope Blur Filter, but no effect.

[@wes.mcdermott]

Are you using the latest version of Painter? They fixed the slope blur filter. You need to set the slope blur amount to greater than 1. By default, that slider goes to 1 but you can enter higher values.

[@tonidinkic]

@@wes.mcdermott Oh, I missed that part with default inputing. Thanks!

[@limeminecraft2826]

thanks too much for lesson! But could you be so kind to help me with some troubles(( I cant choose a position generator in custom noise of blur slope(( I can choose only map of position. Is there any solution? thanks

[@wes.mcdermott]

Happy to help : ) When you click on the Image Input for the custom noise and search Position it doesn't show the Position Generator?

[@limeminecraft2826]

@@wes.mcdermott absoluteltly right. Finally I used blur dirrectional, and just brushed everything up, but it would be esier to instal 8 version. Cause I work in 7th

[@limeminecraft2826]

waiting for your next tutorial :)

[@renderpeach]

How do you extend the length of the streaks? :)

[@wes.mcdermott]

I am using the intensity slider in the slope blur. You can overdrive this value above 1.0.

[@rayunited2010foryou]

Could you share the brushes? I don't see it in Substance Painter.

[@wes.mcdermott]

The brush I used ships with Painter and is called Kyle's Inkbox - Chopped. I made a few tweaks to the brush parameters and that brush was used to paint in the mask that drives this smart material.

[@rayunited2010foryou]

@@wes.mcdermott ty

[@Nieverton69]

paint demo damage brush link ?

[@wes.mcdermott]

I don't have a link. But the alpha I used was Kyle Brush Presets alpha 94. That ships in Substance Painter

[@Nieverton69]

@@wes.mcdermott ty

[@bohdan_lvov]

I'm sorry, but where's the version of blur slope in Project Files? What I have in C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Substance 3D Painter esources\starter_assets\effects\Standard is limited by intensity of 1

[@wes.mcdermott]

OH! I am so sorry I forgot to put the actual link in the description. I updated the description now. Here is the link: www.dropbox.com/s/vto69o1lpenqhfa/rust_effect.zip?dl=0 When you open the zip, you will see the blur_slope.sbsar. You can replace it in the location here: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Substance 3D Painter esources\starter_assets\effects\Standard

[@bohdan_lvov]

​@@wes.mcdermott yay, it's working now, thanks!

[@anhtuannguyen2519]

Can't open with version 8.1.1

[@wes.mcdermott]

Are you trying to open the .spp file?

[@DayZcustomMods]

i dunno what to tell ya none of this works. i have tried over 20 times to get this to work nothing paints when i try and paint on top of my UV texture i need rust on my car that first little white box you changed to that orange looking color mine stays white no matter how many times i click the dam diffuse color to orange the orage color pops into the tiny rectangle under the black mask and wheres the rust picture i dont see it anywhere

[@wes.mcdermott]

I am sorry to hear you are having these issues. Can you point to me the spot in the video where you are having trouble?

[@NightVisionOfficial]

The Blur Effect, is still 0-1 on 8.3 ...

[@wes.mcdermott]

Thanks for reporting. I will check into this with the team :)

[@taoyang9708]

Why can't I download Rust_ Effect?😂😂😂

[@wes.mcdermott]

Link should be working. Are you getting an error from the link?

[@taoyang9708]

@@wes.mcdermott Okay, it's already downloaded Thank you

[@purplekey1560]

The waffle house has found its new host

[@fluxstandard8364]

You got a sub

[@wes.mcdermott]

Thank you!

[@itsmesreelal]

Thanks man... ❤❤❤ great tutorial.... 🤗🤗

[@wes.mcdermott]

Thank you! So glad you liked the tutorial

[@TAKASHI2010SAM]

its bon to students like me teacher :)