Create a Wool Fabric Texture in Substance Designer

Today we're creating a wool fabric texture from scratch in Substance Designer to complete an image that could be used for your social media. We go through the process of breaking up the pattern and recreating it using many powerful nodes like the tile generator and tile sampler.
Download the finished graph to better understand how it was made: gum.co/VBfMC
Due to the amazingly positive response to this video, I've created an in-depth training series called Fabric Essentials: Wool. Check out my video which includes an updated full-featured tutorial here: • High Quality Wool Fabr...
Chapters:
0:00 What's Up?
3:25 Creating the base shape
5:52 Building the wool pattern
10:42 Adding variation to the pattern
13:07 Adding fuzzy detail to the strands
17:22 Create the stray hairs
22:41 Scaling the pattern down
25:58 Color/Albedo
29:08 Connect our outputs
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As a complete beginner in Substance Designer this was so incredibly helpful! I’ve been watching tutorials for the past two days and most of them were just videos of people doing stuff, not really explaining what they were doing. Thank you so much!

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Extremely well expressed in every action. No difficulty following along whatsoever. Concepts in design made simple. Thank you.

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Beana Bianchi you’re welcome! So happy I could help. Thanks for watching!

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This is a very helpful tutorial. I was playing around with these set of parameters and ended up getting a different fabric that I wanted. Thanks a lot!

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This was awesome! This is by far the best substance knit material I've seen yet! You sir have earned a new subscriber! I do a ton of knit, leather, and suede materials for shoes and I'm just now getting into substance designer and painter. I love all the tips and tricks you included like the tiling view in 2D! I look forward to future videos!

[@JeremySeiner]

Thank you very much! I’m so glad you liked it. I’ll have to try making a leather material sometime soon. Happy texture making!

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@@JeremySeiner awesome, I'd love to see one on leather. Also, working with materials like this in substance painter and making them with editable properties for that workflow. I'm still struggling with how to save out my materials into a library on like drop box or one drive, and setting them up in painter so they just appear in my projects. Thanks again for the great tutorial!

[@JeremySeiner]

I just recently posted a video about functions and parameters where it goes into making properties editable, however I'm not too sure about getting Painter to reference a folder on dropbox to automatically import the files. Would definitely be worth looking into because that would be an awesome workflow enhancement. I'll let you now if I find anything. Thanks again!

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KomradKyle nice to see another lion out there! I noticed that this technique also works for ropes too! Haha thanks for watching!

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[@Lokkix2]

Pretty good, i like it! The only thing that i would do, this is a bit optimization. Some maps will be enough 8 bit per channel instead 16 bit and it makes sense to decrease resolution of the roughness and metallic maps to save some space. But in general this is a great and simple tutorial. Thanks a lot!

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[@JeremySeiner]

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@@JeremySeiner Also, what specs does your PC have? I assume you have 32GB+ of ram and a pretty beefy processor? My PC with 16GB ram and an i7 9700k isn’t able to upscale the texture to 8K at all without crashing the program…

[@skade245]

and how come the individual ”strands” of wool become more spaced out when I scale it up (I did to 4K)?

[@JeremySeiner]

@@skade245 I’m using a laptop with 16GB of ram with an i7 processor. GTX1070. 8K is a lot haha so it does take quite some time for my computer to process 8K graphs. Usually I just stick with 4K but I’ve on occasion had to bump it to 8K. It crashes on me sometimes too.

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@@skade245 the strands are probably getting more resolution from that Fur noise so you might have to adjust it when changing the resolution.

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This is some cool software; how it works. I've never seen this before. You may not realize, but the pattern you made is basically a "herringbone.

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Haha yes! You’re right! Substance Designer is incredible for anyone who would like to make any kind of material from scratch. Highly recommended if you need to make some textures.

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[@petrruzicka452]

Thank you for this tutorial. It has some really good techniques that I didn't know about. That being said, I don't think the final shape resembles the reference image (and wool knit) very much. I'd recommend using Skew Grayscale node right after creating the base shape of strand (and after creating the crease and fur nodes). And then use Tile Generator to create a base column of strands. And then create it into pattern using Transformations and Blend nodes. This way you can get much faithful outcome to the reference. And it's also very easy to control. It feels like yours node tree will be pretty difficult to work with if I wanted to change the basic strand pattern. But that's just my guess, m aybe it's fine. Anyway, thanks a lot!

[@JeremySeiner]

Thanks for your feedback Petr! I’d also like to recommend you check out the updated version of this tutorial it has a much more accurate shape. Thanks for watching!

[@sebastianwerner2520]

Nice tutorial! When creating the AO export node, you don't need a RGBA file, a greyscale one should save you some VRAM =). Keep going!

[@JeremySeiner]

Awesome! Thanks for the tip! =)

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[@Ann-lj4nn]

Do you have any videos that go into detail about how to set up each node so that it's parameters are editable in substance painter? I've seen a few things here on KZbin, but it's still pretty confusing to me as I am brand new to this program. I think you are probably the best I've come across at explaining in detail everything I need to understand exactly what's happening and why. Thank you so much for this amazing video!

[@JeremySeiner]

Check out this one. It might be a bit overkill, but you can expose the sliders using the menu to the right of the parameter. Hope this helps! kzbin.info/www/bejne/j6aXYWR_r6xkl9E

[@NeneBog]

So I know PS, AE, some 3D, I like video compositing those are quite advanced programs. But this blew my mind. I used Substance Designer first time now and I knew it can generate textures but damn I feel like primate trying salt for the first time. Thats incredible! Also I used blur on the directional warp so the hairs look smoother xD Success

[@JeremySeiner]

So glad to hear you like it! Substance Designer blew my mind when I discovered it too. It’s amazing how all of these nodes and tools can come together to create any kind of material. Great idea with the blur on the directional warp! =)

[@NeneBog]

@@JeremySeiner things click instantly cos PS experience but idk what to type into the search bar. Needs time spent. You're great tho. Maybe make a tutorial about using bitmap? and than modifying it

[@JeremySeiner]

Using a bitmap is definitely a workflow that I can explore. I'll look into it. 😀

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Super

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Thanks!

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How did you find this? It's amazing

[@amandal2185]

how would you go about making a ribbed version for the edges?

[@toomkrooz5690]

Please , How can I use reference image window as you preview in minute 2:18 of this video. I need to use reference image on top of graph view and starting work

[@JeremySeiner]

I'm using an app called PureRef. It's free to download if you google it. It's an amazing reference program and I couldn't recommend it enough. You can choose to have it always on top of all apps, or behave like a normal window. =)

[@varun7477]

Hey Jeremy, I really enjoyed the process of fabric creation. I just started learning the Substance Designer. It will be really helpful if you suggest some tutorials so that I can learn from the ground up. [Paid ones too]. PS: Just completed the Substance academy's beginners course. 😊✌

[@JeremySeiner]

Hey! Happy to hear you enjoyed the video. Glad you did Substance Academy’s course too that’s a great start. I would look at Daniel Thiger’s gumroad page. He has a couple of substance designer fundamentals tutorials that are extremely useful. Hope this helps!

[@varun7477]

@@JeremySeiner Thanks! for the prompt reply. I have his fundamental course (5 Parts Series), will learn them soon. I am more into archviz style textures like Fabric, wood, wall etc. Can you suggest some tutorials for that too? 😊

[@JeremySeiner]

Hmmm. One that comes to mind for wood is one of the versions of the intro to substance designer playlists on the official substance KZbin channel. Wesley goes through making added wooden planks and has some good tips on creating that recognizable wood pattern.

[@varun7477]

@@JeremySeiner Thanks for your time, I will definitely look into that. Looking forward to more tutorials of Substance designer from your end too.

[@agustincampagna]

Thak you so much, this is excelent. Can you help me with a problem i have? When I change the width and height parameters to 4k or 8k it loses the shadow gradient, it gets dark, how i fix this?

[@JeremySeiner]

Sorry for the late reply. I'm not sure. Were you able to fix this?