Stylized Sand - Substance Designer Tutorial

A Tutorial for creating Stylized Sand from scratch within Substance Designer. This is a beginners tutorial, but it would help to have a bit of an understanding of Designer first.
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[@enzonicas_creations267]

dude this tutorial helped alot, ty!

[@UselessMiwa]

this is one of the best tutorials on youtube.

[@daany7579]

Simple Tutorial and easy to understand.

[@ben10-inches43]

Very good tutorial. I legit had only ever used SP twice for random things and didn't even know how to add stuff in. I just googled how to search stuff and could figure out the rest from this tutorial.

[@ollicron7397]

The first and only course I finished in Substance Designer. Holy cow!

[@Niko_3D]

Awesome tutorial! Keep them coming :).

[@medmel2160]

very cool tutorial! would love to see some more the edit is very clean and professional though, very well done

[@tombaxter3661]

Awesome tutorial, very nice narration

[@Merkygloom]

Nice, easy to follow, thanks! I'm a beginner with Designer. I was able to make another version with scattered rocks as well

[@petrvetecnik4597]

Great Tutorial! thank you!

[@alfonxear6770]

Great tutorial!

[@shashwatmaurya3415]

HELLO ANYONE HELP, my shape node is showing red and i dont know why, it is not showing anything, please help me out to fix it It is showing total red in node window

[@zdspider6778]

Interesting stuff. Well done. - Would it be better if the lines were either vertical or horizontal? Instead of diagonal? Because I think that way you'll see less stair-stepping effect (pixelization). There will still be jagged edges, of course, just less of them, maybe giving it a slightly higher quality to it at lower resolutions. And if you still want to display it as diagonal, rotate the UV at 45 deg. - I think some specks of crystalized sand that sparkle would be a nice touch, something with a larger value in the normal map, each pointing in a different direction, so when the light hits it at certain angles they sparkle. The first time I saw this was in Skyrim, with snow. But I think they sprinkled those with a shader. - Each pebble should probably be a slightly different color. I hope you'll make more tutorials. Cheers!

[@Grumbledookvid]

In the normal map or in the roughness map? Tell me more

[@readyforlol]

@@Grumbledookvid Those reflections were definitely not baked in the maps. It's most likely some shader magic. I think the guys who made Journey did a GDC talk about their sand shader a while back going way more in depth in the math involved.

[@taramulder8644]

It's a nice tutorial but at 7.24-7.25 all of a sudden the screen changes and a histogram scan was added next to the blur HQ scale, where the next step of adding a contrast/luminocity grayscale happens, but its confusing as I have no idea what you did with the histogram scan and what values that one has. As a beginner in substance designer those kind of things make it very confusing and hard to follow. So my tip would be to really make sure you don't miss the explanation of any steps you have taken, or some people might get confused as to why their material looks slightly different than the one in the tutorial.

[@aidengaal3377]

Thanks for the feedback, it's my first attempt at a tutorial so I appreciate it and ill take it into consideration if I make any in the future

[@trashnomad2229]

Just noticed this as well, had to slow down the video and caught where the video cuts to having a Histogram Scan node randomly

[@aaronnewton6034]

Tutorial was great, many of the designer tutorials are sped up and you have to play at half speed, then full versions offered for sale. This was refreshing and I hope you make many more. As a student with minimal designer experience, I had no issues following and I was able to connect the dots where you made SMALL changes that weren't explained. Adjusting nodes like histogram into roughness is something that should be learned anyways. @@aidengaal3377

[@Jungheinz]

Hi, for some reason Blend node for rocks doesn't work. When I plug Levels node to foreground pin, the connecting link turns red and Blend node influences sand, not rocks. Do you know why it's happening and how to make it work? Thanks

[@gamedevgobrr]

You have to go inside the gradient map and change the color mode from color to grayscale