Substance Designer 5 - Distance and Edge Detect | Adobe Substance 3D

[@bosspanda485]

Love your videos, love the program, but you guys NEED to stop blasting our eardrums with the intro music and then setting the voice volume so low. Yer killin' me with this.

[@Substance3D]

+Alex Mann Sorry about the audio : ) This was an older video and there was problems with the EQ. The newer videos do not have this problem.

[@valentinoaustin4433]

A tip: watch series at kaldrostream. Been using them for watching loads of movies lately.

[@louisduncan9434]

@Valentino Austin Yea, have been watching on Kaldrostream for since november myself :)

[@Youkai_graphics]

your voice is so quite, and the intro is too loud.....

[@Substance3D]

Sorry about issue. This is super old video. Audio levels have been worked out : )

[@FatalMatter-sz6gs]

Basically the distance node bevels/spreads the source input into the black information of the mask

[@masterxeon1001]

this tutorial was epic. My only complaint is it ended too soon! I've been trying to get up on that cobblestone game! This was just what i needed!

[@DutchDread]

Thanks, this is exactly what I needed. Actually, it gave me a way to replace and improve what I had already done.

[@AdamNakonieczny]

I just love this! Now I only need half of a year of free time towatch all tutorials and play with it. sounds like a plan.

[@Substance3D]

Thanks! Check out Substance Academy. tutorials.allegorithmic.com/

[@Pitusha]

Do you have it now? Half of a year of free time?

[@AdamNakonieczny]

@@Pitusha Of course - not. And lot of things happened - for example: Blender 2.8, Allegorithmics "joined forces" with Adobe, I started to learn Godot. But still think Designer is a wonderfull software :).

[@max_nadolny]

How the Distance node could be used to extend the color a bit. I found this in your course: store.substance3d.com/blog/qu-bin-weaves-fibrous-fabrics-substance-designer and academy.substance3d.com/courses/qu-bin-weaves-fabrics-with-substance-designer . But it's not clear what mask was used and what to expect. Thanks.

[@contmike]

Is that procedural tile substance available somewhere for learning? Either as a video tutorial or the actual substance itself?

[@Substance3D]

contmike Hi, It is not yet, but it will probably be uploaded in our forums. I will ask the tech artist who created it.

[@contmike]

Allegorithmic That would be great. Thanks!

[@Morngaroth]

Allegorithmic Yes, I'm also really interested in it :)

[@contmike]

Yes. I'm using SD 5.3.5 currently, and it's included in both Grayscale and Color versions.

[@febelin8908]

god bless! it's so so great video! thank you ! Amazing!!!!

[@Substance3D]

So glad you liked the video : )

[@MrHandsy]

I creamed myself. Hope it doesn't end up costing a few organs a month when you get gobbled up by Adobe.

[@HapZungLam]

How to random offset x and y with tile generator. I can only check on vertical offset on off but it is always lineup with either vertical or horizontal

[@Substance3D]

***** You can do this by using creating a function of the parameter and using the Random function from the Library>Functions to get a random to output.

[@gelbuilding]

Wow, this is something else. Finally i can create my random stone pattern. Thanks for such great nodes

[@jackylin19930503]

Hello, is there a way for you go share the texture created by Nicholas? I am trying to recreate a brick texture that involves difference size bricks and I think the texture showcased in the video may point me to the right direction. Thanks

[@Substance3D]

I can check to see. We also have this video on a brick texture walkthrough. tutorials.allegorithmic.com/courses/f0981f1aae4d0df8daf22e5bd1ba0337/youtube-bpsLg44gSg8

[@TheKenttt]

Great tutorial. Only issue I ran into was that the tile generator no longer works the same way. Replace it with the tile sampler and use "color random" instead luminance random.

[@Substance3D]

This is a really old video, so many things have changed since then. Glad you managed to figure it out though.

[@duke222222]

Or for those familiar with it, this is also referred to as a voronoi diagram.

[@alferatur]

Allegorithmic, would be nice to download some examples you showed here though. The tutorials are fine, but sometimes is more intuitive to share the files.

[@Substance3D]

This is an older video and we didn't supply the assets, but for the newer videos we supply the content.

[@Kiyamlol]

Hi wes, I am curious, when i use edge detect, i can make a nice rounded edge leather pattern, but at some places I get big black gaps , how would you go about covering this up? I had to create a mask in photoshop drawn by hand and i just compose it on top. Any ideas?

[@Substance3D]

Can you send me a PM in the allegorithmic forums with your graph? I'd be happy to take a look : )

[@nikos677]

Excuse me mr.Wes If i am not mistaken Voronoi maps are used to produce fracture on meshes as well,isn't it?I'm just asking because i'm not sure,i had seen it once on a VFX book and just wondering if it's possible to use that map made from substance designer to guide fracture.Excuse me if i have understood something wrong. P.s. Keep up good work :)

[@Substance3D]

Νίκος Θεοδοσιαδης Hi, thanks very much : ) Yes, you can use Voronoi patterns to produce the fracture. This technique is used to modulate the voronoi pattern to create the cracks which are then slope blurred using the slop blur node. This will make a good tutorial : )

[@nikos677]

Yes,indeed :) Thank you a lot for explaining to me.

[@harrysanders818]

Hey Wes, I already read the docs but I cant seem to figure it out: How would I use this node to create dilation between my different texture sections when creating an Atlas? I would like to be able to dilate my maps as a last step in my graph, like what Painter produces on export, so I wouldnt need to do an extra step going into another app for this. Also, this would help to have a tweakable substance with exposed dilation width settings which would be very helpful. Is it possible? Or do you know of any other way to do this?

[@harrysanders818]

I jus figured it out :) . Had to use a color to mask node to mask out my islands and then put it into the mask input of the distance node. Just needed to put in a solid background color beforehand instead of having an empty alpha background. (Doh!) Works great.

[@Substance3D]

Awesome! Glad to hear you have it working : ) Thanks for posting your solutions. It's very helpful

[@royquedlin]

Perfect explanation. Thank you.

[@Lionheart1984]

how could make the stones a little bit larger or squre and not that smooth shapes? thank you

[@Substance3D]

In this example, you need to increase the size of the input shade to the distance node. In the latest versions of designer there is a scale parameter and a lower scale value will make the shapes larger.

[@VertexHero]

How does one use a Ambient Occlusion as a blend mask? I would like to have a dirt texture use the black/darker values, and a grass texture use the white/lighter values.

[@Substance3D]

+NightGamerFX You could use the AO as the Opacity input on a blend node. You can then use a histogram scan right after the AO and use the Position value to drive the intensity. If you are blending materials, you can use the Material Blend node the same way.

[@VertexHero]

+Allegorithmic You're a life saver! thank you so much for the help :).

[@trasherhead]

I don't know what I'm doing wrong, but I can not replicate the result that you get from the second distance node where you use the mask and source. All I get is the dots from the tile random with gradient streaks coming out from the sides of the squares going straight making a cross shape. Any suggestions? I'm on 5.4.0 on steam.

[@trasherhead]

Figured it out. Don't know if I just miss it in the video, but the tile generator should be set to disc pattern type and not the default squares :P

[@mosesthecgartist]

Thanks man. I was getting the same problem and couldn't figure it out.

[@cyberoperative8494]

@@trasherhead Four years later and your reply is still helping people :D Amazing what such a small difference can make. Makes me think I'm never going to learn this. How have you progressed over the past four years?

[@Stormy101]

Are any of these example sub's in the tutorials available to get any where? would be great to be able to look at them and brake them down :) thanks

[@Substance3D]

I'm sorry we don't have those specific examples. I should have made sure to upload them. I will be sure to do that in the future for demos like this.

[@Stormy101]

Allegorithmic that would be very useful. The depth and complexity of designer is pretty crazy! Watching videos like this is a great way to learn but I'm sure being able to look into a sub and really understand it will be massively beneficial from a learning stand point. Thank!

[@brentlio5578]

No matter how much I like filter forge, Substance Designer is just 5 times more powerful that I had no choice but like it more.

[@BboyFTW1]

When I use edge detect I get a purley white image as output...

[@Substance3D]

+BboyFTW1 This could be happening from the type of source used as the input. What are you using as the input?

[@BboyFTW1]

A crystal 1 node

[@Substance3D]

+BboyFTW1 You should be able to set the Edge Width to 1 and the Edge Roundness to 0. When I do this, I get the edge of the Crystal 1 node.

[@MichaelPeterDalsgaard]

Edge detect is not working for me

[@Substance3D]

Is it not working in Designer or in a host application?

[@Soulsphere001]

It would be nice to have a tutorial on some of the more simple aspects of that stone wall. I do recall seeing a tutorial on KZbin that uses colour blends and material blends to make a peeled paint looking colour, and that looks a bit like the inner edges of that wall. I wonder if that's how that's done. I think I might try to recreate something similar to that wall someday.

[@ahmedwaleed6193]

Is it compatible with the Maya

[@Substance3D]

Yes, you can use the Substance .sbsar file directly in Maya. On our download page, you can find the latest versions of the maya plugin. www.allegorithmic.com/buy/download

[@ahmedwaleed6193]

Thank you Does it work with 32-bit

[@Substance3D]

Yes