Working with Custom Materials
Building and refining custom texture effects using masks, selections, and layer operations to get precise material placement on 3D models
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Learning Outcomes:
- Create a custom metal material from scratch.
- Utilize layer masks for advanced texturing.
- Adjust projection modes for better material application.
Level: Advanced
Skills you'll gain:
Substance Painter, Texturing, Layer Masking, Material Creation
Key Insights
- Use the color picker to select specific colors.
- Set roughness values to control material reflectivity.
- Understand layer stack processing from bottom to top.
- Utilize view modes to manage blending channels.
- Employ black masks for transparency in layers.
- Adjust brush properties for effective masking.
- Use geometry masks based on mesh parts.
- Duplicate layers to maintain consistency in materials.
- Apply triplanar projection to reduce texture distortion.
- Utilize keyboard shortcuts for efficient workflow.
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