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For this week's digest, we picked a few packs and collections that can help you work on any project you work on or want to begin. Check it out!
We all know that details play a huge role in creating a nice scene of any type - stylized, realistic, or sci-fi. These strokes, tree textures, different colors can create magic! They definitely add the desired atmosphere to the scene and complete the overall look.
Working on these little details can be quite exhausting and takes a lot of time to get the result you want. We know that some of you enjoy getting deeply in details of the production, so if you would like to find out more about the process, we suggest checking this breakdown of the stylized nature from Dragos Matkovski. It's epic!
If you want to speed up the process, check these packs and collections that can work nicely for any kind of project you are working on or are about to start!
Check out this awesome cartoon water shader from Adam Homoki! The shader will help create the desired stylized look of water with reflections and caustics effect. Adam also added a tutorial on how to use the shader.
Here are some features of it:
- Gerstner Waves
- Buoyancy
- Stencil Mask (no water inside of the boat)
- Caustic and wet sand effect
- Spline based river editor
- Wave resistance around objects in the river
- Foam around intersecting objects
- Surface Highlights
- Water Depth with custom colors
- Refraction
- Waterfall
- Light Angle based fake SSS
- Multi-Colored Fog Post Process
- Highly customizable
With update 2.1, you can use 2 or more colored waters and waterfalls by using the _UniqueColor suffix blueprint. Don't miss it out!
If you are working on a tropical environment, this material by Kemal Yaralioglu can help you recreate the stylized version of one of the most common trees in tropics - strangler fig. With the material, you can create cool stylized tree trunks with roots that grow on them and give off an interesting pattern.
There are three types of licenses available:
- Personal
- Indie
- Studio
Be aware that this pack works only on Substance Designer 2018.2.1. version or newer.
Mel Mneyan has a huge pack with more than 500 gradient maps that can be quite useful for concept art projects.
The pack is divided into 16 mini-packs and includes maps for different kinds of materials:
- Metalic vol_1
- Metalic vol_2
- Skin
- Complementar
- Gold vol_1
- Gold vol_2
- Glitch
- Glitch vol_2
- Glitch scatter
- Sky
- Glass
- Grass
- Transparent
- Sutureation
- Wild
- Ground
The pack also has Hologram decals, brushes, and alphas that will simplify your workflow on any sci-fi environment you want to create. Gradient maps and hologram decals can be purchased separately. Which one to choose is all up to you!
The collection has all kinds of smart materials, so you can use it in any kind of project you want. All pictures have the highest detail level, but you can adjust it as you need. Get creative!
The collection includes 6 mini-packs that are grouped by materials:
- Stylized Fabric Smart Materials
- Stylized Metal Smart Materials
- Stylized Procedural Maps & Tools
- Stylized Rock Smart Materials
- Stylized Wood Smart Materials
Don't forget to check this example to see how they work!
If you want to get more technical details, check out this article, where Kim Aava compared techniques for building photo-realistic and stylized environments.