Mesh Input Experiments in Substance Designer

Adrien Lelièvre, an artist from Beenox, has recently shared a post on his experiments in Substance Designer.

Adrien Lelièvre, an artist from Beenox, has recently shared a post on his experiments in Substance Designer. The thing is that the artist found a way to have a mesh node inside the tool.

I’ve been very inspired by Dannie Carlone and his zbrush+designer workflow (him and others!) that totally shows the strength of baked geometry, and that brought me back to the first thing I ever wished I had in SD: a mesh node!

So I started trying to find work-arounds, and came to find a way to have this mesh node! finally !

Here are some lazy iray shots of 2 different random seeds and material tiling of an extreme example of the mesh node use:

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I was quickly confronted to the interpenetrating geo issue, which, can not really be solved in designer as far as I know.

I might go back to the Max blending mode that is offered by Tile Sampler Grayscale as it lets the meshes interpenetrate each other in a smooth way, rather than having one on top of the other like you can see it right now.

So as I said this one example is extreme, but this flow’s great when you stick to one layer, putting stuff on the ground for instance.

As of piles, I don’t believe it could replace a positioning by hand or a gravity simulation. who knows…

Adrien Lelièvre

The artist will share more details on the progress, so make sure to check out this thread.

Mesh Input Experiments in Substance Designer

Adrien Lelièvre, an artist from Beenox, has recently shared a post on his experiments in Substance Designer. The thing is that the artist found a way to have a mesh node inside the tool.

Adrien Lelièvre

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