When we use Substance Designer, we always make sure that the .sbsar files can be used directly inside Substance Painter, Unreal, Unity, and Toolbag. We have also been building a database of more unique and rarer types of materials. For example, there are a lot of brick walls I see on the internet, and some are great, but I think we should start to really explore the more ‘rare’ materials. This way, artists who are using Substance Painter can very quickly use material masking to get the asset to where they want to go, or our level/game designers can use it directly in Unreal/Unity and know it’s all synced with our database.
Solomon Temowo, CEO & founder of Playerium
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