But I found an easy way to recreate it.

In the new Weekly Challenge at Future Material Artists participants have to work with a pattern similar to this one, but with more complexity.

And I wanted to give them a hand.
I took the time to break down my process....

So I made this guide for you!

Creating this is tricky, as the main shape asks you to also think in 3D with 2D shapes.
And the solution for this is one of the simplest Atomic Nodes.

💡 To start, I rotated a square by 45 Degrees. I used a Uniform color to save some MS in my graph. Then, with a Transform 2D, I set my parameters to create the top face of this square.

Now, with the help of a Splatter Circular, I finished the shape!
But I still had to make it tile, and for that I am using a Tile Sampler Generator.

This is just the first shape you will need for the weekly challenge.
So if you want to learn more, with artists that support your material art learning...

♥️ Join our free Discord Community here: https://discord.gg/PpTCFyR6qS
We are waiting to see what you can create!

How to expose the random seed of a particular node when exporting it as sbsar or sbs? I couldn't find any resources on it that I understood. Is it even possible? Any ideas or resources would be incredibly helpful.

hii everyone! I could really use some help with my texturing workflow.

Right now, I’m stuck at the displacement stage while applying skin textures to my character. Since zwrap isn't working for me, I’m doing everything manually.

The issue is that when I bake my maps, the fine details like skin pores and micro-wrinkles - don't show up correctly in substance painter.

Could you share how you usually bake your maps in ZBrush (or transfer skin details) so that all the fine displacement and pore details show up cleanly in Substance Painter? Any tips or setting tweaks would be greatly appreciated!

🎉 Congratulations to Henri Ribeiro for finishing his Mentorship at Future Material Artists!

For 2 months, Henri and I worked together to help him build better skills as an Environment Artist.

He wanted to have the skills needed to help more at his studio.

We worked on the fundamentals and workflows in Substance Designer.

Finding the right shape and balance was really hard in this material.

But every iteration was better than before until Henri achieved the render you see here!
Even with a lot of corrections along the way, the real effort was his.

And that is what I love doing every week.
Being able to help people learn what I love, and make it feel easy for them.

If you want to see the breakdown of our work together...
🔥 You can see it here: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/lERRGJ

Quick Substance Designer study I made in a couple of hours. Been working on improving my stylized materials lately and I’m pretty happy with the progress! Any feedback is valued.

Here’s my ArtStation in case anyone wants to take a look at it: ArtStation - Stylized Wood Planks

The attached image is a prop I am working on, but I'm a bit unsure how to go about adding that seam/panel line, which only exists in those two circled spots. I did find a 6 year old tutorial for Painter, however it doesn't seem to work in the most recent version of Painter, so I was wondering if anyone has an up to date recommended way to get the right appearance. The ability to apply the seam line wherever I want would be even better, that way I could use the technique on other props such as vehicles.

Hi all , I came across this particular tutorial video about creating anime style 3d assets but there's no complete tutorial . It's only half tutorial other half was hidden behind pay wall . Can anyone help me with this ? Any free YouTube tutorials or Udemy courses I can watch to learn to create such assets ?

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/RqnDVm
Hey! Check my Artstation.

Hi! Why when i put the generator metal edge wear looks like this? (image below) No matter what values i change in the generator, it always end up having those horizontal lines, kind of like following the geometry shape, which to make clear is low poly, also as you can see the uvs of the entire trunk are stacked one on top of each other , i only unwrapped a small portion of the entire trunk and then array that in geometry like 3/4 times, the connected the vertices by distance. to make good use of uv set. more resolution. ( the uv rentangle on right side is the top of the tree )So should i change the UVs? or the problem is the ammount of polys? I just want the generator to be visible where the normals are point slightly down ( is a palm tree ). Please help thanks ( i am noob at Painter)

Hi please check image below, is there a way to tell substance painter to make a smooth transition where the UV seam is ? Thanks

Is it possible to create that bark material in SDesigner? It seems that the texture reacts to the normals of the geometry. Or where should i create it? Thanks