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Realistic Asset Creation with Adobe Substance 3D

By : Zeeshan Jawed Shah
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Realistic Asset Creation with Adobe Substance 3D

By: Zeeshan Jawed Shah

Overview of this book

Adobe Substance 3D is a comprehensive suite complete with everything an artist needs to create stunning 3D digital materials. Getting a grip on the ecosystem of apps can be challenging for beginners, which is where Realistic Asset Creation with Adobe Substance 3D comes in! This practical guide doesn't bombard you with reams of textual information. Instead, you get an interactive, project-based book that’ll help you gain sound knowledge of Adobe Substance 3D and set you on the right path toward a career in 3D design. You’ll start off with the rudiments of Adobe Substance 3D Painter, which will enable you to acquire the skills needed to work with layers, masks, shelves, textures, and more. Next, you’ll move on to Adobe Substance 3D Designer and become well-acquainted with this node-based design tool as you progress through the chapters. The final section is devoted to Adobe Substance 3D Stager, which teaches you to build complex 3D scenes and visualize your edits in real time. By the end of this Adobe book, you’ll have gained a solid understanding of Adobe Substance 3D and developed the skills to build a comprehensive portfolio of work, setting you up for a lucrative career in 3D design.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)

Understanding the UI

The interface of Stager is quite self-explanatory and a no-brainer. Like other Adobe Substance products, Stager is also simple to use.

When you first launch Stager, you are welcomed with a home screen. You can create, open, and view recent documents on the home screen. To get started producing new papers or discovering recent work, you can go to the home screen.

To practice on Stager’s UI, click on Open on the home screen, as shown in Figure 12.1, and open the Chapter_12_Practice.ssg file given in the Substance_Stager_Exercise_Files folder.

Figure 12.1 – Adobe Substance 3D Stager home screen

There are two different modes in Adobe Substance 3D Stager – Design mode and Render mode.

Design mode

This mode is used to stage 3D scenes and construct compositions. It is used for editing the environment where you add stuff and alter it to create a composition. Let us dissect Stager’s Design mode interface...