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Realistic Asset Creation with Adobe Substance 3D

By : Zeeshan Jawed Shah
Book Image

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)

Creating complex masks in Adobe Substance 3D Painter

Regular masks are only used to show textures in the white-masked area, while the black area hides the texture, as we studied in the previous chapters. However, complex masks can do more than regular masks – for example, you can create nested masks and each mask can control different MATERIAL settings. So let us do that:

  1. Select TV_Middle_Casing from TEXTURE SET LIST – you will notice that the middle casing of the retro television looks new and untouched, whereas it should look dirtier, as it’s an old television set.
  2. In the LAYERS panel, make sure the Black_Plastic folder is collapsed so that it will not annoy you and the LAYERS panel looks clean and organized. To collapse any folder, you just need to click on the folder icon, as shown in Figure 4.1:

Figure 4.1 – Collapsing a folder

  1. Click on the folder icon, as shown in Figure 4.2:

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