Stylized Pavement with Moss Tutorial — VOL 05

Stylized pavement with moss between the stones turns up in almost every hand-painted or fantasy environment, and it is more awkward to author than it looks: the stones need a soft slope at their edges rather than a hard chamfer, and the moss has to sit in the gaps as though it grew there instead of being painted over the top. Volume 05 of the Substance Designer series builds that material from default nodes in a hundred minutes.

What you get

• ✓100 minutes of video at 1080 resolution
• ✓The clean SBS file, included so the finished graph can be studied
• ✓Two chapters, height first and then colour and roughness

Chapter 01 — height

The slope on the stone edges comes first, built from the nodes that ship with Substance Designer rather than from anything custom. The pavement stone is created and then modified into shape, and once it reads correctly the moss cover is grown over it.

Chapter 02 — colour and roughness

Colour data is sampled through a gradient map from a handful of source colours and blended with grunge maps until the variation looks unforced, and roughness is handled the simple, effective way that suits stylized work rather than a physically measured one.

The pitch is intermediate: you are expected to know the Substance Designer interface and its basic node vocabulary already, because this is a build-along rather than an introduction. The SBS file needs Substance Designer 11.3 or above to open.

All videos in this volume are unnarrated — no voice-over and no subtitles, so what you are following is the graph going together on screen.