Realistic Game Character Texturing in Substance Painter
In this series of Substance Painter tutorials, we'll texture a game character step by step using Substance Painter. Software required: Substance Painter 1.1.
What you'll learn
In this series of Substance Painter tutorials, we'll texture a game character step by step using Substance Painter. To begin, we'll learn how to properly bake out the maps needed to work efficiently in Substance Painter. Then we'll begin the process of painting realistic character skin from scratch. Here we'll discuss how to add, mix and blend skin tones for a more realistic result. Once the head is finished we'll jump into texturing the body. Here we'll talk about different types of cloth and how to utilize layers to add to the depth of our textures in a non-destructive way. Then we'll start to wrap up this Substance Painter training by learning how to paint hair and how to export our maps to apply to our final game character. Software required: Substance Painter 1.1.
Table of contents
- Setting up the Id Mask Materials 9m
- Exploding the Mesh 10m
- Setting up the Projection Cages 13m
- Finishing the Projection Cages 11m
- Baking the Normal Maps and Id Maps 12m
- Baking the Ambient Occlusion Maps 8m
- Preparing the Mesh for Exporting 5m
- Setting up the Substance Painter Project 6m
- Painting the Base Skin Layer of the Head 13m
- Blending the Skin Tones 9m
- Adding Height Detail 12m
- Detailing the Lip Color 12m
- Detailing the Eye Lids 14m
- Detailing the Ears 10m
- Adding Imperfections to the Skin 11m
- Creating a Subsurface Scattering Texture 9m
- Finishing the Character's Face 11m
- Painting the Eyes 10m
- Painting the Teeth and Mouth Interior 12m
- Painting the Coat 13m
- Painting the Zippers 10m
- Painting the Shirt and the Hood 10m
- Painting the Gloves 9m
- Detailing the Fingers 12m
- Painting the Jeans 13m
- Painting the Base Color of the Boots 14m
- Detailing the Boots 15m
- Painting the Base Layer of the Hair 10m
- Painting the Highlights of the Hair 9m
- Exporting and Finishing the Textures 11m
About the author
Joshua is a devoted games author at Pluralsight. For years Joshua has been a key author behind Digital-Tutors' (now a Pluralsight company) popular game engine training. As a kid, he had a passion for playing video games, which eventually developed into a fascination with the process of game creation. The question of "How'd they do that?" led Joshua on a quest to learn to make these games himself. Ever since then, Joshua has devoted his life to creating games, as well as teaching others to build ... more