These videos are great. I think theres a lack of free Designer video content in general, as most of it are just sped up showcases of people that already know what they are doing; in other words very little explaining going on. I have spent upwards of a thousand hours making stuff in Substance Designer over the last couple of years, and I truly wish I had more content to learn from back then! Most of my learning has been through observing techniques used by experienced texture artists and through trial and error. Thanks for taking the time to share some of your knowledge, it is greatly appreciated!
These videos are amazing, I just want to thank you from the bottom of my hearth to share your visdom :') You show us really different way of using nodes rather than using it as is. It's a treasure
Another way to extract a mask is to use a blend node and set it to 'Divide'- it will pick up the difference between the two inputs and based on that, it will generate a mask. In most cases, the mask needs to be inverted though. This is something I found out by playing around with the different blending modes. Felt like sharing if someone finds it useful in any way :) Btw, great and quite informative content, thanks a lot!
Yup someone else pointed the divide out as well - I find either way youre inverting something. It's one of those cases I dont think there's a bad solution! Pick your weapon!!
Damn this went through the mask extraction really well. I think it also just made me think about the subtract function differently, and I'm not even sure why I thought of it as something complicated, now that you kind of showed what it does and how it transfers to more complicated textures I really feel dumb for not having thought about it like this earlier. But dumb in the good sense where I feel better about having learned something
breaking it down to just numbers really helps a lot to understand it better! can't wait for the "procedural placement of cuts" (in stylized wood *wink wink*) video
For sure! Sometimes it's hard to know just because you cant really "see" what's going on and only observe the result. The placement of cuts video is soon™, there's two more dependencies I want to cover before that (vector morph/warp and floodfill) which should be the next two up
I really like how you explained how mathematical operations work together alongside substance designer's nodular system . Things were explained in a very concise and simple way . Good work sir! I'm looking forward to your future courses :)
Thank you for this video, Johnny! Just a very small addition to extracting the mask in this way - if you need an inverted mask you can change the blending mode to "Divide".
Damn, I wish you could let me know how to switched the foreground and background connections at 4:55 . I guess I did not look hard enough, but I looked at SD shortcut documentation I couldnt find it. love your videos, they are so well made and you really know what you're doing and the proper explanations are really appreciated dude.
Difference was literally the first thing I thought about when you asked how one might create a mask. Though I probably wouldn't have known about that node if I hadn't gone through a Blender tutorial and recreate it in Substance Designer. EDIT: You do know about the Difference node, right? I'm just checking, since I was thinking of that instead of subtract. EDIT 2: The downside is that it takes two colour inputs instead of grey scale.
@@JohnnyHalcyon3D That is true. One just needs to think a bit more when using subtraction, plus it saves one from having to convert the values to colour first. EDIT: Though if for whatever reason one needs to have a height map that can be controlled to push in as well as out, then there might be some problems with using subtraction. Though those are probably rare situations.
Forgot to mention again, there is a link to the example graph in the description!
These videos are great. I think theres a lack of free Designer video content in general, as most of it are just sped up showcases of people that already know what they are doing; in other words very little explaining going on.
I have spent upwards of a thousand hours making stuff in Substance Designer over the last couple of years, and I truly wish I had more content to learn from back then! Most of my learning has been through observing techniques used by experienced texture artists and through trial and error.
Thanks for taking the time to share some of your knowledge, it is greatly appreciated!
Thank you so much for taking the time to do it! I actually wait for your tutorials! It is very very helpful.
No worries, glad you found it helpful!
These videos are amazing, I just want to thank you from the bottom of my hearth to share your visdom :') You show us really different way of using nodes rather than using it as is. It's a treasure
Another way to extract a mask is to use a blend node and set it to 'Divide'- it will pick up the difference between the two inputs and based on that, it will generate a mask. In most cases, the mask needs to be inverted though. This is something I found out by playing around with the different blending modes. Felt like sharing if someone finds it useful in any way :) Btw, great and quite informative content, thanks a lot!
Yup someone else pointed the divide out as well - I find either way youre inverting something. It's one of those cases I dont think there's a bad solution! Pick your weapon!!
Damn this went through the mask extraction really well. I think it also just made me think about the subtract function differently, and I'm not even sure why I thought of it as something complicated, now that you kind of showed what it does and how it transfers to more complicated textures I really feel dumb for not having thought about it like this earlier. But dumb in the good sense where I feel better about having learned something
Thats awesome lmao! yeah I often feel that good dumb experience, its a good one
I was actually struggling with this, had to make a bitmap in Photoshop to get the proper mask. All your videos are awesome!
Booo! Photoshop!
You keep blowing my mind, i love it Johnny!
LFG!
Great vid!!
breaking it down to just numbers really helps a lot to understand it better! can't wait for the "procedural placement of cuts" (in stylized wood *wink wink*) video
For sure! Sometimes it's hard to know just because you cant really "see" what's going on and only observe the result. The placement of cuts video is soon™, there's two more dependencies I want to cover before that (vector morph/warp and floodfill) which should be the next two up
For the engagment
Thanks for doing this!
I really like how you explained how mathematical operations work together alongside substance designer's nodular system . Things were explained in a very concise and simple way . Good work sir! I'm looking forward to your future courses :)
Best substance stuff on this channel!!! Thank you a lot for your time and work
very informative video! thankyou
Thank you for this video, Johnny!
Just a very small addition to extracting the mask in this way - if you need an inverted mask you can change the blending mode to "Divide".
Such a smart man
Best videos!!
Loving these videos, I learn something every time. Tysm :D
Damn, I wish you could let me know how to switched the foreground and background connections at 4:55 . I guess I did not look hard enough, but I looked at SD shortcut documentation I couldnt find it.
love your videos, they are so well made and you really know what you're doing and the proper explanations are really appreciated dude.
Select both node connections and press x
the height blend should do exactly what you're doing here if you just set the contrast to 1
Sometimes you dont want that though :)
Difference was literally the first thing I thought about when you asked how one might create a mask. Though I probably wouldn't have known about that node if I hadn't gone through a Blender tutorial and recreate it in Substance Designer.
EDIT: You do know about the Difference node, right? I'm just checking, since I was thinking of that instead of subtract.
EDIT 2: The downside is that it takes two colour inputs instead of grey scale.
Subtraction is just a difference!
@@JohnnyHalcyon3D
That is true. One just needs to think a bit more when using subtraction, plus it saves one from having to convert the values to colour first.
EDIT: Though if for whatever reason one needs to have a height map that can be controlled to push in as well as out, then there might be some problems with using subtraction. Though those are probably rare situations.
C is not equal to A+B, but C = max(A,B), so you can not write C-B = A