With the aiStandard material selected press RMB > Show All Attributes. In the Hypershade Window create a new aiStandard material. Now let’s connect the Substance Material to an Arnold Shader. The standard resolution of 512×512 is fine for fast previews, for final rendering 2048×2048 is recommended. The resolution of the generated texture files can be adjusted with Absolute sizes or Relative width. Once you have selected the Substance Node in the Hypershade Window the Substance Parameters can be changed in the Attribute Editor. Let’s create a Polygon Plane of 100×100 and apply the phong material with RMB > Assign Existing Material to make it visible in the viewport. Here we can see how it works: The substance node creates the different maps which are automatically wired into a Phong E material. In the Hypershade Window click anywhere on the workspace to deselect everything and apply Graph > Rearrange Graph. Select the desired channels – usually Diffuse, Specular, Normal and /or Displacement under Texture Settings. This ensures that your substance files are loaded properly on all operating systems.Įnable Automatic connections in the Attribute Editor for the substance node. However, it is recommended that you copy the textures that you need to your sourceimages folder instead.

Note: By default, the substance files are installed to your plug-inssubstancesubstances folder. With the substance node selected in the Attribute Editor,navigate to the C:Program FilesAutodeskMaya2016plug-inssubstancesubstances folder in your Maya install directory, or the folder in which your substance texture is installed. Klick or MMB drag the substance node ( Maya > 2D Textures > Substance) from the Create tab into the Hypershade work area (not the Substance Output node!)

To get started select Window > Material/Texture Baking Editors > Hypershade to open the Hypershade window. Select Window > Settings/Preferences > Plug-in Manager and ensure that the Substance plug-in is loaded. Previews of the Substances that come installed with Maya can be browsed here and a library with additional Substance Materials here. Substances can also be used as noise or smart filters. You can use the Substance node to quickly create procedural textures using a library of organic, fabric, and material presets. Texturing with the Substance plugin in Maya and Arnold

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