You're reading from Realistic Asset Creation with Adobe Substance 3D Create materials, textures, filters, and 3D models using Substance 3D Painter, Designer, and Stager

Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803233406

Length 486 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Adobe Substance 3D

Concepts

Motion Graphics

Author (1):

Zeeshan Jawed Shah

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface

1. Chapter 1: Getting Started with Adobe Substance 3D Painter

2. Chapter 2: Working with Assets in Adobe Substance 3D Painter FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 3: Working with Layers and Maps in Adobe Substance 3D Painter

4. Chapter 4: Working with Masks in Adobe Substance 3D Painter

5. Chapter 5: Working with Advanced Tools in Adobe Substance 3D Painter

6. Chapter 6: Working with Materials and Smart Materials in Adobe Substance 3D Painter

7. Chapter 7: Getting Started with Adobe Substance 3D Designer

8. Chapter 8: Nodes in Adobe Substance 3D Designer

9. Chapter 9: Blending Modes in Adobe Substance 3D Designer

10. Chapter 10: Creating a Television Shelf in Adobe Substance 3D Designer

11. Chapter 11: Adobe 3D Sampler at a Glance

12. Chapter 12: Getting Started with Adobe Substance 3D Stager

13. Chapter 13: Models, Materials, and Lights in Adobe Substance 3D Stager

14. Chapter 14: Cameras and Rendering inside Adobe Substance 3D Stager

15. Index

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The Adobe Substance 3D Designer EXPLORER window

You manage your open files and resources in Substance 3D Designer via the EXPLORER window or panel. It presents you with a list of all open packages, each of which is extended to reveal its resources as a hierarchy.

You begin and end projects in EXPLORER because it enables you to create, store, and export any type of resource.

Let’s look at some significant operations you may perform using the EXPLORER window.

Creating and closing a new package

Packages are like folders that hold various resources such as graphs, bitmaps, 3D meshes, and so on. Let us see how we can create and close a package:

To create a new package, go to the main File menu and hover over the New option; you will see a bunch of graph options (which we will cover in the next part). From these options, choose Empty package, as shown in Figure 7.7. You can also create new packages with a right-click in the EXPLORER window.

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