3D Painting Applications and Physically Based Workflow

27 Sep 2018

This current assignment involves using Digital Content Creation (DCC) and 3D Surfacing tools to create materials and painted texture maps for a few models in a simple scene within Unreal Engine to continue our practice with real-time rendering applications. We’ll focus on a “physically based rendering” (PBR) approach to things. (This will not be as physically accurate as path-tracing in a more encompassing global-illumination model, as we will discuss later in the semester, but aspects of physically correct lighting and shading have made their way into real-time workflows as indirect lighting and other advanced techniques are brought into such applications).

Below are some related resources that may or may not be of interest, and the resources page also contains links to the main written documentation for Substance Painter and Unreal Engine.

Animator Starter Pack (possibility for assets)

• Animator Starter Pack (see pack #2), Shaun Keenan

Texture Layout

• Maya UV Editor Tools
• Headus UVLayout Videos

Physically Based Workflow

• PBR Workflows

Allegorithmic Substance Painter

• Prepping Model 1
• Prepping Model 2
• Pluralsight Painter Fundamentals

Allegorithmic Substance Designer

• Getting Started

Allegorithmic B2M

• Using B2M

Unreal Engine

• Unreal Editor
• Intro to the Editor Video Series
• Material Editor Reference
• Essential Material Concepts
• Intro to Materials Video Series
• Material How-Tos
• Unreal Engine Sequencer Overview
• Unreal Engine Sequencer Quick Start
• Cinematics with Sequencer Video Series
• Rendering Movies with Sequencer
• How to Create Movies in Unreal Engine (19 min video)