PROCEDURAL EVERYTHIIIIING. Seriously though, Blender's new geo node system has made completely procedural projects not only a possibility, but even made them a practicality.
I’m starting to make 3D game assets (photorealistic sci-fi models). Would u recommend using marmoset for baking or is Blender good enough for this? And what about Quixel and Substance Painter? Im new to the part of texturing, baking etc... if u guys could help me, I’d appreciate it
@@herogamerbr12 definitely you should use substance painter for baking, it's the best, In 2nd position and quite close it will be marmoset I don't think that it's possible to bake with quixel mixer in last position if we put quixel aside it would be blender. You can bake what you want with blender but it's just more annoying complex non ergonomic..
If Blender adds some stuff to it's Shader Nodes, it could be really powerful. People like Ducky 3D and Kristoff Dedene can do wizardry with what's on it right now, there's a lot of potential in it.
One thing to be careful of: make sure you still export the generated texture into a static asset, otherwise you could incur performace penalties that may or may not be significant.
Always performance optimize at the end of your project. The additional flexibility and reduced memory usage might make the purely procedural textures more performant than static assets, and sometimes it may not. Experiment with your team and modify based on results rather than assumptions.
@@namonaite AI can't be the answer to everything. you can't make a good texture with AI. It's static, you got 0 control on what you make, and this won't be useful for games because you make one texture for one single part of the environment. Your texture needs to be adaptable to various situations with a few parameters, which won't be the case with AI.
@@ibanwar245 AI can. If your lead artist can describe to you in words what needs to be done. Then AI also can understand it and get it done. Such AIs will not be editor based. Dalle 2 is not editor based. It is based on linguistic commands. The only reason why humans are smarter than apes is the same reason why apes are smarter than a rock. It is because neuromorphic computing. That is how our own human language works in the first place. Or anything in our own heads. The thing is that AI can learn. The so called learning in machine learning is not just some word that just fits. It is how our own brain learns. It is neuromorphic learning. That is why anything a human can do the AI also will be able to do. I am afraid such AI is inevitable. And this time not only unskilled workers will lose their job. But artist and programmers too.
@@techpriest4787 Great post! IMHO at some point there will be no need even for lead artists. The player can describe what they want to play or be an ultimate game master and describe the game for others. More like a book writer than a technician. It will be a paradise for celebrities, because AI is also great at improving text, so even an idiot will be able to create elaborate descriptions in someone else's style and make game/movie/comicbook out of it ;) (I recommend reading the memes that ai generates - brilliant!). And all changes can be made instantly. There is no need to analyze data and think about what to do next. AI can adapt much faster, do an AB test and choose the more effective option. We already deliberately block the speed of AI in games like starcraft to pretend that the player has any chance ;) Everything is just a matter of time and money.
I clicked because I saw Mamimi on the thumbnail and wondered what she had to do with procedural textures. Then saw Genshin gameplay. Lmao you are cultured my guy.
I've been saying that we need to cut down on download/HD size and be able to make more content faster with procedural textures. I'm glad someone else is on the same page. It does require more 'loading' at the front but once in it can work with them much faster especially for accurately drawing at any pixel perfect distance since it's literally drawing it on the fly, not trying to swap a different texture or figure how to blend pixels correctly together.
Regarding the background footage I don't think genshin uses procedural textures as it's made up of basically a bunch of prefabs for rocks (as often you can see where one rock object ends and another begins) and a essentially a giant plane for grass you can see this if you go out of the map using glitches that is fun to do
Yeah I've been looking at this pretty closely and I'm very sure that while they might have used procedural textures in the pipeline, they were made into image textures instead of being procedural during gameplay. They might have some kind of post-processing effect for the different areas in the game to slightly alter the hue's. Cities use most likely a trimsheet/texture atlas workflow
oh and the reason why I think this is that they could have used triplanar mapping for example to hide uv-seams in the rocks and the seams are visible everywhere
Procedural is a tool in the toolbox. Learn it, use it where it is useful, but it doesn't replace non-procedural methods. If your game world project requires hundreds of different rock variations then project management and art direction probably have bigger problems XD Didn't realize I had just been click-baited into watching a commercial.
Im trying too learn PBR styles for stylised characters an its tough but defo best thing to remeber is during sculting phase is the best place too plan things for alot of is! Man a deep cruve or scratchy effect is so fun too use.
@@Andy.R50 Well, no, i use one material pretty much for everything that has one texture on it. This texture is a grid of loads of colors, this saves memory while playing
When I make anime character models I like to start texturing the hair by creating a basic toon shader that uses a gradient, cell shading, and a bit of ambient occlusion, then bake that to an image to do manual touch ups like adding highlights
Procedual Textures do take up more computing power. This should be noted. Depending on scenes in Blender, having a lot of procedual textures with fine detail can bump up the Storage/RAM/Computing time quiet a bit. While Blender is made to render things over several minutes, hours or days, a real time game engine would only suffer from big procedual textures. Unless you bake those procedual textures for the finished game, in that case nothing matters and procedual texturing is flawless.
@@shinjite06 They are a realtime thing in Blender. You can create and edit textures on the go while editing models, no problem. If you bake them or not is up to you. Rendering procedual textures takes quiet some performance, if your materials are highly detailed. Especially Noise textures take alot
In 30 years from now this whole process could probably be automated even further... Just look at how far nueral networks have come and i doubt the gaming industry wont heavily continue to implament that technology. We might even get to a point where algorythms fully build parts of games just based on text prompts and existing libraries / references.
I feel like this will just be standard as games get bigger and more complex in the future as well as other forms of procedural development techniques and maybe even some machine learning applied to stuff as well.
My dream is to be able to create my own textures, although I doubt I can make it come true... Well, several months ago I could only dream of being able to do 3D modeling for a character & the outfits... Now I can do that already, but for now I can only give my models the basic color/metalness/roughness... I know I can download some textures online... but I also want to be able to do every little thing by myself... It's more about boosting my skill for a personal satisfaction rather than just "get the job done quick"...
I agree this is very cool and a quick hack! but there's just something about someone hand drawing everything that gives it so much more value in my opinion. I know that's not the point you made, but just wanted to mention it anyway :3 side note: this is really great for people who don't have time or the skills to hand draw details like that as good as a program, thanks for the useful info! :D
how about creating an entire biome of rocks using the same procedural texture and variation masks? even breaking UV seams with geometry patches with alpha blend and using this same set of textures to map terrain amazing, but that's what they achieve in Zelda Breath of the Wild where the biomes are more than decorative they are sustainable and everything in a platform as limited as the Switch and it is something that Nintendo is using from its previous old school video games, now with virtual textures and dynamic lighting. learning Geometry Node has been the door to being able to develop all these techniques that were previously inhumanly impossible through traditional modeling
thanks, can you make videos with more technical explanations please? and maybe a tutorial on how to achieve genshin-like shading with unity urp? thank you for reading
Now we just need a module in unreal that takes in a procedural texture project file and lets you set the parameters and generate the textures at runtime so our game sizes dont balloon from having 3000 copies of a single rock texture with slight differences
You can already do this to a certain degree by making a material that tiles a noise in different ways per instance. Make a few variables like tiling and hues exposed and you're set to make a ton of variations just by instancing the material. All you need to do is export your procedural texture's main components as images and rebuild it as a UE material. I'm not sure if the words I'm using are exact since I've been working in Unity for the past year, so its been a little while since I touched unreal, but the concept should be applicable.
Baking is also important to reduce calculation time. Procedural textures (especially for very complex materials) are very difficult to calculate in real time. And we don't need infinite resolution all the time. For games with simple graphic (like Genshin Impact) procedural textures might work well. But for games with more photorealistic graphic, procedural textures would greatly impact performance. But baking, allows graphic designers to make procedural textures, and then bake it into standard texture with desired resolution. The second thing is, often making good procedural texture take more time than making texture by hand. I find it a good compromise, to make texture by hand and add imperfections with procedural texturing. But proportion changes depending on project. I don't imagine texturing a vast word of MMO like Genshin Impact by hand.
this is kindof untrue for many cases, GPUs tend to be limited by memory bandwidth, so a complex PBR setup that has things like normal, metallic, and subsurf maps would be better calculated in a realtime shader although most artists wouldnt be able to work like this, and texturing makes the workflow easier for everyone with less room for error
@@khlorghaal Yes, that is true, that in many cases GPU memory is limiter (Especially for big scenes). For those cases, procedural textures might greatly increase the quality of textures and their quantity with "relatively" low memory usage. I never denied it, I only mentioned calculation speed as a resource. But of course, in real situations, it will be often a balance between those two. But I wouldn't call Normal, metallic, roughness, albedo and subsurface complex. Almost all PBR materials use those (except subsurface as only some materials use it.). The complexity of procedural material comes with generating noise textures and doing mathematical operations on them. Doing photorealistic PBR material of complex material requires a lot of noise and operations. And in the end, it put a lot of strain on computing power and results in FPS (both for games and rendering). In conclusion, in those cases, in my experience, it's better to bake also normal/roughness/albedo/Metalic of those very complex materials to trade memory for speed. But in an example like that video: Genshin Impact, the material is simple enough, that it doesn't take as much computation power. And therefore can be easily generated procedurally with noise and smart mathematics.
Hey man, just letting you know, may wanna throw a warning up for those purchasing your Environment Artist course. At the moment, I'm getting a warning on Blendswap saying it's down due to losing it's security certificate. I can't get the Blender brushes for sculpting.
@@AllExistence we already have this “ai”. it’s scripts and smart textures, but I assume you don’t know enough about ai or 3D art enough to differentiate
@@AllExistence hell, we even have the ones that generates models and textures for trees, grass, buildings, etc. it’s already existed. It’s not 2 years ago, it’s 10 or so. And yet here we are.
and for the low low low low low price of only $300 you too! can utilize this power! Did I mention the low low low low practical, and affordable price, that everyone can afford of a mere $300!!!!
This video could also be called "how to texture when you're so inept at drawing, you can't even make a legible stick figure". Because this is how i texture, because i can't even play hangman and make it look right.
Im annoyed with the thumbnail because I knew it would have nothing to do with the video, I was genuinely interested from the title though, turns out this is kinda what I do already
I really thought procedural texturing will make that. I was like "to this? really?" turns out it was just another click bait. I hate this CZcamsrs like this. 😂
I'll be disappointed if I can't do something like this by 2026: /imagine prompt: low poly stylized rock with PBR textures --variants=200 --lowpoly --gameready And then tweak the prompt to get what I want.
It's the year 2045, I still use Blender because: - It's free? - Substance requires expertise of at least 45+ years in order to barely use it "properly", first hour in, and was struggling doing pretty hard stuff such as rotating the camera, or like panning xD (Yea I guess I'm also kinda not compatible with the software)
Well it could probably work for characters that aren't important and have some basic clothing but I guess it would require you to do each body part (legs, feet, arms, hands) in different sessions and you would probably want to use it only a few times so it wouldn't be worth it either way.
You cannot export them directly, you can just try to recreate the procedural material in UE. However, since UE is missing some features, like fe detecting curvature (currently there is no real curvature shader, that you could use), some maps or masks have to be baked. If you manage to get those masks, then you can create a procedural material in UE, that should work quite similar. A true export would only be possible, if UE had the same nodes and possibilities, that others programs use (but then you could drop those other programs and create everything in UE ^.^ )
@@brainshack9077 Sounds like a new plugin, since most cases i came across were about Quixel Mixer and Unreal, and that one bakes the textures, it does create completely procedural materials in UE. So i would assume, Substance painter bakes them as well, becausei haven´t heard anything about a real curvature shader for UE (just about screenspace shaders, but those are prety useless, since they are just post process shaders). i wonder how the UE master material for this Substance plugin looks like (if its more or less a copy of the Quixel Mixer material, or truly procedural). Edit: Ok, this seems to be an pretty old plugin, from what i cn find on youtube, but it looks like the Quixel Mixer solution, where it bakes the most textures and masks, and then gives you some sliders for adjusting in UE.
Yup. When I personally graduated from University back in 2014, no one had even heard of "Blender", PBR still a brand new and rare trick, and yes - manual UV unwrapping + creating your textures in Photoshop were still indeed the "norms". Just goes to show how fast this industry has evolved; just 10 years ago, you didn't even have tools like Substance.
This is probably a dumb question but meh. Does the Material Instance in Unreal count as procedural texturing? I’m slow when it comes to understanding terms and whatnot. Thank you in advance!
While true, famous studios still have the luxury of still being extremely nitpicky, like who doesn't want to be in these studios. They still look for talent, especially head-hunting from their competitor. This easiness will be more apparent to smaller to middle sized studios, where them buying out studios are very low.
As a person who have never make textures in an old-school way (why the hell have I watched this) I feel like I'll be missing out if I use this approach.
hi I have many question about procedure texture and substance painter 1. can procedure texture work on low end pc/laptop?? 2. I tried learning substance painter but i can understand cuz some time when i open substance painter, its completely different as what I see on video. I tried watching ur video still I could not learn the basic 3. It gives out warning that my graphic card is low, is it still okay to use??? 4. Is there any good and fresh video where they can teach me how to use substance painter basic??? I hope u reply, thanx in advance for giving us free knowledge.
1. Procedural textures definitely take more processing power, but that's a field of optimization with a lot of people working on it. 2. Perhaps you can find text documentation? You'll still need to find stuff but it'll be easier to go at your own pace. 3. I think you'll want to look around for more lightweight alternatives. Generally open source stuff will provide better quality end-results while being way more optimized. I just looked up substance painter and yeah no-one has a computer good enough for Adobe software to run good lmao. 4. I dunno I just looked it up. Godot on the other hand has good procedural texturing tools built in and good documentation on using them.
I wanna use Blender so, Should I buy legion 5 with Rtx 3050 or rtx3060. My budget is upto 3050 only but as future proofing concerned I can go for 3060, is it worth it or Rtx3050 is enough. I don't wanna spend over for it.
The RTX 3050 is really bad so I would say only get the 3050 if you must buy right now or cannot save the money. If you do anything else on your computer like play games or make content I would personally prefer waiting to have money for the 3060 even if I had to wait a month or two as the 3060 is a lot better in every aspect.
Mixer doesn't have a baker. Its the primary reason why it came so close to being a free alternative to SP, but failed to do so cause it decided to not include the one thing that makes its self superior.
@@jamesjason8471 yeah I agree but we can also import the maps from xnormal, maya, blender or zbrush. I have an issue with my lowpoly mesh exploding even after smooth groups are imported with the mesh if I enable displacement my guess is that if the mesh is so lowpoly it cannot handle the displacement correctly. It needs the maps on the paterial or you need a greater resolution on the mesh
Failure to adapt a fair play2earn model that rewards the players for keeping the community thriving, and putting in the grind will be their own demise. Once AI can keep up with non artists non dev, it's game over for big studios.
lol @ Ubisoft
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PROCEDURAL EVERYTHIIIIING. Seriously though, Blender's new geo node system has made completely procedural projects not only a possibility, but even made them a practicality.
I really need to look into those Geometry nodes ...
This is substance painter, though
I’m starting to make 3D game assets (photorealistic sci-fi models). Would u recommend using marmoset for baking or is Blender good enough for this? And what about Quixel and Substance Painter? Im new to the part of texturing, baking etc... if u guys could help me, I’d appreciate it
@@herogamerbr12 definitely you should use substance painter for baking, it's the best, In 2nd position and quite close it will be marmoset
I don't think that it's possible to bake with quixel mixer
in last position if we put quixel aside it would be blender.
You can bake what you want with blender but it's just more annoying complex non ergonomic..
If Blender adds some stuff to it's Shader Nodes, it could be really powerful. People like Ducky 3D and Kristoff Dedene can do wizardry with what's on it right now, there's a lot of potential in it.
These last three videos are on a whole new level, the amount and quality of information given in simply three and a half minutes is amazing!
One thing to be careful of: make sure you still export the generated texture into a static asset, otherwise you could incur performace penalties that may or may not be significant.
Sometimes memory loads are more expensive than recomputing every frame
Always performance optimize at the end of your project. The additional flexibility and reduced memory usage might make the purely procedural textures more performant than static assets, and sometimes it may not. Experiment with your team and modify based on results rather than assumptions.
@@overloader7900 depends on the texture though. Might be wise to test both for the specific texture.
To be completely honest, all the benefits of procedural textures are secondary to the fact that they incredibly fun and satisfying to make.
Bold assumption that in 2045 anyone will need texture artists ;)
Would assume they still exist in some capacity in some countries where an AI License is to expensive.
@@namonaite AI can't be the answer to everything. you can't make a good texture with AI. It's static, you got 0 control on what you make, and this won't be useful for games because you make one texture for one single part of the environment. Your texture needs to be adaptable to various situations with a few parameters, which won't be the case with AI.
@@ibanwar245 bold of you to assume there won't be procedural smart materials made by AI
@@ibanwar245 AI can. If your lead artist can describe to you in words what needs to be done. Then AI also can understand it and get it done. Such AIs will not be editor based. Dalle 2 is not editor based. It is based on linguistic commands. The only reason why humans are smarter than apes is the same reason why apes are smarter than a rock. It is because neuromorphic computing. That is how our own human language works in the first place. Or anything in our own heads. The thing is that AI can learn. The so called learning in machine learning is not just some word that just fits. It is how our own brain learns. It is neuromorphic learning. That is why anything a human can do the AI also will be able to do.
I am afraid such AI is inevitable. And this time not only unskilled workers will lose their job. But artist and programmers too.
@@techpriest4787 Great post! IMHO at some point there will be no need even for lead artists. The player can describe what they want to play or be an ultimate game master and describe the game for others. More like a book writer than a technician. It will be a paradise for celebrities, because AI is also great at improving text, so even an idiot will be able to create elaborate descriptions in someone else's style and make game/movie/comicbook out of it ;) (I recommend reading the memes that ai generates - brilliant!). And all changes can be made instantly. There is no need to analyze data and think about what to do next. AI can adapt much faster, do an AB test and choose the more effective option. We already deliberately block the speed of AI in games like starcraft to pretend that the player has any chance ;) Everything is just a matter of time and money.
I clicked because I saw Mamimi on the thumbnail and wondered what she had to do with procedural textures. Then saw Genshin gameplay. Lmao you are cultured my guy.
I've been saying that we need to cut down on download/HD size and be able to make more content faster with procedural textures. I'm glad someone else is on the same page. It does require more 'loading' at the front but once in it can work with them much faster especially for accurately drawing at any pixel perfect distance since it's literally drawing it on the fly, not trying to swap a different texture or figure how to blend pixels correctly together.
Regarding the background footage I don't think genshin uses procedural textures as it's made up of basically a bunch of prefabs for rocks (as often you can see where one rock object ends and another begins) and a essentially a giant plane for grass you can see this if you go out of the map using glitches that is fun to do
Yeah I've been looking at this pretty closely and I'm very sure that while they might have used procedural textures in the pipeline, they were made into image textures instead of being procedural during gameplay. They might have some kind of post-processing effect for the different areas in the game to slightly alter the hue's. Cities use most likely a trimsheet/texture atlas workflow
oh and the reason why I think this is that they could have used triplanar mapping for example to hide uv-seams in the rocks and the seams are visible everywhere
Procedural is a tool in the toolbox. Learn it, use it where it is useful, but it doesn't replace non-procedural methods.
If your game world project requires hundreds of different rock variations then project management and art direction probably have bigger problems XD Didn't realize I had just been click-baited into watching a commercial.
omg mamimi in the thumbnail!!
Im trying too learn PBR styles for stylised characters an its tough but defo best thing to remeber is during sculting phase is the best place too plan things for alot of is! Man a deep cruve or scratchy effect is so fun too use.
Im working on a game right now and i dodged making textures by not having textures in my game
Win win
Only materials?
@@Andy.R50 Well, no, i use one material pretty much for everything that has one texture on it. This texture is a grid of loads of colors, this saves memory while playing
@@Wishbone_Games I love to paint textures with substance painter. But I would love to see your results :)
@@Andy.R50 go to his channel
I'm learning materials, andthis video helped me understand a lot of things. This is awesome ! Thank you !
You are still making some banger vids man. Keep it up!
When I make anime character models I like to start texturing the hair by creating a basic toon shader that uses a gradient, cell shading, and a bit of ambient occlusion, then bake that to an image to do manual touch ups like adding highlights
oooo this would be great for game jams
That's a nice Mamimi thumbnail
I like the new video styles with Genshin gameplay in the background.
Me too 👍
Basically its the same as regular texturing but the texture is split into each of its individual components which can be modified easier
I ain't the best at texturing by hand. So I've learned a lot about procedural texturing and i can get more natural looking results that way, it's good
Procedual Textures do take up more computing power. This should be noted.
Depending on scenes in Blender, having a lot of procedual textures with fine detail can bump up the Storage/RAM/Computing time quiet a bit.
While Blender is made to render things over several minutes, hours or days, a real time game engine would only suffer from big procedual textures.
Unless you bake those procedual textures for the finished game, in that case nothing matters and procedual texturing is flawless.
I didn't know anyone ran procedural textures in realtime at all. Isn't baking in that situation a given?
@@shinjite06 They are a realtime thing in Blender. You can create and edit textures on the go while editing models, no problem. If you bake them or not is up to you.
Rendering procedual textures takes quiet some performance, if your materials are highly detailed. Especially Noise textures take alot
the more i look at these things the more i get the impression that procedural anything is just better
I've had so much fun using the shader editor nodes in Blender, it's just amazing
some people are now using stable diffusion for texturing too, and it works quite well.
In 30 years from now this whole process could probably be automated even further... Just look at how far nueral networks have come and i doubt the gaming industry wont heavily continue to implament that technology. We might even get to a point where algorythms fully build parts of games just based on text prompts and existing libraries / references.
I feel like this will just be standard as games get bigger and more complex in the future
as well as other forms of procedural development techniques and maybe even some machine learning applied to stuff as well.
My dream is to be able to create my own textures, although I doubt I can make it come true... Well, several months ago I could only dream of being able to do 3D modeling for a character & the outfits... Now I can do that already, but for now I can only give my models the basic color/metalness/roughness...
I know I can download some textures online... but I also want to be able to do every little thing by myself...
It's more about boosting my skill for a personal satisfaction rather than just "get the job done quick"...
So bassically how nfts work?
(using a algorithim to slightly change a certain image)
I agree this is very cool and a quick hack! but there's just something about someone hand drawing everything that gives it so much more value in my opinion. I know that's not the point you made, but just wanted to mention it anyway :3
side note: this is really great for people who don't have time or the skills to hand draw details like that as good as a program, thanks for the useful info! :D
how about creating an entire biome of rocks using the same procedural texture and variation masks? even breaking UV seams with geometry patches with alpha blend and using this same set of textures to map terrain amazing, but that's what they achieve in Zelda Breath of the Wild where the biomes are more than decorative they are sustainable and everything in a platform as limited as the Switch and it is something that Nintendo is using from its previous old school video games, now with virtual textures and dynamic lighting.
learning Geometry Node has been the door to being able to develop all these techniques that were previously inhumanly impossible through traditional modeling
Ah yes, it's 3 am again. Guess youtube wants me to learn procedural texturing now.
thanks, can you make videos with more technical explanations please? and maybe a tutorial on how to achieve genshin-like shading with unity urp? thank you for reading
oh yes
What is the font at 0:34? It's gorgeous!
What a great add
Now we just need a module in unreal that takes in a procedural texture project file and lets you set the parameters and generate the textures at runtime so our game sizes dont balloon from having 3000 copies of a single rock texture with slight differences
You can already do this to a certain degree by making a material that tiles a noise in different ways per instance. Make a few variables like tiling and hues exposed and you're set to make a ton of variations just by instancing the material. All you need to do is export your procedural texture's main components as images and rebuild it as a UE material.
I'm not sure if the words I'm using are exact since I've been working in Unity for the past year, so its been a little while since I touched unreal, but the concept should be applicable.
if it's 3000 copies of a single rock texture with slight variation, you could use a whole lot of compression to reduce the size
I made procedural wood in blender and immediately made a wood donut to show it off on curves, its great
As a Ubi employee, that intro startled me
Make Assassin's Creed good again ubitard. And bring Splinter Cell back.
Tbh. I cannot wait for "BIG CHUNGUS 7" if it's gonna be made someday
As someone who can't program and is struggling to learn blender so badly it hurts, I can confirm that this is procedural texturing.
Just do what people did in the old days, "TEXTURE CD's"
Such a great concept!
Baking is also important to reduce calculation time. Procedural textures (especially for very complex materials) are very difficult to calculate in real time. And we don't need infinite resolution all the time. For games with simple graphic (like Genshin Impact) procedural textures might work well. But for games with more photorealistic graphic, procedural textures would greatly impact performance. But baking, allows graphic designers to make procedural textures, and then bake it into standard texture with desired resolution.
The second thing is, often making good procedural texture take more time than making texture by hand. I find it a good compromise, to make texture by hand and add imperfections with procedural texturing. But proportion changes depending on project. I don't imagine texturing a vast word of MMO like Genshin Impact by hand.
this is kindof untrue for many cases, GPUs tend to be limited by memory bandwidth, so a complex PBR setup that has things like normal, metallic, and subsurf maps would be better calculated in a realtime shader
although most artists wouldnt be able to work like this, and texturing makes the workflow easier for everyone with less room for error
@@khlorghaal Yes, that is true, that in many cases GPU memory is limiter (Especially for big scenes). For those cases, procedural textures might greatly increase the quality of textures and their quantity with "relatively" low memory usage. I never denied it, I only mentioned calculation speed as a resource. But of course, in real situations, it will be often a balance between those two.
But I wouldn't call Normal, metallic, roughness, albedo and subsurface complex. Almost all PBR materials use those (except subsurface as only some materials use it.). The complexity of procedural material comes with generating noise textures and doing mathematical operations on them. Doing photorealistic PBR material of complex material requires a lot of noise and operations. And in the end, it put a lot of strain on computing power and results in FPS (both for games and rendering).
In conclusion, in those cases, in my experience, it's better to bake also normal/roughness/albedo/Metalic of those very complex materials to trade memory for speed.
But in an example like that video: Genshin Impact, the material is simple enough, that it doesn't take as much computation power. And therefore can be easily generated procedurally with noise and smart mathematics.
Hey man, just letting you know, may wanna throw a warning up for those purchasing your Environment Artist course.
At the moment, I'm getting a warning on Blendswap saying it's down due to losing it's security certificate. I can't get the Blender brushes for sculpting.
Thanks for letting me know - I've also got them uploaded to my gumroad for free
stylizedstation.gumroad.com/l/zMJlJ
@@StylizedStation Ah perfect. Thanks.
So... just change the material nodes slightly in Blender?
great video! So any chance of seeing more substance designer tutorials on your channel?
It's like what Spore did in its creators, but significantly more advanced
Technically, even in 2 years from now, you would be able to get thousands of texture variations from the ai.
you mean 2 yeas ago
@@khlorghaal No I don't.
@@AllExistence we already have this “ai”. it’s scripts and smart textures, but I assume you don’t know enough about ai or 3D art enough to differentiate
@@AllExistence hell, we even have the ones that generates models and textures for trees, grass, buildings, etc. it’s already existed. It’s not 2 years ago, it’s 10 or so. And yet here we are.
@@ZBBBlL If you work in laboratory, sure. They not available.
any video with an im@s thumbnail is an instant 10/10
Now all is done by the Al Gore Rhythm. Where is the love of making and designing a level piece by piece
and for the low low low low low price of only $300 you too! can utilize this power! Did I mention the low low low low practical, and affordable price, that everyone can afford of a mere $300!!!!
Question: Can said textures be exported to other engines? Blender -> UE5, for example?
baked textures yes, but then you no longer get the benefit of small filesize, although theres people working on this
Hey bro, what should I do before texturing?
I came to this video because of Mamimi on the thumbnail
I'm more interested in the gameplay shown in the background of this video. What game is it and where can I get it?
Genshin Impact it’s free, just beware of in-game purchases (not needed)
@@blaze_burn is it any fun if you don't buy the in game purchases or is it lots of annoying unnecessary grinding to get you to pay?
@@cleverman383 very fun don’t NEED to buy anything 👍
If your game takes place in a 90s computer you don't need textures
In my VFX university course we first learned how to do procedural textures, and our professor for texturing actually works at Ubisoft lol
This video could also be called "how to texture when you're so inept at drawing, you can't even make a legible stick figure".
Because this is how i texture, because i can't even play hangman and make it look right.
I am inept at that too but it saves up time for anyone
>mains Lumine/at least use her primarily for the travelling/exploration
Alright, CZcams recomm got me here, but you have my attention.
anime thumbnail
Edit: The anime girl literally has nothing to do with this video, even better lol
Im annoyed with the thumbnail because I knew it would have nothing to do with the video, I was genuinely interested from the title though, turns out this is kinda what I do already
I really thought procedural texturing will make that. I was like "to this? really?" turns out it was just another click bait. I hate this CZcamsrs like this. 😂
I'll be disappointed if I can't do something like this by 2026:
/imagine prompt: low poly stylized rock with PBR textures --variants=200 --lowpoly --gameready
And then tweak the prompt to get what I want.
this is doable at the moment, someone who has worked at a low level with training something like DALL-E could probably solo this in a weekend
You could do that....
But you would have a *lot* more parameters if you really want something to have a good aesthetic.
i like your funny words magic man
It's the year 2045, I still use Blender because:
- It's free?
- Substance requires expertise of at least 45+ years in order to barely use it "properly", first hour in, and was struggling doing pretty hard stuff such as rotating the camera, or like panning xD
(Yea I guess I'm also kinda not compatible with the software)
Mamimi my love bless
Well to be fair shape of you lody softs just like the first random notes that popped into Nice tutorials head
procedural textures are great but they just dont work for characters imo
Mostly for environment I think
why not?
Well it could probably work for characters that aren't important and have some basic clothing but I guess it would require you to do each body part (legs, feet, arms, hands) in different sessions and you would probably want to use it only a few times so it wouldn't be worth it either way.
Where was the loud outro? I want it back!
in between the time you wrote the video and uploaded the video, Ubisoft shot themselves in the foot so hard.
I reactively click the vid seeing tanaka lmao
I really like the animay gorl thumbnail! You *knew* it would get clicks! Hehehe~♡
Is it correct to say that mesh maps are the same as normal and/or bump maps?
Question: Can these procedural materials be imported into unreal as materials that have all the same parameters to adjust in engine?
No i think, you need to bake them to uvs. But for blenders geometry nodes i think there may be an add on for unreal
You cannot export them directly, you can just try to recreate the procedural material in UE. However, since UE is missing some features, like fe detecting curvature (currently there is no real curvature shader, that you could use), some maps or masks have to be baked. If you manage to get those masks, then you can create a procedural material in UE, that should work quite similar.
A true export would only be possible, if UE had the same nodes and possibilities, that others programs use (but then you could drop those other programs and create everything in UE ^.^ )
Well this is awkward because according to my own research there is a substance Plugin for Unreal that does exactly that, no?
@@brainshack9077 Sounds like a new plugin, since most cases i came across were about Quixel Mixer and Unreal, and that one bakes the textures, it does create completely procedural materials in UE. So i would assume, Substance painter bakes them as well, becausei haven´t heard anything about a real curvature shader for UE (just about screenspace shaders, but those are prety useless, since they are just post process shaders).
i wonder how the UE master material for this Substance plugin looks like (if its more or less a copy of the Quixel Mixer material, or truly procedural).
Edit: Ok, this seems to be an pretty old plugin, from what i cn find on youtube, but it looks like the Quixel Mixer solution, where it bakes the most textures and masks, and then gives you some sliders for adjusting in UE.
Depends on what software you're using.
People still do these textures by hand? When I was getting in 3d 4 years ago procedural texturing for simple things was the norm, as I felt.
Yup. When I personally graduated from University back in 2014, no one had even heard of "Blender", PBR still a brand new and rare trick, and yes - manual UV unwrapping + creating your textures in Photoshop were still indeed the "norms". Just goes to show how fast this industry has evolved; just 10 years ago, you didn't even have tools like Substance.
0:22 The video looks a bit compressed. I'd suggest doubling the bitrate.
can u make a vid about "how snow works (in video games)"
too true
New day arises, hero on horizon appear
The challenge seems impossible
But a big challenge he doesn't fear
Where many don't even attempt to try
nice.
This is probably a dumb question but meh. Does the Material Instance in Unreal count as procedural texturing? I’m slow when it comes to understanding terms and whatnot. Thank you in advance!
Me who watched and has no idea what he talked about and just came here cos of Mamimi
I don't even make games or do any of this shit but this was a fun video to watch,
i barely use actual textures ever. it's stupid hard to do those but nodes are my whole life at this point
Can't shaders do all this and aren't they more performant?
While true, famous studios still have the luxury of still being extremely nitpicky, like who doesn't want to be in these studios. They still look for talent, especially head-hunting from their competitor.
This easiness will be more apparent to smaller to middle sized studios, where them buying out studios are very low.
how do you know all this stuff?
As a person who have never make textures in an old-school way (why the hell have I watched this) I feel like I'll be missing out if I use this approach.
Yup. The oldschool way (which I've been practicing since the early 00s) requires you to master actual art-theories, and then "paint" things.
This is how God textured earth
Does anybody have a recommendations for free and paid coruses to learn substance designer?
hi
I have many question about procedure texture and substance painter
1. can procedure texture work on low end pc/laptop??
2. I tried learning substance painter but i can understand cuz some time when i open substance painter, its completely different as what I see on video. I tried watching ur video still I could not learn the basic
3. It gives out warning that my graphic card is low, is it still okay to use???
4. Is there any good and fresh video where they can teach me how to use substance painter basic???
I hope u reply, thanx in advance for giving us free knowledge.
1. Procedural textures definitely take more processing power, but that's a field of optimization with a lot of people working on it.
2. Perhaps you can find text documentation? You'll still need to find stuff but it'll be easier to go at your own pace.
3. I think you'll want to look around for more lightweight alternatives. Generally open source stuff will provide better quality end-results while being way more optimized. I just looked up substance painter and yeah no-one has a computer good enough for Adobe software to run good lmao.
4. I dunno I just looked it up. Godot on the other hand has good procedural texturing tools built in and good documentation on using them.
@@KateYagi ThankU soo much :)
You won't make over 200 different types of rock material in under 1 week.
They're not building themselves.
It's worth learning it.
AI texture generation could be even less effort in the future, I imagine
I wanna use Blender so, Should I buy legion 5 with Rtx 3050 or rtx3060. My budget is upto 3050 only but as future proofing concerned I can go for 3060, is it worth it or Rtx3050 is enough. I don't wanna spend over for it.
The RTX 3050 is really bad so I would say only get the 3050 if you must buy right now or cannot save the money. If you do anything else on your computer like play games or make content I would personally prefer waiting to have money for the 3060 even if I had to wait a month or two as the 3060 is a lot better in every aspect.
Yes useful do you know if you can bake maps inside quixel mixer or should I bring my rocks maps from zbrush blender to apply this curvature effects?
Mixer doesn't have a baker. Its the primary reason why it came so close to being a free alternative to SP, but failed to do so cause it decided to not include the one thing that makes its self superior.
@@jamesjason8471 I bake in substance and make textures in mixer, in my opinión mixer is more intuitive than SP, but it need a baker yes
@@jamesjason8471 yeah I agree but we can also import the maps from xnormal, maya, blender or zbrush. I have an issue with my lowpoly mesh exploding even after smooth groups are imported with the mesh if I enable displacement my guess is that if the mesh is so lowpoly it cannot handle the displacement correctly. It needs the maps on the paterial or you need a greater resolution on the mesh
what character is on the thumbnail?
Im just wondering why mamimi is on the thumbnail
Ok I see I see... but where can I turn my procedural texture into a NFT?
I heard this is the future or so.
Me sees thumbnail and watches the whole video: WHERE IS SHE?!
What game are you playing?
Genshin impact, it’s free, just beware of in-game purchases
Big game companies will die out in this decade
Failure to adapt a fair play2earn model that rewards the players for keeping the community thriving, and putting in the grind will be their own demise. Once AI can keep up with non artists non dev, it's game over for big studios.