Your Favorite Atomic Nodes

[dbchest]

I am brand new to substance designer and I am pretty excited to learn how to author my own materials, so I wanted to drop by the community and ask all of you as a whole about some of your experiences working with the application so far; I am hoping some of you may have some tips you picked up over the years that might help expedite the new learning curve I am getting myself into.

For example, I am curious which nodes can be used to create base shapes for things like grass and rocks and which nodes are best for distorting those shapes to reach the desired effect; I am open to reading about all of your personal discoveries if you've the interest in sharing with me!

Derek

[Vincent Gault]

hey, my first advice would be to look at the Substance Academy toturials, if not done yet.

some always useful nodes: blend, tile sampler, non uniform directional warp, cloud 2... just explore and watch tutos

[dbchest]

Vincent,

thanks for taking the time to reply! I did in fact start watching the tutorials here at the academy and it turns out they are some of the best instructional videos I have ever seen; the tutor does a pretty impressive job covering every aspect of the UI.

[Vincent Gault]

Kudos to @Wes McDermott for this ;-)