Tag Archives: Game Environment

Beach Sand with Pebbles – Material Study

100% Substance designer, rendered in blender EEVEE

Artstation post

This is one of the refreshing, holiday scenes that typically inspire me (and make me nostalgic when I live far from the ocean). I first tried to process in Substance Alchemist some sand and pebble surface scans I did in Brittany a while ago, but lighting conditions on the field were not perfect and my scans were not good either, so I went for a material study in Substance Designer instead. This is what I came up with.

The material is 100% procedural, created in Substance Designer and rendered in Blender Eevee.

Full material rendering
Full material rendering
Gray diffuse rendering

Lighting turntable

Full material rendering
Gray diffuse rendering
Material breakdown (from top to bottom): Normal- Roughness – Height – Albedo – Ambient Occlusion

Material turntable.

 

Some reference pictures from Beg an Dorchenn, Plomeur, France:

Beg Ann Dorchenn beach, Brittany, France
Beg Ann Dorchenn beach, Brittany, France

Railway Track Material

Wow, lots of dust around here ! Time to refresh the gallery just a bit !

Here is a substance material I made for a VR train simulation and published on Artstation a while ago already.

This is 90% Substance Designer. I already had the gravels modeled separately in Blender for another project, I just baked and piled them up in Designer.

Rendered in Blender Eevee.

From top to bottom: Metallic – Normal – Roughness – Displacement – Albedo – Ambient Occlusion.

Blender