30 Wood Smart Materials & PBR Textures — VOL 13

The second wood volume in the series, and the larger of the two: thirty procedural wood smart materials for Substance Painter, each with its own PBR texture set rendered at 4096 x 4096. If volume 08 is already on your shelf this extends it; if it is not, this is a complete wood library in one download.

What you get

• ✓30 high-quality wood smart materials (SPSM)
• ✓30 4K wood PBR texture sets at 4096 x 4096
• ✓JPEG preview renders

Wood is where procedural authoring earns its keep, because what makes a plank convincing is not resolution but agreement. The grain has to agree with the shape of the board, the wear has to agree with where a hand or a boot would land, and the colour has to agree across a set of props that are meant to have come out of the same tree. A layer stack can hold all of that as parameters. A flat texture cannot — it can only be tiled and hoped for.

In practice the working loop is short. Bake the mesh, drag a material onto it, then spend the time on the two or three controls that matter for this asset: grain scale against the real size of the object, wear amount against how old it is meant to be, and the roughness breakup that stops the surface reading uniform under a moving light.

This volume is listed against 3ds Max, Blender, Marmoset, Photoshop, Substance Designer and Substance Painter. The SPSM files need a current version of Substance Painter; the texture sets need nothing beyond a renderer that understands the PBR workflow.