Substance Painter Golden Tips Tricks Tutorial+Project File — VOL 01

Volume one of the Golden Tips series is three Substance Painter sessions sold with the project that produced each one, so the file you open is the file that was on screen. The subjects are deliberately unlike each other: a hard-surface basemesh, a glass container and an engraved panel. Between them they cover the three things that most often go wrong in a texture set — surface wear, transparency, and pattern work that has to follow a curved form.

What is in the pack

• ✓Basemesh texturing with smart materials and hard-surface alphas
• ✓A realistic poison bottle material, built around glass
• ✓Engraving, cut with AI-assisted and hand-painted patterns
• ✓Three project archives: a sci-fi helmet, a potion bottle and the engraving
• ✓Substance Painter project files (.spp) and Marmoset Toolbag scenes (.tbscene)
• ✓Every texture and resource file used on screen
• ✓A further hour of shorter Substance Painter techniques

The basemesh session builds weathered metal and carbon fibre out of smart materials and hard-surface alphas, which is the shortest route to a believable game prop and the one most worth having in muscle memory. The poison bottle session is about glass: pre-made alphas and custom tools doing work a generator cannot, because a transparent material can only be judged against whatever is behind it. The engraving session cuts a bear motif into armour plate using a mix of AI-assisted pattern generation and hand painting, and is clear about which of the two is worth the time at each stage.

Video is full HD. Because the Substance Painter projects ship alongside, the pack works two ways: watched end to end as three complete builds, or opened directly so a layer stack can be pulled apart and read backwards. The Marmoset Toolbag scenes are included for the same reason — the lighting in the previews is something you can load and inspect rather than reverse-engineer.