So first thing I want to do is I want to create a material. - Instructor Hi, Im George Maestri, and today were going to take a look at Substance for Maya. Now, Substance was created a while back, actually, and works really great with Maya software materials, but I want to show you how to use it with Arnold, because Arnold is how we are going to be rendering in Maya. This was also a good project to test my procedural eye rig. All textures were done in substance painter and I rendered in arnold. Now, I'm going to go ahead and do this in the Hypershade window. This was a fun project I modeled in zbrush and and then used used Xgen for the hair in maya. Now that it's loaded, let's go ahead and take a look at how this works. Now, I want to check to make sure it's loaded, and if you want to use it all the time, go ahead and turn on Auto Load. First thing we need to do is make sure the plugin is turned on, so I'm going to go into Windows, Settings Preferences, Plugin Manager, and scroll down until I see Substance.mll.

So it is a plugin, and it's not normally turned on, so a lot of people don't know about it. Now, Substance is a way to parametrically create materials and textures for your Maya scenes.

Hi, I'm George Maestri, and today we're going to take a look at Substance for Maya. To get the full range of the map being created in Arnold, the SSS value slider will need to be set to a value of 1 in Substance.

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