Glass Experiments

I decided to attempt some glass in Substance, as this is something which is fairly newly accessible, and glass works well with natural wood because it allows you to see the wood in things such as tables and shelves.

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I started by attempting a glass pane, which was moderately successful. I used ‘glass dirty’ which was downloaded from Substance Share, and I lowered the dirt to almost nothing. This worked fairly well, but was hard to see properly in Substance as it was so flat.


 

I then attempted to apply glass to the candlestick. This worked, but the joins in shapes are a little too messy, meaning that the wood can be seen through the glass, with small glitches of textures.

Driftwood Candlestick
by focusf22
on Sketchfab

When creating further models, I need to make sure I am careful about where edges of different materials meet, so that I can make the colour ID as accurate as possible. I will also edit any anomalies in my colour ID map in Photoshop before importing it into Substance Painter.

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