This ended up being my first experience with procedural node-based systems, at which I was ultimately hooked. I consumed hours upon hours of YouTube tutorials, really anything I could get my hands on that was remotely close to game art. The remaining materials and Smart Materials span a range of real-world material types, including ceramics, dirt, metal, and creature textures like fur and scale.This expanded my horizons to what could be done with textures alone, and that I could actually create my own textures from baking 3D models, instead of relying on whatever was online.įast forward a couple of years to when I was in university and had access to a computer that was powerful enough to run Substance Designer.Īt some point, I discovered a YouTuber named stym that blew me out of the water, particularly their mini-series on creating a Modular Dungeon (sadly we still haven’t gotten a part 3). The update provides over 50 new materials replicating different weave structures for cotton, wool, and even Kevlar, and updates the existing fabric materials in the library with more accurate sheen values. In contrast, Library Drop 02 is focused mainly on fabrics.

Library Drop 01 added 39 Smart Materials, 57 materials and 11 textures, including readymade metal, paint, plastic, stone and wood materials. New materials mimicking real-world woven and knitted fabrics The files themselves can then be downloaded for free from the cloud.

Previews of the assets should automatically appear in users’ Library windows. The Library Drops expand the reworked library of readymade materials introduced in Toolbag 4.0, the latest major update to the real-time rendering and texture baking software. New readymade materials for the reworked library in Toolbag 4 The latest, Toolbag Library Drop 04, adds 200 assets – 66 new Smart Materials, 58 new standard Materials, and 75 new textures, including patterns, stencils and grunge maps. Toolbag Library Drop 03, released in August 2022, added 382 assets – 98 new Smart Materials, 111 new standard materials, and 169 pattern textures. Toolbag Library Drop 02, released in September 2021, added 135 materials – 28 Smart Materials and 107 standard materials – focused on realistic fabrics. The original Library Drop, released in April 2021, added over 100 materials and textures. Marmoset has released new sets of materials free to users of Toolbag, its real-time rendering software.

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