Viz Artist

Version 3.10 | Published May 03, 2018 ©

Substance

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This section details the Substance Shader plug-in, which renders Allegorithmic PBR (Physically Based Rendering) substances in Viz Engine.

The plug-in takes into account the position, color and enabled/disabled state of the first eight Lights in the Scene. It also supports materials with alpha properties.

Note: This plug-in is located in: Built Ins -> Shader -> Texture

This section contains information on the following topics:

Substance Properties

Note: The Substance properties panel parameters are different for each selected Substance.

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  • Substance: Use a PBR Substances item (.sbsar file). Drag to the drop zone

  • Environment Map: Use a latitude/longitude panorama environment map image. Drag to the drop zone

  • Anisotropic Filtering: Set the image quality. The default value is 4X

  • Relief Amount: Set the relief amount that the shader applies

  • Tiling: Set the tiling

  • Emissive Intensity: Set the intensity of the emissive properties (if the substance has any)

  • Ambient Intensity: Set the ambient light taken into account by the shader

  • sRGB Base Color: Convert the base color map to sRGB (default: on)

  • Texture Rotation: Set the rotation of the texture on the geometry

  • Texture Scaling X/Y: Set the scaling of the texture on the geometry

  • Texture Position X/Y: Set the position of the texture on the geometry

To Create a Substance Shader Effect

  1. Create a new Container.

  2. Add a Cube geometry.

  3. Add the Substance Shader.

  4. Drag a Substance to the Substance drop zone.

  5. Drag a latitude/longitude panorama image to the Environment Map drop zone.

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  6. Use the Substance Shader properties to modify the result, if required.

  7. Switch to the "Substance Settings" Tab to modify additional properties.

  8. Adjust the properties in the Substance properties panel.

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To work with Substance materials a license is required.(ENG_PLROY_SUBSAUTH)