How to texture a videogame character

With each new generation of console, game artists have to deal with new workflow and physically based rendering techniques. Thankfully, the Substance Suite provides artists with all the tools they need to work efficiently with these new methods and workflows.

While Substance Designer enables you to make procedural and customisable textures, and demands a bit of technical knowledge, Substance Painter creates textures in a more spontaneous and intuitive way – by painting directly on to your model.

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