Substance - Understanding PBR

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Difficulty: Intermediate

Substance for Unity 5: Creating PBR textures for environments and characters.
Chapter 1: PBR and Substance Fundamentals.
Lesson 1: Understanding PBR.
This lesson will cover the concepts and benefits of Physically Based Shading, or PBR; including "What is PBR?" and "What are the benefits of a PBR system?"

Substance - Understanding PBR

Intermediate Graphics

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Allegorithmic

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Founded in 2003 in France, Allegorithmic develops the new generation of 3D texturing software: Substance Painter, Substance Designer and Substance B2M. With most AAA game studios having integrated these tools into their pipeline, Substance has become the industry standard for authoring PBR textures and is now part of the essentials of every art school. They have been tightening a close relationship with key industry players for years with companies such as Unity, The Foundry, Autodesk and Nvidia. Their clients are major studios like Sony, Ubisoft, Activision and Electronic Arts as much as a very large community of indie developers.

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