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[DPRoberts]

I struggle to follow through on ideas, it's just how my brain works. I need proof of concept and I move on. Some things, I stay committed and we all benefit.

I cannot contain my excitement about what I have coming soon...

I have constructed a Diffuse Texture Generator that you will be able to utilize 1 free tool to build all the custom textures your little heart desires, EFFORTLESSLY. You can even hit the F***ing "Randomize" button and it'll do it for you. If you can click and slide your left mouse button, you can do this. If you spend a little time, you'll be rewarded with the most beautiful textures imaginable.

Below, is an early beta of a procedurally generated texture using the DPR Grass Texture Generator in Substance Player and placing in Unity with the DPR Grass Shader for the mesh and Stix Shader for the grass.

I will release a Beta soon and we will play and improve it. I'm telling you - this is one of my best ideas in a while.

[DPRoberts]

Don't be intimated by how it looks. It's literally Sliders. It'll make sense when you get to play with it...Once I have added a Dirt and Divots section and cleaned up a few parameters, I will be ready to release it. It is also not a 3DG only thing. It is designed to construct every Diffuse texture for the course from Tee box to Green.

The texture below took 45 seconds to build.

[Jugador]

 Looks like something even a brain-dead noob (like me) could have fun with. I'm looking up the word "Diffuse", now. lol

 Can't wait to try it out...!

[M Rose]

You should be building Course Forge 2!

[Stingreye]

As a texture challenged one, can’t wait to use this! Another great contribution DP!

[Birdie]

I love you, DP. And I love things with a lot of sliders...

[brokenclub]

Are you kiding me, awesome.

[jspirate]

Birdie, on 06 Jun 2020 - 08:40 AM, said:

I love you, DP. And I love things with a lot of sliders...

Haha, this gave me a good early morning laugh.

 

This sounds very exciting DPR!

[pingzing]

jspirate, on 06 Jun 2020 - 11:34 AM, said:

Haha, this gave me a good early morning laugh.

 

This sounds very exciting DPR!

Yeah good ol Dp is a loveable guy, he deserves some love and hugs,much respect to you  DP Smiley  (your profession )

[Justin9926]

 

Just in time, I'm narrowing down my choices for the next course. I don't want to be halfway through this one and have to think about changing again LOL.   This community can't thank you enough for all the tutorials and help you provide to us. So thanks again DP.

 

[DPRoberts]

Always happy to add to our toolbox of tricks. My goal for the designer community is to try and make everything a little easier and a little better than the last time.

Speaking of designs, you guys put out some great ones the last few weeks!

Interestingly, I've seen a few posts from some designers of the past (PZ and K11)... Who knows? Do they get the urge to dust off Unity and fire that bad boy back up?

At least for me, I feed off even a spark of energy around here. Much thanks to Birdie for recharging my brain.

[lefty1948]

Thank you DPR for all that you do for this game!

And all of the other great designers for their work!

I only hope that Andrew and Mike are watching and

decide to come back for the fun of this wonderful game!

[DPRoberts]

Got some good play time today. Only the "divot" section to go and should be ready for beta testing. I've got it exporting an Alpha mask as well to use to plant your grass should you desire to use it that way. It generates the mask for you based on the dirt and divot section. You don't have to think about it or do anything special to get it. You do have to combine it with the base texture in Photoshop though. (Yes, tutorials for it all...)

 

From Opening of the Generator to this photo in Unity...less than 3 minutes...

 

Right now around 44 Sliders, doesn't all fit on one screen so I collapsed a few sections.

[alannala]

Looks very impressive. Looking forward to using this. Thanks.

[Birdie]

Wasn't sure until now if I really should install Substance, beside all the other stuff already here. But that's the reason I definitely will install it. I guess there is a lot of logic behind these sliders to have it tailored for our needs. Exited to try this thing!

[DPRoberts]

What you see with the sliders above is in Substance Player - a free program used to load .sbsar files created from Substance Designer. The file in Designer is a node based graph that allows one to generate textures in a procedural manner. I am exposing parameters from my Substance Designer graph for your use. Obviously, if you have Designer, you would have much more control over the end result than I am even giving here but learning and using Designer is not needed. 

 

Here is a current image of my Designer graph used to create the Generator above.

[DPRoberts]

My original inspiration for this came from watching a video by Daniel Thiger on Substance Designer a few years ago.

This is his entire talk. Also, started using PureRef after watching this.

https://youtu.be/WNwtc-OeGQ0

 

If you don't have time to watch the talk, this is the Brake Rim Tire Generator he showed in a small section of his talk.

https://www.youtube....h?v=_3GvK1fa2zc

 

I know it seems like I know what I'm doing but you watch a video like the first one and realize I'm not even scratching the surface. That dude is a fricking genius. 

[DPRoberts]

A for instance...

I might create a divot that can be spattered about using the Tile Generator node. I'll give the user access to the X amount and Y amount parameters in that node to control quantity of divots. So, all the end user needs to know is left mouse click and slide. And really, they don't need to know all the other nonsense I went through to create a divot.

[jspirate]

DPRoberts, on 07 Jun 2020 - 11:26 AM, said:

A for instance...

I might create a divot that can be spattered about using the Tile Generator node. I'll give the user access to the X amount and Y amount parameters in that node to control quantity of divots. So, all the end user needs to know is left mouse click and slide. And really, they don't need to know all the other nonsense I went through to create a divot.

Sure looks spiffy!

[Joe Habiger]

See Mike Jones and Andrew, bring this game back and hire Birdie and Mr. Roberts as paid help. TGC2kwhateveryear would have nothing on this game NOTHING..