This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
Finding materials
Several dozen starter asset materials can be found in Dimension’s Assets panel, including several types of glass, metals, plastics, liquids, woods, papers, leathers, stones, and fabrics. You can also download hundreds of additional materials from Adobe Stock or obtain MDL and SBSAR files from other sources and place them on your models in Dimension.
Choose File > Open.
Select the file named Lesson_06_01_begin.dn, which is in the Lessons > Lesson06 folder that you copied onto your hard disk, and then click Open.
Click the Add And Import Content icon
at the top of the Tools panel, and choose Starter Assets.Click the Materials icon
to view only materials in the panel.Click the more icon
to toggle between list view and grid view until the materials are displayed in the way that you prefer. Scroll through the panel and note the many different types of starter materials available. Note that the materials are grouped by type, with Adobe Standard Materials at the top of the list and Substance Materials at the bottom. As you’ll see in this lesson, you can change the properties of each of these materials, so these are a good starting point for generating a wide variety of surface materials.
Scroll to the bottom of the list of starter materials, and click the words “Browse Adobe Stock.”
Your default web browser launches, and you’re taken to stock.adobe.com, where you’ll see hundreds of additional materials available for purchase.
When you are done checking this out, close the Web browser.
)
SOURCES FOR SBSAR MATERIALS
If you purchase a Substance license at www.substance3d.com, you’ll have access to Substance Designer, which lets you create your own SBSAR materials. A license also gives you access to download professionally-designed materials on Substance Source at source.substance3d.com.
)
A Substance license is not needed to download free community-submitted materials from Substance Share at share.substance3d.com. Since these are free community-created assets, the quality varies. For compatibility with Dimension, sort the materials by release date, since some of the very old SBSAR materials won’t work in Dimension.
)