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Tutorial: create cliff materials in Substance 3D Designer

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By Jim Thacker
| CG Channel
The Gnomon Workshop has released Creating Realistic Cliff Materials using Substance Designer, a guide to environment art workflows recorded by Gearbox Studio’s Vincent Dérozier. The workshop provides 4.5 hours of video training in Substance 3D Designer and Unreal Engine.
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Free tutorial: Lighting Realistic Rainy Weather in Unreal Engine 5

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By Jim Thacker
| CG Channel
The Gnomon Workshop has released Lighting Realistic Rainy Weather in Unreal Engine 5, a free guide to professional game art workflows, recorded by Lightspeed LA artist Ted Mebratu. The intermediate-to-advanced workshop provides 30 minutes of video training in Unreal Engine.
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Mixos lets you paint PBR textures in your web browser

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By Jim Thacker
| CG Channel
Need an easy way to do texture work on your travels? Check out Mixos. The new WebGPU-based app makes it possible to create 4K PBR textures in a web browser, either painting them directly, or by mixing an existing library of over 2,600 CC0 materials. Optional AI features make it possible to generate complete PBR texture sets from text prompts.
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