Alexandros Demetriades
Environment /Technical Artist
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Material Example using Extile for "Stay Alive My Son" VR experience - Venice Film Festival

Extile layered materials were used for the environment material texturing. Extile layered materials can be found in Extile Plus and represents the most versatile way to layer materials in a non destructive and easy way coupled with some of the most powerful non-repetitive functions giving you the power to texture any type of environment with absolute control and with great speed. 
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Example III: The last example I want to show on how I used Extile materials is using masks to add more detail to many assets. Extile material layers come with a 4 layer mask overlay. So whenever I want to add either more detail to something or make it feel more grounded in the environment or if it's a very large mesh that may require tiling textures to get the detail back using this technique never fails to get sharp textures and also retain some nice details. The power of Extile of course lies in the fact that once you have done that then you can continue layering textures or effects on top to make it all come together as one environment.

Adding 4 User channels one for each RGBA channel

Adding 4 User channels one for each RGBA channel

Creating a 4 channel mask export in Substance Painter by dragging the corresponding user channel to each RGBA channel

Creating a 4 channel mask export in Substance Painter by dragging the corresponding user channel to each RGBA channel

You can use the built in mask generators but you can also enhance certain areas by adding a paint layer and painting or erasing parts of the mask

You can use the built in mask generators but you can also enhance certain areas by adding a paint layer and painting or erasing parts of the mask

Masks (switch off the color on export as we only need the masks)

Masks (switch off the color on export as we only need the masks)

Using the technique directly in Extile through its Baked Texture layer. Of course if you don't have Extile you can create this part of the material yourselves in ue4/5

Using the technique directly in Extile through its Baked Texture layer. Of course if you don't have Extile you can create this part of the material yourselves in ue4/5

Adding an additional blend layer using Extile layered system to add some more mold that grounds the asset in its environment even more

Adding an additional blend layer using Extile layered system to add some more mold that grounds the asset in its environment even more

High level of detail can be achieved as the masks add more detail to any tiling texture.

High level of detail can be achieved as the masks add more detail to any tiling texture.

Here you can see the two layers used in this example

Here you can see the two layers used in this example