Adobe Signature Collection - Ocean Planets
In 2025 i had the fantastic opportunity to create my own Substance Source Signature Collection in collaboration with the Adobe Substance 3D team.
My collection is a series of 10 fully parametric substance files that cover celestial objects and surfaces - from big objects like stars to closeups of the inside of a meteorite. To learn more about the project please read the accompanying article on Behance:
https://www.behance.net/gallery/236981715/Procedural-Planetarium-by-Matthias-Schmidt
The ocean planet substance is based on satellite images of Earth. It is fully parametric and versatile. It can be used to create desert, ice, water and jungle planets. There is an option to add a civilization with cities and highways.
Links to the assets for this Signature Collection:
https://substance3d.adobe.com/assets/collections/34c84b36cc209845f64b9f664340ed7b0dbef0e2
Ice Planet preset.
Jungle Planet preset.
Graph overview. The graph is quite compact for how detailed and elaborate the texture outputs look.
For the 2D planet substances i created a regular tiling material first. It then gets fed into two custom filters that i created for this project. The first one projects the material onto a half globe shape. The second one renders an atmosphere on top.
A regular tiling material is the base for the projection. This image shows a part of a basecolor map.