Quixel you need to put on more tutorials come on the world is waiting @home

Great software! :D

@@Crompwell I'm immensely confused on this tut. I have a shotgun and I wanna only import them into quixel. Is it possible to clear up the process of vertex groups, materials, and baking?

@@blueminer3173 What are you confused about?

@@blueminer3173 Vertex groups aren’t necessary. I just use them to store vertices for quick access/organization. You can simply apply the materials directly to the mesh component then bake or create the ID map. You can directly create the ID map with the low poly using texture paint mode.

I appreciate the kind words and am glad to help :)

You’re welcome! Thanks for watching :)

:) Thanks! Glad you enjoy it.

Glad it helped!

Skyflairl2p Thanks for the kind words. I can sympathize with Mixer’s limited handling of UVs, being locked to 0-1 and no tiling.

Glad it helped!

Previously, this was a pretty standard workflow for 3D texturing. The same principles have applied to other software, as well. Thankfully, the software and workflow have been updated.

Glad to help :)

Thank you!

Butthe4d Thanks! I’m glad you enjoyed it :)

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Glad you found it helpful!

Yes, I cover a lot of this in newer videos. Thanks!

Actually best practice for texturing and overall game asset creation would be to use the .fbx file mesh that was used as lowpoly baking. This asset contains all of the correct normals and UVs. Modifying the original lowpoly model even slightly may change the triangulation, UVs, shading... etc. etc. May end up breaking your textures, smooth shading and so on. This ensures your model looks consistent across different applications. Another good practice would be to manually triangulate and apply transformation on your low and hipoly meshes to ensure your smoothing does not change between Blender and exported mesh file. You can avoid ton of different problems just by doing this.

No problem!

No problem!

Yes, very useful. Although it is kind of backwards compared to how selecting works in the viewport.

Yes, you could also apply a layer over the top of everything to help blend them together. You could also use a paint layer to mask them together. Lots of ways to do this.

Machin3 Tools addon. I highly recommend.

HerbalWhite120 To be honest, I don’t remember what the song is, but I believe it is from the KZfaq music library.

I use Machin3 Tools for this, it's a free addon. I highly recommend it. gum.co/MACHIN3tools

@@Crompwell Thanks a lot!

I wish

Kiwi Hawk you’re going to run into issues with DAZ models using Mixer, at least until the next update, because DAZ models have multiple materials assigned per model and Mixer only currently supports one material per object. They have shown that the next major update will include multi-material assignments per object, so keep an eye out for that update.

@@Crompwell Thank you

You could bring those other maps into Mixer, if you need them. A lot of the content within Mixer already has that data. It really depends on what you're doing. You can also procedurally create some of those maps in Mixer, as well.

@@Crompwell Awesome thank you!

This might be due to the values of the displacement map itself, the displacement settings in Mixer, or something else. It’s really difficult for me to know for sure without being able to test it myself. I would recommend making sure your displacement map is grayscale and has a decent range of values, then tweak the values in Mixer to taste.

@@Crompwell Hi, thanks. I understand. Its gray, with a good range of values. I believe its 32 bit. and exported at .5 as the mid value. ..Hmmm. I really like Mixer. I just cant get this displacement right. and I cant find any documentation on it. All the presets in Mixer like other rock textures come in great. its just my custom ones is not.

Yeah, go into edit mode and use ALT+S to very slightly offset the geometry of the mesh. so you don’t get baking errors. In my newer video I show how to make an ID map without baking.

This happens in a lot of applications that use displacement. I believe it has something to do with the way the UV's are set up. I've had problems with this in other applications. I'll take a look and let you know if I find anything worth mentioning. For now, check out how your UV's are laid out and play with the displacement settings.

You are correct, I didn’t need that many passes. In the newer video I show how to create the texture using one mesh.

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@@Crompwell ohhh, sorry bout that my bad

It's a free addon called Machin3 tools. I highly recommend it. Once installed, the shortcut is CTRL + S.

Perhaps something for a future video?

Yes, it is possible to do this. It is also entirely possible to procedurally generate materials from scratch as well, it's just rather labor intensive. More so than if you use Substance since it has a node-based workflow with more generators for proc-gen materials.

@@Crompwell I don't have substance painter... I can only afford free lol. But I understand what you mean.

@@daniellevasconcellos633 Yeah, substance designer is probably the most complete proc mat app at the moment. I’m not the biggest fan of Adobe, though. There are a few independently developed node based material apps on itch.io that are free but kind of “in-development.”

@@Crompwell I'm not either (in regards to Adobe). Im trying to find more economical substitutes. Using Serif Affinity and so on and so forth. Mixer is great... Just not much info out on it. I do appreciate your videos, though. Cant wait to see what else you do.

I’m always partial to quixel in so far that it does what you need because I am biased against Adobe. That said, substance IS industry standard and does more than Mixer currently. I use marmoset to make up for what I can’t do with mixer.

athan336 No, you don’t need to bake a color ID map, but it can be useful. I believe there is triplanar mapping, but having a good UV layout will help you. Any UV islands that fall out of the 0-1 space will end up stretched.

Baking the image texture/color ID map is good for assigning different materials to parts of a single texture set, as opposed to using multiple texture sets. With the latest update to Mixer, we can now have multiple texture sets per object, which wasn’t possible before. So it’s not entirely necessary anymore, but could still be useful for managing complex detail and optimization per texture set.

As long as you export it as an acceptable 3D model file extension, I don’t see why not.

Noted!

If memory serves, something from the KZfaq music library.

Thanks for the feedback. My newer videos don't have music in them.

Thanks for the tip. I'll give it a try!

So I tried it, but I can't seem to get it to bake properly. It bakes, but the image texture ends up looking distorted.

@@Crompwell uhmm wierd for me works great i just assigne the materials to my model reset the transformand scale thing before unwarp i unwarp my model then set up color id node in shading mode for each and everysingle material that iv set for my model so it has the info where to bake for each material the ni bake it comes out great for me !!

You may need to bake with a cage or offset your baking geo more. It's hard for me to troubleshoot without seeing or having access to the project.

To detail the baking process. Normally, what I do is create a new texture, select the desired faces and fill with a single color. I'll show this in a future tutorial.

@@Crompwell so baking with only one model is going to have less quality?

@@nugger The reason we bake things is to transfer details from one mesh to another. So, no it's not that there is less quality, it's that we do it for different reasons and circumstances. Just keep an eye out for the next video and hopefully it'll make more sense.

@@Crompwell I didn't know that was the idea, I thought that baking was used to bake AO, lighting, roughness, specular, etc...into the texture, and normals had a special case of baking hi poly into low poly, therefore it obviously needed to have two meshes, I never realized that baking Id color maps was just like baking normals, it's just strange to me I guess lol

And thank you for your replies!

I might have misspoke, but that's the option you want.

Default cliff doesn’t have IDs in the case that you want to target parts of the mesh.

Machin3 Tools addon: gumroad.com/l/machin3tools

Crompwell cheers mate, keep up the great content

7 77 Thanks! Will do.

No, Quixel should have a plane primitive. Just choose that instead of doing a custom mesh import. In the setup tab, go to Type and select "plane" instead of 3D asset or custom model. Any new mix should open with this as the default model.

According to the person who sent me this model, it’s from a very well known game made by a large famous studio, lol.