more availability = more people to access = less workforce cost

@@bluehabs and that comes with more competition for us creators

While it took over 2-3 years just for Substance to even get BASIC UDIM support. It took not even a full year after Epic Games acquired Quixel for UDIM support. Shows that Adobe is treating Substance like Photoshop on promising features and never deliver on that promise for years

@@Blood-PawWerewolf Well since Mixer is free I am not mad if they surpass Substance xD

@A Studio I love Mixer but I do agree NDO was more powerfull than mixer.

I like mixer but is not yet as strong as Substance and it integration with Substance designer, im really happy for mixer but still some things to go

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Try layer painter addon in blender

@@yogesh124 Haven't tried that yet, Thanks! I prefer to keep everything in Blender if I can so this will probably a great solution

@@Riley_Christian both layer painter and pbr painter addons are complete replacement to substance painter considering layered workflow

i am the same

I'm a beginner in Blender and 3D in general. Is it possible to export from Blender, use this for texturing, and then put the model back into Blender for whatever else I'm working on?

Symmetry should be basic :/

The Blender Foundation seems to be trying to cover as much ground as possible without really polishing down any one feature set, which is what I dislike most about Blender right now. New territories are fun, but without a spit and shine on what's already there, things start to get really frustrating and painful to use.

No. Blender is good for effects, modeling, and rendering. You can texture in Photoshop and Quixel! Do you see Max or Maya wasting time with texturing? Nope! So why should Blender?

@@rockon8174 The main point of it is to have a general, all purpose tool that can host an entire pipeline in one application. It means no switching back and forth, all your work can be stored in one .Blend file, and you maximize compatibility. The second point is to push competition, which is huge because competition leads to innovation, something severely lacking in software these days with the monopolization from Autodesk and Adobe.

@@rockon8174 Blender had a whole game engine. I dare say that texturing is a tiny bit closer to its use case than a game engine.

@@Jofoyo No. No it isn't. Blender isn't Zbrush. Max doesn't try to be Zbrush. Switching back and forth is a given. When software is dedicated to doing something well, it makes no sense as a developer to try and put that into one package. If you sculpt, you sculpt in Zbrush and Rig and Render in Blender.

Welcome aboard, we had cookies but Carl ate them all.

Yes (unless you use commercial MegaScans assets).

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Nvm, checked myself. Multiple Texture Sets works with both multiple materials on single mesh or multiple meshes within the same file. Thats a gamechanger for me - still no baking and performance isnt great but much better than before.

You can always use planes and do the same thing, it will be in 2D then

Breaking news...Unreal bought unity...XD

Yes. The income comes from the (optional) subscription to the large premade material library (Megascans) that you get free if you're using Unreal. But the Mixer application is free regardless

@@TWKPixelHero thank you!!!

Hello! I think you might be talking about the Blender Sculpting tutorial by CG Boost. Cheers

Yes.

just use "mklink /J" on the command prompt and point the install folder to another drive if that's ever a problem. (before you install it)

@@DFPercush thanks you!

Eh mixer doesn’t have a baker and doesn’t replace designer. This is a great step in the right direction but it’s going to be a few more years. I’m excited though. Adobe is horrible and I’d love to not give them any of my money.

No

3GB per smart material pack. There are 5 packs, so in total 15GB.

No I made a point of only installing the newest pack.

Omegalul. I thought of giving this a try till i read this. Ill stick with susbtance painter then.

Not 2021. 2021 has only just come out.

You are free to do whatever you want with result textures if they came out with free additional libraries. The license is when you use anything from Megascans that end result is outside Unreal Engine, like renders or Unity. If end result is in Unreal, everything is for you for grabs.

@@rob679 Thanks friend for clarification.

Yup. But only for Epic Games accounts (for unreal engine use) since it’s an Epic Games company

@@Blood-PawWerewolf Quixel software is free for everything, looks like these new smart materials are free for everything too. It's just megascans library is only free for Unreal.

@@EricWilliamsCG oh ok.

Yes. I was quite amused when I found the Unity pre-requisites, in the program folder.

Oh wow I wasn’t aware of that, how interesting

... and the free Krita ... the free Tahoma2D ... the free Godot ... the free ...

@@mixchief well you forget unreal engine

Epic is making Quixel free to Unreal developers to lure more developers onto their engine. Making Mixer free is probably a way to get you in the door as a developer. Then, when you see all the assets available from Quixel you will be enticed to use Unreal. To me, it seems that Epic is betting on their developer's success to make back all the money they've invested.

Well id say Epic Games has its own game store, Fortnite, royalties on popular games using the Unreal Engine and more.. You need an Epic Games account if I remember correctly to use their megascan libraries, so by putting Mixer for free, more people would maybe sign up on Epic Games to get access to megascan, and also maybe at the same time they'll buy stuff from Epic, so EpicGames get more people into their "ecosystem" Its like a video ive seen from the channel Learn Color Grading (kzfaq.info/get/bejne/r5mUhLhj1MWpqXU.html&ab_channel=LearnColorGrading) in wich he theorizes that BlackMagic Design, the people behind the FREE popular video editor Davinci Resolve, put this great software for free (there IS a paid version but its more for advanced users, you can do 98% of the stuff on the free version without any restrictions) because more people would buy their cameras because it works really well with their software, they want to bring people into their "ecosystem"... My broken english might not be the best to explain clearly so I suggest you watch the video that I've linked above :)

Blender is non profit of some sort, they "make" money from donation and merchandise to pay their devs. Unreal have their marketplace and if you use their engine they got 5% cut after your first 1mil usd revenue. Unity have pro version where you get professionl support, basically they sell service.

I just looked a few seconds ago and I don't see Linux anywhere

@@brenolad Yeah, that was what I figured ... So I'm going to hook up my old windows machine for that one probably. So in a Week after the updates I can use it. :D

This is not true, you are free to use all the materials he talked about in this video in any other engines. It’s the mega scan assets that will require a Quixel subscription if you do not use them in the Unreal Engine. And I guess expensive is relative but I don’t find the individual license for Quixel to be outrageous at all

@@cjeff99 Yep. You are correct. I went back and checked.

It's great! They've really advanced the industry and made it accessible to all.

@@DavidBarlowDavido01 Hopefully Fortnite stays at the top of the charts so they can continue their streak of generosity haha

Are you alright?

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