Author Topic: Quixel Megascans Integration (Read 19372 times)

arvinmoses · **on:** March 19, 2014, 05:30:38 pm

I love Allegorithmic tools. I used both dDo and nDo in the past and I feel like Designer just had better, more intuitive workflow.

Quixel recently release some videos of new versions and I have to say the tools are looking much better. I think I still prefer Designer and Painter, but the quixel tools have made a big improvement.

That all being said, the megascan textures look incredible.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CeRcJHdJbo#t=29
http://dev.quixel.se/megascans

I know we are getting new PBR mats soon, but is there anything like this getting integrated with SD/SP? If not, might there be someway to utilize the megascan mats within Allegorithmic products? It seems like they are pretty open to integration with other products.

artzfx · **Reply #1 on:** March 20, 2014, 08:35:06 am

They have similar to Megascans to be included inside Substance Painter to be provided by http://www.surfacemimic.com/gallery/ from my understanding.

elowan · **Reply #2 on:** March 20, 2014, 08:42:37 am

I was a bit disappointed – Quixel once again builds up on PS, instead of finally going stand alone…maybe Adobe paying them a good chunk of money, hehehe

The free 3DO PBR viewer will also need an installation of CS 3 or higher.

At least the scan library could be very useful for nailing materials and finding correct color- values to do so.

From what I´ve read, there will be a (somehow limited) access to the library for free!
This indeed could be interesting for all of us, not only Quixel product owners.

I think, we must wait a few weeks longer and just see, what this library is all about, when it´s online.

For now, I would guess:

Search a material in their lib, download the .HDR (or other format) image-textures, import this textures into other apps, like SP, SD, B2M or Toolbag2, … – and you´re done.

This way, one can utilize their megascans, or am I wrong here?

elowan · **Reply #3 on:** March 20, 2014, 08:47:16 am

Quote from: artzfx on March 20, 2014, 08:35:06 am

They have similar to Megascans to be included inside Substance Painter to be provided by http://www.surfacemimic.com/gallery/ from my understanding.

from what I be able to see on their main-page, the textures are not complete "PBR-sets".
Just diffuse, normal and a displacement map. No words on 32-bit hdr microsurfaces, metalness, gloss/roughness and so on...

What I would really like to have integrated in the Allegorithmic products , is something like this "material charts" (taken from Marmoset.co website)

arvinmoses · **Reply #4 on:** March 20, 2014, 09:36:24 pm

Quote from: artzfx on March 20, 2014, 08:35:06 am

They have similar to Megascans to be included inside Substance Painter to be provided by http://www.surfacemimic.com/gallery/ from my understanding.

Hmmm... some of those look really nice. I wonder if any will make it to SD.

millie101 · **Reply #5 on:** March 25, 2014, 03:16:12 pm

The quality of the materials in Megascans is really good.
If we can use Megascans in substance designer it would be great.

artaq · **Reply #7 on:** March 26, 2014, 07:20:46 pm

There are several Megascan examples packed in with Marmoset Toolbag 2 and they all work very well with Designer. It's a great way to sample the quality of the Megascans, albeit they're all 1024's and lower. It's great Allegroithmic added the specular/gloss PBR template as these are what type of maps the included Megascans consist of (vs. metallic/roughness). Any way we can get a PBR shader with tesselation (height) support?