IN PROGRESS: Materials not working (pattern issue perhaps?)
Hey, I've run into another issue with the Suite. I've noticed many of the materials simply don't work, and only produce flat color without any actual "texture".
The issue is with most, but not all materials.
When going into the blending options of a layer of a material that doesn't work, and looking at the "pattern overlay", the pattern is "?".
I'm guessing for some reason some but not all patterns are being installed. However, I tried to do an uninstall and reinstall and the problem persists, even though I installed it on a different hard drive.
Any help would be appreciated.
The issue is with most, but not all materials.
When going into the blending options of a layer of a material that doesn't work, and looking at the "pattern overlay", the pattern is "?".
I'm guessing for some reason some but not all patterns are being installed. However, I tried to do an uninstall and reinstall and the problem persists, even though I installed it on a different hard drive.
Any help would be appreciated.
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Resetting Photoshop CC preferences had no effect.
EDIT: Found that the bug seems to do with the Pattern Overlay effect in Photoshop on the layers. It will say that Pattern Overlay is enabled in the layer panel, but checking it in the Effects menu says otherwise.
Re-enabling Pattern Overlay seems to fix the material effect, but I still notice some errors with the resulting mask. Not sure what could be linked to that.
BTW, can you download older PS versions with the subscription? Gotta try that, this new version of PS is really irritating me.
Indeed you can.
So the only thing that kinda worked out of everything in this thread was moving back to CS6. However, it didn't completely work. With some materials (most it seems), the pattern overlay is turned off, and cannot be turned on. In the "layer style" window, the "pattern overlay" is actually greyed out, preventing me from enabling it at all.
EDIT: This being greyed out seems to mean there are no patterns in photoshop, so it seems for some reason installing Quixel suite somehow not only doesn't install the necessary patterns, but also deletes the default patterns. I'm guessing it deletes all the patterns, then is supposed to install their patterns, but never ends up installing their patterns.
It seems I have no patterns at all, but oddly enough some dirt masks do still work. If I manually install each pattern it kinda works, but I don't seem to have all the patterns in my Suite folder. One that I'm trying to use is "fine leather", which is not a pattern that I can find in my Suite folder.
I had the same problem where smart materials applied after the first would render with flat shading, and basic (bad) masking. After reverting to CS6, I applied several smart materials with no problem.
Looked into the patterns overlay issue Panzerdraco mentioned and it does seem to be to do with that. As a temp fix for artist who can't swap to CS6 some materials I found that you can re-enable some detail by double clicking the affected layer in Photoshop and retick the pattern overlay layer style. You have to do this for all maps/buggy layers and this only works with some materials... so only useful if you can't swap to CS6.