Megascans is out!
greentooth
Hooray! Hail the conquering heros!
Megascans made it to us today. And it looks really nice. The pricing is very reasonable, I'm signing up as we speak. How y'all feelin about it?
https://megascans.se/
Megascans made it to us today. And it looks really nice. The pricing is very reasonable, I'm signing up as we speak. How y'all feelin about it?
https://megascans.se/
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Heres the release trailer
I wish I knew @PyrZern
I'll look into it.
Jungle, Rainforest, Desert & Wasteland Biomes <-- You are here.
Nordic Biome, Australian Lava Ecosystem, 3D Trees & Foliage <-- Next up
Fabric, Brick, Tile & Wood Surface Scans
Metal, Plastic & Rubber Surface Scans
If you all are able to go to a lumber yard or something, it would be great to get a variety of popular bare wood types scanned. Having that fine grain detail in 4k as well as any imperfections would be super valuable for a ton of weapon artists.
One thing I noticed by looking at the videos and browsing the website: it would be great to show more practical, technical information about the content. Wireframes, UVs, clear texture breakdowns, and so on. At the moment there is a bit of an "automagical" flair to the presentation, and while it has some merits to catch people's attention ... I find that it is getting in the way of the content itself. For instance, early in the UE video some foliage is laid down and it appears to come complete with a movement system, swaying in the wind. Is that part of the Megascans offering ? Was that a FBX with baked-in animation, or is the model linked to an environment Blueprint controlling foliage movement ? For foliage, is the Megascan service providing 3D models, or merely texture maps to then apply on 3d cards ? And so on.
In short : since you are offering high quality 3d content ... it would be great to see it presented just like regular 3d content, not unlike the way the Ten24 team markets their 3D scan store. The website itself could also benefit from being a little bit more simple, with less big buttons and parallax effects and more straightforward access to the library. This is partly a matter of taste, and partly a wish for something more practical and straight to the point.
And it goes without saying : congrats on the release !
Overall, they are high quality assets, although with some annoying problems.
So, what are the problems (for me at least)?
- First thing which I tested out were two free textures Soil Clay and Soil Mud, textures themselves were pretty good, BUT when I was displacing (tessellating) them using the Displacement Map, there were small but visible seams on the edges of the 2x2m plane while being displaced, which means that the Displacement Map is not seamless, but when I do tile it, it shows no appearent seams, or they are really really unnoticable on the texture.
If anyone has made it work good, correct me. BTW, I was using Blender and it's Displace Modifier.
- Second thing, when I downloaded two objects which were free, Rock Sandstone and Wood Log, they were HUGE, probably some 50 meters instead a little bit over a meter in length. I needed ti scale them down manually (not that it was hard, but I expect them to be ABSOLUTELY game-ready, and that includes proper scaling). I tested out FBX and OBJ formats. Again, if I did something wrong and/or it works for you correct me.
Everything else is pretty damn good.
Cheers!
Loving the power bridge gives apart from that tho, its super tasty.
This is probably user error, but it also throws up a "too many threads" error when importing assets from the network.