SOLVED: Linking materials not working for some mats

Billabong

When I link my materials to my color id map, not all of them will load, mainly the MetalPaintedMetal and MetalPaintedBlack. I have also tried not linking any and opening 3Do and and pressing C and shift on a color from my color map, which does show up to define a material, but the material browser wont even load up. I'm using the 1.8 suite with PS CC, I'm going to try and revert back to 1.7 and see if that works.

Any suggestions?

Thanks
-Brandon

Billabong

So after reverting back to 1.7, im still having the same issues. if you look at the first image, you'll see my map id and in the second image, you can see not all my color ids got baked through, the painted metal and the painted metal black.I just have the grey background where those two mats should be.

I could really use some help.
Thanks
-Brandon

Eric Ramberg

Hi!

That is very strange indeed, are you saving the color ID as a png?
Has this problem occured with other projects? Would you mind testing a sample project to see if the same error occur: http://quixel.se/usermanual/quixelsuite/doku.php?id=ddo_samples

Thanks!

Billabong

Hi Eric,
Thanks for replying. I'm actually using a targa but Ddo converts it to a png. I'm on the road this morning. But will be back later this afternoon and will try the sample file then. Thanks again.
-Brandon

Billabong

I think I got it to work. I started out with a png this time instead of a targa. Ddo seemed to like that. One thing I have noticed in the suite that was different in the Legacy Ddo, is that a lot of the patterns for the worn paint, tile insanely close together. Is there a way to expand this tiling? Image attached to show you what i mean.

Eric Ramberg

Great news! The tiling can be affected by texel density, using a good ratio between project resolution and texel density should sort it out!