SOLVED: Exporting maps into multiple channels in the same texture with dDo?

Mathew O

Hi guys, I knew if I posted here I'd get a good reply so here goes..

I was wondering if there was a way to Export my maps and have (for example) AO, Roughness and metalness go into one textures RGB channels and I could call that texture "Hammer_Material" or something similar?

This is common obviously and I typically do it towards the end of something being worked on but I'd like to be able to iterate whilst keeping to as few a textures as possible.

Any ideas?

teddybergsman

Hey Mathew! Yes this is fully possible, in fact the UE4 (Optimized) preset does exactly what you are requesting! Try it out (simply select it as a calibration profile in the Exporter) and let me know if you get the results you are expecting. As for naming the final output textures, you can set the final material name in the Exporter as well.

I hope this helps!

- Teddy

Mathew O

I'm sure you're some sort of wizard Teddy, you're always so fast to fix my problems...

I'll try it now, thanks dude

teddybergsman

Cool, I hope it works for you I should mention the UE4 preset makes sure the normal has a fliped green channel on export, if you're using another engine this might not be preferable. If so let me know and I'll write up a custom profile for you.

- Teddy

Mathew O

This is actually perfect, It did exactly what I wanted as I am in UE4. It wasn't obvious which channels held which maps but that was easy enough to figure out. Is there any chance in the future we could have a way of building profiles at all? For example, grabbing a custom alpha from somewhere else and adding it to the albedos alpha or including emissive into a chosen channel?

Thanks again

teddybergsman

Glad it suited your needs Mathew! Yes, it is actually possible to fully customize these profiles very explicitly, although it enters the realm of scripting (straightforward stuff, but perhaps not for the faint of heart!). There is a full guide on how to do all this here: http://quixel.se/usermanual/quixelsuite/doku.php?id=ddo_calibrationprofiles

Thanks for the quick confirmation

- Teddy

isogin

is there anywhere i can read about what map goes where in the different calibration profiles?