Quixel Suite 2.0

JamesArk

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DDO/NDO painters, 3DO now can do baking. Seem very comparable to the Allegorithmic suite of programs. Free upgrade if you own Quixel 1.0.

Jonas Ronnegard

Have had a blast with this in the closed beta, hope you all try it.

Brygelsmack

Excited to try this out! I hope I get into the beta.

EarthQuake

Yeah, been using the beta as well, lots of awesome new stuff.

Joost

Excited to get my hands on this!

Jeff Parrott

Looks awesome! And Photoshop brushes???!!?? Thank you.

mats effect

Man looks awesome. Had been wondering what was next for Quixel lol.

Zack Maxwell

Holy shit, Photoshop brushes in 3D space?

frmdbl

I was hoping for a standalone version, but the upgrade looks very good.

throttlekitty

AAAAAAAA looks great!

Is that using Photoshops native 3d or their own?

Catzcratch

OMG yes .
i hope this fixes the crashing as well

Zack Maxwell

frmdbl wrote: »

I was hoping for a standalone version, but the upgrade looks very good.

Supposedly the new version speeds up performance.
I'm really curious to see how much difference it makes.

Norron

I am super excited for all these cool features but also a more stable Quixel suite. This is super cool looking.

Pedro Amorim

hawt

PyrZern

Need to break free from Photoshop... "

Dataday

frmdbl wrote: »

I was hoping for a standalone version, but the upgrade looks very good.

+1

When it came to purchasing decision, it was Substance that won me over based largely on the fact it wasnt reliant on photoshop.

Pedro Amorim

Dataday wrote: »

+1

When it came to purchasing decision, it was Substance that won me over based largely on the fact it wasnt reliant on photoshop.

Why?
Photoshop is great. You can almost use DDO as a layer manager. It's awesome.

gsokol

Pedro Amorim wrote: »

Why?
Photoshop is great. You can almost use DDO as a layer manager. It's awesome.

My own personal beef is that at some point last year, photoshop updated, and changed some stuff under the hood, which made quixel tools just straight up crash until quixel was able to hop in and rework their stuff to deal with the change in photoshop. Was either the jump to CC or CC2015, don't remember.

On one hand, being seated in a familiar tool is great, on the other hand, quixel has been significantly less stable for me than substance,

That being said, I love both...and I'm pretty stoked to play with this!

merwynl

Super excited to try out these new features but yeah hopefully some of the stability issues will be fixed.

lildragn

Grimwolf wrote: »

Holy shit, Photoshop brushes in 3D space?

Right? Plus the speed increase looks to make it a solid competitor.

loggie24

This looks really good! Too bad it's a bit late since most studios now are balls deep into Allegorithmic's stuff and i doubt they will change. I see this very useful for indie developers and people working freelance or whatever and can't wait to try it out

If this delivers a long with Megascans we can start closing the gaps a bit..

Bek

Pretty keen to try out the baker; that could be pretty damn useful (especially since I've yet to pick up Knald).

ZacD

I do wish it was stand alone, I'd like to use photoshop less, Photoshop isn't indie friendly, the integration just seems to make the whole process a bit sluggish, glitchy, and hacked together.

Makkon

I have to say I agree with wanting it to be standalone. While having ndo in PS is great, I can't run Ddo for more than 10 mins at a time, and that's entirely Adobe's fault. This software is beautiful. Maybe someday in the future it can be standalone, and it's big feature can be that it exports texture files as PSDs or something, I don't know.

I spent a pretty penny on Quixel a while back, and I've never been able to properly use it, it's really a punch in the gut.

PS this update is utterly mindblowing

jStins

Looks great and really hyped to try it out!

Can anyone in the beta comment on stability? Is it fair to say that 2.0 is more sturdy than 1.8?

RobeOmega

Makkon wrote: »

I have to say I agree with wanting it to be standalone. While having ndo in PS is great, I can't run Ddo for more than 10 mins at a time, and that's entirely Adobe's fault. This software is beautiful. Maybe someday in the future it can be standalone, and it's big feature can be that it exports texture files as PSDs or something, I don't know.

I spent a pretty penny on Quixel a while back, and I've never been able to properly use it, it's really a punch in the gut.

PS this update is utterly mindblowing

At least you can even open the software for the past year

I agree though at some point Quixel Suite does need to make the move to be standalone however I disagree with all of the stability issues on top of adding all of these new features whether it would have been response able to add it in 2.0.

Pedro Amorim

I guess i don't have anyissues because i'm still on CS6.

pachermann

My Cs6 crashes alot with quixel, but i love it anyway!
It must be an issue with my windows not quixel itself.

iam happy for the free update thx!!!

kanga

Pedro Amorim wrote: »

I guess i don't have anyissues because i'm still on CS6.

Yup me too (CS6). It's also better if all my files are on the workstation's root. I have the same issues with flash.

The quixel tools blow me away, this is going to be a blast!

Fansub

Photoshop is very sensitive on it's layer structures,paths and settings.

And depending on how you (or any random software you've once downloaded) change some settings on your computers,many issues can popup while using DDO,from a simple warning that has no sense (some of them look like some Photoshop Actions that failed to operate due to layer structuring or naming conventions) to a very big BSOD.

That's why sometimes it's really hard for Quixel to spot certain errors that can be caused by anything,absolutely anything.

With that said,i also think they should go standalone in the 3rd iteration of Quixel Suite,or build a solid relationship with Adobe to help them solve some of these issues.

With that said,i must say Quixel did a fantastic job on 3D painting,and if this version delivers what it's promising,we might finally have THE texturing software that combines traditional workflow with modern tech

Jonas Ronnegard

There has been a lot of back and forth as it's a beta but the 3D painting performance has always been great for me, painting in 4k without lag which really didn't work well in painter for me.

Fansub

There has been a lot of back and forth as it's a beta but the 3D painting performance has always been great for me, painting in 4k without lag which really didn't work well in painter for me.

What's your opinion on the new release ? do we finally have the smart Photoshop texturing tool,or are there any other things you think are to improve ?

repete

@Jonas

Are the brushes quixel only or can we use any brush we have in PS ?

Jonas Ronnegard

I was told we could share our experiences, not sure if I can talk about specific features, I think I'll leave that to the Quixel people hehe.

Always things to improve, but I'm liking it more and more for every update, was going back and forth between painter and the suite but as things improved I have more and more gone over to the suite.

lildragn

Jonas Ronnegard wrote: »

but I'm liking it more and more for every update, was going back and forth between painter and the suite but as things improved I have more and more gone over to the suite.

This is what I'm beginning to come to a conclusion on, even in it's clunky 1.8 state I'm finding that what I see in 3DO translates to Marmoset and other very well. With SP it's been a constant battle for me.

Jonas Ronnegard

well before 2.0 I had honestly switched to painter, for me the 3d paint tool was a must, and now it's there so I'm back

ericdigital

I actually kind of like that quixel is in photoshop. It definitely does bring issues and can be crashey but in my experience it does a good job of recovering from crashes and keeping everything linked. Been using it almost daily at work for a couple of months now. I tend to use the materials made in quixel as a base for handpainting on top of so it works as a good file manager for handling this kind of workflow.

Anywho looking forward to this update, looks awesome!

Darkmaster

STOKED.

mikezoo

just to chime in, the latest updates for Suite 2.0 have been amazing. :thumbup: All operations run faster, usability has gone up, and painter is a dream. There's alot to be excited about.

Aabel

Oh wow I forgot that Quixel was even around anymore. I'll definitely check this out, though I have gotten very used to Substance and the power of proceduralism. Hopefully it's not as messy as it used to be.

pachermann

@kanga

thanks for the information, but do you mean C: by root or the user root inside windows?

PyrZern

Currently when I use 1.8, it's super slow to add a material to a single color ID. Like, I could tab out and browse Reddit for awhile.

Is that process much faster now ??

Because I hate clicking a few buttons then wait. That's why I switched to Substance.

Catzcratch

fun fact . i dreamed last night that Quixel Suite 2 was out and oh boy it was fun lol
its confirmed guys the update is awesome

bounchfx

kind of aside to the point of the program, but watching it rotate around so effortlessly and paint inside PS is going to be incredible if that's really how well it works. My question is, is the painting limited to DDO or can I use the viewer/PS brush painting to do straight-diffuse/hand painted stuff? right now I use 3dcoat specifically for that purpose, but if there was a way I could do it right in photoshop and just pin my canvas down when doing big brushstrokes then unpin to 'apply' while having the PS layer and brush system fully intact I would probably have to excuse myself for a few. Anyone that has used it already know if this is possible?

also, what extent of 3d navigation is possible? for instance, can you hide/unhide parts of the mesh? thanks! really looking forward to the release regardless.

ScoobyDoofus

Nice to see some movement from those guys. I sincerely hope they've fixed some stuff and not just bolted on a bunch of features to the slop we've already got.

I just started to use dDo again for some work stuff recently and have been tearing my hair out. Its incredibly unstable on every machine I've ever used it on. It crashes and corrupts my work every few minutes/clicks, essentially making itself useless.

MannaTheBerserk

This looks a very important update that puts Quixel Suite at the same level of competitors like Substance.

Nice one!

Matt Fagan

Looking forward to the update!

disanski

It is kind of a relief to see that I am not the only one who's getting tons of crashes with DDO.
Looking forward to this update and I hope it is more stable

littleclaude

It looks great, is there any sign of UDIM support?

clinington

Time to update

Wesley

This looks awesome!

I also feel slightly guilty that my dDo is really solid... CS6 here, too.