Answered: Questions about Suite 2.0

Skan · Dec 2015

Hello,

Just got my hands on this amazing software and it's just amazing. But I have a question and an issue:

Question: How can I make the texture transparent? I modelled a radio and I have a glass in front of a decal, and I'd like to see through the glass. Is that possible in the Suite?

Issue: Sometimes, when I press C+Shift+Click to add a material, the Suite is adding the material only on albedo ignoring every other texture and it doesn't assign that texture the color from the color map.

Thanks!

Synaesthesia · Dec 2015

Hey Skan!

You should be able to add an opacity channel from the DDO interface. I've attached an image to show what I mean.

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/3u/153hwfebw31a.jpg

The SHIFT+C+Primary click issue is something that you may wish to report to our developers in the Quixel Live Support group on Facebook.

If you don't use Facebook, I can forward it there for you!

Skan · Dec 2015

Thank you for replying, will try that first thing tomorrow!

StormyBA · Dec 2015

In 1.8 there was a drop down box during the material creation set up that let me pick and choose my base masks (albedo, roughness etc). Has this been removed from 2.0? I didn't jump on for long but didn't see any obvious way to choose my masks!

Thanks!

Synaesthesia · Dec 2015

Hey Stormyba!

You can add more textures during the Base Creation step:

The option is at the bottom with the button labeled "Add more channels..."

StormyBA · Dec 2015

Thanks for the reply but it seems my interface is just missing that button? How odd?

Im using PS CS 2014 btw - 15 ran like crap so had to switch back

Skan · Dec 2015

SYNAESTHESIA,

Hello,

Gave the opacity map a try, for some reason it doesn't do anything. I have never tried to do this in Quixel so I'm a noobie here

https://gyazo.com/1bb2897d4de32c6d5efdea02a12f0168

I still can't see through the supposed "Glass". It's like my opacity map is acting like a spec one... What am I doing wrong?

repete · Dec 2015

Skan said:

SYNAESTHESIA,

Hello,

Gave the opacity map a try, for some reason it doesn't do anything. I have never tried to do this in Quixel so I'm a noobie here

https://gyazo.com/1bb2897d4de32c6d5efdea02a12f0168

I still can't see through the supposed "Glass". It's like my opacity map is acting like a spec one... What am I doing wrong?

Turn down the opacity for the material using the opacity slider !

repete · Dec 2015

Synaesthesia said:

Hey Stormyba!

You can add more textures during the Base Creation step:

The option is at the bottom with the button labeled "Add more channels..."

This option is temporally disabled !

StormyBA · Dec 2015

repete said:
This option is temporally disabled !

Yep - I clicked where the button should be and got that message.

It's not ideal - Guess i need to go through the preset work flows and find one that is similar to our custom shader setups

Skan · Dec 2015

repete said:
Turn down the opacity for the material using the opacity slider !

https://gyazo.com/908835feeac5354f9c15322ef3a8a2a4
https://gyazo.com/add58e179c22233c32e6549e2531382b

Can you please take me as an absolute noob and explain step by step? I really have no idea what I'm doing anymore

repete · Dec 2015

Skan said:

repete said:
Turn down the opacity for the material using the opacity slider !

https://gyazo.com/908835feeac5354f9c15322ef3a8a2a4
https://gyazo.com/add58e179c22233c32e6549e2531382b

Can you please take me as an absolute noob and explain step by step? I really have no idea what I'm doing anymore

Are you turning down the opacity in the Albedo channel ?

Skan · Dec 2015

repete said:
Are you turning down the opacity in the Albedo channel ?

Well, yes.

Window material:
Albedo: Opacity 0.
Opacity: Color: #FFFFFF, Opacity 100

https://gyazo.com/1e2cc1b32147e23803d9511f8016a67a

Turning the opacity from the opacity texture to black doesn't bring any transparency either.

repete · Dec 2015

Skan said:http://polycount.com/profile/Skan

repete said:
Are you turning down the opacity in the Albedo channel ?

Well, yes.

Window material:
Albedo: Opacity 0.
Opacity: Color: #FFFFFF, Opacity 100

https://gyazo.com/1e2cc1b32147e23803d9511f8016a67a

Turning the opacity from the opacity texture to black doesn't bring any transparency either.

Try downloading one of the example assets and add the glass material to it, see what happens. It should be working.

http://quixel.se/usermanual/quixelsuite/doku.php

Skan · Dec 2015

repete said:
Try downloading one of the example assets and add the glass material to it, see what happens. It should be working.

http://quixel.se/usermanual/quixelsuite/doku.php

Well, made it work (sort of) but I still can't see through the mesh. I can see the back part of the head but I can't see the box behind it.

https://gyazo.com/17c7d576a5ee76ade32efbf899b7534c

Skan · Dec 2015

Any suggestions please?

Synaesthesia · Dec 2015

Sorry about the wait, Skan! Could you please consider reporting this bug to our developers in the Quixel Live Support group on Facebook?

If you don't use Facebook, I can forward it there for you!

Skan · Dec 2015

Okay I will. Thank you!

stxtch · Feb 2016

Skan said:

Issue: Sometimes, when I press C+Shift+Click to add a material, the Suite is adding the material only on albedo ignoring every other texture and it doesn't assign that texture the color from the color map.

Is there a fix for this? Currently having the same "albedo only" issue for new materials on 2.1.1

Synaesthesia · Feb 2016

Could you get us a video of this, Stxtch?

stxtch · Feb 2016

I don't have video capture software available so here's some step by step screenshots:

1. Current project view containing one material

2. Colour ID view and select a new colour ID to add a material to (c + shift + left click)

3. Browse and a select a new material

3. Albedo view with new material added

4. Gloss view - no new material

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/d5/ffawzb0lnlh5.jpg

Synaesthesia · Feb 2016

Thanks for the report - I'm in the Quixel Hangout right now, if you'd like to join up and screen-share with me so we can troubleshoot this live.

Billy Lundevall · Feb 2016

Hello! The reason this happens is because that specific material doesn't have a main folder, and is a single layer only which causes a bug when added through the viewport. If you add the material manually in the interface it will work, I will however note that material down to be fixed

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stxtch · Feb 2016

Thanks a lot for the responses guys. So use the dDO interface rather than the 3DO viewport and then assign the color ID manually. I'll try this workaround tomorrow morning.

EDIT: The workaround is successful, thanks for the support!

Answered: Questions about Suite 2.0

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