Solved: Changing the direction in which a texture is applied?

Alfax

So this is a bit of a beginner question but I've recently dug into Quixel and I absolutely love how it works. However I was wondering if there was a way to apply the same texture to an object 4 times, and then spin the texture around independently. I have a square tile made out of wood and it'd be weird to have all 4 logs of wood that form it use a texture that's only looking in one direction when 2 of the logs are perpendicular to the other 2 (wood is a particularly complicated material to work with since having a wooden log with perpendicular lines would seem a bit... unnatural).

Synaesthesia

If you wish to change a texture's rotation in the Suite, all you need to do is select the layer from which the texture derives and right-click. The options for rotation are located in that menu.  You can duplicate the wood layer as many times as is necessary, mask it only to the specific area you'd like it to appear in via dDo Painter or hand-painted masks in Photoshop, and then rotate the texture layer. Let me know if you're unclear and I can assist further!

Alfax

I'll give it a try tomorrow and report back as soon as I can!

Alfax

Rotating in 90 or 180 degrees went perfectly well! However I am having two tiny issues right now I would like to mention. It seems like even though I got the right colours set in Nightshade Blockout for this prop's ID colour map, Quixel isn't applying the colours to the model correctly. Is this an issue with the model, or perhaps the targa format I'm using for the colour map? You'll notice my current UV map hasn't been optimised since I've just been testing materials for now, and I'm unsure if that has something to do with it. Any clues as to what may be causing this? 

Synaesthesia

May I see your original color ID before being ingested in the Suite?

Alfax

Sure thing! This is a higher res version I made before. Same issue, unfortunately, and like I said I'm not sure if using this messy UV map is affecting the colour masking process. It did work yesterday so I'm not sure if changing the format to targa was a mistake or the mesh is borked. 

Synaesthesia

It's possible that your UVs are an issue, it's also possible that there are other factors at play. May I see your UVs as well?

Alfax

Sorry for not replying earlier! I remade my UVs and got much better results this time. However there's still a good chunk of the model that's not being covered by the colour map, strangely enough. Here's a screenshot along with the new ID colour map and the new UV map

Synaesthesia

What file format are you using?

Alfax

At the moment I'm using PNG. 

Synaesthesia

I meant for your mesh.

Alfax

Ah, silly me! I'm using OBJ

Synaesthesia

Hmm, strange. Would you be okay with uploading your project input files so I can see if I can duplicate this issue?

Alfax

Sure thing! Here you go.

Synaesthesia

I just imported your model into the Suite and I see the same thing - I imported it into Max and I see the same thing as well. This means that your IDs weren't applied to the entire model. Looking into it more, your UVs are just flipped. Go ahead and adjust them to match your color IDs.  

Alfax

Hahahah Jesus! I was so convinced I had saved those UVs after changing them, too! I got them fixed now and experienced another bug which left the colour ID map even MORE unrecognisable, but I checked the outliner in Maya and it turns out there were a bunch of mesh groups hidden in there. I bet they must've been messing with Quixel as well, so now that they're gone everything is running perfectly. Thank you so much!