Solved: Quixel SUITE & Unreal Engine 4

DaBoggle · Apr 2016

Hi there,

first post, first issues. If i create an asset for UE4 in 3ds max and quixel, my textures are kind of messed up.
This is the 3DO renderer:

Same asset with exportet textures in UE4:

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/42/umfou57inp7j.jpg

And here the Material.

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/1m/49r9ow23gmgc.jpg

I turned sRBG off, but this kind of difference? I have this problem on every map in UE4 (lightning conditions are different)
I mean i can turn the brightness down, use own roughness&metallic maps and everything, but this should not the solution. Also the textures are really blurry. Are there settings in UE4 i didnt discover yet? Do i need to create a special material for quixel? This is not the first asset i made (also weapons and stuff) and the problem is everywhere.
Currently i use UE 4.10 and Quixel Suite 2.1.5.

Synaesthesia · Apr 2016

Try exporting as UE4 (RMA Packed) instead, and use the *_reflection.* texture to plug in the Red -> Roughness, Green -> Metallic, and Blue -> Ambient Occlusion. Set any non-albedo texture to sRGB off as they're linear textures and require gamma space. Masks compression should be used if you're using the RMA-packed export for the *_reflection.* texture. You'll also want to add reflection capture actors to your scene, too. A lot of the visual style of UE4 comes from setting up your scene first.

DaBoggle · Apr 2016

Thanks for your reply. I will test it, but i also think the normalmap isnt right.

DaBoggle · Apr 2016

I got it. I made a master material and with some setup (and RMA packed), its look pretty good.
Thanks

8th_Scepter · May 2016

Hi, I thought I'd try color masking but ran into some issues.

First off to get results like this:

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/pc/mcyr24n75p6u.png

do developers make multiple materials just to change a color like this? Does anyone know how costly the draw calls are for 3+ materials with the same textures in it?

For example:

Question #2

To color mask in unreal 4 can I use the RGB channels or just black and white for each part I want to change colors?
Because for some reason I get these results trying a RGB mask:
(I'm sure I'm doing something wrong here but not sure what)