Quixel SUITE 2.2 is OUT NOW!

Synaesthesia

This is a major stability and content upgrade with new high-res fabric and leather scans, workflow & UI improvements and a TON of fixes and improvements thanks to the awesome community 

HUGE shout out to Alvin Shih for the stunning artwork!

- Bunch of new Megascans fabrics and leathers
- Upgraded all Iron, Steel and Wood materials
- Added 16 bit support for Material Creator
- Native file dialogs added for 3DO
- Persistent window location for all Suite tools
- Added backwards compatibility feature for converting 1.x projects to 2.x
- All 3DO sliders now have input fields
- Added Shortcut 'V' for showing color picker
- Added Brush Size overlay when using shortcuts to adjust Brush Size
- Improved Custom Grunge Mask importer
- Increased Emission Intensity range
- TurnTable now respects MeshCentric property
- Improved Contrast and Saturation post-process effect
- Improved Smart Material thumbnails
- Fixed: NDO not connecting with 3DO in special cases
- Fixed: Smart Material saving bugs
- Fixed: Custom 2D masks breaking Smart Materials and the Reimporter
- Fixed: Color Map shader persisting if 'C' was held while assigning material
- Fixed: Other map would get selected after changing scale
- Fixed: Material Creator would ignore certain custom values
- Fixed: Brush crosshair would persist after exiting paint mode
- Fixed: Shift+Click painting strokes when camera is moved in between a stroke
- Fixed: Creating/editing a paint layer would not run 3DO in paint mode if closed
- Fixed: Mesh reimporter error mistakenly reporting a change in mesh group names
- Fixed: Entering text in TextBoxes would also trigger tab switching in DDO
- Fixed: A meshgroup named "Plane" would not function correctly with 3D painter
- Fixed: Camera-aligned brush could be passed through if zoomed too much
- Fixed: UI visibility issues
- Fixed: 3DO not getting live-update on DDO changes
- Fixed: Masks getting darker each time paint mode is entered/exited
- Fixed: MeshCentric not working when rotating lights
- Fixed: Soft brush strokes sometimes showing artifacts in mask shader view
- Fixed: Dropdowns not closing when clicking the dropdown icon
- Fixed: Lens sparkles with Physical Camera post-process effect
- Fixed: None (Default) ID Preset would not be selected by default
- Fixed: Cross-app mode crashing when editing material
- Fixed: Color picker wouldn't show correctly if 3DO window is resized
- Fixed: Paint strokes with B+Shift+LeftClick when light is moved in between strokes

Shuruboro

Seems like the biggest problem, when you try to edit a mask that has already been edited and it destroys it, still exists. Is this problem not fixed or its just my copy that does this still?

Synaesthesia

Was the mask hand-edited in Photoshop without using DynaMask?

Shuruboro

No, the mask was not hand-edited in Photoshop. It was only edited in DynaMask. It is the same problem depicted here:
http://polycount.com/discussion/168349/answered-quixel-ddo-2-1-5-dynamask-problem#latest
http://polycount.com/discussion/comment/2437181/#Comment_2437181

kohg

Can't browse smart materials and materials now, when the library opens, only the first material in each category is displayed, half displayed really.

Tits

kohg said:

Can't browse smart materials and materials now, when the library opens, only the first material in each category is displayed, half displayed really.

Just make the windows bigger, it will be back

also have been having issue with hand painting some part of a mask to see it disapear if I try to edit again.

I also had so much issue with the color picker (not being able to press OK) and getting a ''DING'' everytime I tried, making it impossible to use the color fonction, but the update seems to have fixed the issue for me

Synaesthesia

Shuruboro said:

No, the mask was not hand-edited in Photoshop. It was only edited in DynaMask. It is the same problem depicted here:
http://polycount.com/discussion/168349/answered-quixel-ddo-2-1-5-dynamask-problem#latest
http://polycount.com/discussion/comment/2437181/#Comment_2437181

This issue (masks becoming darker each time DynaMask is entered) specifically has been addressed and resolved by the 2.2 update. If it isn't functioning correctly for you, the first suggestion I would have is to perform an uninstall of SUITE 2 and downloading the installer from Quixel.se for a fresh install. If that problem continues to appear, I'll forward this to our SUITE programmer to ensure that it gets resolved.

Biscin

Synaesthesia said:

Was the mask hand-edited in Photoshop without using DynaMask?

I seem to be having same issue but have not tested enough to be sure it's not due to work files somehow corrupted by previous version.
Should the fix work even on files created in 2.1.5?

I also noticed that "copy mask to all maps" command copies the mask to one of the other maps (next in line) but not others. This should work on Photoshop edited "custom" masks, correct?

KingKellogg

You guys ever plan on having a standalone program with No photoshop?

Synaesthesia

There's no plans to leave Photoshop that I'm aware of. If anything, we're going to integrate the programs so they're more tightly knit together.

Sunray

Yes, can't wait to download this just one quick question "- Bunch of new Megascans fabrics and leathers" .Is Megascans going to be released before 2020? 

Synaesthesia

As I said in the Tools Group: If HL3 releases before Megascans, I will eat my hat.

n1k

Can DDO do triplanar projection? 
Cheers,
n1k

Synaesthesia

Not yet, but it's on the roadmap for a future release.

PacoCasares

I also vote that Quixel would be a whole lot more advanced and exciting if it was Photoshop Free. You could also charge more for your pluggin and it would be an amazing stand alone tittle. I am finding photoshop more buggier every release. Congratulations on the new release.

Synaesthesia

Thanks for the feedback, but we have no plans to leave Photoshop. Everything in Quixel SUITE runs via Photoshop-based systems. If that ever changes, we'll let you know!

Jinppa

When will Quixel actually support Unity 5 Metallic workflow? Selecting Unity 5 (Metalness Workflow) as Export Target results into wrong exported maps (separate Metalness and Gloss), since Unity uses combined Metallic Smoothness map.

Synaesthesia

We're currently going over all export presets right now to polish them up a bit. In the meantime, a viable workflow is to combine the maps upon export using a Photoshop action to automate the process for you if possible!

Kel-Shaded

How closely Quixel works with Photoshop, the program every artist has and knows, is it's best feature.
There are 50 standalone 3D paint tools, no need for another.

Skiffy

Any news on fixing UE4 exports to be correct compared to what you see inside the 3DO viewer? Right now you have to adjust the final texture maps a lot for spec / roughness and metallic to behave predictably inside Unreal compared to 3DO.

Synaesthesia

Can you show me an image of where it isn't correct? Also, what version of SUITE are you using? I've seen no reports of UE4 mismatch errors since the switch to GGX shading in 2.1.5.