Solved: Quixel Colors not showing materials.

ShadyOrb09

I just installed Quixel Studio 2.0, and I'm running Maya 2016.

I installed Quixel Colors after my installation of Quixel Studio 2.0.
I followed the steps on how to install Quixel Colors on the Quixel Website, but I'm having issues.

First of all I'd like to state that my Quixel Studio and Colors are installed in the default directory.
Studio: C:\Program Files\Quixel SUITE 2.0
Colors: C:\Program Files\Quixel SUITE 2.0\colors

Step I followed to open Colors in Maya 2016:

1. Open Script Editor
2. In the Python tab I opened the MayaRun.py script. (Located C:\Program Files\Quixel SUITE 2.0\colors)
3. Hit the play button.

Sadly those steps didn't work, when I run the default script I get this error.
"# Error: line 1: TypeError: file <maya console> line 5: reload() argument must be module"

I then changed "reload(main.main())", to "main.main()"

Now there is no red error in the bar at the bottom but when I look in the Script Editor there is this text, and the Quixel Colors box pops up but there is no materials in there.

Text: "QUIXEL COLORS: Error 0013, Invalid Preset Base Materials file, or file not found. Verify that QS2 in colors/settings.ini points correctly to Quixel SUITE 2.0 directory.

[Errno 2] No such file or directory: u'C:\\Program Files\\Quixel SUITE 2.0\\script\\presets\\ID Preset\\Preset Base Materials.xml'

[<lib.QuixelController.QuixelColorsController object at 0x00000263DC6AC748>, <lib.QuixelController.QuixelColorsController object at 0x00000263DD2AF6A0>, <lib.QuixelController.QuixelColorsController object at 0x00000263DB66E828>]

# Error: line 1: TypeError: file <maya console> line 5: reload() argument must be module # 

"

Any help would be lovely, thank you.


Also, Quixel Studio 2.0 looks awesome, can't wait to use it!

Sythen

Hey there Shady,

Can you navigate to C:/Program Files/Quixel SUITE 2.0/Script/Presets/ID Preset/ and tell me what files are in that folder?

Thank you,
Scott.

ShadyOrb09

Sythen said:

Hey there Shady,

Can you navigate to C:/Program Files/Quixel SUITE 2.0/Script/Presets/ID Preset/ and tell me what files are in that folder?

Thank you,
Scott.

Hello Scott, the only file in there is a XML Document with the name, "None (Default)".

Thanks for replying, and sorry for the late response. 

Sythen

Hey there Shady,

It appears you're missing some files that should have been included with the install,
Please find attached a zip file containing the files for that directory. 

Extract the contents of this zip to the ID Preset folder.

Kind regards,
Scott.

ShadyOrb09

Oh okay, thank you for your help Scott!

ShadyOrb09

Works perfect now, thank you very much Scott!

RondoOO_B

I'm experiencing the same issue.  I already tried downloading the files that Sythen provided, to no avail.  I'm using Maya 2017, and have no choice but sticking with it, as we have implemented the time editor into our workflow.  But I'm beginning to suspect that Maya may be the problem, as all the unsolved issues seem to be between Quixel Colors and (specifically) Maya 2017.  I'm hoping someone can prove me wrong.  Does anybody have a solution to this same problem, but with Maya 2017?

Synaesthesia

Sythen no longer works for Quixel, and as such Quixel Colors is unsupported for now. She has plans to potentially update it but there's no guaranteed time-frame for that.