Answered: Quixel Mixer Exporting and PBR workflow through V-Ray

S_K_I

I have a litany of questions if anyone can answer them.

I've been trying to understand the PBR workflows, specifically manually exporting from Mixer to 3ds Max V-Ray Next. There's a tutorial I followed online and became sorta confuse at the export process: https://youtu.be/KIfBoDNfra0?t=999

During the export part of this video why does he toggle of the flip Y on the Normal? Is this is always done for all external rendering programs or just Marmoset in this case? The same goes for the displacement, why did he disable normalize? And when should we toggle this option? One last question, what's the difference between srgb and linear and when should I use it?

My whole understanding of V-Ray up to this point has been specular workflows so when I attempted the roughness workflow, the results weren't accurate so I settled for specular. Additionally I had to mess around with the SRGB and Linear to get the texture map to match what I had on Mixer. With that said, what is the proper workflow for manually exporting textures from Mixer to V-ray since I haven't seen any tutorials out there available to me.

Thanks.

Synaesthesia

Flip Y is unchecked because there's no need for it in Marmoset Toolbag by default. Disabling normalized displacement simply prevents the displacement from being clamped. As far as sRGB/vs linear goes, I would highly recommend looking up PBR theory - your answers will be found there.

Unfortunately, I can't advise you on how to work with VRay. That's a question you'll want to ask a VRay community, perhaps on Facebook.

S_K_I

Awesome. Your answers helped for the most part, gracias!