Epic and Quixel
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Epic Games and Quixel Join Forces to Empower Creators
As part of making the Quixel Megascans library of more than 10,000 assets free for all use with Unreal Engine, ten high-resolution packs have been shared today for free on the Unreal Engine Marketplace
Ohh yes im goin to build some great Environments with those assets.
https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/blog/epic-games-and-quixel-join-forces-to-empower-creators
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When I used the Quixel Suite, some years ago, I always hoped it would be a stand-alone product in the future, rather than being a plugin.
I actually thought Quixel would abandon the idea of a painting tool, since the Suite stopped developing, happy to see you are working on this.
We do have plans for baking too!
I echo those thoughts! I had no idea about the existence of this Mixer thing...let alone being able to paint in that! And free!
Maybe I'm getting too hopeful here, but if this Mixer thing could rival Substance Painter, and be free, my god...It's like the Blender of DCC apps for the 3D-painting texture artists.
I have no idea about this Mixer thing but, would I be able to bring in models, texture them using this free megascans library, and export those textures into Marmoset/UE4/whatever engine? Or that would require me to be a subscripted Megascans user? Whatever the answer is, this is big news!
Blender has some sort of substance painter features with eevee but substance painter still does a lot of things Blender can't. But somebody mentioned mask tools addon for Blender having something similar.
And to use Megascans materials in Mixer to texture the assets i think that you must subscribe. Although Megascans is really meant for env texturing not really for single assets.
Right now if i want to have the materials inside the new Mixer or Armor Paint i must use Substance Player---> load the sbsar--> export the textures---> load them inside the new software that will create the pbr material.
If i texture an asset in Mixer using Megascans, then i export it to render in UE4 and publish it online in my portfolio, am i allowed to do this without having a paid subscription ?
Another question: Some time ago i asked a question related to selling asset packs with assets textured with Megascans. I read the new terms of use and it seems that they are the same for that part.
Basically i can't include any Megascans texture in a pack right ? So even if i have a paid subscription and i use Mixer to texture some assets using Megascans and then sold the assets, i can't do that even if i modify the scans by mixing them together and changing parameters right ?
Question 2: Nothing has changed there. We still don't permit the sale or resale of our asset library.
@Zachagreg We'll have news on this front hopefully soon - for now let's assume the answer is no until further developments are possibly made.
Here's an example:
(Very exciting stuff nonetheless!)
@Justo This is correct. If you sign up for an Unlimited Megascans account via your Epic Games account, you've agreed to use Megascans from that account only within the Unreal Engine ecosystem - the assets must stay within it to be legally licensed under the Terms agreed to when opening the account. I do apologize if it seems a bit clunky at the moment, but I do foresee all aspects of this acquisition improving over time. It's our sincere hope that our initial actions of making the Megascans library open to everyone, along with dropping prices and offering refunds, is enough to help make our intentions clear for where we plan to take Epic Games and Quixel as the future unfolds.
Yep! Anything you've created 100% yourself in the tools is yours to do with as you wish.