Alternative to Quixel Suite ?
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I recently upgraded my PC, which meant pretty much replacing all the component.
And my system was cloned to a new NVME drive.
After that Quixel Suite just flat out stopped working, and nothing I've tried fixed it.
It was a very handy tool in my workflow to quickly add some details on normal maps via converting masks and tweaking parameters. For example, instead of modeling a trim along the edges of a furniture piece, and then baking normal maps from it, I would just grab some tileable image, quickly convert it into mask in photoshop and run Quixel Suite's NDO to convert the mask to normal map and overlay it on top of the existing baked normal map texture.
I used it for years. And am very sad that Quixel stopped supporting it
Is there anything like Quixel Suite out there that could fill in the gap? To convert an image to normal map and allow to tweak it?
And my system was cloned to a new NVME drive.
After that Quixel Suite just flat out stopped working, and nothing I've tried fixed it.
It was a very handy tool in my workflow to quickly add some details on normal maps via converting masks and tweaking parameters. For example, instead of modeling a trim along the edges of a furniture piece, and then baking normal maps from it, I would just grab some tileable image, quickly convert it into mask in photoshop and run Quixel Suite's NDO to convert the mask to normal map and overlay it on top of the existing baked normal map texture.
I used it for years. And am very sad that Quixel stopped supporting it
Is there anything like Quixel Suite out there that could fill in the gap? To convert an image to normal map and allow to tweak it?
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Well, unfortunately due to current geopolitical events outside of my control, I am unable to pay Adobe subscription. Not that I wanted to anyway, ever since they bought out Substance and walled their software behind bundles and other crap.
I work in Quixel Mixer mostly. It's just that doing things like what I mentioned in the original post was easier with Quixel Suite, even though theoretically I could do them in Mixer as well.