Answered: Modo to Quixel to Modo and Octane tutorial

jagger · Dec 2015

Hi, Im looking for a tutorial on how to use this workflow because I cant find any information.
Any level would be great (noob level preferable).

Thanks very much.

Synaesthesia · Dec 2015

Getting models into the Suite should be a pretty simple process - just export as *.FBX or *.OBJ and import.

We have a tutorial for Octane on Quixel.se/learn - check it out!

repete · Dec 2015

Make sure you have the settings below for FBX export:

I have always had triangulation issues with OBJ from modo, using FBX now solves this (thanks for adding this option Quixel)

Make sure to flip your normals (if baked in modo)

cheers

StormyBA · Dec 2015

Dosnt 901 have normal map profiles for different engines? Or do you mean geometry normals?

repete · Dec 2015

StormyBA said:

Dosnt 901 have normal map profiles for different engines? Or do you mean geometry normals?

Correct, I am using the UE4 settings in quixel so I had to flip the normals.

jagger · Dec 2015

Thanks for the export tips. But how to set the id colors and normal maps etc...??

repete · Dec 2015

jagger said:

Thanks for the export tips. But how to set the id colors and normal maps etc...??

Color IDs are created per poly selection:

Make a selection and add a material to that selection using whatever color you want and make sure the diffuse is set to 100%
Continue making selections until your model is complete.
To bake a color ID map you need to add (in the shader tree) a Diffuse Coefficient render output and make sure the Alpha output is turned off. I also get better ID maps with antialiasing is turned OFF, this stops pixel blending which can confuse Quixel.

Set your render output size to 512x512,1024x1024 etc

Then bake to render outputs.

For normals:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txspZB787tE

Answered: Modo to Quixel to Modo and Octane tutorial

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