My Quixel questions

NAIMA · Jul 2016

Hi , I was following this tutorial

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BboBgjGARc#t=370
For max, but the only file I could file to import was a fbx file , wich indeed imports a lot more materials than the ones showed in the tutorial , but are not placed in a nicely organized multisubobject material , instead all have single one and is a little messy to have to manually over and select each ball to see what is what , I did a bad import or I am missing something on how to turn all those mats into one single multisubobject one?

Synaesthesia · Jul 2016

Hey Naima!

You're working with dDo Legacy tutorials instead of DDO tutorials. Are you attempting to create a material with dDo Legacy?

NAIMA · Jul 2016

Whats the difference ? I thought there was only one ddo.

Synaesthesia · Jul 2016

dDo Legacy is many versions behind DDO - it's not officially supported anymore. If you're working with the Quixel SUITE 2 version of DDO, I can certainly assist with importing materials. If you're working with dDo Legacy, I can also attempt to assist, but there's no guarantee of functionality in unsupported software.

NAIMA · Jul 2016

Thankyou ! No I have ddo 2.2 ... I am trying to seeif Zi can use ddo for texturing a large soaceship , its high poly and so tons of polygons and textures , I managed to create uvlayouts for the most parts but cant put all into one texture as its too large and crashes my pc .
Here some of the questions .

http://polycount.com/discussion/173606/high-poly-workflow#latest

NAIMA · Jul 2016

S oI edited this thread ot collect other questions .

My question now is if I import an external baked curvature map , I have tried to edit it in ddo to reduce the thickness of the borders on the edges of the things , but no success , no matter what mask I tried the curvature is used for the edge and there is no way I can reduce ... Is that correct or I am missing something ? How eventually can I do to have narrow edge scratches without haveing to make multiple esternal tests with curvatures?

Synaesthesia · Jul 2016

You'll need to play with the DynaMask advanced settings for curvature in order to reduce the width of masked areas. I highly suggest experimenting with it. There's a lot of specific variables that I can't guide you through - you'll need to play around with the settings until you find something that works out.

NAIMA · Jul 2016

YEs I was trying that , but didn't have much success , the base edges are either large or none , based on the curvature , I can only eventually break or make thighter . Will try some more ...

In meanwhile Is it possible to load multiple meshes and projects at the same time and visualize all the meshes of theproject in the viewer?

NAIMA · Jul 2016

Other question , I was adding glass to a cockpit and it worked, I wanted to replace with Gold , same mask , but the gold doesn't shows up , I tried gold 24 k is there a reason why gold don't work and other yes?

Synaesthesia · Jul 2016

Multiple meshes and projects are only supported if loaded as multiple mesh groups.

Not sure why your gold texture won't appear. Ensure that the material is loaded correctly.

NAIMA · Jul 2016

I actually now loaded inside a glass material above it , the material looks really cool on the little previewer , but in the viewer looks just red.
Or not at all .

Also for multiple models, if I load and save the project , load and save , load and save, after can I load all together to compose the scene inthe viewer?

NAIMA · Jul 2016

When I try to save a material custom over another older material custom it says the file is locked , what that means and how I unlock?

NAIMA · Jul 2016

Hi , how I do to export all maps maks by material ID ?

Synaesthesia · Aug 2016

Exporting like that needs to be done manually in Photoshop, by hand, one by one.

NAIMA · Aug 2016

Btw I am trying to reproduce now the materials I have done in pbr quixel into external program , but they do not correspond , is there a way to extract the textures and masks used by quixel ? I can't find them in the forlders and I dunno where they are , and eventually how to add new ones.

NAIMA · Aug 2016

Is there a good setting to export to keyshot as material or whats most close to it?

NAIMA · Aug 2016

Up and updated.

The gray stripes happen when I use supersized textures like 8192 x 8192 , wich was my workflow , seems I did not get when I worked with smaller textures.

The gray stripes are part of the rendering engine of quixel and not due to texture generation ...

The black dots are instead created by DDO in the curvature map , I had this problem also with the large textures, and I had overcome it by manually selecting the black dots, and filling with a gray color then blended with a blur and manually editing the seams .

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