Blender to quixel mixer workflow manual#
Blender to quixel mixer workflow full#

I tend to iterate and bring stuff to UE4 to see how it looks in the intended environment before finalizing it. I’m somewhat thinking I’m “doing things wrong”, but maybe it’s just that the average artist pays way more time with their modeling / texturing process that the export / import process doesn’t bother them too much. The mixer textures are just aligned sideways after paint, though I can probably flip them somewhere without too many issues, somehow…ĮDIT: Nvm, I was dumb on this one - I used the first map from the mesh that was imported sideways, so I painted it sideways for testing purposes, reimported another correctly but that wasn’t the object which I exported the map from. Material IDs work but it has the exact same problem as with diffuse maps with TexTools both processes are actually the same, you just change the map you bake.

Blender to quixel mixer workflow full#

This Also works like vertex paint (only full faces can be painted) but you need to remove all the materials before export, making it a painful process - from which you can’t go back without a copy of the original object. There is also a 3rd way, which is to map the different blender materials. Its also limited to vertex obviously, so in reality I will probably just stick to texturing and mapping ID manually. However this data needs to be voided before you import in engine, so its not the “cleanest” approach. I’m considering making a small addon to use the vertex paint bake as a way to color a mask and retain the color data of the mesh. Unless you scale by -1 nothing is changing. Your textures won’t be backwards because of a different import axis.

However you misunderstand how things work.

I just added a custom button to my blender plugin for it that sets the correct mixer export settings.

Not sure something like that exists yet, but it can. Yes, if you need to make changes to the model, either you don’t change the UVs at all, or you need to re-do the mask.Ī possible improvement here would be to create an addon that stores the colors in the vertex colors, and/or baking out the vertex colors to the UV image. But you need to save files in png16 to be able to have the tints read in mixer. You have a limited range of colors, about 128 give and take. Especially because more often than not they arent different materials in blender, since texturing in blender is wholly pointless. I don’t really create high quality models and I understand mixer is WIP, and for the ID mask thing, all the tutorials have pointed out this way more or less though I’m wondering if there’s some addon that might do the trick. Right now I’m primarily baking ID masks in blender and slapping some texture and related values in the UE4 material editor. Bridge doesn’t yet support custom 3D models so that doesn’t work either. So if I paint a model in mixer, the resulting textures are rotated and the files would have to be manually modified to rotate them back.

Quixel Mixer uses Y-coordinate as up, but both Unreal and Blender have Z as up.

I know that having duplicates of a model to bake normals and such is common, but is this the workflow I’m expected to do with ID masks? Duplicating the object and setting up the materials separately isn’t a lot of work, but the problem is, if I end up making adjustments to the original model, I’d have to redo the ID masks as well on a separate model.

Blender to quixel mixer workflow manual#

Does anyone know a way to create ID Masks in blender that does not include generating extra materials? The manual way and the slightly automated way of using the TexTools addon all implement a new material slot for new IDs, which you can then bake out in cycles.