DDO Painter for Beginners: Creating a Stone Surface

[@samking7174]

Very nice clearly spoken tutorial. Easy to understand! Thanks so much.

[@VK-sy3pg]

Guy`s ! You and your CG software are amazing !!!!

[@letsgoBrandon204]

I did learn something. I learned that I can create awesome textures with Quixel Suite 2 IF I can finish a model that doesn't look like a pile of crap.

[@Machine_Cult]

yes, the struggle is real! me too!

[@MikeBeyene]

Damn this was good! I learned a lot

[@michelamorim14]

excellent tutorial! thank you so much!

[@deeamerson]

Awesome video!!! do you have a video on how to make scratched metal materials? or do you plan to do one?

[@quixeltools]

Yes! In fact we have one in the making as we speak :D Coming up in the next few days!

[@MichaelKadilnikovArt]

+quixel Could you please tell me how you obtained the original mesh? Was it a 3D scan or photogrammerty then retopologized? Thank you!

[@quixeltools]

+Michael Kadilnikov (Artist) It was sculpted in Zbrush and retopologized :) We'll put it up for download this week!

[@armandoalexisherracortez1389]

+quixel Could you give us an estimate to be able to have the model to practice the texturing? :)

[@specktator9000]

+quixel is the model up yet?

[@maleksellami1571]

برّا الله يباركلكم و يرحم والديكم!!! Thanks a lot!!!!

[@YamaXanadu830]

the new vesion can output to Arnold and Vray,It can be quickly and higher quality to finish my work,thanks for Quixel.

[@yodhkawji9933]

Nice one helped a lot thank you

[@lgone8838]

nice tutorial! have you upload the mesh? thanks

[@armandoalexisherracortez1389]

Awsome I can't waot for the 3d model to be available for practice.

[@ccart2343]

Okay so great tutorial but at 10:40 when it says export smart material, there is an obvious Video cut and all of a sudden all layers are one?(A folder) and i cant get it to work to export a smart material of the whole map for me. It will just use a single layer that i have selected(grass layer for example) and make a grass layer smart material ..wth. Except for that part everything is fine. Maybe someone could enlighten me. Thanks in advance.

[@usefdragon]

You need to select all the layers and then group them using the folder icon at the bottom, then while selecting the folder, export the materials.

[@lemanhtien9279]

amazine, I love it

[@101mercenary]

Do you have to have a subscription for the suite? or can you just buy the one time purchase? I already have PS

[@epiendless1128]

Are the resources used available anywhere? It would be nice to follow along, especially as it's a Beginners tutorial.

[@jarabito001]

Hola!! Do you think is possible to get this model (OBJ or FB, doesn't matter) to practice? thank you very much P.S. Amazing video

[@martinflashgordon]

magic this is:)

[@creaturecloset6321]

Is it a possibility to get the project files for this tutorial now? The posts from 4 months ago say it will be available soon. Thanks!

[@3rdpoly]

How did you render the turntable? was it with the 3do viewer or other software? Awesome work - really appreciate it.

[@quixeltools]

It was rendered in 3DO :)

[@3rdpoly]

I have tried rendering a turntable but I keep only getting one single frame - was hoping that part was in the video. any chance of short vid/tut on how to go about it? :)

[@daggertom1]

Hrmm... how do you make diffuse maps..?

[@ilmedvedCG]

Hi, what is show/hide mask hotkey? It will be a lot quicker to use a hotkey for it.

[@quixeltools]

"M" :)

[@Poger-m2h]

wanna see hot to add custom decals right in Quixel. Thanks!

[@73maxmau]

Is it possible to duplicate a layer, from a mesh, to the other? At the moment, I got to save the layer as custom smart material, and then I import it to the other layer.

[@specktator9000]

where can i find the model to download and follow along?

[@simviz_net]

What's the song is playing in background? :)

[@jkartz92]

will your plugin support affinity photo?

[@flioink]

Cool, tnx:) Maybe organics tutorial in the future?

[@TheKitneys]

Two thumbs up!

[@adamdavidkenyon6664]

How do you change the rough/metallic of a mask or material? In substance painter I can paint dirt with 0 opacity to make it look like a rough dirty patches on a floor tile for example. How would I do that? Also how do you paint decals?

[@cub1ko]

I mainly use Substance Painter aswell and yes, you can do that in Quixel it's just that this is a beginner tutorial and the only thing he did is apply materials and create a smart material with different dynamasks. But actually when he is applying the dynamask in 3D Painter you can see the brush tool where you can create or use different kinds of presets such as Dirt, stains, scratches, etc. There's actually one tutorial here in Quixel that actually applies this technique to further customize masks and add roughness variations but i can't quite remember which one. Just look for it in the Quixel tutorials and meanwhile learn more about Quixel. It is actually as powerful as any texturing program i personally prefer Substance Painter but that doesn't mean Quixel isn't amazing it actually is!

[@adamdavidkenyon6664]

I have played around with it but you can't really change the presets much? It's no where near as good as substance painter. NDO is awesome, I learn that pretty quickly. However, DDO is really slow, buggy and not quite as intuitive as SP. It still needs a lot of work, and painting decals seem to be amiss. Actually, had a lot of trouble getting my albedo texture to work with the materials. Some of the materials look great in DDO but it feels really linear and limited. I need to go through some more of the tutorials I guess but I don't really get a good feel for it like I do with Painter. I wouldn't say Quixel is amazing, NDO crashed on me like 10 times today, it still needs a lot of work however it can create normal and AO maps super quick, even though its still pretty broken. Apparently, the next update is penned to have decal painting. So if i want to paint on some text etc I can so but at the moment I can't. Seems to be a lot of faffing around to get that to work right. Also I think I may need to upgrade to the latest Photoshop CC, im on 2015.

[@captainlion4753]

Hey, for some reason my object looks quite worse/different. For example the little tiles on the front, under where the head is supposed to be aren't there for me. Any solution/explanation?

[@andrewdestiny8252]

thanks for anwser ...

[@UsielX]

when you created the projet I dont see any more files or layers, but I did the same and it created files for every map

[@UserName________]

Three thumbs up!

[@ARTASOUKI]

please help why does my bump maps have 1,2,3,4, on them and such?? im really confused to get my texture maps back into Maya please reply ASAP

[@ericramberg]

+Rebecca Hall Hi Rebecca, this is unfortunately a known issue that is being worked on right now. There are two solutions for this: 1) Uncheck "Bake in 3DO". DDO will generate substitutes for the maps in Photoshop. 2) (Optional) Bake the unchecked maps in a third party application, xNormal for instance, and plug them into the slots. This is only needed for more advanced control however.

[@lgone8838]

no mesh upload?

[@knl654]

when i try to add mask it is tiled , what should i do

[@BillyFrench]

Cool video, please reupload with in a higher quality. It's a little hard to follow due to the poor resolution video.

[@LevelUpAndFly]

+Billy French you have to wait until youtube process the video 1080p is available right now

[@reaoovfx]

i wish mac version soon

[@andrewdestiny8252]

dont work for my wepon obj i cant even spin it in3do and also when i put material it have default look

[@Disturber2201]

why do i need Quixel to make textures if i must already to import diffuse, normal, ambient occlusion?! Sucks!(

[@youthatninja]

where is blender pt.3?? :(

[@quixeltools]

It's in the making :D

[@TheNickboom2]

One question: on my pc the software is extremely laggy and slow when opening like smart materials tab

[@陈Alan]

verd good!

[@UsielX]

does anyone answer this questions?

[@izvarzone]

Вроде норм.

[@SheetMusicDesu]

Hi, I cane here after the Adobe aquisition of allegorithmic

[@JustAnOrdinarySimmer]

every tutorial I find shows 3DO with their mesh... why does everyone want to avoid the question to how the living fuck you get meshes to display in 3DO...only one time I seen 3DO actually display the mesh and it was aligned wrong and seemed to have 1 smoothing group...

[@douka3993]

3do2 is so fucking slooooooooooooooooooooow!!!

[@penpcm]

DDO should be a stand alone application not an add-on for Photoshop.

[@EricWuDesign]

Still too complex... I need a simple app that specific for "hand-paint" purpose and I want it "JUST WORK!"... Better to be a plugin in Photoshop (Yes I'm talking about you DDO)... But STILL TOO COMPLEX...

[@Dwellmuth]

+Eric Wu if you find this complex, then perhaps you should consider giving this up. Just saying

[@LazyGamerYoutuber]

+Eric Wu Well Ddo is easy for me at least . You don´t need to be professional to use it

[@TheIllium]

i can't find DDO UI on my photoshop cc