Mixer 2021 Deep Dive: Multiple Texture Sets

[@nk361]

What I really love about Quixel is that instead of having a mess of documentation that isn't descriptive and has no examples, they like to make videos that are up to date and that show the process entirely right in front of you. I wish other companies did that too.

[@silver7788]

Even tho videos are a nice and quick way to get a foot in the door they are just that... foot in the door. When im looking for a specific function, key-shortcut, troubleshooting problem I do want text that I can just ctrl+f and find it in seconds. Personally, I remember the days where when I was looking for a solution I was digging through articles, blog posts or redit threads but now rarely when ppl posts those things anywhere but YT so I'm stucked watching four 15 min videos looking for a solution hoping that I'm not wasting my time. Both mediums have their strengths and they should be used accordingly. I dont want 200+ playlist of all modifiers and nodes in software I want documentation and one 30 min overview that will show me what's possible. That would be a golden standard but unfortunately it's costly so not that popular.

[@mikeluna2026]

Yeah, it's good, but I do kind of prefer text tutorials... I can read them as fast as I like, and not be forced to spend 20 minutes watching a video (since I could have read the same information under 1-5 minutes)...

[@nk361]

@@mikeluna2026 I used to prefer that, but the big problem I've had with that is that they forget to update something in it and so it no longer works without you knowing. A video at least shows a version and everything working and you can pick the newest by date, thankfully. Unreal Engine for example has a lot of documentation for things that no longer work and you have no idea how to make them work or what version they used to work in

[@garrytalaroc]

YES! I hate to admit that I hate reading documentaries. I hope other companies will do more youtube tutorials.

[@StylizedStation]

Can't wait to try this out! Amazing work getting this rolled out so quickly - I'm really excited to see where you guys are going to be in the next few years.

[@Ceej16]

are we gonna see some tutorials in the colouring book?

[@StylizedStation]

@@Ceej16 I'm not sure yet tbh. I definitely want to cover some more mixer stuff though.

[@tylerdaniels9000]

Can't wait for your tutorials using Mixer. I like your stylized materials

[@savagestudent1785]

Stylized Material Tutorial in Mixer, When ??

[@StylizedStation]

@@savagestudent1785 When I get better at mixer 🙊

[@juanpaulomardonez9151]

Proud to be a beta tester for this release. Enjoy, my dear community!

[@AlvarPernroth]

A very good beta tester!

[@RaduButarascu]

Thank you for your contribution! :) I am just starting with Mixer and it looks very promising!

[@rustyexe9378]

This update is game changer! Finally people would be free from a software that rhymes with dubstance wainter.

[@priceykiller8534]

lmao 😂

[@rahulpaul.3d]

Substance*

[@OnfireProjects]

@@rahulpaul.3d "rhymes with"...

[@rahulpaul.3d]

@@OnfireProjects oh , i am dumb🤦

[@Wardson]

It's a perfect update however it still isn't as powerful as Substance. In built baking is huge difference to start with.

[@afrosymphony8207]

WTF HOW IS THIS FREE!!! WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE

[@gizmocinematics5125]

You Guys ARE ABSOLUTE BEST!! Working with Mixer since first release! It was crazy good back then and its getting better every day!! Big Thank You! This Software changed everything for me!!

[@paulworster3683]

All that is missing now is a Baker , great jobs guys!

[@SarovPlays]

need texture baking system like substance painter, that will be really cool...

[@polymode]

@@SarovPlays Or like marmoset toolbag baker, it gives better control

[@MichalMilkowski]

Makes me wonder why UDIM/texture sets are ahead of baker, higher priority for Unreal team, or is it more difficult to make bakers?

[@nicholasbrown5013]

@@MichalMilkowski good question. I was wondering the same thing, since it’s one of the best reasons to stick with substance painter.

[@carlosrivadulla8903]

if u uses houdini they have a great baker

[@antoniopepe]

Great update. would be fantastic if u can integrate some baking workflow, from highpoly to lowpoly, for color diffuse and normal maps.

[@polystormstudio]

18:20 - I tried exporting a 3D object to the Library but it's not showing up in Local / Mixer in Bridge. It's showing 0 items. Any reason for that? @Quixel

[@PizzaHandhelds]

FREE FROM SUBSTANCE!!!! THANKS FOR MAKING THIS TECHNOLOGY AVAILABLE FOR ALL!!!

[@quentinarrius]

Came here after Substance latest update like a refugee... Saw this, found out it's bloody FREE. Guys, Gimme some nodal based procedural texture generation tool and I'll pay for it.

[@humansrants1694]

Not free for ever only while in beta.

[@-Blue-_]

@@humansrants1694 lol quixel mixer is a free software

[@randwilliams2937]

This really is some fantastic stuff. I'm going to spend soooo many hours with this.

[@fracturedfantasy]

This is awesome. The tutorial/demo is a little fast for a n00b, will have to hunt for some other learning videos to complement this.

[@painleroux9486]

this is Huuuuuuge

[@paymansalehishafa6884]

Any news on QM, in 2022? Haven't seen anything regarding roadmap.

[@AlexiosLair]

There we go! Finally Mixer giving some competition!

[@OnyxLee]

The only missing piece is, how to stamp a colored decal with all the channel information.

[@null2847]

Thank you quixel and specially epic!! I hope next update will be built in baking texture in quixel.keep the amazing work guys

[@mikeluna2026]

Please add a baker! The ability to bake curvature, etc, is one of the only reasons I still like Substance painter (and the "use low Poly as high poly" setting, AND the performance when opening an fbx with a lot of models...). I've been making modular kits for my projects and I usually export one fbx with a category (like walls, stone gates, etc). I tried using that method on Mixer but it often slows down to a crawl...

[@TextureSupply]

+1. Without a baker, mixer is useless to me. Why do they assume these maps already exist?

[@marcapouli7805]

@@TextureSupply They probably use substance to bake them, then they make a cool video with mixer

[@grimmx]

Great update, integration with Bridge is a big workflow improvement to move around different DCCs, just need a baker added to Mixer and we're all set.

[@williamlacrosse9389]

Mindblowing for a free app! This will increase our workflow! Thanks quixel!

[@decorix]

So cool guys!!! its been so long, but worth the wait. Big plans to re- doing old projects with this new cutting edge tool :-) Big thanks.

[@redflag4255]

what the heck! Free? Mind is blown!!!!!!!!!!

[@Paco3dArt]

First marmoset toolbag 4 has a texturing solution, and now this. Adobe Painter has some real competition now! If you guys add some crazy baking solutions that are comparable to Marmoset toolbag... I do not care if you actually charge a small price! Congrats.

[@brahimkhalilkaak6230]

Nice update! im so excited to try this out,keep up the good work guys :)

[@kasm2101]

Dude, That's Awesome! I Only Just Started Using Mixer 2020, So This Is Awesome

[@FinalMotion]

man.... this went so far over my head, but in the best way possible... so excited to learn this!!!

[@limitlessinmind]

Proud to be Mixer user!

[@Jofoyo]

Funny how I'm sitting here deciding if I should buy Substance, and all of a suddenly this bomb shell drops into my notifications.

[@lostcrusader8053]

I mean, you can still get it on steam

[@Jofoyo]

@@lostcrusader8053 Which is where I was going to purchase it from. I mean it's still a tool that would be *nice to have* because Mixer is still lacking in some regards, but for the moment it's all I will need.

[@dremba]

@JustJacob Same name!!😉

[@alekjwrgnwekfgn]

I definitely won’t upgrade SP next year. There really is no point. (Coz I got marmoset as well- but probably won’t be long before baking is included in Mixer- though Marmoset is seriously good at that)

[@ogs_Boga1900]

@@alekjwrgnwekfgn you cant beat designer for trims, yet....

[@Artholic100]

Crazy!!! I am in love.. good bye painter etc

[@egahendriand]

Friendship ended with Substance Painter now Quixel Mixel is my Best Friend

[@vrfxrealtime]

finally we are getting back to the Quixel Suite awesomness, thanks for sharing the update!

[@j.ssuarez]

For those of us that use Cinema4d, how do we export the material IDs? How do we get the baked maps to use in Mixer? Is the implementation of a 3D gizmo on the roadmap for things like applying a sticker for example? That for sure is essier than tweaking numbers or sliders until it is in the right position

[@jonathanperpich5676]

Excellent presentation. I would like to follow along. You mentioned something in the video about a link to this 3-D model. Could you tell me how I could go about getting that?

[@Cham-]

When Quixel Mixer is better at copying Photoshop's UI than Adobe Substance Painter

[@jamesjason8471]

Painter's UI is perfect what are you complaining about? I would say that Mixers UI is a bit too oversimplified for a PC UI, looks more like an IPad UI with a lot of unnecessary pop-up windows.

[@jamesjason8471]

@Manuel Camelo the hell?

[@Dushyant20b]

That's a lovely updated, quite powerful tools.

[@Skyflairl2p]

Fare-thee-well substance, finally all the features i needed are available in mixer. Money saved!

[@MR3DDev]

Awesome now I can go back to making Mixer content ;)

[@sultanmb7670]

Mixer 21 is on 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@dossantos_films]

We need more videos from Mixer!!!

[@KhaosKeith]

This is AMAZING! and Mixer is FREE. Substance Painter price drop inbound haha

[@Romeo615Videos]

i didnt get the mixer option trying to add it to my bridge but it wont send it over

[@chinhcle]

This is amazing, would love to see some kind of symmetry painting options.

[@FlowerPower3000]

When will add in paint mode to function fill polygon, mesh parts, UV island? symmetry paint? Its fundamental function for texture paint, its very need.

[@AlexiosLair]

Use various material IDs?

[@FlowerPower3000]

@@AlexiosLair not variant, because the border of ID colors can go through polygons

[@jameson5633]

This is so AMAZING!!! Thank you Quixel team! :)

[@massivetree7937]

Congrats on the new release. I hope that Baking is in the plans for future releases?

[@erikals]

see @15:51 :)

[@massivetree7937]

@@erikals Not talking about collapsing the layer stack, I'm talking about baking textures for curvature, Ambient Occlusion, normals, etc...

[@erikals]

@@massivetree7937 isn't that what it does tho' sorry, could b wrong...

[@erikals]

@@massivetree7937 "baked results of our mix"

[@massivetree7937]

@@erikals No, theyr'e just talking about baking the stack info into images to keep performance- it has nothing to do with baking normal, curvature or occlusion maps.

[@ayaz1979]

Switching to Quixel Mixer Hope to have Baker soon

[@erikals]

see @15:51

[@ayaz1979]

@@erikals I was too quick to comment ;) Thank you so much

[@erikals]

@@ayaz1979 do note tho' that it doesn't bake from hires mesh to lowres mesh amongst other things :)

[@illie6051]

I alsoh have a model with multiple objects but when I import it into mixer it doesn't detect multiple texture sets. how do I fix it 2:00

[@MrCshx]

Meanwhile - Deathly silence in a very well known company with a very first alphabet letter in the naming

[@AlexiosLair]

А че им париться?

[@Renix]

Hmm na i think M is a much better letter

[@arko3822]

adobe

[@MrCshx]

@@AlexiosLair Именно по такой логике в этом мире все рано или поздно сходит на нет

[@BATCH3]

Thank You!!!!! Nice work! I'll play with it right now !

[@ZewaRolle1789]

Is the Resolution/Scaling Bug fixed? That when you worked in 2K and changed for export to 4K not everything is getting messed up?

[@1upvscpu64]

Hey, Mixer guru. If you're still around, can you make a video where you use a texture that needs to flow in different directions on a single mesh? I'm trying to use Mixer to texture a tree with some bark, but I need to use multiple box projections to get it flowing the right direction on all the branches, so I have a bunch of seams, and I don't know what to do to cover them up. Using a single box projection over the whole thing wouldn't have any seams, but it wouldn't rotate the texture in the right direction for all the branches.

[@Piotrpopel]

You guys are amazing!!!

[@EL.-SO]

Very cool! Thanks for your work!

[@VRDivision]

Great stuff guys! I'm so excited about this!!

[@komradkyle]

Thanks for the update!

[@tpisel]

Can we get the link to the Crunch model to follow along?

[@teddygbg]

It’s included with the Mixer release as a sample project together with 3 more new samples :)

[@tpisel]

@@teddygbg perfect thank you. Installing now.

[@BrianLife]

Hi, off the top with no Googled research since the last time I checked. Is Mixer for Mac also?

[@teddygbg]

Yes!

[@BrianLife]

@@teddygbg OH WOW! I’m on it now, installed, playing around. Following this tutorial now! So many doors are opening right Now! Thank you!!!!

[@ketan007sms]

This is so AMAZING!!! but having issues with Udim Error "Import mesh failed" 'UV coordinates placed across Udim tiles'

[@lebombe8342]

Simple and powerful. Awesomesomneus !!!

[@RichardMcWolff]

Hi Josh, not sure if you are still with Quixel but I wanted to ask a question. I'm trying to suss out a paint program that will best fit my needs and what my brain can understand. Quixel mixer was brought up in a video. So I downloaded it and got things set up for my paint project (Eliezer for L'Homme, a 3D figure used in Poser). The thing I can't seem to figure out is how do I tell Quixel that I want to zoom in closer? When I use the mouse scroll wheel the figure just disappears the closer it gets to me so that's not good. Thanks so much!

[@DrGameTazo]

When Exporting Texture, It seems nowhere to pack theTextures?? V 2020 dose have this feature

[@IndianCitizen04]

Hoping bake feature in next release, it would be a Substance killer.

[@ObscureHedgehog]

This looks incredible! If only we could bake the maps inside of Mixer, I'd insta switch from Painter! :'D

[@seanlake7404]

have you added an emission channel, glow, glare, etc?

[@tampajoeyz230]

When I export my custom model from Bridge to Unreal (18:43) and it has multiple meshes, I'm not prompted in Unreal to import as a single mesh and it always imports them individually. Any suggestions?

[@frle7138]

I have the same problem

[@frle7138]

It does not use UE4 4.26, but UE4 4.25

[@WorkbrandAssets]

WOW, love everything going to Bridge

[@tampajoeyz230]

Thank You for this fantastic software.

[@shimmentakezo1196]

Do things like paint brush, curvature etc work in this new version?

[@stormolflak]

Smart Materials are very cool!

[@MarkOfArgyll]

Colour me impressed.

[@jakelofgren2510]

Is there a way we can get this model to follow along??

[@reesaac5334]

add first smart material 7:50 same layer but only different color 8:10

[@rdxvoidzero]

Thank You, I am a fanboy now

[@FesterThanLight]

Any update on Mixer?

[@weversondantas6406]

AMAZING!

[@TheThehwashere]

is there symmetrical painting?

[@kangna2318]

when I export my model after texturing, it doesn't let me combine my mesh and it doesn't even texture the mesh when exported from bridge like the vid shown :/ so I just get my mesh in separate pieces. is there anyone willing to help?

[@CarbonAnimationProductions]

so is mixer free or megascans? cuz i had to pay for mixer i think

[@nijatIbrahimli]

*great!*

[@bojordan64]

More tutorials on creating stylized smart materials pretty please?

[@Mr_Tea_Rexx]

know this is a few months old but i work in Z-Up is their a way to set mixer to Z-up? cause its in Y-up

[@rysone3173]

Do you provide the curve maps for all the other Paragon characters?

[@albertotejada5764]

where can i get the robot?

[@Ceej16]

Letssssss goooooo!!! Can you tell I'm excited for this?

[@ChaosOver]

What's the workflow for assets with multiple mats and udims? Lets say the hand modelled part uses UDIMS and on top i wanna use megascans but dont wanna baked them down because i reuse them in unreal a lot in different places? The only way i see is to create a material for every udim tile. Won't that be an additional draw call? Or else i need to assign only one mat for mixer/bridge and after importing that into unreal swap the model by hand with the one that has multiple mats?

[@remon563]

is it possible to stamp in Height Decals ? So far this looks really promising but I also feel the UI isn't right there yet. We would love some more focus on UI/grouping/color coding.

[@marsmotion]

yes import as 16bit tif as a brush or a map layer

[@andreytrukhachev7417]

Thank you Quixel!

[@alhusseinali]

why would we import maps while we gonna create them with smart martials?

[@jovontowns591]

Please fix Bridge. Constantly getting a black screen in the app and setting the clock and running it in admin isn't working.

[@eintyp4389]

When Adobe bought Substance Painter i didn´t want to get into texturing anymore. But it looks like Epic Games saves they day again and gives the monopoly companys some competition to worry about. I don´t know to much about Epic Games but after i found out that the founder is still owning over 50% of his company and fights Steam Adobe Microsoft and all the scary giants of the industry i kind of have to rooting for them. Keep it up i realy look forward to the future of Quixel Mixer and Unreal Engine etz.

[@-Blue-_]

They also beat apple in lawsuit I think

[@SlobboVideo]

How do you bake textures? Is it necessary?

[@estufilla]

I just have a question. How is this free?

[@gordonrobb]

hey, finally getting back into 3d and so looking at mixer. Still looking for it to be a replacement for Quixel Suite. so can you tell me how I use it, with smart materials, but no paid megascans? I have downloaded it and downloaded all the smart materials packs, but logging into my quixel account it is showing exclamation marks on a few of the textures, whcih I assume means I cannot use them. Where can I go for help with this?

[@JamesBrett2008]

Does export to library work In bridge within unreal 5? I can’t get it to work.

[@Oldyellowbrick]

Surprised they tackled UDIMS before baking maps :(

[@harrysanders818]

And before adding proper tablet support

[@coverfaker8341]

No baking?

[@deep_breathe]

can it bake normal maps, etc.?

[@gursimransingh8726]

can you people scan pampas grass

[@Rude_soup_cat]

what about fonts / importing image without loosing image colors