Quixel Megascans Workflow in Cinema 4D and Octane

[@theoryfound]

Still extremely useful 6 years later! Cheers mate!

[@RohitJalan]

Octane users 10:09 . Btw I think Quixel should hire you because they make most shitty tutorials and on the other side of the coin, you have the best voice for making tutorials.

[@EpicJCreations]

Thank you very much! I really appreciate that! I'm going to have to contact them and see if they have any openings for me :). I never thought about it till you mentioned that, but its a really good idea :D! Thank you sir!

[@RohitJalan]

Epic J Creations You can also make gigs on fiverr for doing voiceovers and earn money by it.

[@EpicJCreations]

Man thats a really good idea, i've never heard of fiverr before, but i'm checking it out now and it looks awesome! Thanks for the info :D!

[@realmeee]

God gifted explanation expert !

[@EpicJCreations]

Thank you so much :)! I really appreciate that! So glad you found this video helpful :)!

[@struggleislife2304]

Great tutorial man.

[@zZ-Wipeout-Zz]

hey man really helpful video, i was wondering if there is a way to use the landscape materials ( grass etc ) in c4d aswell?

[@EpicJCreations]

Hello :)! Thank you for the comment! So glad you found my tutorial helpful! I actually have a tutorial out on just that! I show how to set up the fern textures to make realistic plants in both Octan's, and the C4D renderer :)! Let me know if you need any more info :)! kzbin.info/www/bejne/p6aoeKKeqN-BepI

[@hokko274]

Thanks for this tutorial ! Do you know to avoid a bad-looking repetition of Quixels' Surfaces when applied on a large surface (like a wall)? :)

[@deanb8191]

So how did you know to do all of that for the physical renderer? I've noticed the livelink export to C4D does a crappy job, and the results look horrible. Do you still need to manually re-create the textures in C4D, or can you finally export properly from qixel to C4D?

[@germanmairen]

amazing tutorial! as usual...!👍🙌🏻

[@ivanbogomolov]

Great tutorial! But how has nobody noticed that you plugged the displacement map into the specular channel by accident? ^^

[@camgreen894]

Thanks again for your brilliant videos!

[@EpicJCreations]

No problem! Thank you so much for the comment and your continued support :D!

[@ignaciosagrario7295]

Maxime Roz has so nice HDRI in his site. Amazin CG artist!

[@ninok199]

I've tried all kinds of things to get bump and normals to work together and have not gotten it to work. Hoping they'll change it eventually but so far my only way of combining them is to bake the bump map into the normal map with different software, since currently the normal overrides it.

[@EpicJCreations]

Oh ok! That makes sense then! The whole time I was seeing the normal map then, not the bump. That's a shame :(. Thank you very much for that info though! It was confusing me xD!

[@christiangrajewski7518]

Fantastic Job!!! This is so helpful!!! Just learning C4D and Octane : )

[@EpicJCreations]

Thanks so much! So glad you found this video helpful! Awesome taht your learning C4D and Octane :D! Such great pieces of software! It just so happens that i'm making a paid Octane C4D master course, that should be comming out soon! Will have a masive amount of info in it on Octane in C4D. Over 60 videos :).

[@christiangrajewski7518]

Yes your videos are very very helpful!!! Please tell me immediately when your course is out, I am looking forward to it!!! There isn´t so much in depht of Octane out there, I am using Keyshot (and love it) but the final pictures are missing something : ( , so I wanna learn something else. And I want to put all of my designs into scenes. If you are interested, just have a look at www.christiangrajewski.com . Thanks again for those videos and all the effor you are putting into it!

[@EpicJCreations]

Thank you so much :D! I will definitely let you know as soon as my course is finished! I took a look at your work, and it's beautiful! Very nice job! Incredible job on your modeling work! Really is well done!

[@christiangrajewski7518]

Do that please :)! And thank you very much, I really appreciate that :)!

[@EpicJCreations]

I most definitely will! And no problem! Thank you so much for your comments and kind words :)!

[@jm4giv]

So amazingly explained!

[@EpicJCreations]

Thank you :D! So glad you found this video helpful! Thank you for the comment as well :D!

[@jm4giv]

Your work speaks for itself. Good tutorials are rare to find even some of the paid ones.

[@EpicJCreations]

Thank you so much! I really appreciate that! :)! I have an Octane Master Course Comming out soon. If you interested in it, you can sign up for updates on its launch here on my store :).gumroad.com/epicjcreaions

[@stevenemartin]

Just what I was looking for, thanks!

[@EpicJCreations]

No problem :D! Very glad you found it helpful! Thank you for the comment :D!

[@AlexA-wl6mq]

Any help on the Fuzz mask for C4D/Octane would be a first!

[@EpicJCreations]

Hey, Alex! Thank you for the comment :D! Ah, thats a good point! I wish I would have shown that now. Not to worry though! I'm planning on making a new tutorial on just that very soon! So stay tuned and look for it to come out sometime today, or tomorrow. Normally I upload a little late at night :).

[@GradeFX]

Really nice explained!

[@EpicJCreations]

Thank you very much :D! Glad it was helpful!

[@rezagholipour2606]

hello john.. can i use Quixel in corona renderer at c4d?

[@EpicJCreations]

Hello! Thank you for the comment :D! I've never tried using Quixel Megascan assets with Corona in C4D before, but I can't think of any reason that it would not work. The workflow would be different than with Octane, but it should most definitely be possible :).

[@rezagholipour2606]

Thank you man! Because I'm in Iran, I do not have the ability to buy an octane rendering engine and i use Corona for free! If it was possible for you, please make a tutorial for corona and Quixel so we can learn! Thanks again!

[@EpicJCreations]

No problem :)! Corona is a very good render engine, I've used it a little bit, and its performed very well. It's material creation and setup is a good bit different than Octane though. I'm not that experienced with Corona sadly, to create a tutorial for that. If I ever get more advanced with it though, I will definitely make a tutorial to with it a Megascanes :D! Thanks again very much for the comments :). Sorry, I couldn't have been more helpful with Corona. :(.

[@robmapp]

Thanks for explaining this!!

[@EpicJCreations]

No problem! Glad it was helpful :D!

[@SlobboVideo]

You should remake this using universal material.

[@NiteshKumar-cs4wo]

You teach very well

[@EpicJCreations]

Thank you very much! Glad you liked the tutorial :D! Thank you for the comment!

[@NiteshKumar-cs4wo]

Hey John Did you make a tutorial about Unreal engine?

[@EpicJCreations]

Hello :D! I don't have any youtube tutorials on Unreal Engine I'm afraid, but I did make a Cinevercity course on how to make Normal maps in Cinema 4D for Unreal engine :). I also show how to import them into Unreal Engine and set up a basic texture :). This all said, it's part of Cineveritys paid course, so it's only for members that are subscribed to cineversity I'm afraid, that said its only $100 a year :). Here is the link if your interested :). www.cineversity.com/vidplaylist/normal_maps_to_unreal_engine

[@stimpysemiotico6815]

its good basic stuff we all know. but i clicked this link to learn something bout the displacement for 3d rocks in octane :D where is this lesson?

[@EpicJCreations]

Hello :). I'm sorry my tutorial didn't cover a topic that you were looking for. That said if you wish to use displacement with the rock shown in the tutorial, all you have to do, is create a displacement node, place the displacement texture that comes with the rock, and attach that to the displacement node. after you have done that, take the displacement node and plug it into the displacement section of your material. Now you can click on the displacement node, and change its settings till you get more or less displacement going. You can also adjust your level of details to increase the resolution of your displacement map. This all said, I'm currently working on a paid Octane master course, where I will cover every topic you could ever want to learn in Octane render, this includes learning Displacement as well :). Hope this info was helpful, let me know if you have any question :).

[@stimpysemiotico6815]

John Burdock wow hi thank you for the response! :o was just wondering becsuse you also placed the displacement into the node.but you didnt connect it.for flat objects displacemt work great.but with the rocks even wood and trees the disolacemt is working very weird in octane.and i cant find informstion bout the right use for it.you will know what i mean if you tried to implement.even in higher lvl of bit and in tif.its broken :(

[@EpicJCreations]

No problem :). Happy to try and help :). Hmm, what is the strange issue that displacement is giving you with rocks and trees? Is it black outlines on your model when looking at it closely? Or is it jagged edges. Also, are you using displacement on the lod 0-5 version of the model? Or are you using it on the full raw High rez mesh?

[@stimpysemiotico6815]

John Burdock ok you are my hero! i never think bout that. yes indeed! on the lower lod objects the displacement is working.on high lvl i always had black outlines and this weird kind of tumor effect nomatter what amount or mid lvl i used. thank you :)

[@EpicJCreations]

No problem :D! Glad I could help :). Yep, the high rez model will give you those issues with displacement because it is not designed to have displacement used with it. This is because the high rez model already has the detail that the displacement would make, so it gets a double dose of that detail, and it makes it look very strange. The displacement is meant for the lower level Lod versions so you can give it as much detail as the high rez model :).

[@samcott8977]

Amazing tuto, very efficient ! Thanks bro :)