Quixel Mixer Vs Substance Painter

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@damianreed193 Жыл бұрын

Mixer is already done. It has come to it's end of development and Quixel has no plans to further update or add features to the application. It's been discussed at length in their Discord and other forums. It really doesn't even come close to being a "competitor" to Substance Painter is it only has a fraction of the capability. It has no baking system, no decal system, and severely limited features. Sadly, it never made it beyond being nothing more than a tool to mix Megascans materials. But that's ok! Because it does exactly what it was designed to do. I works great as a mixing tool for Megascans and if you use Quixel Bridge, then you have an expansive array of materials at your fingertips. So for those of us that love it, user it as intended! It does a fantastic job.

@nomercy9569 Жыл бұрын

i think thats better to compare painter with 3d coat, mari and marmoset. Unfortunately all these programs have a lack of tutorials, but they can really compete with painter.

@mkit18 10 ай бұрын

Yea seems like since their link up with unreal, they're pulling off of mixer. Can only hope they're making a new texture tool with unreal for unreal.

@Tay66455 7 ай бұрын

Odd question. Can I use textures created in Substance in the Mixer application?

@psy237 6 ай бұрын

I just switched from Substance to Mixer as I moved to linux. It's working absolutely great in Lutris and to be honest, so far i am missing nothing really. Some extra steps have to be taken, certain maps prebaked in blender or whatever but besides that i love it so far!

@AsaNuko_ 3 ай бұрын

Weird decision, because substance painter supports Linux natively, and mixer not

@Mordynak 3 ай бұрын

@@AsaNuko_ Only via steam or an enterprise license. Whereas Mixer is free. No awful subscription service.

@ShrikeGFX Жыл бұрын

Mixer is really amazing for mixing tiling textures, this is really critical to make good textures from scans. This is however something most beginners to intermediate artists dont realize. If you dont mix your megascans you are missing out on a lot of quality.

@TheLordDino Жыл бұрын

Mixer was build with Unity engine, rumours in the forums says they are shifting the core engine of the software to Unreal Engine, by either keeping it as standalone application or integrating inside the UE5 engine itself as a complement feature tool with the new materials systems Substrate.

@Otakubro6 Жыл бұрын

That would make unreal a beast of an engine even more imagine they had uv unwrapping tools, and voxel sculpting tools similar too 3D coat 😮😊

@Archaoen0 Жыл бұрын

UV unwrapping and voxel tools already exist in the modeling section of Unreal Engine 5 already and it's pretty decent as well but it's not intended for characters yet@@Otakubro6

@444haluk Жыл бұрын

Which forum? Quixel or unreal?

@Otakubro6 Жыл бұрын

Both if quixel mixer is integrated fully and even more powerful and professional tools that can compete with substance painter and Mari with in the unreal 5 engine so no more needing to download separate software to do texturing since you would be able to do both procedural and handpainted pbr or npr shaders and texturing with in unreal itself

@AlexiosLair Жыл бұрын

I think that probably makes sense. It will explain why Quixel was hardly doing any updates to it. At this point it is practically abandoned. Integrating it inside the engine just like Bridge is the best possible scenario.

@0rdyin Жыл бұрын

Anyone remember the Quixel Suite for Photoshop - NDO, 3DO and DDO... They even had their own baking system..

@mehface Жыл бұрын

I use it occasionally :D The tiled textures in DDO were really impressive. It was insanely slow and buggy though.

@paranormalgamesstudios 8 ай бұрын

It was great but Substance is actually way more user friendly but I loved the source textures from Quixel suite.

@scienticus Жыл бұрын

Go definitaly with Mixer. There are many reasons for that. First, i boycott every Subscription-forced companies. We have to use alternaties, so the pressure increase. If we dont do that, we pay hundrets of dollars per month for just a working pipeline, with the cheap argument, that you have the newest version. Not every one need the newest version ... this argument dont justfy such exploid. Second, Mixer will also get all this functions too. The same mechanic like Blender in comparison with maya. So, support companies, which are not greedy and try to stole your money every month. Start today.

@bhabhutiji1169 11 ай бұрын

Will you agree to work for free someone one day? Will you like being exploited yourself? Ask yourself that before commenting anything

@scienticus 11 ай бұрын

Who is talking about free brainmaster? Read carefully, before you comment anything@@bhabhutiji1169

@DaFunkz 8 ай бұрын

@@bhabhutiji1169Why are you defending adobe. So you have no self respect?

@bhabhutiji1169 8 ай бұрын

@@DaFunkz nobody is defending Adobe. I'm just not promoting piracy and stealing. Don't you have any dignity or self respect that you want to call out Adobe for their unfair practices but still want to use their products? Lol you are so desperate. Pathetic.

@cr4723 7 ай бұрын

@@bhabhutiji1169 It's not about whether it's free. It's about the outrageous price! (If Adobe had reasonable prices, nobody would be clamoring for free software.)

@juanp.5364 10 ай бұрын

The only problem with Substance Painter is Adobe

@ChrisKhaled83 6 ай бұрын

Yeah. Thats the only problem I have with Substance. Why does stupid Adobe have to go round buying everyone else out? If me and some group I had gotten together had some ground breaking software, I certainly wouldnt sell out to Adobe.

@koncreate8744 6 ай бұрын

Easy to say that until you see the paychecks.

@teraduck_ 6 ай бұрын

Exactly

@MrMOGHammer 5 ай бұрын

@@ChrisKhaled83and that’s why you are not a business owner.

@ChrisKhaled83 5 ай бұрын

@@MrMOGHammer What would you know? Nothing.

@NicCrimson Жыл бұрын

I watched your older videos on this topic a while back. I originally went with Mixer cause it was easy to learn, use and of course free. But it's current version is so buggy and outdated, if it gets an update I might switch back to it. Until then I'm sticking with Blender, now you might say that's crazy to use Blender to texture and I say you might be right. I wanted to use Armor Paint but I said it's so similar to Blender that I might as well learn to texture in that instead. So far from what I've seen you can do in Substance(I've never used it) and what I'm able to do in Blender, It works just as fine and in some cases even better.

@junechevalier Жыл бұрын

I got Substance Painter perpetual license on Steam for 25 bucks on sale. It is practically free.

@fingfufar9878 Жыл бұрын

@@junechevalierwhen was this sale?

@junechevalier Жыл бұрын

@@fingfufar9878 I think winter sale last year

@SkintSNIPER262 Жыл бұрын

Mixer has always been slow and buggy for me for some reason

@NightVisionOfficial 11 ай бұрын

I tried Blender for texturing, apart from the Shader nodes, and I never quite got the workflow. I've got Painter on Steam, and I can say it's amazing. With Blender, and my entry lvl gpu, I was never able to quickly bake something, even at 1024, with Painter? 10, or even more times faster. It lags with more complex materials, but it's nothing compared to having to use cycles to even preview some masks.

@ranze_1 Ай бұрын

I have one question which is better mixer or armor paint ?

@adamplechaty 7 ай бұрын

Its great for mixing Megascans tiled materials as well as some simple mesh texturing. Id say it is perfectly usable still.

@chaosordeal294 5 ай бұрын

Mixer had some problems getting seams lined up and filled properly last time I used it, and that filled me with doubts. At this point, however, I think I plan to lean on Mixer, and repair any issues in Clip Studio Paint or Blender. Unfortunately, Mixer dev is glacial, and Adobe stability and reliability is in a different universe from their premium pricing.

@chaosordeal294 5 ай бұрын

Mixer is probably being incorporated into the UE editor.

@slt4463 10 ай бұрын

quixel and SP will remain the mainly used ones not because of this and that but because each is good, but adobe is paid the second they make it free or some stuff free they'll lower mixers value, but it won't die any time soon as someone that's learning blender and how to make textures and PBR materials I will never spend hundreds when I can do it for free with no rush of using my moneys worth

@Abby-ug4xc Ай бұрын

"but adobe is paid the second they make it free" 😂 Adobe would never. In fact they INCREASED the price last year

@MrHadane 11 ай бұрын

I have a feeling it has to do with Fab. I vaguelly remember Epic Games mentioning that you will be able to make assets for it right inside it. So probably a cloud based toolkit.

@thegreendude2086 Жыл бұрын

I really hope MIxer comes back, Id dont want to feel dependant on Adobe. Overall just a company I associate negative stuff with.

@polatkemalakyuz2021 Жыл бұрын

Yes, we want back to Mixer

@diethermanicat Жыл бұрын

Substance Painter is one of the 3d softwares that is worth to put a buck into (unlike Maya).

@BoxingOnTop1 11 ай бұрын

Only thing is that the “buck” is 140€ or 24€ a month

@3dMistri Жыл бұрын

what happened to armor paint bytheway because it was open-source.

@roofoofighter Жыл бұрын

It’s still being developed, but at a snail’s pace.

@LudvikKoutnyArt Жыл бұрын

I can't recall who I heard it from but I heard there are no developers working on Mixer for quite a while now (maybe couple of years).

@SkintSNIPER262 6 ай бұрын

last update was 2022

@fitzclaircharron3502 2 ай бұрын

I could NOT find a symmetry feature for painting in Quixel Mixer which was enough for me to ditch it and finally subscribe to Substance. I searched google and reddit and the documentation and if it's there, it's so well hidden as to not be there. That's a huge oversight for such a basic feature.

@original9vp Жыл бұрын

@InsparationalTuts what about substance Vs Mari now? 🙂

@smashedlegends Жыл бұрын

Mari will always be better...

@original9vp Жыл бұрын

@@smashedlegends yea but still...would be good to see the comparison and strengths

@drunkenmuse Жыл бұрын

Mixer isn't dying, it's already dead - which is a shame because it's a really good software for working with tiling scans

@ThoughtsFew Жыл бұрын

Was it ever alive?

@anything_x Жыл бұрын

Haha, I just opened the video to say 'it was never alive!' 😊

@unknownrh155 Жыл бұрын

For you maybe. I've been using mixer for years.

@USBEN. Жыл бұрын

Lol

@jostasizzi818 Жыл бұрын

It was never

@NightVisionOfficial 11 ай бұрын

I mean, pro artists did some art tests when it got out at first, but then... I recall not being able to bake or export texture maps, things like those. I tried once, but it was never as good as Painter, and sure not as quick to learn.

@rogerlost5851 6 ай бұрын

Very informative, thanks It's a shame that Blender doesn't have the kinds of tools that Substance has built into it, then there would be an open source alternative to Substance. Hopefully Blender gets the cool stuff like cracking glass, liquid dripping etc texture and substance tools at some point in the future.

@DeputyChiefWhip Жыл бұрын

With all epic graphics products like sketchfab, bridge, etc being combined in to “Fab” maybe it’ll be part of it. My thinking is its probably dead, but i live in hope 😊

@MangaGamified 9 ай бұрын

Based on the number of addons/plugins/materials and guides sold, Blender and SP comes second, and almost no one sells guides/plugins/textures for Mixer. In short, someone's always cooking in Blender and a few in SP. While Mixer is powerful, but can't go further than Blender & SP. There maybe some extreme outliers but the majority are not outliers, and outliers are not enough to support. So plan your future pipeline wisely.

@marsmotion Жыл бұрын

performance was bad in mixer on complex work. hope they fix that. plus yeah its been dead for a while. blender has pbr painter, and a product from cgseb that looks cool. armor paint looks annoying to use frankly. im not a fan of nodes. too much like programming for my taste. i want to get stuff dont not become a noodle expert and im speaking as someone who does use substance designer and learned it. whenever i can shortcut whole node trees with sculpted details heights or images i do. sort of a half and half approach. for ease tho sp is the win...

@invadorop Жыл бұрын

Is mixer better than blender for texturing

@romantkachenko3188 8 ай бұрын

Yep. It has layers

@pxrposewithnopurpose5801 Жыл бұрын

i still use it sometimes

@MetalGearMk3 Жыл бұрын

I recently ask the Quixel guys about future development, he basically said they can't comment, which means it's probably dead considering it hasn't seen any major update for awhile. I guess Epic Games bought Quixel for their scanning technology.

@IamSH1VA Жыл бұрын

Or maybe they are integrating it into UE5

@paranormalgamesstudios 8 ай бұрын

Man Quixel painter was so good i always found the textures better than Substance.

@SanOcelotl Жыл бұрын

Quixel's services are outdated, they are alive becouse of their assets, even bridge is trash, I hope FAB fixes some of the problems

@christiangrafe8048 Жыл бұрын

what about mari?

@roofoofighter Жыл бұрын

Mari is ridiculously priced at $86/mo for individuals. And it’s usually only feature film studios that are using it.

@BlackUniverseProductions 8 ай бұрын

Im using Quixel Mixer rn but substance painter looks like it cost unusually much money if you want to use it commercial, any tips

@orphydiancg7759 Жыл бұрын

They should offer Substance Painter only subscription as well instead of the entire fk Adobe Substance 3D suite. The fees are too high and unnecessary.

@ruudygh Жыл бұрын

Is MetaHuman developed by Quixel?

@johnpekkala6941 Жыл бұрын

No MetaHuman is developed by Epic

@phoenix2gaming346 Жыл бұрын

Is mixer alive 😅

@wonkaytry 6 ай бұрын

The problem with substance is that everything looks LIKE substance, everything looks MADE with substance, everything has the "Substance look", same dirts, same scratches same smart material, ppl aren't realizing this!, even if you work from "scratch" in sUbStAnCe.