Mixer for Beginners: Sculpting and Basic Texturing

[@pawnmusic]

for those of you wondering why your image looks flat you have to make sure that Preview Displacement is activated (shortcut D)...also be aware on the lower left hand side you have 3 different options for the displacement...Raise, Lower or Set. Press T if you want your View port to display the texture tiled. Yes, these are basic things, but it helps when you are brand new to the software and everyone just assumes you know what the hell you are doing....when obviously, you don't.

[@Native_Creation]

This is exactly what I was looking for, figuring out how to import custom brushes and creating sculpts from scratch, so awesome.

[@Gerrr6934]

Spent ages to figure out all of these in the hard way. And now these 5 mins vids, makes me cry.. :D :D Good job!

[@PhilShary]

That's more like it! Appreciate the properly scale UI.

[@KenzieLaMar]

It looks like magic. I can't wait to experiment with it.

[@ShatabdaRoy115]

Did you Experimented with it?

[@PawelGrzelak]

So good to see you guys drop your software dependence on Photoshop. Hope you'll fully detach one day.

[@lockhrt6961]

Thank you for Quixel Mixer its really easy to learn.

[@averagejoessu]

Awesome video! I would really like to see strategies for dealing with tiled repetition in mixer. I think the new mixer has some specific features that help with this.

[@kalasknatte]

Joe Andresen that's definitely something I can cover in an upcoming tutorial! Thanks for the suggestion. :)

[@Lopkkpa]

I’m can’t get enough out of this program

[@ritageraghty4404]

I just downloaded Quixel Mixer today. I hope I will learn much.

[@freezer2739]

We need more video like that !

[@josh7624]

You make it seem so easy

[@kitros7134]

Hey Quixel, how did you do the animation like the stuff at 3:47 , I've got Toolbag 3 but I can't figure out the right export to make it look like yours, the video export loses quality.

[@JonathanWinbush]

How do you make it infinite tillable at 2:28?

[@kalasknatte]

WINBUSH press T on your keyboard. :)

[@mordecai1484]

Man why I'm always feel like i'm cheating when using those :D

[@omariparris9953]

Same lmao. Its too damn easy man. feels almost too good to be true

[@allenchen3109]

Amazing speed to create materials

[@stalowywilk5793]

How to add displacement layer. My stones dont want to go up

[@spyrosboukas288]

Really impressive! But is it really tilable, as you mention at 0:54, for large landscapes in Unreal Engine, Unity, or other software? Thanks!

[@SmellTheCheese95]

He means it has no seams- The material itself will be pretty obvious if you only use one texture across a landscape. Which you should not. In combination with a few other textures and vert paint you can easily get a decent looking landscape

[@bokimon1989]

That's some real kick ass stuff

[@PauloSamurai]

WoW!!! The future has come!

[@MAX3D2]

BRUSHES ARE GONE!!! :( Quixel can you please re-up these?

[@wither9975]

Sad

[@vanorden5366]

was able to download them fine

[@CookieZCookster]

@@vanorden5366 me too

[@legendofpersia]

imagine creating this in substance designer...would take years

[@fbbinoire201]

is till in beta ?

[@crazyAlexander23]

how do you make the brushes work i just get a Square even with the brushes loaded i can get the albedo to work but not displacement

[@toolpluscourier6404]

Awesome wonderfull tool! Very easy to use! You can do a lot of work in seconds!

[@Pernlightwave]

This is incredible! Cool!

[@Ikxi]

Will there be a new video because the interface with the current one is confusing.

[@user-hy3pd8mz1g]

there is no brush in the site could you please uploud the link please

[@dcpngn3740]

Please fix the link, I cannot find brushes like this anywhere

[@zimnelredoran9985]

Noob question, how did you turn your paint layer black in 1:01?

[@bgwc-su2ph]

I have been trying to create sand stones the same stones used to build ancient Egyptian temples . but I can't get the right color can someone please give me the right formula

[@MESHQuality]

Powerful workflow!

[@thewolfofbelgium]

this is really cool :)

[@constantineskliris]

Thanks for the info, very useful !

[@hsan.1951]

How come I can't log into the online library?!! it drives me insane! I get the message to sign in with Epic Games instead though I am signing in with the Epic Game account!!!

[@AlexiosLair]

Awesome! Could you guys also do a tutorial on kinda opposite use of paint layers? That is, instead of making it for bumps to use it for deep cracks in the road for example? Also, what is the section those brushes are located? I was looking for those in "Brushes", but haven't found anything like this. "Free" doesn't have it too.

[@gdavis3d]

Sure!!

[@allenchen3109]

You can find many brushes on the Internet that can be used on mixers. So, this is very simple. You only need an alpha map, just like the ones in ZBRUSH.

[@AlexiosLair]

I know, it's just easier to get them from one place, especially if they are supposed to be released.

[@supasuoasuoasupa1939]

this awesome. but how do you create that custom sculpt brush and what format do you import it into mixer?

[@aakasharyavfx]

Please upload the boulder brush file again....given link is not working..... :(

[@ov3d246]

Zbrush ->sculpt rock and create alpha -> import it to qiuxel ,and watch the magic

[@fabfov6064]

the brush are not disponible now :'(

[@DavidBoura]

11/14/19 brushes are available

[@CookieZCookster]

12/26/2019 available

[@danielfavini6154]

really great job quixel! with atlases, is there the possibility to paint masks for areas we wouldn't want the atlas to apply?

[@Megalomaniakaal]

Whats the license/terms for the brushes you share in the link? The archive includes no readme or anything.

[@AlenaHovorkova]

Nice. Just curious - does it need some special sw/hw specs to run smoothly like that ?

[@Schmambo]

Tried the brushes and found the visual outcomes are not the same. Very flat and they're all circular. Am I missing something, or are these lower quality brushes instead? :( Trying to make progress in my learning

[@icarusswitkes986]

Its like photoshop but for textures

[@creyclark4066]

literally just thought the exact same thing

[@stevejjd]

How do we use thiese textures on a custom mesh and render it with V-Ray ? - Can you export the model as if it was scan data?

[@derekheisler2058]

The folder button to add a brush is gone, how does one add a custom brush now?

[@michaelmorrow9927]

What settings are you using for performance ? I have a 4790k, 2 - 980 gtx ti, 32 gigs ram and this program is crawling like a snail ? something i am missing here? should be flying through this.

[@zZ-Wipeout-Zz]

1 - can i take photoshop brushes and use them in quixel mixer? 2 - is it possible to make the landscapes to tile randomly ? 3 - can you also give links to each of the induvidual scans used ( especally the moss ! ) in the video

[@EliasWick]

First of, I don't know the answer to any of your questions since I haven't used Quixel Mixer before, however: 1. I don't think you can use a Photoshop Brush in Quixel Mixer, it seems to only accept JPEG or PNG (and so on). But what you can do is paint your brush in a blank canvas and save it as a PNG, or your preferred image type, because Quixel should accept that! 2. It's probably not possible to tile your texture randomly in Quixel Mixer, (or maybe it works). It shouldn't really matter, what you should care about is if that is possible in your engine of choice, which it is in both Unity and Unreal Engine 4.

[@vladkostin7557]

This is quite amazing.. In substance designer I'd spend MANY hours...

[@Nashfanfl13]

Pardon my ignorance, but with Quixel mixer does it make 3d geometry or is it textures/materials to be applied to existing models?

[@murtazarizvi368]

so can we create our own textures from scratch like substance designer? or it uses scans only?

[@delizade]

Thanx for the tutorial. Rubble_02_Brush is not working like on the video. 1) it has inverted effect 2)values are same but I can't get those displacement visual results. (Mixer 2020.1.1)

[@NotElonMuskk]

I'm following along with 2018.1.2 Beta with the same brushes and settings but not getting the same results? My displacement is not as high and altho I can see the shallow disp, the diffuse is quite black?

[@matiastemesio893]

so,thats is crazy but when i use in unreal engine the texure is plane, obviously, how i can to have this texture in my ground,or is so demanding for the hardware?

[@tubesurfer007]

How do you put in the diffuse specular gloss displacement under paint in layers?

[@bluups8477]

Question...how to add "something" into Local Libary? is it called PBR material? im using it for free so i cant download it from online

[@powerofthec5908]

Would it be possible to make variations in each tiling of the texture?

[@biltongjoed]

WOW! Amazing Software.

[@AlexanderMarks]

How are you getting that SNOW hdri?

[@zaferustuner559]

Could you direct me to a tutorial on how to create these sharp displacements in unreal ?

[@thangasaravanan]

0.98GB of brushes attached in Dropbox link. How much brushes are there in that zip file.

[@TonicEnergy]

4

[@sergiomiquel8890]

Can i import my own materials from substance designer ? Or built a material(in quixel) with the extracted maps or files (colorBase, roughness, displace, normal...)

[@orkunsevengil336]

Did quixel reinvent te wheel?

[@beinaidoPichaido]

Magic!!

[@gnightrow4020]

Is there a way to get the texture to look almost as good without the displacement map in order for it to run better in games ?

[@kalasknatte]

gNightrow you don't have to export and use the displacement map in your engine or renderer. You can specify exactly which maps you want in the exporter tab. :) What you can do is to pre-displace your mesh in a 3d software.

[@sadekdhaoui9381]

what magical performance woooooooooow😮😮

[@samgranier6735]

Exxxxelent thx lot Victor

[@cyrielkilller]

Any tutorial to set the map in maya with arnold please ?

[@talhazulqarnain4427]

Can you guys do some dedicated tutorial for Arch Viz

[@nananymann1556]

how do you make the symmetry brush that when u drag by one click you draw 4 other places in the scene?

[@zhengyang001]

Cool stuff

[@V-95K]

Is this program only meant for ground materials, or is it possible to make materials for example building walls?

[@kalasknatte]

Vladislav Karagodin it can be used for floors, walls, ceilings, roofs and a lot more! :D

[@V-95K]

Wiktor Öhman oh that’s amazing!

[@lemanhtien9279]

cool, I love it

[@mrearlragnar3187]

Wow! That's good!

[@hemkannan]

How do we change the reflectance values?

[@vedantpanchal3373]

Can these all be used in blender?

[@gursimransingh3513]

Please help my brush is inverted it displaces downward

[@RodrigoOrtega82]

Can't find the Import Brush button on the latest version (2019.1.3.0). I tried to copy the files to the Custom folder, but they also didn't show up on the brush library. Any solution on how can I import those brushes? Thanks

[@fabiass4479]

Did you unpack them?

[@fufu9473]

This software is great. I like it!!!!!!

[@afrosymphony8207]

i keep getting this frizzy patterns at the edge of my brus h plus they appear blurry as hell.

[@lime5556]

Can i use the material i made in other programs? Such as unreal engine editor?

[@teddybergsman5358]

Yes absolutely! You can even export straight to Unreal using the Megascans Bridge live link. Simply go to File > Export to Library, and when you start Bridge the next time you will find your surface under the “Custom” category. From there you can export it straight to Unreal. Check out the Megascans + UE4 live link tutorial on our channel by Galen Davis to see it step by step :)

[@muralivijay1101]

I don't know how to install this software I try two times with different PC I got one error I don't solve can u guy please help me solve that error

[@ksasmus08]

Uh, All I AM Getting Is The .RAR File For The Brush, And Quixel Doesn't Support RAR Files For Brushes

[@PizzaSoftwareHouse]

Fantastic

[@topherstoybox4276]

B key and middle mouse button dragging only pans the material view not change the brush size

[@OG96932]

how do i export it into a ball for unity

[@C-0-C-0]

Awesome! Thank you! Is there a way to deplicate layers? I cant find any! XD Thank you!

[@quixeltools]

Thank you! :D No, not yet - but it's coming!

[@C-0-C-0]

Ah! Ok im not crazy! Hahaha Thank you! PS: Is there any way to give you feedback?

[@kalasknatte]

Not at all! : DAbsolutely - you could join the Quixel Community group on facebook. We'd love to see your works there as well. :)

[@C-0-C-0]

Wiktor Öhman ok perfect! Thank you! :D

[@PeterLeban]

This is amazing.

[@smarty4116]

How to we import our materials to unity

[@ultimateflyingarrow1210]

thanks

[@a아리아]

Thank u sm

[@JaredEBrunner]

The boulder brush is not included...?

[@kalasknatte]

Sorry about that! It should be included now. Thanks for letting me know!

[@goku21youtub]

sadly its not working correctly , paint layer doesnt paint and tesselation is disabled .. gtx 960 4GB win 8.1 ...

[@anassaid1922]

Plz reupload the brushes

[@michaelmorrow9927]

As an owner of Quixel suite, how do we import our models now lol. No DDO, NDO? everywhere i look this question is not answered. As though poof screw quixel suite users.

[@thelurkingpanda3605]

KZbin keeps showing me as unsibscribed to this channel. I have had to re-subscribe multiple times in the last week. Any idea what is happening?

[@vanorden5366]

Anyone having a problem adding these custom brushes in Mixer 2019.2.3? I get the option to add the brush but cant select it in the Brush LIbrary.

[@quixeltools]

Hey! Please, ask us on our forum and provide a MP4, GIF or screenshot of your issue. We will help you ASAP! quixel.com/forum ^Jin

[@jayant_4791]

is Quixel Mixer free to download ??

[@kalasknatte]

jayant _ there's a 30 day free trial right now! After that it's included in the Megascans subscription. :) check out megascans.se for more info!

[@mrearlragnar3187]

With a subscription, yep

[@zimnelredoran9985]

How is this happening? imgur.com/rZPjTO1 Using the very same steps, all I got is this: imgur.com/jFA8SIz When it comes to add the fist material, it's somehow buried: imgur.com/zBJ0dwj And far from the video reference: imgur.com/nlUaNi1 I used a soft brush with a dark grey diffuse tone in carve mode to uncover the buried material and paint the rocky surface. Was that the workaround in the video or did you use a different technique? What I got doing that is this: imgur.com/nEJi9BA

[@dailyraven3241]

Does anyone else have trouble getting these brushes to work in the latest Mixer?

[@rikvasquez2390]

Download link and brushes still work. Tested on Mixer 2019.2.3 Beta

[@dailyraven3241]

@@rikvasquez2390 Where did you put them in? They cause all other brushes to disappear for me.

[@rikvasquez2390]

@@dailyraven3241 I just unpacked .rar on desktop. In mixer, click the current brush shape icon of a paint layer properties panel to load a new brush. Once loaded click the icon to the left of the garbage can icon to save new brush in Mixer's own brush library selection box.