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I don't understand why is so difficult with Quixel and so easy with substance painter ?

Rickky wrote:I don't understand why is so difficult with Quixel and so easy with substance painter ?

Hi Rickky,

Do you use substance suite? Or just painter?

Rickky wrote:I don't understand why is so difficult with Quixel and so easy with substance painter ?

Hi Rickky,

Do you use substance suite? Or just painter?

I'm using painter but consider to use quixel more because the price for upgrading painter 2.0 is for me too expensive (400$)

I thought the upgrade for painter was only $99 (only 149 for a new licence for that matter).
Unless you have multiple licences to upgrade?

Do you use the substance c4d plugin?

Or did you mean substance is easier because the Substance painted mats hook up to octane and present/look identically to in substance rather than the metal inconsistencies people seem to be getting with between Quixel and octane ?

400$ for pro version
With SP you can work with metalness and at the end for the export, you choose octane profile and it is done!
Just compensate the gamma in spec and roughness with 1.45 instead of 2.2 and IOR with 1.

Aah, I was only looking at the indie pricing; I thought it was too good to be true.

I have Quixel already; might try SP trial and see if I like it... I like the idea of not wasting time (on a less refined workflow)

What is changing the gamma from 2.2 to 1.45 achieving. And if that works with maps for SP, ha anyone tried it with maps from Quixel. As far as I'm concerned, anything you have to tweak to set up, is not a very good export. I find that the Octain exporter in Quixel works well (not the Metalness one), as long as you have gamma of 2.2 for all maps except the roughness, which should be 1.

Can you elaborate more ? Which exporter do you use and can you show us some result ?
Thanks in advance

Rickky wrote:Can you elaborate more ? Which exporter do you use and can you show us some result ?
Thanks in advance

Sorry I just noticed this thread was talking about C4D. I'm using Lightwave, but I don't imagine it should make much difference. I use the Octane (sRGB) exporter. plug maps into a glossy, all at 2.2 except the roughness which I set to 1. For non metals, i use in index of 1 and it should look right. For metals, I tweak the index way up. If I have a mix of both, I use two glossy nodes with different indexes, and mix them using either a high contrast version of the specular, or export a metalness map (after adding it to the project obfioulsy) and use that to mix. Results are shown here between quixel and Octane IPR.
And something I textured in Quixel, rendered this way in Octane.