Learn How to Use Quixel Megascans in Unreal Engine | Webinar
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- Опубліковано 14 жов 2024
- In this webinar, Teddy Bergsman and Galen Davis demonstrate how Quixel Megascans, Bridge, and Mixer 2020-along with the power of Unreal Engine-are pushing the boundaries of what’s now possible with 3D.
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Seriously can't thank you guys enough. I teared up when I heard you were teaming up with Epic to bring Megascans to us for free. Its a testament to how far humans have come when from my own room I can create photo realistic worlds from my imagination with relative ease. I always imagine what it would be like to bring this technology back a thousand years and show people what we can do now. My only hope is that I can pay my respects in the form of creative content and add to the never before seen worlds that artists are going to create. You've empowered creators and brought forth a new era of graphics design that brings professional tools and content to all of us. Thank you.
WildChild What a positive view of the world! I fully agree with you, there are so many great tools out there right under our fingertips waiting to be explored. Only sometimes it feels quite challenging, to keep up with them...
Perfectly said
Just remember that scans are a supplement. Its always best to be able to create your own assets, even if youre doing realism, so that you can control shape language, color, composition, etc easier.
a thousand years?... Who needs to go back that far? Just go back TEN years and everyone will be drooling. TWENTY years and everyone will be crying. THIRTY years and their minds will start blowing.
A thousand years they just look at you like you were a wizard and go on about their business. Or they kill you. I'd much rather go drop these renderings on the desk of Walt Disney or even George Lucas pre-Star Wars. Give it to someone who knows what they are looking at so they can full understand just how much their mind needs to be blown.
.....Then watch it blow :D
This is such a wholesome comment and amazing attitude towards new and developing technologies
Quixel is what really makes Unreal the better choice for me.
not only for you. Having that huge library with 8k textures LODs and easy import + remix options. Artists now can produce content a lot faster.
It’s Unreal who decides to give us free- and all their other free assets. The free iClone plugin did it for me.
Just do it.
The biggest problem everyone knows is currently, all the games made with Unreal Engines are very low fps, it's too slow.
@@manda3dprojects966 thats probably why they seem do be focusing more on VFX and advertisement industry where fps does not matter
This should have Millions of views and be the talk of everything related in this field, not just games. My goodness, this is something approaching what people like me have been waiting for since the inception of general computing...
This is a gimmick - seriously do you think that scanning stuff that must exist in the first place will solve issues with creative artwork ? Will you scan a sci-fi lab? or hell-level for next Doom game? etc? Have you noticed that nothing there animates (even foliage)? Etc etc. The biggest real problem though is shipability of a real world product using this - amount of data is insane, it's hard to match hand made content with the scans - they look to far apart. It's funny how people don't notice that the game Epic decided to make with their tech is a low-poly stylized "runs on everything" Fortnite and NOT a ultra hyper-realistic high-end only game :) I wonder why.
@@dexio85 Have you seen the Unreal Engine 5 Preview on Playstation 5? Realistic looking games will be possible even on mainstream consoles in just a few years. But yeah... you make more money with games like Fortnite that "run everywhere"... still the people at Epic and the ones working on UE are passionate about bringing the most realistic graphics out there. And the money from Fortnite definitely helps achieving that in combination with Quixel! :) Quixel can be used to create stylized assets from scanned assets. They even showed in this video that you can adjust the look of any asset through Quixel Mixer and a bit of creativity. By re-texturing other assets with Mixer it might be possible to better blend in traditional assets. Such high quality assets have never been available before for free, so yeah, I'm excited about this. But animation and disk space sure are really problematic though.
@@felixn.7397 Yup. Still. Using Quixel (or any other scanned assets) limits creativity a lot. We have the hype now because there's a jump in percieved quality but those assets are basically photos + mesh. There's nothing magic about the - just TONS of data that has to be stored. My bet is that for that ind of fidelity we will have to wait for games to be distributed on "read only SDD" flash cardridges or sth. when making 500GB of fast access memory will not be a problem or we will have to update CDNs to NEXT level but that will mean that prices of games will have to account for that as well. Sorry I don't see how a tech demo will transfer into games any time soon.
@@x8Pukaluka8x It aged perfectly. Still a gimmick.
Definitely didn't age well, Resident Evil 4 used mega scans to great effect contradicting your point completely. It's battle tested and definitely useful@@dexio85
Your passion to drive the industry forward is amazing. I can't wait to see the results in years to come.
What I would really love to see is building a game playable environment that looks absolutely amazing and showing all the steps from start to finish. The 'overviews' you guys have done in the past were great, but its hard to really be able to pull it off yourself without knowing all the steps involved in the process to make sure everything is properly optimized, the right check boxes are marked in engine, the right type of lights and data is setup, etc. It sounds like that may be what's coming with the extensive breakdowns you have for the scenes you were showing. Knowing how to use the assets in engine is the most important thing! (By engine I'm referring to UE4).
Also: YOU GUYS ARE AMAZING. I remember buying the Quixel suite 2.0 way back when I first started doing 3D design as a hobby and its super awesome to see where you guys are at now. I whole heartedly believe you guys want to help others to accomplish their dreams and this is your contribution to that. Seriously, you guys rock so much!
Im an architecture student who just got into real life renderings and Unreal engine, and I love what you guys do! It made me really happy to hear that it is free for all students! Thats HUGE! :D Thank you so much!! Now I just need a beefier computer haha!
I think that for a lot of us this kind of things motivates us to keep pushing forward. No words other than than thank you.
This is the greatest thing to ever happen to Video Game and Film Makers. I have so many ideas I want to get out of my head and you guys made that possible.
These honest work will change life for millions of people, thank you all
you guys don't realise how many lives you have actually made better, to a point where you have literally moved people out of poverty/ very low-income lives, to a place where you enabled us to extend our skillset and get a job. thank you for that
Epic is truly helping shape media for indie developers, it's mind blowing the power we all have for free.
Thanks to all the 12 year olds playing fortnite, kinda insane
"No request is too insane" Sooo I kind of need moon surface materials, thanks.
I mean you could try to just desaturate dirt or sand, maybe modify it with mixer
Use Blender to create procedural Materials.
Checkout Syncretic 3D's youtube channel, it's AMAZING what you can do with nodes!
I think he's joking 😄
@@CyberWolf755 You never know when you might need to make a moon scene for a project
Was just about to say the exact same thing .. be careful what you say Quixel :D
Quixel founders Waqar and Teddy are role models for artists like me. In my country Pakistan we don't have any animation, 3D modelling or Game Development schools or degree programs and people learn this skill themselves ... In Pakistan the market is mainly focused at web development and mobile applications. quixel along with Epic have really given us huge platform to polish our skills on..
Love from Pakistan Waqar Azim and Teddy Bergsman... !
P.s it was very pleasing to see clips of my country featuring into this webinar ! ^_^
I have the same feelings,Dude. I felt really proud seeing those clips of Pakistan. I had no idea one of the founders was Pakistani.
Me too :)
Amazing work! I’ve been using Quixel for quite some time now, even with the Quixel Suit I had a lot of great experience and amazing quality work done. Megascans is just an awesome addition and it’s great how much work you are putting into it.
For the next Doom title, we need you to go scan Hell, and Mars.
hahaha 😂😲
Not to be negative or anything but the whole point and the fun of mixer is to mix surfaces you don't usually use and can change a whole lot of properties to make it into something else entirely
@@nothingspeaks to be honest, I don't even understand how what you said was relevant.
On point exactly :) Their scans look impressive because they leaped into "borrowing" the detail level of a real world graphics. It's nothing special about that content - it's still triangles and texels but lots and lots and lots of them. So many in fact that normally it's impractical to make such a high-density meshes by hand. For making actual games this quixel tech has very limited use if any. I can't tell my artist to make by hand content that will look in similar fashion and I can't expect to have everything scanned. A lot of artwork is invented and does not exist - games happen in imaginary places. Also my characters will stand out as well as using this tech for characters is inpractical in a similar fashion foliage without movement will look dead, etc. etc. And at the end of they day I can't ship a 300 GB game either + there's no such thing as "low settings" in that tech - you need a beefy machine which limits my client base.
Or they could just go to palestine.
Your team has the goodwill of sooo many people. It's more than money can ever get you. In the east, the saying would go like "may you live a thousand years and a thousand more"👍
You guys should do HDRI'S like Andrew Price's real skies.... One click setup for realistic environment backgrounds! 👍👍
Check out HDRI Haven for awesome HDRIs. The files still need to be manually downloaded, imported and configured, but it's FREE!
@@CyberWolf755 bet megascans can do it better! 😆 Nevertheless, the goal isn't to have just HDRI'S, it's about having fully configured HDRI'S with sun and atmosphere functions all configured. Unreal engine has a new light source called "sunsky" and that's something unreal/twinmotion and megascans can improve!
We're getting to a level of realism I was only dreaming of when I was young. This will help to drive better content, only excited for the future!
Yeah, but many game styles can't be scanned and not everything should look "photorealistic".
Well with the current 4th Reich rising the future might be short...
I can't express how much all us epic users appreciate you making quixel free for us. Of all the work you do just know we all greatly appreciate you all so much
Both Quixel and Epic are creating an egalitarian future for all creatives. Next to open source, creative commons, and similar initiatives; it is one of the most inspiring pieces of digital contribution to society I have ever seen and serves as such a hopeful inspiration toward the future. Thank you!
OMG, I think this is the most beautiful and inspiring video I've ever seen. Thank you so much! I look forward to more content, and binge watching past videos / tutorials.
Thank you Quixel for making the CG world wonderful, beautiful and easy and making these tools reachable to everyone :)
Amaziiing!! You guys should come to Brazil!! I would Love to have some Coral reefs scanned , and some animal hair too!! We've got some panters and macaws with beautiful feathers and beautiful colors.
Victor Hugo Longo E Silva sounds amazing!!
23:36 "We also captured villages." I didn't realize the Quixel team were roaming bandits. :)
The intern gets fired for committing war crimes
Please make beginner to advanced levels tutorial with quixel inside unreal engine. Because When you guys showcase the environment it is photorealistic and amazing.
I am not a hardcore gamer by any stretch, but i can see how revolutionary this is in every aspect. Respect to the developers. I ve always wondered when games are going to start looking photo realistic, were pretty much here!!!
Visually pleasing video to watch for both non-game designers and game designers as well as being very informative for game designers, amazing video.
this 'unreal & quixel pushing 3d boundaries' is kinda exciting ! cheers from Rio.
"REQUEST" coral reefs and just more aquatic textures/assets would be really nice
Every so often tecknology comes along that's just pushes everything so far ahead, you all are like world building magicians.
"Request" Humans Skin all range from young to old with all type of verities
Same, Even Face photoset just like Texturing XYZ has.
My same exact request! even just a few types because then we can recolor on our own! Also maybe hair?
+1 This would be extremely useful.
That would be awkward to scan
@@testaccount51298 forgot awkward. Skin shading is diffrent itself
I didn't think that you guys would take it this far. Hats off.
Thanks for sharing guys! You inspire us to be better in what we love doing. Thank you a million times!
Fantastic overview of not only the company history but all the great apps your developing as well as integration with Unreal.
I would love to see support for the upcoming Material Layers feature, it has some great potential and seems like an ideal fit.
Having the ability to import materials as material layers would go a long way in making the blending process more flexible.
The current master material requires practically no modification to serve as the material layer master material.
With the introduction of custom blend assets, it will be easier than ever to make use of Megascans assets, such as imperfections, inside of UE4.
30:00 Ok that's it I'm convinced, we live in an advanced computer game!
This is future of animation, multimedia, artwork and much more
Awesome job guys!!! Loving the new Mixer!
Joe Garth ❤️
A very powerful tool that makes the choice of engine very easy 👍🏻
Modular assets and trees is exactly what Megascans need, thanks. BTW, when you release your pipeline for trees, keep in mind bilboards can't be used in virtual reality, so it'd be good to have an option to not use them and only 3D planes.
Stylized art with Mixer is super exciting stuff.
Looking forward for underwater and oceanic library so kindly please come here to the Pacific with 8k quality and fidelity.
Like I always said, these guys will shape 70% of "next gen" titles (visuals wise). No matter which tech first party will use in their in-house engines, megascans will be featured as an addition to bring the realism to full potential in each scene (4k-16k).
It's unbelievable how inspiring the builds are
To all the people of EPIC and Quixel. I LOVE YOU!!!
Stay healthy and keep it up.
The detailing is so phenomenal, I was originally blown away by the Unreal engine with the 1st tournament Unreal pc game and spent a year of my life learning 3Dstudio Max2. Now that a real virus is stalking the land we need gaming more then ever, and thanks to all who make the quality games like Valve. Stay safe folks.
Love the work you guys are doing. I personally would love to see more Caribbean based assets, palm trees and other vegetation
You told us to come with requests of what to scan, what about Norway and especially the place "Finse" that was used in Star Wars Empire Strikes back?! And Norway, in general, is beautiful and an amazing country with its special mountains fjords and forest, landscapes:-)
I can't believe what a fantastic company of people you are. You are rocket-fueling industries
i honestly cant thank enough for the development of this tech it amazing
I went to school to get two degrees. One was in computer science and the other in computer animation. Of course the first job I get out of school is a computer science job, which means my portfolio is lacking on modeling/texturing. This really makes me want to get back into it again!
Would be cool to see more water/ocean related scans, such as swamp algae covering or coral reefs (not sure if underwater scanning is possible, maybe a challenge for the future) :)
Edit: Also interested in more indoor surfaces, specifically gilded age mansions like the one shown
Human Skin Materials would be golden in this! It's all I need to start texturing my characters! (I really don't want to use animal skin as it has a completely different texture)
Loved the music, so nice and upbeat and happy!
Quixel is great group of people. i have one Request that please make one video of your teams that how they scan object in real life what tools they use and how they do it . thanks
You guys are bringing true realistic landscapes and elements to digital realms and gaming that I have been waiting years to enjoy on pc god bless and thanks to your team and the team behind UE5.
Outstanding work. So many jaw dropping scenes. Kudos
Thanks to the developers for their wonderful products !!!
You're great!!!
i'm so happy you joined unreal engine, really love what you guys doing, specially how you do most of this for you and for the fans
Great job guys! Your stuff is remarkable!
Thank you guys for giving us this huge collection in incredibly small amount of money 🔥🔥🔥💕
This is all incredible. I need to learn all of this. Where should I start? I am going to need a lot of people for films I have coming up! Where is the best place to find great inndependent people for films, shows, games?
I feel proud of Pakistan where Teddy and Waqar created the first mega-scanning hardware prototype.
I am new to some of this but have been modeling in Blender for about 13 years. I am making things like Swords, Axes and now learning hair and clothing/armor for characters for Reallusion. I use 3D Coat to texture with. It looks good in there but when I upload the maps into Character Creator 3 they dont look the same. I cant seem to get the shiny metal to show up.
Anyway this looks ten times more promising. I cant believe the effort and time you guys are devoting to making the software, and the library.
I have also been making characters for a game that I am wanting to develop. I am studying the Unreal4 engine, for this, so this could be epic on time savings to make, import and place terrain and props for levels. You have my full attention. I a going to check you guys out.
wow thats just amazing. I bet new generation AI and unreal engines will just take voice input to build games :)
hi when i got the rocks from megascans and got it into my gamee i could wallk straight through them plz help
This is very cool, thanks for your work.
I love the new intro!!! 0:00
Achieved with CryEngine 3... 😂
I fall in love with Bridge. It's Amazing & it's free. W8ing Mixer on Linux.
amazing job quixel and unreal i am eager to wait to see the future of gametology
I love you Quixel !!
For a laymen, how game-changing is this for game development? Does it enable developers to spend more time on the creative/artistry side? Sorry for so many questions. I'm just trying to wrap my head around how impactful it is because it looks revolutionary.
Something I really miss in the megascans library? Full trees! I know its really hard to scan them because of leaves and stuff but please try it. It would save me a ton of work.
ua-cam.com/video/KhTPayu_YUs/v-deo.html
The color scheme on the ship at 15:15 is probably inspired by the UE5 X PS5 demo they were probably working on at the time!
Bridge Is The program Iv'e always wanted without knowing it. To be able to import all those materials and assets and have them Automatically reconstruct in UE4 without me having to hook up all the material components again is awesome.
And the added feature of the apply to selected object and auto place plants and foliage in the foliage painter is Genius.
The more mixer becomes like substance painter and its ability's The more I try to learn it.
As for requests I would love to see more.
3d scanned Modular walls & fence types.
Roof kits and corrugated steel panels.
Broken down Rusty cars and military vehicle wreaks.
More Industrial stuff, windows, broken walls modular parts, street lights.
More Urban scans and traditional game type assets.
Palm trees, road signs, telegraph posts, hedges, BARNS, Wooden stairs,
Hope this fires up the imagination :)
U guys are AWSOME ,the best game engine, we hope devs make great use of this technology and bring new and original games.
Thank god for Quixel
I love Unreal Engine so much!
next gen is going to be lit
great company, great products!
keep it up guys.
Epic, PLEASE add playlists and ways to custom organize our Marketplace assets. Its so hard to navigate and plan, it would make life so much easier if you could please allow us to organize our assets by name, type, etc
Thank you for everything you do!!
This auto-LOD feature is exactly what I always needed, but I need it in Unity since I create VRChat worlds and write a lot of C#, all of which is not supported in UE...
What is your dream ?
Me: Work at megascan and spend the rest of my life scanning things ! 😍😍😃😃😀😀🙏🙏
... Really? That's what you want to look back on as your life's work when you're 70? That's not really work to be proud of but.... ok lol
@@Exarhadsgfds Traveling the world to scan things sounds like a fun job to me.
@@Somber.Killer To each their own, I honestly shouldn't have commented that. I'm sorry, I was projecting...
For real. That would be a dream job. I live in scotland too. It has a wealth of beautiful environments. I would love to scan it for quixel.
this is a great first step towards the oasis
Damn dream assets. Saving me so much time and work with super high-quality assets and ease of use. My years of taking photos and manually making assets for me is over. Thank you!
havent used unreal in a year, boyyy its time!!!
wow blown away this is great stuff huge load off my back
Thank you and have a great day.
Crab rave was made using Unreal? Damn you have a new fan
Really wish the Quixel Suite 2.0 for Photoshop was still maintained. The newer tools are great and all, but sometimes you need to make a fast normalmap and it's sad that the old tools I used to rely on simply don't work anymore.
epic game and quixel ....the bright future
Thanks Quixel! My request: Aztec/Toltec/Mayan temple surface materials or 3d scans.
I would like to request a content about: How do you guys prepare the texture for surface like in the ground where you are able to blend them and painted them using vertex inside Unreal Engine, the fundamentals about this, do's and don't. like you showed here the (1) Dry and (2) Wet texture. thank you hope to see this content in the near future.
just came here to say "THANK YOU"!
Thank you again for everything!
A quick question: is it possible to combine bridge/mixer with terrain from houdini? I mean, what if i have a terrain from houdini with ID maps for different regions (river, cliffs,etc) can i use those to add megascans materials to that terrain? My guess is it would work but havent tried it and im not sure of the workflow. Should i add the terrain into unreal first or into bridge and add there the materials?
really love this team up, though I haven't been able to play much with quixel stuff yet. I focus mainly on the stylized content area. Additionally I'm stuck on forward renderer for VR so it's really hard to light scenes correctly.
Guys you rock. Epic has pumped money into Blender too. Would it mean that at some point of Time Quixel products will be bundled free as with Unreal.
at 24:54 you mentioned, that you are excited to provide all the project files including the environments for free in the Unreal Marketplace. I haven't found them. When are you going to publish them? Thanks a lot and keep rocking, cheers!
I am the only one needing and dreaming about Tropical Assets? From Colombia to Brazil, from the Amazon to the Andes! Could be an invaluable PACK!
It's amazing what people can do once we break free from restraints of super low resolutions of both mesh and textures. I feel like a window has been open and the sunlight is pouring in.
Great! The only things that are missing for me are the NDO style, custom normals workflow, and the ability to work in a flat 2d mode.
Still having to use NDO and Photoshop.
Other than that, mixer is awesome and is part of my workflow.
Demo Starts @15:26