[TUTORIAL] Channel Packing and setting up in Unreal Engine

[@DerSmily]

explained quickly and easily. thank you and have a happy new year

[@Ruumablood]

Finally a video that explains what channel packs i need for what.. using quixel mixer but i can achieve the same channel packs i need!

[@parallelDS]

Thanks a lot, man. Helpful.

[@ClassyCrustatio]

Simple, quick, and to the point. A+!

[@shohruxbekalijonov5736]

thank you bro!

[@majortomcl9832]

Conocía el método en Unity pero tenía dudas de cómo realizarlo en Unreal, excelente video!

[@AlexanderCZ]

Gracias :)

[@snrenders6909]

Thanks man it helped me

[@TheShopped]

Great video, thank you! One question about packing, in your example you have(in each file) 4 channels RGB, Red, Green, Blue. you then copy all of those into one channel? Why? how come you dont just have one channel in say the roughness. why is it 4 that you copy over? sorry if this is a stupid question im quite new and this is part is confusing me? Thanks.

[@unrealdevop]

What about the Alpha Channel?

[@AlexanderCZ]

The Alpha channel can be used as Opacity Mask (in your Albedo Map for example), Translucency and Subsurface Scaterring map for your foliage meshes

[@unrealdevop]

@@AlexanderCZ Ah, well I was mostly wondering why it wasn't shown. I was needing to pack 4 channels but could only find video's on doing it for 3 in Photoshop. I ended up doing it in Substance Designer though.

[@caglayangursugokbulut9664]

thanks a lot

[@yaroslavb.2589]

if I correctly understand in the Substance I can't do something of kind it

[@AlexanderCZ]

Hi. If you mean Channel packing in Substance Designer, Yes, you can. There's a useful node called RGBA Merge. You can take a look at this video :) ua-cam.com/video/NfoevzeoWzw/v-deo.html

[@iiyaman69]

RDA map is Roughness, Displacement and Ambient Occlusion ??

[@AlexanderCZ]

Hi. Yes. You are correct.

[@lopos_5555]

Does this method supports DDS image format with generated mip maps?

[@AlexanderCZ]

Hi. I'm not sure about it, but I found this link which might be useful to look at: steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=635927143

[@mphx_sye2048]

Nice video

[@faksake1630]

hi. i was wondering is this process same as for RDA or?
i couldnt find anything for RDA packing

[@AlexanderCZ]

Hi. Yes. The channel packing process is the same for RDA texture map.

[@aliakdogan9426]

thank you

[@caminanubemusiclist2326]

THX

[@astonyo7544]

Why there are 3 different types of Masks?

[@AlexanderCZ]

Hi. In fact, there are more than 3 types of Masks. It depends on how the user works with them.

[@astonyo7544]

@@AlexanderCZ I see. I tried RMA and ORM with the same Roughnes, Metalic and AO single textures packed in these two and got a bit different results

[@AlexanderCZ]

@@astonyo7544 Could you explain in detail what you want to achieve?

[@michaelemma6605]

Dude Copy Paste literally isn't working for me wtf

[@AlexanderCZ]

Hi. Make sure to change the image mode to RGB/8bits ( Go to Image > Mode > RGB > 8 bits/Channel)

[@mitchellrcohen]

I had to paste one image into RGB channel, turning them all into the image I had just dragged. from there it let me click and "solo" each channel and paste a new image on each channel. hope this helps