#Quixel mixer tiles Offline#

I use Unreal as an offline renderer, so I’ve modeled everything except for the individual needles instead of using atlases for branches connected to the needles. Note again that these trees are set up to be mid-poly/high-poly and aren’t optimized for game use. If the hierarchy isn’t built correctly, nothing else will be either. What’s important to know is that the tree hierarchy is the focal point of everything. I won’t go over the specifics of how I built the tree in the interests of brevity because I could write an entire short story about the design process that went into this tree and the trees based on it. SpeedTree makes setting up trees relatively easy, so the tree settings themselves aren’t terribly important. This also has the advantage of skipping the baking process entirely - something I didn’t need to do for this project because nothing here was designed to be game-res. This prop was made without baked normals - the entire model has a single chamfer on all edges which doubles its poly count (from roughly 500 polygons to 1k) but allows me to work with weighted normals to produce a high-poly-like result. Mixer made up a large chunk of this project, including the Florida Trail sign in the foreground. Unreal is one of my core focus points as I've worked with the engine since UT3 and UDK in 2009. This particular project was done during the evenings over the course of a couple of weeks. I’m very active in the Quixel Art Community on that note, which is a fantastic resource for artists of all skill levels to learn from one another and grow. I perform support duties at Quixel, but not just product support! Community management is a vital part of my duties, and the ability to work with our art tools and our content library is critical to being able to effectively manage a community of artists. I work for Quixel, now part of Epic Games, performing community management and product support.