If you feel that Quixel has been missing in action lately, it is because they have been. Quixel started with NDO and made a big splash in the texturing world with the release of DDO, and after a flurry of press releases and tutorials with those two products, all went quite.
It appears the “quite” was brought on by the Quixel team placing their heads down and getting to work on something bigger. That something is the new Quixel Suite, that is being labeled “the definitive art tool bundle”.
All Quixel tools reimagined. And expanded with something big
The Quixel Suite is a little more than all of the products and tools bundled together. NDO and DDO have been completely reimagined, offering a much faster texturing workflow. The suite will also provide a new physically based rendering tool 3DO. If that wasn’t enough, Quixel introduces Megascans as well. The worlds largest real world resource for surface scans. All of these comprise the Quixel Suite.
3DO is a light-weight model and material previewer directly fused with Photoshop, enabling you to review your work without needing to jump between applications. With a customizable physically based renderer, cinematic post processor and support for loading your own multi-material meshes, 3DO is the perfect texturing companion and comes bundled for free with NDO, DDO and MEGASCANS.
Quixel Suite Megascans
MEGASCANS from Quixel intends to usher in a new breed of materials library. Bringing real world scanned materials to artists, you can browse, preview and download over 1000 materials that were scanned with Quixel’s HDR Surface Capture Technology. The Megascans library will offer scans for real diffuse, specular, normals, translucency, ambient occlusion and more. Seriously, they look incredible – you can learn more about the Quixel Megascan library here.
Quixel Suite 3DO
rounding out the Quixel Suite offering is 3DO, a light weight material and model preview that is directly linked to photoshop. This will enable you to see your work without the need to switch between applications. 3DO offers a physical renderer that also has a post processor. 3DO boast the worlds fastest displacements, using Quixel’s ground breaking displacement generator -Learn more about Quixel’s 3DO here.
Availability
The Quixel Suite isn’t available yet, it some of the tools will have a beta round that will begin in Q2 2014. You are able to pre-oder the suite which come in at $499 for a commercial license, an indie license for $249. Hobbyists and freelancers will be able to pick up the suite for $99, and educational licenses are $49.
