Substance to Unreal Material Mismatch

[odd sparrow]

Is this the ORM texture?

[cold sand]

ah no but they are all using this

[odd sparrow]

The ORM texture should use Mask compression.

[cold sand]

so then yes ahah

i tried it, seems it's better? but still off, still pink and dirty spots still look too sharp

also looks like my ambiant occlusion actually adds nothing

also another issue 😅 this should be dark inside, but there's light coming out of it, because i didn't close the mesh, is there a button to press?

thanks a lot for the help btw i really appreciate it

[odd sparrow]

np

AO visibility depends on a variety of factors, it isn't always obvious that it's working.

[cold sand]

i see

[odd sparrow]

Do you have AO inside there?

[cold sand]

yes there should be a lot

[odd sparrow]

Are you using Lumen for GI?

[cold sand]

yes i use Lumen, i use ray tracing as well if everthing was setup properly

[odd sparrow]

Is this just for renders?

[cold sand]

yes, but i also wanted to test the stuff because it's for portfolio for video games

[odd sparrow]

Ok. You might wanna try out the path tracer at some point when you just wanna render stuff out. For now, in your project settings, is Allow Any Static lighting enabled?

[cold sand]

seems like so

i'll consider the path tracer as well 🙂

[odd sparrow]

Turn that off. That disables AO maps when used with Lumen.

[cold sand]

gotcha, i'll restart this!

maybe i should render in blender or marmoset or whatever, this is technical stuff that could get fixed if i work in a studio at one point ahah

[odd sparrow]

It's up to you, though unreal is becoming a one-stop-shop for everything 3d more and more.

[cold sand]

yeah that's why i wanted to render here, shows the actual result without cheating, sort of speak

do you know the settings in SP to match UE5? i read we have to use OCIO aces 1.2 in SP, but that made everything look weird apparently, starting from the red > pink

[odd sparrow]

I never messed with the colorspace in SP when I used it, left it on whatever the default is and I never had problems, apart from when I was figuring out what you're figuring out right now like 5 years ago.

[cold sand]

interesting! well now AO works well apparently, still light coming out of the thing where it's not supposed to

[odd sparrow]

How does it look now?

[cold sand]

still pink but i guess it's much better now at least

i realize that it's when i move the camera that it makes everything look terrible, gotta wait a bit ahah, i forgot that

but i feel like the grunge details and stuff are still way too apparent, it's more subtle in SP

[odd sparrow]

Is the color still off?

[cold sand]

yes when i check sRGB in the texture it's pink

[odd sparrow]

Did you reexport the textures at 8 bit?

[cold sand]

not for the bow, just for the big instrument, but it's also pink there

they share the same color

actually i'm not sure, i'll test that , i gotta go now, i'll update to see where it goes, thanks a lot man i appreciate it !! 🙏

seems like it 's fine for the big instrument in the texture preview, still look too pink-ish in the viewport though

[odd sparrow]

Np. 16 bit textures will cause issues as they're considered HDR in the engine, and won't display properly without doing some work in the material. I would try rexporting the bow textures; you should see a difference there.

[cold sand]

i see! with dithering or not?