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Hi Laura! Its great to have a how to integrate a character into marmoset. My question is kinda related to the previous one.
Let say you need a detail map for the skin, another for clothes and another one for leather (for example), and everything is in the same texture set from our work in Substance Painter. Do you need to apply a different material in Maya to each Subtool/part before exporting to Marmoset? How would you name them?
Hey Angel. Yeah, Marmoset’s shaders only allow one detail map per material so you’ll need to split the skin, clothes and leather as separate materials in Maya before export. Marmoset’s shaders are pretty basic. If you take UE5 for example, you can have multiple detail maps in the same shader (so the cloth and leather could share the same material) and use a mask to define where the detail maps are applied. Naming-wise, name them whatever is clear to you!
Maybe I missed an important point somewhere in the lecture, but it’s still not clear for me when we need to use a separate mesh+separate texture map and when we use a single texture map+several masks instead. I mean, based on which criterion do we need to make a decision? Thanks!
Hi Larisa, there really isn’t any hard and fast rules. Different artists and different studios approach the question differently. A lot of it has to do with shader limitations. In Marmoset for instance we can only have one normal detail map per shader, but a custom shader built in Unreal could easily support four different detail maps, each using the RBGA channels of a mask. Marmoset isn’t a great engine for heavy detail map work for that reason.
Hi Laura! Thanks for the answer. As regards integration to Unreal engine, who usually does it? Does a character artist need these skills? Thanks!
Yup! A character artist needs to know how to integrate a character in an engine.