Megascans released!

The first beta wave unlocks a substantial part of the Megascans natural library (as recently showcased in Disney’s The Jungle Book), with more waves coming during the course of the beta, including organic and hard-surface scans.

Quixel simultaneously introduced a new line of standalone art tools, Megascans Studio and Megascans Bridge, for easily mixing and customizing surface scans, and quickly exporting scans to major engines and renderers.

The online Megascans library is available for subscription from $19/month for hobbyists, to $29/month for freelancers, with additional options for studios and indie teams, and the entire line of new scan-based desktop tools is included with the subscription at no additional cost.

Features:

• Tileable: every scan in the surface library is fully tileable with minimal repetition, and with seams matching consistently across all maps. 1 x 1 m surfaces consist of a single continuous surface patch, and larger surfaces (2 x 2 m, 4 x 4 m and up) are automatically stitched using multiple surface patches from the same location. Each surface size has its own benefits; 1 x 1 m is useful for detail texturing, and 2 x 2 / 4 x 4 m are useful for more zoomed out shots.
• Scanned brushes: majority of the 3D scans, scanned alpha brushes are also included, intended for sculpting. They contain height and detail information sourced from the scan data. These brushes are very useful for generating new asset variations which will have a similar feel to your source asset. If you want to, you can do some custom modelling and still make use of the scan data, by re-applying similar shapes and features from the included sculpting brushes.
• High-poly: each 3D scan includes a high-poly source mesh in OBJ and FBX format.
• ZTools: each 3D scan includes a source Ztool file, that works with all versions of Zbrush. It includes several subdivision levels and has clean UV’s, and utilizes the same texture maps as the other models. The Ztool can be used to generate other mesh variations not covered by the default downloads. For example, the High.obj/fbx file is capped at around 1 million polygons. The Ztool is generally much higher than this and approximates the original scan data. It could also be used as a basis for sculpting extra custom models if required.
• LODs: each 3D scan comes with up to 6 level-of-detail (LOD) meshes, where LOD0 has the highest number of polygons and LOD5 has the lowest.

For the Hobby, Freelance and Indie Team licensing forms, points are awarded on a monthly basis. Any unused points are carried over to the next month. Studios sign up on a yearly basis and have access to all their points at any time. Should your points run out there is always the option to top-up with more points at a discounted price. On top of your points there is also the possibility to buy curated environmental packs at a discounted price. During the time of your subscription the Megascans Studio tool is available at no extra cost.

For more on the new tools, jump over to: https://megascans.se/megascans-is-released