Exporting your materials for use in UE

So, you have completed both procedural-texturing tutorials and you have some great-looking materials made up of multiple layers.

But you might be wondering how to use these materials in UE5. This is actually a very simple step, so let's dive right in, as follows:

1. Click on the Export tab shown by the number 3 in Figure 5.2.
2. In the Export Target menu, next to Export Location, choose a folder on your hard drive.
3. Next to Asset Name, type a name for your file.
4. Next to Texture Preset, select Metalness Maps as the type. For the texture maps to export, check the checkboxes that are shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 5.28 – Selecting texture maps to export for UE5

5. Now for the very last step! Click the Export to Disk button.

You've just learned how to export materials from Quixel Mixer. In Chapter 7, Setting up Materials in UE5, I will show you how to use these texture...