Texturing the Robot Drone in Mixer

Before you start on the texturing tutorial, you need to familiarize yourself with the way that lighting works in Mixer.

Try out the following shortcut in Quixel Mixer's Viewport: Shift + right mouse button to rotate the image-based lighting.

Also, try out different image-based lighting options in the drop-down menu (see numbers 4 and 5 in Figure 5.2). This step is essential since you will need to see the results of your textures/materials under different lighting angles and conditions.

Let's now get started with the practical part of our tutorial, by loading your model into Mixer.

Loading the Robot Drone model into Quixel Mixer

The first thing you want to do in Quixel Mixer is to replace the 3D-plane model shown in Figure 5.2 with your own custom model. In the following screenshot, I have added images of the Setup tab's menu:

Figure 5.3 – Loading a custom model into Quixel Mixer

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