Discovering the Megascans Library

In this section we will learn how to use the assets that we can find inside the Megascans Library.

The Megascans Library is a huge online library created by Quixel. Inside it you can find both textures and 3D models. The most relevant characteristic of the Megascans Library’s assets is that all 3d models and textures are scanned assets. That means that all the assets that you can find in the library are generated from photos of real objects. This technique ensures a very high level of detail and a real-life fidelity barely impossible to achieve with standard modelling pipeline (Unless you have a lot of time!).

Scanned assets are not new in the computer graphics industry but they have been used most of the time for pre-visualization purposes because of their huge number of polygons and broken topology. Quixel’s assets are extremely well optimized and reworked to be used in any computer graphics pipeline, including real-time rendering...