Ahh I figured out what I was doing wrong its not the editor at all I just needed to go into Maya and assign some flat colors to each UV set and it worked perfectly! Thanks for your help!

Ok cool! Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

Thank you for the reply! This clears up a little bit of my problem however I don't understand what MatID's are and how to apply them to my mesh there dosn't appear to be any documentation on this either could you explain this? And what I need to do?
Thank you for your time and help!

Hello my friends I am having trouble getting my mesh's materials setup in Cryengine I import my mesh as an fbx with 2 UV sets however I can't seem to figure out how to setup my material to apply 2 materials to my mesh thank you for any help!

That seems to be exactly what the problem was I just needed to set it up correctly in the engine thanks! Is there any way I can tag this post as solved?

Upon further analysis I think the black is being cause by the sun rather than my Diffuse map being to dark? Do you think I have it right? When I turn the hammer around the black goes away because the sun isn't on it.

So it appears you were right that alot of my problems derived from my spec, smoothness, and diffuse not being set to the correct values however my Diffuse is still very dark after I export it out of painter which makes it look as you might expect dark in the engine "Look at my UVs were the diff...

Here are the textures after export from painter you can see what the Diffuse looks like before export in the picture of my UVs as you can see the Diffuse is almost black for some reason. Thanks for the reply!

Hi all, I am having alot of trouble getting my mesh to look decent in engine after export from Substance painter I have tried exporting from Quixel Suite, Photoshop "Using the Crytiff plug in" and Painter "Using the Cryengine export Preset" . I also contacted Algorithmic support ...

Hello friend! I started from nothing like you and I have been working for 4 years now Cryengine is an amazing engine and can without a doubt help you achieve your vision however there are many steps you must take to get to a solid point for creating your GTA 5 like game I'll just tell you what I did...