Normal map noob question

Jonas Ronnegard

So I have been working with flat textures for a long time, and non hard surface objects, and it seems like I have forgotten something in my workflow when it comes to baking hard surface objects.

As seen in the picture below, I separate smoothing groups at all 90 degree angles and separate those faces in the uv as well, but it still turns out like this, please help me regain my memory

ivanzu

Did you invert the green channel?

Jonas Ronnegard

wish it was that easy but yeah the channels are as they should be

ivanzu

Show us normal map texture and did you use cage?

Bal

Are you baking in xNormal without a cage? If that's the case you need to use a cage for it to bake those hard edges right.

Jonas Ronnegard

sorry people, seems like the cage was my problem, for some reason I didn't remember that I needed one, thank you for your help