Baking hp to lp well model

lovingsaskia

Hoping someone with more knowledge can help me here. I'm trying to bake down my hp well down to the lp model. It doesn't look too bad really, until I look inside the well and I can see overlapping bricks. I thought at first the the hp bricks might actually be overlapping, but looking at it I don't believe they are. I'm baking in xnormal and the hp and lp were modeled in Max with some sculpting in zbrush.

Anyone got any ideas?
https://www.dropbox.com/s/5e8osbtrmzbjfn2/well_01.jpg?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/2ss4qenkevn2y23/well_02.jpg?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/30chvhrjir184ij/Well_Wall_normals.jpg?dl=0

WarrenM

Screenshots of relevant things would help us to help you...

lovingsaskia

Yeah sorry, I did attach, but they didn't show up for some reason.

Low poly


High poly (decimated)


Problem bake


Normal map




This is just an early test at the moment as I haven't modeled or baked in a long time and wanted to test my work before I got any further along.

Quack!

Are you using an averaged cage?

lovingsaskia

To be honest I just put it in xnormal, used the ray calculator tool and hit generate map. Looks like I've got some reading to do.

Yeah thanks for the prod, sorted

Quack!

When baking assets with multiple uv seams you will want to bake with an averaged cage. Ray distance is quicker, but produces errors at seams.

Glad you got it sorted!