DOTA 2 WARD | Denky the war observer normal map please help!

steelman90

i was working in a dota 2 ward project and wanted to bake out the normal maps using Xnormal. 

i made the lowpoly using 3D-coat and made the UV's using Maya 2011 (1500 tri low poly).

i made the lowpoly cage as well using Maya 2011 and wanted to know why i am getting projection error like that? 

https://gyazo.com/755c0434261d0dc530dc0102f43a4f9e

i would like to know what am i doing wrong and why am  i getting that type of error. 
Thank you.

Louisk

Hey dude, looks like projection errors. Are you using maya to bake? You can adjust your max frontal and max rear distances. Looks like you may need to explode your mesh into separate parts. Can you post images of your low res, high res, and how they look on top of each other

steelman90

no i use xnormal to bake, i mentioned that.
i also used a cage as well. made it in maya too 
also i did explode my mesh to seperate parts. still didnt work 
may you please provide me with your steam profile so you could help me with that ? 
also sure. here are some images...

https://gyazo.com/10425ba66e1c6a73d34274c6add273c1
https://gyazo.com/5775e754545964ede9aeab1e24bd0674
https://gyazo.com/ed712025c415e6c86b4d479a94ba0a9a
https://gyazo.com/0458e40a77b37975f088217fcf3718bd

i can upload the low poly mesh with the cage if you could help me with that...

thank you for your replay.

Louisk

I can help you on here. I used to use xNormals to bake. Sorry I didn't see you mentioned that.

Are you using the ray distance calculator tool?

I know all the cool kids use cages but I never have. Try making your cage bigger first it looks like the high res is penetrating it? but like I said I don't use them so  I'm not sure.

steelman90

yes i have used it.  i also deleted the cage and did only the low poly mesh....still no use.

the error still comes. could you provide me with your steam profile so maybe i could add you there? 
thank you. 

Louisk

I don't have access to my steam account most of the day so this is the best place to talk about it. Can you provide a download link for the high and low res models? I'll give it a shot on my end

steelman90

The high poly has more than 54 million polygons....

steelman90

anyways i am uploading it. the highpoly is arround 1gb. 

steelman90

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steelman90

anyone?

steelman90

anyways man, i uploaded the meshes here. 

https://www.mediafire.com/?vyplcsafadbwaop

thank you in advance

steelman90

anyone?

Louisk

Hey man sorry I was on vacation. 54 mil sounds a bit excessive! I'll try to give er a bake. Have you decimated the high poly model?

steelman90

the last link is decemated

steelman90

i dont know.... but what do you think about that? https://gyazo.com/101e23f4c9c8cda82daf5ae645ef5e28

Louisk

That looks good! What did you do differently? I'm getting N-gon Errors from xnormals

steelman90

i used cages. i just expanded the verts a bit more.

i still get some error when i import it inside substance painter 

here is a screen

https://gyazo.com/21517ef2d95c94ece5cf9be5e2f6d0b2

on the eyes area 

Louisk

Nice! that's pretty minor in comparison to your last error.

It looks like you could probably paint it out in photoshop by selecting a near by color and using a softround brush to paint it, or clonestamp from a correct area. If you want to try to get a perfect bake you can adjust your rear/frontal max distances in xnormals.