"Levels" In normal map.

Maxilator · Mar 2016

Hi, I have had this problem for quite a while but it has never been very noticeable before now, As you can see in the picture, there are sharp edges (looks almost like islands) in the normal map on the even surfaces, I think it's down to a lack of precision in the texture, does anyone know how to fix this? This map is baked in xNormal and is png, and i have tried most of the other formats but the problem remains.

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/jo/soy1x6waes3x.png

The only way I got rid of these islands or lines was when I baked in substance designer and used .psd format, however, In that case I got smoothing errors like those you can see in the image below

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/kk/chgdwztx1z37.png

I'm sorry if this has been posted before, but I couldn't find any solution to this.

musashidan · Mar 2016

Are you baking 16bit? If not then you should be. Then just resave to 8bit. Did you read the sticky hereon banding/dithering?

Maxilator · Mar 2016

musashidan said:

Are you baking 16bit? If not then you should be. Then just resave to 8bit. Did you read the sticky hereon banding/dithering?

That solved it, I missed the sticky though I quite frankly had no clue what kind of words I should have used to find the right threads with the right info. Thanks for the help!

musashidan · Mar 2016

Glad you sorted it. The stickies here are a wealth of knowledge. Highly recommended.

"Levels" In normal map.

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