Xnormal baking prob

NAIMA

Hi I am using Xnormal since a lot now but , altough the normal maps come out pretty good , I am having a problem with the occlusion and cavity , they usually come out pretty washed out , and even changing settings didn't help much ... is there a way to havea more uniform and contrasted occlusion and cavities that can catch even the finest details?

megalmn2000

Which renderer are you using in xNormal? The Optix / CUDA is much more faster, but tend sometimes to turn more wash out than the default bucket renderer.

NAIMA

I didnt know I could change it ... I guess I am using the default one ?

Froyok

Well, the default one is called "default" you know ?
Why don't you show your AO map by the way ? It could help to understand the problem...

NAIMA

Is not just for one modle , but for example..... A flat surface that has minor detailings like carvings or bump noise all over unless are deep they do not get. Considered much....

cptSwing

I don't even understand that sentence. Have you played with the AO settings (angle, bias)?

Ruz

well I would have thought it was obvious what he was asking. The only way i get deeper more consistent lookign AO is to add a ground plane, but then its very directional from above.yuo can change this a bit by moving the gorund plane away from the model a bit.

r_fletch_r

NAIMA wrote: »

Is not just for one modle , but for example..... A flat surface that has minor detailings like carvings or bump noise all over unless are deep they do not get. Considered much....

this is perfectly normal, you need to widen the AO cone. keep in mind though that realisticly those areas don't occlude light much.

cptSwing

NAIMA

I am new as perhaps now many of the users in this forum started to understand .... But I am still trying to figure out the best workflow for me .... I usually end up with bad looking sharp edged ao in some areas or toodark in some and too light inothers that forces me to work out manually on the texture often with unortodox copy pasting hand tedious work....I would like to refine my system workflow to have the most clean and usable ao that minimizes any after retouch ...