Ancient Pillar

abhasdhulekar

Hi, i've been trying to make a ancient pillar for the game environment i am working on. I am facing some problems on the edges of it.



I have highlighted the edge



I tried by blurring the edges of the normal maps but its not solving anything.

Texture file and the normal map :



http://s1168.photobucket.com/albums/r484/abhasdhulekar/?action=view&current=26a17305.jpg#!oZZ2QQcurrentZZhttp%3A%2F%2Fs1168.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fr484%2Fabhasdhulekar%2F%3Faction%3Dview%26current%3D1b7bf0b5.jpg

C86G

What are you baking/rendering with?

Use separate smoothing groups and a cage for baking that should do it.

ausernottaken

Render at 2048 x 2048 and shrink it down.

jordan.kocon

None of your images are showing up for me.

abhasdhulekar

Hi, i am actually new to the polycount, can anyone tell me how to upload the images, i have so many doubts that are needed to be cleared....i tried photobucket but its not working. Thanks you

SA_22

abhasdhulekar wrote: »

Hi, i am actually new to the polycount, can anyone tell me how to upload the images, i have so many doubts that are needed to be cleared....i tried photobucket but its not working. Thanks you

find the image online you want to post (i use flickr for mine) right click on the image and copy the image location (firefox) image location should be in the properties in ie (dont use it much)... hit the insert image button (little yellow box with the mountain and sun) and paste the image location in there.

hope that helps, i probably made it sound way more difficult than it actually is but... lol

abhasdhulekar

SA_22 Thanks for the help...so here i am again trying to upload the pics of the ancient pillar i am trying to make for the game environment.



WireFrame :
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7115/7802225966_d87acae6d4_z.jpg

Edge Problem :



Normal Map :


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SA_22

click on the view all sizes button on the top right to get to this page http://www.flickr.com/photos/85180428@N03/7802225966/sizes/z/in/photostream/
then copy the link for the image location there
which looks like: http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7115/7802225966_d87acae6d4_z.jpg

now hit the insert image button on here and paste the location in there and hit ok



edit: also looks like you need to add some padding when you bake out your maps... might fix your problem

abhasdhulekar

@SA_22 : What does this Padding do? and where can i find this option in Maya?

I tried the soften normal its working...but i dont think its the proper solution...

SA_22

in maya i have no idea.

it pretty much just stretches the edges of you texture out to give it a border, so that the black part doesn't bleed into the texture on the mesh

watch the last 5 or so minutes of this http://eat3d.com/free/xnormal_overview should give you a good idea of what it is + a way to do it in photoshop if you download xnormal which is free.

AmbiguousPackage

Not sure if your using Maya or not looks like it is but you never know. Anywise heres a little youtube series I did on getting nice normal bakes on very low geo meshes.

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA3BBCEA0D6B70541&feature=plcp

SamirDuran

Have you tried to harden these edges? (rest of the model should be 'soften'). If it doesn't help, you should work on your edge padding. Here's another cool stuff about it:
http://wiki.polycount.com/EdgePadding?action=show&redirect=Edge+Padding

ausernottaken

It looks almost like you need to invert one of your channels (ctrl+i). Probably the green one.