Baking Normals Onto Low Poly

David Wakelin

Hi guys,

experienced this for a while now; and searched the internet for various tutorials but they never seem to work as correctly...

I've tried sculpting a few nuts and bolts onto a flat plane imported into zbrush, then bake onto a single plane ; again it never works - it seems to be a less "defined" bake rather then the usual stuff I see on here.

Ill post an example in the next few mins.

If anyone could be of any help - appreciated.

David Wakelin

PROBLEM:

BARDLER

I am not sure what you are having trouble with. Your example isn't to clear, could you please elaborate?

David Wakelin

I'm trying to bake this info (plane and a sphere) onto a low poly plane to "bake the normal" onto the low res game ready example.

I.E. using Maya render to texture; baking the high poly stuff to the low poly stuff.

fade1

you would say you try to bake a plane(source) to a plane(source). that does not work. delete your plane in your source model and you should get a result

MephistonX

not sure what your using to bake but this may help

http://vimeo.com/42661538

David Wakelin

Meph,

That is brilliant thank you!

Does anyone else have any tutorials similar to meph on baking in any other packages, and by video I mean literally a dumbies step by step guide !

David Wakelin

bump

Any walkthroughs or step by step guides to bake a normal to a low poly via various programs ; would be great!