Weird bake results

Joost

I'm working on an axe and I'm having some weird bake issues.
I'm baking with xnormal(with cage) and using NDO2 to get AO+ cavity.




normal map:



uvs:



render:



Split edge where the UVs are split:



And when I try baking with max I get random dots.



Did I mess up the smoothing groups, or lay out my UVs improperly?

I really don't know why it's doing this, help would be appreciated!

Rockley Bonner

I get these too, I just smooeth them in photoshop, but I know that's not the best way...

Joost

RJBonner wrote: »

I get these too, I just smooeth them in photoshop, but I know that's not the best way...

Yeah, I thought about that, I guess it could work for the main part, but it would be hard to get rid of that split edge.

And even though it's going to be a very minor prop, I still want it to be as good as I can manage.

Guess I'll research baking a bit more, unless someone else can help.

Bek

Post your low poly + UV's + explain how your cage is set up, more info will help.

If you haven't already, read Earthquakes thread. Remember to Triangulate before you bake too.

Joost

Well I decided to just go with that bake and clean the results a bit.



more here

I read that thread and I think I did everything correctly.
I split the UVs at hard edges and made a cage in xnormal.

Maybe my smoothing groups just weren't set up correctly.

I'll look into it more for my next models.