Baking Errors

poopsterspappy · Jan 2013

Hi,

It seems that I'm doing something horribly wrong in getting my low poly to match up to my high poly. Can someone tell me why I'm getting these errors.

Thanks $:\$

AlecMoody · Jan 2013

which errors are you referring to?

Ace-Angel · Jan 2013

I don't really see any errors, what map type are you baking? Normals? Diffuse? Lightmaps? AO? Color Masks?

What baker in what App? If you're referring to the weird reds in your padding, that's a Mental Ray issue in Max for example that cannot be solved, etc.

poopsterspappy · Jan 2013

Hi All,

Thank you for the replies. I uploaded my AO bake instead it's clearer. The circled areas( and rectangle) are what confuses me. Why am I getting those edgy dark line artifacts. They show up in all my maps . Am I aligning my geo improperly? They seem like projection errors rather than an anti aliasing problem Thank you very much. Avi

P>S I really appreciate the help :poly121:

passerby · Jan 2013

IS that on intersecting GEO, it would really help to see the mesh that is being baked.

and do you got any padding set for the bake, it could just be the padding.

poopsterspappy · Jan 2013

No theres no intersecting Geo, and I have padding set to 13. Here's a link to the Max file if you wouldn't mind taking a peek. Thanks Avi

http://www.filedropper.com/cipherbakeready

Frump · Jan 2013

You baked the AO in Max through Mental ray? It usually produces streaky bad padding like that, as Ace-Angel mentioned. I couldn't tell you why, but it's a really dumb bug. Try baking AO with scanline or xnormal.

poopsterspappy · Jan 2013

Hey Frump, Nope I baked render to texture via scanline...I gues my padding needs to be higher. I'll try and see if it helps. Thanks Avi

AlecMoody · Jan 2013

Are you using a cage with the projection modifier or using the offset distances in max?

poopsterspappy · Jan 2013

Hi Alec,

I'm using a cage with projection. I seem to have solved that problem (I think :poly122:) it had to do with not tapering my HP and LP enough. I.E there was nothing for the high poly to project on to the low poly from a top down view. The next problem is, I am really confused where to use chamfers on my low poly. I'm getting ugly seams and it seems as if I'm just not understanding proper topology for Normal Mapping. Also I think my topology is just plain ole bad. Thanks for your help I know your busy Avi

Baking Errors

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