New to Normal Map extracting in Mudbox

mcuevas

I'm new to normal map baking and I've been experimenting trying to extract normal maps in Mudbox. Below is an example of my result, the left model is the result of the extract (target) and the source mesh on the right:



As you can see, there's some stretching towards the bottom of the emblem on the target mesh

here is what my extraction setup looks like:



here is a snapshot of mu UVs from Maya



Any tips would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

fatihG_

Looking at your uv's it looks like there are some hard edges going on? Hard edges will break up the projection rays of the mesh.

If you do not have hard edges on your low poly mesh;
The ray casting of that area is probably not in the general direction of the rest of that emblem. Try rotating the triangle in that problem area, so you do not have a thin long triangle.

oglu

you should not smooth the target model... turn that off...