XSI Ultimapper Artifacts

David Somers

So I've been working on some modular wall panels for my Source mod and when ever I try to bake a normal from a high poly mesh to the low resolution, I get weird artifacts on the sides...



The right panel being the low res, I've done all that I can think of doing. I've tried using the compute option for getting the distance to surface measurements and while that has improved artifacting across most the mesh, the sides still got those streaks running up and down the sides.

chaosblade

Ultimapper really isn't a good tool. I use Xnormal for any baking I have to do.

ZacD

I use XSI all the time, and I only use the ultimapper for world space normal maps. There's a lot that can go wrong with baking a normal map, so it's hard to pin point what exactly might be causing the issue, maybe post the normal map?

cryrid

Hard to say based on the current info, but my guess is that this is model related, and not ultimapper settings.Probably uvs.