Normals whack, how you bake this stuff?

pixelpatron

Bout as basic as it gets...a pallet.

I'm using turtle for baking, and Unity. Any settings I should know about?

What the hell is this shadow?




Here is the model in p3d, it looks better but still feels like it has some weirdness. I suck at this baking crap, so many fucking settings. It's 2 in the morning and I want to shoot myself. FUCK!!!!!!

Thanks.

ZacD

Can you post the wireframe view of the low poly model? It looks like there is a lot of n-gons which can cause shading issues.

.Wiki

You have ngons in your UV layout and you need to set up your hard edges correclty. After that you need to rebake.

pixelpatron

You can view wireframe in the link. http://p3d.in/ffRgj

pixelpatron

How setup hard edges correctly?

.Wiki

It depends on which programm you are using.

pixelpatron

Turtle for baking.

pixelpatron

How setup hard edges correctly?

.Wiki

You need to set them up in your modeling package not in your baking tool

pixelpatron

Okay, so Maya, what edges soft and what edges hard on my UV layout posted above? (pretend I fix all my ngons.) Currently all my outer shell is set to hard, and insides set to soft. Thought that was the correct way to do things, but I guess not?

.Wiki

If your UV shell Borders are set to hard edges everything is fine within maya.

Next step would be Unity. Check if your import settings are correct. Dont allow unity to calculate the normals. Use the imported isntead.

ZacD

Yeah the first thing you want to do is make you model into quads and tris and then just triangulate the whole model. You don't want to just triangulate a model with a lot of ngons because it'll often give you long and skinny triangles which is something you want to avoid and can slightly worse performance (ngon is a basic term for polygons with more than 5 sides). Normally you only want to bake a model that is triangulated. Normal maps use vertex normal information that is effected by how a mesh is triangulated. Every mesh is triangulated by every engine you use to view or bake a model, sometimes they don't do it the same way, so the only way to be sure is to do it before hand.

The issue in the first post could either be an issue with the normal map, or possibly an issue with the resolution of the light map being too low. But I would fix the model issues first.

latitudeclear

pixelpatron wrote: »

...so many fucking settings. It's 2 in the morning and I want to shoot myself. FUCK!!!!!!

About 1:40 am here. Spent all day messing around with my normals and never did it get the thing right.

This summed up my feelings perfectly.