Normal maps not projecting properly

Zyloh

I am wondering if anyone knows why my high poly crate will not project on to the low poly. As you can see in the uv render, all bolts and details are no there.

http://i.imgur.com/vVPiS6E.png

AlecMoody

What do your render to texture settings look like and what kind of map are you baking in that image? It looks like your render to texture settings don't have the projection modifier turned on.

Zyloh

It has something to do with the skylight in the scene. If I remove the skylight I can bake out a normal map fine. But I need the skylight for my AO map.

WarrenM

Are you sure they aren't there? That preview window inside of Max is generally useless. Look at the generated texture in Photoshop or something.

AlecMoody

Does the normal map output actually look wrong or just the frame buffer? Max will generally show something like complete map output in the frame buffer- it doesn't match the maps that are being saved. Also, make sure light tracer is turned on.

Edit:
Warren beat me to it.

Zyloh

Yes, you were both right! It totally was rendering the whole time. Thank you

Sorry Alec, just saw your post! Apparently restarting my computer fixed it as well and now it's rendering normal. The only problem I have now some of the parts look yellow in my normal map ->

Jerc

Yellow parts are probably flipped polygons on your low poly.

BARDLER

Jerc wrote: »

Yellow parts are probably flipped polygons on your low poly.

This or could be flipped normals on your highpoly as well.