Clean Baking Method

PyrZern

I am pretty sure I'm not doing it the right or effective way. I just follow tutorials and if it works, great. If not, well, now I'm screwed.

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So I have ZBrush HiRes


That is Decimated
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And I throw it in Topogun 2


Along with LowPoly I made in Maya (it is softedged)


Testing settings


Result: Mostly clean. Except where the hires subtools intersect. *pulling hair*



What am I doing wrong ? What should I have done intead ?

Thank you greatly.

Obscura

Hi! Break your smoothing groups and uv islands there.Baking with mat IDs would also help.I dont know if there is an option for this in Maya or not but this means that you assign different materials so your subtools, and to your lowpoly emelents too in the same way, and when you bake it, the renderer will render based on this setup. Like the "bodyarmor_part1_high" will be only rendered to the "bodyarmor_part1_low".If this isnt clean, search for baking with material IDs, or hit only matching material ids, or for something similar.

BARDLER

You should use xnormal to bake so you can use a cage. You will get more controllable and predictable results that way.

PyrZern

Still not entirely sure @_@
But I will look more into it. Thanks though.