Late Fix Question

Kiser Designs

I have a prop I made a while back and its been pointed out that I should fix the hard connecting areas shown here:



Is there a way to do this without having to re-unwrap/bake/texture the entire prop?

Right now the side parts are just stuck into the center part with no holes.

Kiser Designs

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JedTheKrampus

What does your hi-poly look like?

If you have to unwrap again you can always save some time by rendering the texture across from one low-poly model to the other, then touch it up in the painting program of your choice.

Kiser Designs

This is a render I have of the HP before I took it into mudbox to add some small details.

I am wondering if there is a way to change the LP, just connect the side parts to the center part and smooth out the hard transition and keep the current unwrap/bakes

Obscura

Sorry but this isn't really possible. You can cut it in, enable the preserve uvs option (3dsmax), and chamfering it, then smoothing, but your current normalmap won't work with this. So unfortunately you must rebake at least your normalmap.

Kiser Designs

If I use the preserve UVs option while cutting and connecting the sections, it will keep the unwrap from the LP intact? Sounds right on paper, just never done it.

Obscura

Not every time in my experience, but most of the time. If not, then it will make just very small changes that you can fix easily.