Zbrush UV's and map baking

KurtR

I'm having a hard time nailing the proper workflow to get good maps for my rock sculpts from Zbrush. One problem I have is visible seams, and this last one I'm not sure about (see image).

Everything is in one smoothing group. I've exported maps directly from zbrush with this result, and also tried a bake in Xnormal with the same result. It seems like it's generally a shading issue Im getting, either in the maps or in the rendering of seams later but Im failing to understand why and how I should approach this properly.

I've read a few different articles now, but I'm still unsure about these few technical details Im missing out on. Any help is much appriciated.

Neox

seems like you chaged something on your basemesh some time down the road, this jumbled up the vertexorder at least for the uvs. put a checer texture on your mode in zbrush and you should see it. One way to fix it, would be really changing the vertexorder, zbrush will recognize that and reproject.

KurtR

I might have done some changes after my first projection. Ill try your suggestion. Thanks.

KurtR

That seemed to be the problem with the maps/mesh. Thanks again, Neox.

Francois_K

Try smoothing the normals , it usually does the trick for me when I get checkered stuff on the normals like that.