How to get rid of the "wireframe" - Curvature Map in xNormal

Blackbox Corp

Hello everyone,
im fairly new in texturing and to have a good base for the gloss map, I created a monochrome curvature map. Well, in the last projects it worked very good, but this time I have some problems.

I get some nasty "wireframe artefacts"

http://www.polycount.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=16135&stc=1&d=1394224942

I know a curvature map is angle based and it is more or less logical to get some grids, but I didnt want them. How to fix it?

Another question - is it necessary to split the mesh ~ called X Pose? ( i didnt know the techincal term for it). As already mentioned, I learnd a curvature map is angle based, so it ignored the rays and any other source of influence, but I get weird seams and pixalted edges where two meshs comes in touch. A good example are the holes on the bottom right corner.

It would be a great amount of work to split them, so i hope it is unnecessary.

Thanks for your help

Jet_Pilot

When you exported your mesh to xNormal did you have smoothing groups checked? cause your cavity map looks like the edges are facided.

Blackbox Corp

Thanks for your fast reply - but it didnt helped. The wire is still there.
By the way - it is a curvature map

Jet_Pilot

how did your normal map turn out?

MM

looks like your highpoly is just not subdivided enough.

as for artifacts around intersecting areas, you may need to bake in parts or exploded bake.

Blackbox Corp

At the moment I have no normalmap (because there ist no sculpt ) - this is only a test to get a good gloss map base. After this, i will bake the mesh with full detail.

Anyway - the tip with the higher subdiv level helped me alot. I hope there is a script out there for blender to explode the mesh automaticly...or is this in zbrush possible?

Thanks for your help. I think, this will be my new main forum for questions. Blender related forums are a bit "bigoted".