BakingNormalsProblem

herrj5880

Ive been trying to bake normals from my high poly to low poly in Maya and Xnormal but they come out messed up. This is my 1st time baking normals so i might be doing alot of things wrong. Can some one please help me ?Ill attach all the different bakes i did using different setting in both Maya and Xnormal

Justo

I'm no pro and I don't see those bakes and say "Ahh that's Common Error B...I see what you did there", but are you doing the basics? Are you using a cage to project, or are you only using the lowP and highP? Is the cage barely encompassing both of the models as it should?

Check out this video, it goes through the basics in a clear way and shows you common mistakes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGszEIT4Kww#t=511 The Polycount wiki is full of useful links too http://wiki.polycount.com/NormalMap/

AlecMoody

it looks like your have overlapping UVS. One of your objects has a UV shells or subobjects with a planar projection overlapping the entire UV sheet.

herrj5880

Justo I followed tuts so i dont im doing anything wrong. Alec How come my uvs look fine

AlecMoody

In a new scene load the model you exported into your baking software. Select all the objects at once (do this from a scene inspector panel so you are sure you have everthing) then check out the UV sheet for everything combined. You should see a big triangular shell that matches up with your error.