Handplane

pgamers

heey i was using handplane but when i set my lowpoly that have soften edge and my tangetspace normal map. when i create with handplane the object space one its all black when i put the normal map on my model.

Am i doing something wrong or?

Farfarer

I think we need more information than that. Screenshots of the model, UVs, object space map and the resulting tangent space map.

pgamers

The models with soften edge and harden edge.
http://gyazo.com/1574494434e5453007692c07545af652
http://gyazo.com/89b64720f05f447527c44582fe51c8bc

pgamers

Uv space
http://gyazo.com/a834a9eabe21e2804976d81904410d7b
Object map.
http://gyazo.com/f082b9ce364162218936b54ee7cf8147
Tangent map.
http://gyazo.com/a0216804a268364e1001e23a1c0ddf1d

Model with the new map:
http://gyazo.com/3b968aae7e5c62d40c436edc53541f1d

Farfarer

The soft edge one looks like it still has some hard edges on it... could be you've got some odd geometry going on? Or some UV splits in odd places, judging by the tangent space result.

Also, you're better off triangulating your geometry for Handplane, you can't guarantee you'll get the results you want otherwise.

But if you're baking in Maya for use in Maya, why are you using Handplane all?

pgamers

oke thanks for the help. i did use handplane because you get a better normal map then i maya. in maya if i soften i get some weird black shadows

Farfarer

You can't soften or harden edges after getting your tangent space map. It relies on the smoothing and UVs not being changed after the map is baked.

pgamers

http://gyazo.com/529f5e5424fd1d47a9d23eae94b17a03 then i got this