[3ds Max] - Normal map black edges on UV splits.. can't figure it out

Ostraga

I recently switched to max 2015 and everytime I bake I seem to get black edges on all my seams, a problem I never had before... I can't for the life of me figure it out. Hoping someone has some insight on this! thanks in advance.





HP:

Eric Chadwick

What black edges?

alifarsangi

it might help, Just try reset xfrom in ur lowpoly mesh.

billymcguffin

Are you baking with a cage?

Ostraga

Eric Chadwick wrote: »

What black edges?

To clarify what my problem is, the edges between each smoothing group are not smoothing out and creating 2 different shadings rather than being smooth like in the high poly. I cannot give them the same smoothing group or else I'll have artifacts. I assumed that as long as I split the UV's by smoothing group that it should all come out appearing smooth?

alifarsangi wrote: »

it might help, Just try reset xfrom in ur lowpoly mesh.

Tried resetting Xforms on both the high and low poly, still getting same shading problem.

Ostraga

@billymcguffin

Yes I am

Ostraga

I rebaked in 2014 and everything looks absolutely perfect now.. so I guess i'll be using 2014 from now on =/

Quack!

Ostraga wrote: »

I rebaked in 2014 and everything looks absolutely perfect now.. so I guess i'll be using 2014 from now on =/

Careful with 3dsmax 2014, its FBX exporter is broken. You have to export from a different version of max if you use FBX and mirrored normals.

This also might be a viewport problem. Trying viewing the model and normal map in another viewer.

Ostraga

@Quack!

The problem was also visible in UE4. I'll export from a different max if there's any problems with the FBX. Just glad I was able to somewhat resolve my problem.