Strange texture behavior after bake

Kingblue

As most of you know, I've transfered some textures from one channel to another using that method:





and the final result is perfect



But look what happens if I bake a map with little flakes in it:





They appear horribly stretched. I just can't figure out why this is happening.

Farfarer

Try triangulating the mesh, or manually flipping the triangulation the other way on the affected quads.

Adam Chilton

You have an 'edit poly' between your two 'UVW unwrap' modifiers. Could that be the culprit?

Kingblue

No Adam, the edit poly is just to give back the model different ids. I suspect I don't have enough polys to catch the projection. I'll try to retriangulate but I think it's not that, since the model is the same.

Adam Chilton

Can you show the post-bake texture?

Eric Chadwick

Mesh A in the first shot is also showing the distortion. A black and white checker is a bad texture to unwrap with because it won't show per-pixel distortions like you have here. Farfarer's suggestion is a good one. Still it's unavoidable with your current topology. You can add edge loops though the middle to help hide it. But trying to curve a UV thru lowpoly geo always causes problems.