xNormal - Issue with baking maps [PLEASE HELP]

Robby13

I'm having an issue: When I bake the AO and Normal textures in xNormal my image comes out all distorted. When I rendered out the Normal texture in max everything was rendered fine, with no red marks. I had no UV overlaps either. I've tried exploding, everything I can possible think of.

xNormal AO Bake: http://pasteboard.co/2n7t1pXr.bmp
xNormal Normal Bake: http://pasteboard.co/2n7t1pXr.bmp
Max Normal Bake: http://pasteboard.co/2nboAM4Z.bmp

Any suggestions on how to fix this? Not sure what I am doing wrong...

rayle1112

Can you show us your xnormal set up screenshots?

sprunghunt

what scale is your object? in units? I've had problems like this when I've tried baking a mesh which is smaller than 1 unit. This can sometimes happen if you're exporting a FBX with scale settings that mean that your object is smaller than 1.

EG: 1 unit = 1 meter - this can mean a small object like a basketball can be 0.3 meters.
however

1 unit = 1 cm - not many objects are going to be smaller than 1 cm in size.

Robby13

rayle1112 wrote: »

Can you show us your xnormal set up screenshots?

What would you like to see?

I'm making sure I am check the box for "Use cage" and I've been doing some trial and error for the past hour and here is what I've come up with so far.

When I export the low poly model in xNormal's file type I set the High Poly model to be hidden (when I exported before I had both models in the scene centered at the origin). It seemed to solve the issue but another issue presented it's self.

It is finally rendering out the image:
xNormal AO: http://pbrd.co/1usWgCM
xNormal Normal: http://pbrd.co/1usWtWN

If you see the image, it is not rendering correctly...
The normal bake map should look like this: http://pasteboard.co/2nboAM4Z.bmp (max normal bake)

I also get this error every now and then: "ios_base::failbit set"

Robby13

sprunghunt wrote: »

what scale is your object? in units? I've had problems like this when I've tried baking a mesh which is smaller than 1 unit. This can sometimes happen if you're exporting a FBX with scale settings that mean that your object is smaller than 1.

EG: 1 unit = 1 meter - this can mean a small object like a basketball can be 0.3 meters.
however

1 unit = 1 cm - not many objects are going to be smaller than 1 cm in size.

I tried scaling also didn't really do much... Thanks for the solution though mate!