[Maya] Normal map baking black pointed edges

Voidrofl

Hello, i seem to have a problem with baking a normal map in Maya. I've followed the steps in several tutorials but i still seem to be having a problem (shown in the image attached). The two models fit exactly into eachother (with the exception of the wavy thing in the middle of each blade, which is the only different thing that differenates the low and high-poly meshes. The search envelope covers the whole high-poly mesh and does not touch the geometry (the whole mesh is inside it). For some reason tho, near the pointed edges of the blades i seem to be getting pure black color.

The attachment i've added is the low-poly model with the normal map applied to it. The red circles indicate the problem areas. If you need me to attach more details, please let me know and i will make screenshots and attach them.

Thanks in advance, i hope you can help me fix this problem.

ToRuKMactO

Maya ViewPort is not a good for render normal maps at all, I had some of this problems in the past, this problems are exactly where did you split your UVS ?? Differents UV Shells sharing a edge detail usually have worse results than unique shells.Also using a cage in Xnormal could help you!!!

Take a look at this tutorial

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGszEIT4Kww&list=FLZwu2R9RtlLRjlA4IpO-Amw&index=28"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGszEIT4Kww&list=FLZwu2R9RtlLRjlA4IpO-Amw&index=28[/ame]

Voidrofl

I did the UVs thing, same result.

AdvisableRobin

Lets see your UVs and your high poly, it might be a case of you needing hard edges or more geometry.

Voidrofl

I have included the UVs of the low poly as attachment, and uploaded the low poly and high poly models (in .fbx and the .ma files) in the zip archive on depositfiles (tried putting the models in Sketchfab but for some reason they show up weird)

http://dfiles.eu/files/o1k8adgn4 - this is the zip archive with the models
https://sketchfab.com/voidrofl/models - here is the link on Sketchfab but as i said they show up weird there for some reason

huffer

Your low poly needs to match the high poly closely, add an edge loop down the middle of each part and pull them outwards, and absolutely no n-gons like that, they look like missing edges.

Voidrofl

just asking - did you download the models or did you look at the ones in sketchfab?

huffer

They look pretty much the same to me (both mb, fbx and sketchfab), without these edges it's not going to bake good:

Voidrofl

Thanks for the advice, will try it out later and keep you updated