What in the world am I doing wrong with my normal map bakes?

RohinParmar95

I'm using xNormal, and the result I get is this:



All of the xNormal settings are default, I haven't screwed around w them.

Bek

you're exporting your lowpoly with completely hard edges (or you're using the per-mesh option to do so in xN) which is creating that faceted look.

happybell

RohinParmar95 wrote: »

I'm using xNormal, and the result I get is this:



All of the xNormal settings are default, I haven't screwed around w them.

did you put smoothing groups on your meshes before exporting them to xnormals?

RohinParmar95

happybell wrote: »

did you put smoothing groups on your meshes before exporting them to xnormals?

Hey thanks for the reply.

I thought I had, but I re-applied just to be sure, and this is what I got.

http://i.imgur.com/6RvEjT4.png

http://i.imgur.com/LIkwm6w.png

Cheers

mikhga

Mind showing your low-poly mesh? No, your high-poly shouldn't have any smoothing groups.

noosence

Is it a hard surface model? Are your baking low poly normals averaged? And does your Low poly shape fit snugly to your high poly shape? Also add moar geo of none of that is the case.

EarthQuake

The areas you have highlighted are pixel padding, perfectly normal, its important to make sure your normal map works correctly with mip mapping. Apply the normal map to the model and post a screenshot before asking any more questions, its impossible to "debug" a normal map without seeing it on the actual mesh.

Also, read this thread: http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=107196
and this one too while you're at it: http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=81154