Is the low poly getting baked? Normal map question.

jackanimated

This is with lo and hi poly together (lo in pink):



here with the cage:


and here is that section in the baked normal map:


To me it looks like the protruding low poly is getting baked too. When setting up the projection, I select PICK and select only high poly objects.

Any thoughts?

Stranger

HP need to overlap every thing very slightly. its baking the LP in, as the LP is protruding the HP.

Noors

Stranger wrote: »

HP need to overlap every thing very slightly. its baking the LP in, as the LP is protruding the HP.

Sorry but no, LP shouldn't be rendered, so it doesnt matter how it overlaps or not.
The ray cast is looking for the closest surface so HP doesn't need to overlap everything.
Just make the LP averagely close to the the HP, slightly above or under doesn't matter.
The render is abnormal but we need more info. First you show a complete map and not the normal map. Scanline renderer ?
Ah man, you've already opened a thread
http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=158039