Answered: dDo seam issues!!!! Please Help!

mrgilbert159

Iv been working on hard surface modelling now for 4 days and im getting issue after issue. I was having loads of issues with my normal map baking in maya. I wasn't getting the seams to work correctly. 
After figuring it out with basically UV splitting ALL of my faces. I now have another issue when taking it to ddo.
As you can see in the first image the edges are great. but i then noticed that i wasn't getting any detail on the edges when applying my smart materials. So i did a new layer and turned on curvature to see what was happening. 
As you can see im getting seam issues AGAIN! This is happening in a lot of my maps. its noticeable even in my colour map!
Any help will be great. I'm going mad because this should be relatively easy stuff!!

Same issue but with a test object.

Synaesthesia

Hey Gilbert! I saw your post on Facebook, but I think this issue may be benign - 3DO does separate hard edges in anything but PBR mode, which will get fixed. Try checking the curvature bake in your project folder to see if it has the seam issue you've reported. I believe this is only a visual artifact of 3DO rendering in non-PBR mode.  

repete

are you baking with a cage and padding ?

mrgilbert159

Synaesthesia said:

Hey Gilbert! I saw your post on Facebook, but I think this issue may be benign - 3DO does separate hard edges in anything but PBR mode, which will get fixed. Try checking the curvature bake in your project folder to see if it has the seam issue you've reported. I believe this is only a visual artifact of 3DO rendering in non-PBR mode.  

Hey Jonathan, I'm struggling to understand. I'm getting lots responses to do different things. When you say PBR mode are you referring to the top of 3do, It gives me a option for PBR shading, Normal etc? Also it might be my curvature map as I baked it from my normal map. Which I have just seen looking at my normal map from 3do on the model itself that the edges don't look right. What do you think?

mrgilbert159

repete said:

are you baking with a cage and padding ?

Im baking with a cage yes (Envelope for maya) But im not padding. How do you pad you UVS's? 

Maxmas

Try baking with Turtle, within Maya, it's faster and you get better results.

repete

mrgilbert159 said:

repete said:

are you baking with a cage and padding ?

Im baking with a cage yes (Envelope for maya) But im not padding. How do you pad you UVS's? 

http://www.cardkingdomgame.com/2012/03/21/tutorial-uv-shell-padding-in-maya/

mrgilbert159

Maxmas said:

Try baking with Turtle, within Maya, it's faster and you get better results.

Il give it a go thanks.

mrgilbert159

repete said:

mrgilbert159 said:

repete said:

are you baking with a cage and padding ?

Im baking with a cage yes (Envelope for maya) But im not padding. How do you pad you UVS's? 

http://www.cardkingdomgame.com/2012/03/21/tutorial-uv-shell-padding-in-maya/

Thanks for the Link. Giving it a good read now

mrgilbert159

repete said:

mrgilbert159 said:

repete said:

are you baking with a cage and padding ?

Im baking with a cage yes (Envelope for maya) But im not padding. How do you pad you UVS's? 

http://www.cardkingdomgame.com/2012/03/21/tutorial-uv-shell-padding-in-maya/

Iv padded all my maps. Still same result. My normal map is cleaner but same result with my curv and colour map

mrgilbert159

You can see where the edges are soft is where I have split the UV's for the normal map. And where there is a hard line is where the UV's are joined, which gives me a good curvature. Which is strange because like the normal map it should just be going  from the high poly mesh. How do I get it so that It works both ways???

Sythen

Hey MrGilbert,

Can you post me your normal map here, I'd like to see it.

Thanks!  

repete

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciXTyOOnBZQ

mrgilbert159

Sythen said:

Hey MrGilbert,

Can you post me your normal map here, I'd like to see it.

Thanks!  

Sure.

repete

You can see where the edges are soft is where I have split the UV's for the normal map. And where there is a hard line is where the UV's are joined

That's the problem and the solution in your own words. Creating a curvature map from your 3D app will give you better results. I don't use Quixel for curvature map creation with this type of model. 

mrgilbert159

repete said:

You can see where the edges are soft is where I have split the UV's for the normal map. And where there is a hard line is where the UV's are joined

That's the problem and the solution in your own words. Creating a curvature map from your 3D app will give you better results. I don't use Quixel for curvature map creation with this type of model. 

I'll give it a good with maya then. Thanks

mrgilbert159

I did a xnormal render for all my maps and same result. Iv brought the curv map into maya and applied it as the diffuse. The object also has the normal map applied. From a distance it looks good. But close up the sharp edges are visible. I'm not sure if the sgould be the case if iv also go the normal applied?? 

repete

Can you post your high poly ?
A pic will do.

mrgilbert159

repete said:

Can you post your high poly ?
A pic will do.