Normals bake - artifact

james01

This was a normal map bake, with the padding set to 64 in 3ds max.

I am wondering is there a setting (or a way) to get rid of the (blue) vertical/horizontal stripes (that look like empty pixels) in the padding. 

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Eric Chadwick

These artifacts don't matter, since they'll disappear when the texture is mipmapped, which is the whole point of having padding in the first place.

Only annoyance is if you want to show texture flats in a portfolio. Then it might look sloppy to those not in the know. In that case don't use the padding in 3ds Max, do it in Photoshop instead. Solidify filter does a great job, or you can use Xnormal's Dilation filter. http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/PhotoshopTools#Actions.2C_Filters.2C_Scripts