Normal Map bake in Substance Painter looks weird - Lowpoly sticking out

GeeKay

Hey!

I'm trying to create a sword asset - so I built a low poly model, unwrapped it and then created a high poly version with turbosmooth and supporting edges.

When I bake the normal map in substance painter the normal map looks weird and the low poly model is sticking out of the high poly model.

Can you tell me how to fix this? I really read alot about normal maps and stuff but I think its pretty hard to understand without specific dialog.

Any help is appreciated!

Thank you!
Cheers,
Gary

low poly version


high poly version

baked normal in Substance Painter

Jerc

Your low poly is too far from your high poly in these areas, either add an additional chamfer, or increase the Max Frontal and Rear distance in your baking settings.

GeeKay

Yeah, it seems to work to increase the polycount on the round areas. But I think its faster to rebuild it with more polys!

Thank you for your help! The Substance software is really awesome and powerful!

Cheers!

LaurentiuN

You should add more polys, nowdays objects have more polys even on mobile