nromal map help

antiherodrink

Could I please get some pointers or some help on my normal map? I'm constantly falling into the same problem of getting black shadows and portions of my model not coming out smooth. I have made a cage I made sure it covers the high poly model and there's not that big of the difference between the low and high model but this problems keeps happening. Any help would be much appreciated. 

musashidan

Looks like a smoothing groups issue. what are we looking at? Can you give more info?

Ged

yeah I think you need to set up your edge hardness or softness for the whole low poly model and then bake again. What are you baking in?

throttlekitty

Your UVs need more work than that, read the sticky thread to get a better idea of why this is happening. And as the other said, you'll need to set up your smoothing to look nice and also have hard edges at the UV seams. Real short answer, you need more uv cuts at sharp angles.

The Cylinder for example: the end caps should be split off, as well as the decorative insets. The main cylinder form should be unwrapped straight, as if it was cut and rolled out instead of trying to hold the wobbly form of the whole thing being uv-welded.

antiherodrink

ok im using maya and baking in x nromal

musashidan said:

Looks like a smoothing groups issue. what are we looking at? Can you give more info?

ok im using maya and baking in x nromal, i just not getting a clean look for my low ploy

antiherodrink

Ged said:

yeah I think you need to set up your edge hardness or softness for the whole low poly model and then bake again. What are you baking in?

ok im using maya and baking in x nromal, i just not getting a clean look for my low ploy

Ged

if you are baking in xnormal make sure to check your export settings on your low poly and make sure you are exporting the smoothing information (smoothing groups)