Need help with -Baking High-Poly onto Low-Poly model/s

Legion_GB

I've been experimenting with baking High-polys onto low-poly and I've run into a spot in trouble, I'm new to this and I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. If anyone could help/give tips, it would be very appreciate.

I'm using Xnormal to bake my models, but the outcome is somewhat strange.
I'm assuming I've not done something properly on my highpoly for it to bake out like this? 


Wireframe: http://i.imgur.com/fIKDpLF.jpg

UV: http://i.imgur.com/OSjp3rn.jpg

Normal map: http://i.imgur.com/hJOEddc.jpg
There are lines round the cylinder part of the flashbang and I'm not sure how to go about getting rid of them so they don't show up, maybe I need to cut the faces separately?

Ambient Occlusion Map: http://i.imgur.com/wBDvDBz.jpg 

If there is anything else I'm doing wrong, Please spot it out. Thanks.

Obscura

You should smooth the lowpoly.

Legion_GB

Obscura said:

You should smooth the lowpoly.

Doesn't fix anything. Pretty sure I'm not meant to smooth the low poly am I? That just creates more polygons.

Obscura

I didn't mean subdivision. I meant apply smoothing groups.

Legion_GB

Ah alright, I'll give it a shot.

AlecMoody

Your highpoly model also lacks details/information that can be transferred easily. Your edges are too sharp.

musashidan

As well as your edges being WAY too sharp to be picked up in the bake, the holes need to be tapered so that they appear to have depth in the bake.

When modeling for NM baking you need to exaggerate the roundness/beveling of corners much more than they would be in a real-world object. This is for several reasons: amount of pixels on-screen in-engine, mipping, to catch reflection highlights.

Legion_GB

Thanks for the tips guys, this is my first attempt at baking so I may lower the difficulty and try something a little more simpler to get the jist of it.