Normal Map baking issue - 'dimples' in my map

teeth

This is a relatively new issue I'm hitting. I haven't done normal bakes in a while since I've been doing largely low poly and hand painted stuff so my workflow is a little shaky. But I've never hit this problem before and can't pin why it's happening. See the highlighted areas:

There is some artifacting on the lips that I know the source of. It's the circled areas that seem to be sort of all over the model in various lighting conditions. Here is the wireframe, which I don't think could be causing the issues. I might have a little stretching around the nostrils but that isn't the only place I'm having the issue


I'm using xNormal to bake.

Rob Samuel

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Obscura

This is  flipped triangulation during bake. And you are displaying it with a different triangulation from how it was when you baked. You can see it from the "X" shapes. Just triangulate your mesh before baking so this cannot happen.

teeth

Wow, and just like that it's fixed, @Obscura. Thanks for the tip!