Baking problem behind the ears

plero

I'm having problems when I bake my high poly mesh onto my low poly in Substance. I used a tutorial where you separate the different mesh parts into different texture sets and you don't have any overlapping mesh pieces in each set. This has given a really good result except for behind the ears- probably because there is an overlap. I'm new to 3D modelling this year, so I don't really understand the ray tracing/projection that's happening in Substance to do this. What sort of settings should I use to help the area behind the ear bake properly?

There was also some weird bubbling around where the seam line is on the hands, which I can probably paint out of the normal. But I can't do that for the ear because it's happening right where the hairline is.

The meshes were made in Maya and ZBrush. I have smooth edges turned on in Maya, and average normals turned off when I import to Substance.



Any help would be appreciated!

Jerc

You likely need to reduce the front distance setting, the ray shoots too far from the surface and hits the other close-by geometry.

plero

@Jerc Oh, thank you so much! That fixed it.  I'd been trying to increase it not decrease it previously.