Black artifacts on low poly verts when baking

guitarguy00 · Jul 2018

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I have straightened that entire UV shell. I have split the part where it is close to a 90 degree angle. I have applied smoothing groups to UV shells. I have tried adjusting the low poly to follow the high poly curve but I'm still getting these black spots where the verts happen to be. I have tried adjusting the cage.

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It seems to be following the high poly fairly closely.

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Any help would be very much appreciated.

Udjani · Jul 2018

Looks like waviness, check out this post.

https://polycount.com/discussion/81154/understanding-averaged-normals-and-ray-projection-who-put-waviness-in-my-normal-map/p1

guitarguy00 · Jul 2018

Thank you!! Fixed it with the skewing function in Toolbag.

Black artifacts on low poly verts when baking

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