Any suggestions for better baking/modelling with Blender/Substance Painter please...

oraeles77

I have been making a cable reel thing.on the highpoly I extended some of the polygons to give the impression of seperate planks of wood making up the structure.

the looks really good on the low poly bake with lots of little dark areas on the AO which is great for dust etc.

however on the main spool, the hp version I extended outwards the polys outwards and obviously thats affected the occulsion bake on the perpendictular polygon, currently Im just going to paint over the area with poor shading so it looks the correct colour but how can bake these things differently to avoid this? how about extending the hp faces inwards below the lp?

poopipe

Try disabling ignore backfacing on the AO bake

oraeles77

poopipe said:

Try disabling ignore backfacing on the AO bake

ok, i will experiement with that tomorow.

goekbenjamin

Your problem is that the "projection ray" hits the mesh below, you need the option "Match: By mesh name"
Hope this video helps to understands it (@ 09:55):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePnLTuzRAbg&t=9m57s

oraeles77

goekbenjamin said:

Your problem is that the "projection ray" hits the mesh below, you need the option "Match: By mesh name"
Hope this video helps to understands it (@ 09:55):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePnLTuzRAbg&t=9m57s

when you say 'the mesh below' do you mean the low poly model or do you mean another part of the high poly mesh, because on the brightly coloured HP mesh there is nothing below those brightly coloured polygons.

goekbenjamin

@oraeles77 ah i actually did not notice that thats a AO problem, i saw the first picture with the bright edge and thoght it was the same problem that i had, sorry about that. I am not sure what the problem is or how to fix it