Visible seams while Baking Normals in Marmoset.

Rosquist

Hi!

I am having some weird issues, I get visible seams while baking on some things, but not all of them, even though they are all baked in the same way. Hard Egdes on UV-islands, everything else is smoothed. On the goggle and the waist pouch, I get visible seams. On the hair though, which has the same setting and set-up, there's no visible seams. 

Does anyone know whats going on here? Been troubleshooting for hours but haven't found anything that worked yet. Meshes are .fbx from maya with smoothing groups exported.

EarthQuake

It looks like you have hard edges but do not have UV splits to support them, so these sort of artifacts are expected.

Our baking tutorial talks about this and a number of other common issues: https://marmoset.co/posts/toolbag-baking-tutorial/

In this case specifically it looks like you're using hard edges where you shouldn't, I would recommend splitting the uvs up.

Rosquist

Thanks for the fast reply!

No, I only have hard edges where my UVs are split, so that isn't the problem, which is why this vexes me so much :<

Edit: Saw now that it was the problem on the pouch, but I still have seams, albeit a bit less visible. 

EarthQuake

Can  you post an image of that mesh in Toolbag without the normal map applied?

Rosquist

Will do as soon as I get home! I think the problem might be that there is no padding. The character is split into 4 groups, and since I had to merge the normals in PS I baked without padding.

EarthQuake

That could be possible. Do you have UV seams in the areas where you're seeing problems? In that case it would be a good idea to use more continuous unwraps with less seams.