[Blender] Problems with Normal baking with stacked faces.

Gautstafr

 Hello everyone, this is my first post on Polycount. so apologies If I haven't flaired my content well enough or something.

So I've made this pillar in Blender, and sculpted the high poly detail in Zbrush. Now I'm trying to bake it.

I'm having good results with pretty everything, except these kinds of faces.
I wanted a quirky look where the blocks of the pillar are a bit misaligned and not stacked perfectly on top of each other, but this has caused some issues when trying to bake.
Is there any way to make this look any better? or am I a doofus for trying to bake faces this close to each other? (they're not actually overlapping though)

<span class=" post-color-black"><span class="post-color-gray">Pictures below:</span></span>

How it looks on the low poly model:

Thanks in advance!

Zablorg

My immediate suspicion is that you've got your ray projection distance set too high, and the rays are crossing over into the adjacent piece.

Maybe try an exploded bake?

Gautstafr

Hey! I have tried to adjust ray projection, but without luck. 
How would you do an exploded mesh in blender?

Mink

Gautstafr said:

Hey! I have tried to adjust ray projection, but without luck. 
How would you do an exploded mesh in blender?

Download TexTools

Gautstafr

Hey everyone, I spend all day perfecting my bake. And I figured out how to use Textools to explode my mesh. 
Really happy with the results.
Thanks for the help!

Linko

I see that you have removed the faces inside expected in the area that glitched. Just remove the face inside, select everything and do W > Remove Doubles to merge the vertices.

Exploding the meshes will not generate AO between the blocks, here the result is fine because most blocks have the same radius at their intersection. I recommend doing that for moving hard surface parts or customizable assets like for example a lootable scope for a rifle.