3DS Max / Substance Painter low/high poly baking problem

Petitbateau

Hello everyone,

First of all, I am a beginner and I'm sorry about that. I promess I checked on google and I don't understand why I have this problem.

So, I made a fast mesh to simplify, I started with the low poly mesh, I cloned it on the same place for the high poly and applied chamfer and turbosmooth modifiers on it.

After that, I unwrapped the low poly mesh and export the low poly and the high poly in FBX format (two files).

I baked the mesh and you can see the result here https://streamable.com/nokng

It's like nothing happens, it's not smooth at all and it is worse than before because we can see the UV seams

You can check here the 3ds max file : https://mega.nz/#!P1Y1SALZ!LpPv76I9a3TzAVdGPidRvDjeoXRIGx6z4_ec9oV6q1A

Maybe a problem is about the volume of my high poly mesh ? I made a short video about it https://streamable.com/dcs5o

But I don't understand why it works when the youtuber Chamferzone uses the chamfer modifier ? And what about the seams in substance painter?

Thank you so much

Udjani

Have you checked the "use cage '' option on painter? and just use images next time. 

Edit: And "Compute tanget space" when importing the mesh. 

redhonour

Just looking at your bake, at least some of those seams are coming from UV'ing without paying attention to your smoothing groups. Others perhaps because of the scarcity of geo in your low poly and/or your unwrap which looks pretty not optimized and looks like it has far more stretching than necessary.


Always good references:
https://polycount.com/discussion/107196/youre-making-me-hard-making-sense-of-hard-edges-uvs-normal-maps-and-vertex-counts

http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/Normal_map