low to high question

alexworx

Hi All,

I was wondering if someone can shed some light on my issue. I have an enclosed a screen grab of my low and high mesh and then the completed bake in SP. Why is my bake not accurate when it comes to the smoothed round mesh areas?

What settings do I need to play with in order to get that to be more accurate?

Thanks
Alex

Brandon.LaFrance

The first thing that stands out to me is that you're getting details projected across multiple meshes. For example, the handle is projecting onto the main briefcase body. This can be mitigated in several ways, but my preferred method in SP is by using name matching. The following page from the official Substance Painter documentation explains how this works:

https://support.allegorithmic.com/documentation/spdoc/matching-by-name-127074308.html

To answer your main question concerning the smoothed, round areas, this is simply a case of your low poly not matching your high closely enough. I would suggest reading through Marmoset's excellent Toolbag baking tutorial. Although geared towards Toolbag's baker, most of the information applies to baking in general. You should check out the "Baking Basics" and "Best Results" sections:

https://marmoset.co/posts/toolbag-baking-tutorial/

alexworx

Excellent, Thanks so much Brandon. I will definitely look into both suggestions. Thanks again.