Bake issue

Simon_____

im having an odd bake issue, its the strange X shadow, never had this issue with marmoset baking before so im not sure whats doing it

EarthQuake

This is caused by a triangulation mis-match. You'll need to triangle your mesh when you export it (before you bake). When you use quads or ngons, different applications may triangulate the mesh different, which causes this X shaped error.

Simon_____

i do export it with triangulation

Simon_____

and with proper smoothing groups

Simon_____

ok so i rebaked two more times with the exact same settings and it now works fine? not sure what happened but its working now

EarthQuake

I'm not sure if this is the problem, but It's important that the mesh is triangulated in every instance (not just the bake mesh) so for instance if you have another copy of the mesh that you use for rendering in a different scene, or if you're importing the mesh in Unreal, Unity, etc, all of those meshes need to have the same triangulation.