Baking Decals?

thevilbrain

Hi!
I’m trying to figure out a way to bake decals from the hi-poly. I'm using DecalMachine in Blender.
Everything displays great in the hi-poly in Marmoset, including parallax mapping.

But I’m not able to get anything to bake other than the normal map.
Also, the normal map get’s flipped if the UVs are flipped in the hi-poly.

Any advice, plugins, workarounds are welcome, and will this ever be a feature?
Or am I just doing it wrong?

Thanks!

EarthQuake

Curvature, AO, height, etc can only be baked from high poly geometry, not normal maps. This is something that we may consider adding in the future though.

zachagreg

@thevilbrain As a work around for  now those decals can be individually modeled as floaters that sit just above your geometry. All of those shapes are fairly straight forward to create on their own. Those floaters would in fact bake down in Marmoset

thevilbrain

@zachagreg Yep, that's my current workflow. I was hoping I could use decalmachine because of how fast it is to decorate things. you just place the decal where you want and it projects onto curved surfaces automatically. thanks though!

zachagreg

You should be able to bake down decal machine in Blender just fine, he has some tutorials about it on his youtube.

decoyocelot