Broken AO - NRM bakes - Curvature (artefacts)

Zoddo

I have a Tommygun of which I am trying to bake all maps for with a highpoly mesh.

However the metallic part is receiving major artefacts when baking for both AO, Normal maps and Curvature.

Problem lies esp underneath the barrel, the magwell and the winder from the drum mag.

The mesh is custom unwrapped, so I don't think there problem lies there.

Here are some screenshots, hopefully someone can help me out.

Zoddo

Oke i think I found the problem, i'll update BIOS and rebake.

Zoddo

Oke update my BIOS, and it didn't fix anything... problems persist!

Taylor Brown

have you set up bake groups for your asset? it looks like perhaps you havent. also play with the cage distance settings. 

poopipe

Those are projection distance related. 
Do as Taylor suggests

Zoddo

I tried using cages, on some models it worked and on some it didn't and still produced artefacts.

On the Substance Forums a guy told me the artefacts came because I didn't split up my mesh in sub-pieces.

I haven't tried this out yet, as I already did a workaround by using cages and non-cages and slightly changing the UV islands.

All in all it's "fixed" now.