Maya and substance painter: Issues baking a circular nut

wannabe3d

Hi guys,

Trying to bake a circular nut. However, after baking the edges are still not circular. What can I do to make the shape more circular? I have tried searching the forums and read a lot but still confused.

Low poly:

High poly:

Substance painter bake settings:

Results after baking:

Eric Chadwick

This explains your issue quite well I think.

• Understanding averaged normals and ray projection/Who put waviness in my normal map? 

Sorry this is a bit buried in the forum, but you can't have a gazillion stickies! So we made a conglomerate sticky: Long Running Technical Talk Threads.

From in there, see also these excellent related topics:

• Of Bit Depths, Banding and Normal Maps
• Skew you buddy! Making sense of skewed normal map details.
• You're making me hard. Making sense of hard edges, uvs, normal maps and vertex counts

Good luck, and hope this helps!

wannabe3d

Hi and thanks! I googled and came across Understanding averaged normals and ray projection/Who put waviness in my normal map? , its a bit difficult to understand but I'll go through it again.