Marmoset beginner here

marmosie

Hello,

I worked on a crate in Blender (a low poly and a high poly version) and then I imported it in Marmoset for baking and it does not look good. 

The low poly and the high poly are positioned in the same location, checked for flipped normals. I saw that on that side of the crate the normals are intersecting (that's the low poly btw). Could that be an issue?

I think I need help just to know what to look for. I have no idea what is causing those artifacts. 

Fabi_G

Hi! As far I know there is a preview of the cage, that should show you overlaps. 

Could zip and attach the meshes for people to take a look.

marmosie

Oh, ok, I will look for that.
Didn't know what to upload exactly, so I uploaded both the Blender file and the Marmoset one.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1WvaV-h2Mw5uYmKBo9EXd5MNl-Q4BiJje?usp=sharing

Fabi_G

The crates' low-poly has multiple materials assigned, meaning you will need to bake textures for each one. If you didn't do so, my guess is here lies the problem. Or simply use one material for all parts of the create. Then of course you need to pack UVs of all parts together. Attached you find a fbx of the modified lowpoly using just one material (Note that the UVs are auto packed for quick demonstration, you might want to do this manually so the Layout is readable). When baking, make use of bake groups to avoid unwanted projections from close by parts. Described here: Bake Groups (the other topics might be of interest as well)

Looking at the models, the geometry and UVs will lead to further issues: UVs are not split at hard edges, hinges faces are inverted, manifold geometry in handle, high-polys' shading facetted and probably more - plenty of room for improvement here. Check out the wiki for more info and links to long running threads.

Good Luck!

marmosie

Thank you so much. I've got a lot to learn, but at least I have some leads now. 
I appreciate this a lot. Have a good one!

marmosie

The file attached has just a cube in it. I imported it in Painter too. 

Fabi_G

Here is the Blend file, hopefully that works.

marmosie

Thanks again. This is my first successful bake!