Baking Issues "the return"
Hello guys, first of all, I have search for this kind of issue in the forum but nothing seams to fit this situation, or at least, I dont find a relationship within my problem. So, if I am wrong I would appreciate you guidance.
I am working on a backpack prop and I started having issues with my bakes so I started to search about it. At the beggining I though It was produced as I wasn´t exploding my mesh when baking, but I tryied that and it remained the same. So I decided to split the problem and make the baking only with one piece of the hole prop and there were no difference at all even if it was just one piece, it remained.
The result is full of artifacts, normal seams more like a tangent space normal that the regular one and I dont know why. What Am I doing wrong? Thanks so much for your time!
I am working on a backpack prop and I started having issues with my bakes so I started to search about it. At the beggining I though It was produced as I wasn´t exploding my mesh when baking, but I tryied that and it remained the same. So I decided to split the problem and make the baking only with one piece of the hole prop and there were no difference at all even if it was just one piece, it remained.
The result is full of artifacts, normal seams more like a tangent space normal that the regular one and I dont know why. What Am I doing wrong? Thanks so much for your time!
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Then checking the lowpoly in Blender, the shading of the lowpoly looked funky (left). Once I discarded the meshes custom vertex normals the shading looked as expected (right)
- so did the cage in Painter (again, exaggerated values for illustration).
Visualization of the modified vertex normals in edit mode:
Attached modified lowpoly to post.
Some other suggestions, unrelated to issue:
- mesh comes in rather large on my side, maybe a unit conversion thing. I would work in real life dimensions.
- topology messy in places
- straighten UV strips for more efficient packing and to minimize aliasing artifacts
- split meshes up into reasonable parts and use Painters "match by name" to avoid unwanted projections, opposed to exploding.
Thanks so much!!!
By messy topology, I meant edges that don't improve neither silhouette nor shading. I mean, if it works it works, but for showcase or collaborative work I would clean it up. Something more like on the right:
Obviously when a mesh has to deform, which I assume isn't the case here, the topology has to support it.
Regarding straightened UVs, here is the Painter documentation illustrating Aliasing artefacts along seams. Example with UV borders of strip like elements straightened, aligning with the pixel grid:
This was quickly done for illustration purpose, here is the Wiki page on padding
Ah, triangulate mesh on export to ensure its shading is consistent across applications.
Good luck!
Not really. I recommend to investigate various aspects (topology, UVs) of work you enjoy, take notes and do small tests. Polycount wiki is worth a visit now and then too, to read up on stuff. Generally reading through progress and technical talk threads on the forum can result in learnings too.