can you bake high poly and then apply trim sheets

cturbo

I'm currently working with trim sheets to texture a roof, and I'm aiming for a smooth geometry. I'm curious about how to achieve a smooth appearance on low poly models without baking from a high poly mesh. When texturing in Maya with trim sheets, do you simply add bevels to the low poly to enhance its smoothness? Or is there a method to bake a high poly version of the roof first to get that smooth shape before applying the trim sheets in Maya and how would you bake it all out at the end??

dimwalker

This low-poly mesh will look smooth even with just smooth groups / hard edges.

cturbo

thank you, i have beveled the edges and smoothed the edges and will apply trim sheets