Girl with a problem

GuranGa

Hey,

I'v modeled a mesh of a Girl for a HL2 mod a friend of mine is making.When I wass trough that fase I started to uvw map it so I could take it to MudboX.Then I imported it to mudbox and started to sculp the body, but when I was done and ready I baked the normals but my normal map all screwed up.....




You only see half of the normal map (only the traingles), I know if you mirror your Uvwmap you get the same result but every pice of mesh has his own Uvw space

I'v baked more Normal maps in mudbox and they did just fine, this is the only model I have problems with (expect the head because thats a different mesh and has his own Uvwmap)

Can someone please tell me what I did wrong?
- GuranGa

rooster

hmm have you tried reset transforms on the lopoly?

HonkyPunch

That is a very abnormal map, sir

Japhir

maybe you made the cage too small?

angrytofu

Make sure your normals are not reversed. Also it could be your verts are wielded together. It is most likely the normals though.

Xaltar

Bake your normals in your 3d app, not mudbox.

klick

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That should help you a lot.

Good luck

stoofoo

go back to max with the lowpoly, make sure the UVs fit inside of the 0,1 uv space. (Aka in the first square). Do not let them overlap the seam. Also, reset the xform on the lowpoly cage and collapse it. It should fix it. Zbrush does exactly that on uv problems, mudbox usually just renders one face randomly in the middle of the sheet. You should be able to fix it completely without bringing your high res into max. gogogog!

tremulant

I had the same problem once, and I can't remember for the life of me what i did...I think reset x form, as they mentioned, and also collapse it down completely and make sure you export as an obj.

GuranGa

Thank you all for your comment it really helped me out..
It was the Xform of the body when I reseted the XForm my mesh flipped the wrong way.. so made it to a poly fliped every thing and exported it again en Poooof !! it worked..

I'll keep you guys updated on the model.

Naked Templar

reset the cage??

GuranGa

I haven't tried to bake a normal map in 3dmax, but I think I will because of the lack of detail mudbox makes in the map I dont see a thing of my normal map in 3dmax when I apply the normal map to the mesh (I think it's just my fault that I'm doing something wrong)... any way progress on the mud,..


-GuranGa

Xaltar

Make sure in the popup for the bumpmap slot you choose normal bump and then in the normal slot select bitmap. If you just load bitmap in your bump slot it will come out crap.