xNormal: disaster strikes!

TH98

Now this is strange. I've been using xNormal for a while now and not run into any problems, but I'm trying to make this police hat, and it's not going so well.

The lowpoly is smoothed properly:


The lowpoly and hipoly are the same size:


I don't think there's anything wrong with my xNormal settings:


But when I bake the normals, something horrific emerges:


Anyone have an idea what's going on here? What can I do to fix this?

00Zero

seems like a few of your vertexes (damn autospell, its vertices!) have their normals inverted. might wanna check that

TH98

This is how they're set right now. Looks okay to me?

TH98

Okay, looks like I fixed it. It was a combination of a) Cinema 4D messing up the smoothing on the low-poly while displaying the normal and b) the projection cage being too shallow and distorted. Thanks!

jogshy

Sure you don't use the max2obj exporter which is used in old versions of 3dsmax. It's SUPER bugged. Use the gw::Obj one or the xNormal's SBM native format instead.

Also sure your UV's are well welded and, if possible, pixel-snapped.


Also, collapse it to Edit Mesh, then apply a ResetXForm and re-collapse again before exporting.

TH98

jogshy wrote: »

Sure you don't use the max2obj exporter which is used in old versions of 3dsmax. It's SUPER bugged. Use the gw::Obj one or the xNormal's SBM native format instead.

Oh wow, that goes a long way toward explaining my months of suffering. Thanks dude.

Also: success!