Normal Map - Water spots??

Jessica Dinh

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I have just baked my normal map and there appears to be these really ugly water-spot looking things all over the place. I just double-checked my smoothing groups and uv splits, and those look correct. Also, sample image from my bake render didn't have any red error spots or anything. There are no inverted or overlapped faces in my uvw's. So what is this? (using 3ds max btw)

MoP

Did you turn on super-sampling in the Render options? Try that.

ScoobyDoofus

I'd recommend trying to bake with Xnormal as well. It tends to produce clean normals with a little bit less fiddling than Max. Also, maybe post your normal map.

Jessica Dinh

Yes, supersampling is on. But I did figure this out Apparently the spots disappeared when I rendered with Hammersley instead of Max 2.5 Star.

Snader

It's not a bug, it's a feature. Built in damage saves you precious zBrush time!