Is this a good bake?

copyright

I did a simple test on a table to see if I could bake properly, since I am pretty new to it.

I came up with this:



Im not sure if it is a good bake or not because there are some shading errors, maybe someone can help me?

THE 5

There is this new amazing thread started by Earthquake. You should definately have a read, there is tons of great knowledge about normalmap baking in it.

EarthQuake

Super Happy Cow wrote: »

Quick answer: Never, ever, evereverever.

You need to bake with smoothing groups on edges that are significantly steep so that the normals casting the rays don't cause distortion on your low res mesh's rgb normal map.

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Will Faucher

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What EQ said.

[HP]

Super Happy Cow wrote: »

Quick answer: Never, ever, evereverever.

You need to bake with smoothing groups on edges that are significantly steep so that the normals casting the rays don't cause distortion on your low res mesh's rgb normal map.

Man, double read your posts before you post please, that makes zero sense!

Marine

the bake's better than your screenshot

fearian

And there's a new window open inside it... O_o how-

SpeCter

Looks more like he had paint open with his first screenshot and pasted newer ones inside there xD

Jason Young

perna wrote: »

lol, every time I visit this thread it links to a different photo in the OP, what the..

We are confused.


The newest one looks much better than the first couple I saw. I would consider that a successful bake.

copyright

This is my latest bake, I think it is my best one so far, what do you guys think?

Snader

I think you should learn to crop your images.

EarthQuake

Read this: http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=81154