Strange looking normal map

primativ

I am having trouble with baking my normal maps.

The settings above produce this map


and this render.


Has anyone had a similar problem?

EarthQuake

Does your cage encompass your high?

primativ

Earthquake- I believe it completely encompasses the high poly.

Here is the max file if anyone has the time to check it out for me.

http://eelmonkey.com/lowandhighpoly02.7z

Thanks

SaferDan

I dont have max but you dont have UVS on top of each other do you?

primativ

I do actually the left and right halves were mirrored and welded with only the heads being unique.

Ruz

I get this where I have mirorred uv's and accidentally welded everything together
if you haven't welded anything ans its still happening, you can change the 'w' value to 1 on one of the uv shells. ie they lie on top of each other, but one is separated by the w value.

SaferDan

when this happens in maya you make sure no UVs are on top of each other so you take the mirrored UVs and take them out of the 0-1 uv space and then bake!

primativ

Ruz, SaferDan- Thanks for the help, it now works perfectly. I had already welded the objects so I had to go into edit poly and select one half of the object and apply its own uvw unwrap. In the uvw editor I moved the uvs slightly to the left. I then applied the projection modifier and now it works.

SaferDan

awesome im glad its working