Map baking Problems

Mathew O

Hey guys, I'm haing issues bakign my maps down from a highpoly mesh exported out of zbrush onto my low poly mesh.

Any ideas?

This issue is in both Maya and Xnormal, here's an example:

r_fletch_r

Could you post a pic of your HP and LP models. It looks a bit like your lp has no smoothing.

Mathew O

Ah sorry about the huge image, I thought the forum auto resized them. Getting screenshots now

Mark Dygert

Did you save your UV layout and load it? It looks like the vert index table for the saved mesh didn't match the mesh it was imported into so it screwed up where the faces should be.

If you click on a face in the UV editor does its position match in the viewport or did it jumble it all up?

Mathew O

passerby

the forum does resize it to fit your screen,

also it just looks as if all the normals on the HP are hard

Mathew O

Ummm I'm not totally sure what you mean to be honest Mark, I'm still pretty new to all this baking Malarchy.

I sculpted in Zbrush, then retopo'd. created the Highpoly from the new low poly and exported both out as obj's. I then UV'd only the low poly and then tried to bake the high poly down onto it.

Any huge holes in this work flow? I'm hoping it's just a case fo softening the normals somewhere along the road.

Mathew O

Ok thanks dude, I'll give that a crack now and see what happens

Mathew O

It worked! I just needed to smooth the normals on the base mesh, thanks guys, you rock