Weird Normal map baking problem in Maya

Jhburton

Hello!
I'm having some troble when baking normal maps in Maya. I'll explain. Basically I have my 2 meshes, one high res, and the other low res. When I bake the normal map it basically gives me a combination of the geometry of the low ress, with the actuall normal map I'm looking for.... here are some images so you can see whats happening better.

So yeah the result is really weird.... annyone got any clue what it could be?

_Erik

Smooth the normals of your low poly mesh.

Jhburton

I tried that but i got the same results

Jhburton

I was able to fix it!! Basically both objects were facing the negative Z axis, and it seems like it didnt like this cause once i turned them around it worked

SpeCter

To me it looks like you had both meshes selected as highpoly.The reason that it works now is just that it hits backfaces now(you flipped the lowpoly i guess) and discards them.