Maya AO rendering shadows on trianglation

Orgoth02 · Feb 2010

Im having a problem where Maya is rending out the shadows base on the trianglation of my model. I can go into photoshot and blur them out but this seems to be very inefficant. Anyone no a better soluation.

Drumonman · Feb 2010

Do you have a screenshot of the problem?
I might be able to help if I saw what you mean.

Orgoth02 · Feb 2010

Its casting a shadow on tranglation. There is no cut there on the model

Lamont · Feb 2010

The kill the smoothing on it. Well, looks like the issue to me.

Progg · Feb 2010

It shouldn't matter whether or not the model is triangulated if the normals are correct on them. I am generating maps right now on triangulated maps without any issues

Chris Bruin · Feb 2010

Is that piece of geo sharing the same UV space as another identical piece, say on the opposite side of the model? When baking information Maya has a tendancy to give a nice triangle down the middle of a UV'd face, because it has 50/50 information from each side of the mesh, and just merges them as best as it can. If you have shared UV space, delete say the half of the mesh that is sharing the space then bake the AO, which should solve this problem. However, the AO will be weird for the opposite side unless if it is identical and looks right of course.

Progg · Feb 2010

Shouldn't be overlapping UV's at all if you are generating Normal and AO maps. I only overlap after I generate the maps.

Maya AO rendering shadows on trianglation

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