Floating Geometry

MainManiac · May 2010

Are you supposed to scale your mesh to cover the geometry? If yes, then im doing that right. My main question is when pulling out faces or scaling the mesh on an axis you will get weird black stuff where the low poly mesh isnt over the high poly.

Example:

From the front this looks fine and smooth and the floating geometry effect worked, but from the side you can see where i pulled it out to cover the geometry

I've looked through numerous tutorials that never mention it and I doubt its supposed to be like this

3D-209 · May 2010

I am confused about the question.

Are we talking about how to set up geometry to bake a normal map, or?

EarthQuake · May 2010

no, do not scale your low to cover floaters, you want your low to match the base shape of your high, you use the cage/ray distance to "catch the floaters".

MainManiac · May 2010

EarthQuake wrote: »

no, do not scale your low to cover floaters, you want your low to match the base shape of your high, you use the cage/ray distance to "catch the floaters".

Thank you so much, im only familiar with the baking part of xnormal, but how would i extend the cage?

3D-209 · May 2010

It's been a long time since I've used xNormal but I think there are ray distance settings in your low res mesh tab. Mess with those.

MainManiac · May 2010

I got it shortly after i replied.

Thanks guys.

PredatorGSR · May 2010

Well for anyone else who needs to know. You need to load the low poly and hp mesh and then load the 3D viewer, once you are in the viewer there is a 'show cage' option as well as the options to extend it. You save it out as sbm files, and bake using those.

Floating Geometry

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