Maya Normal Not baking High Poly. Please Help!!!

K1NG W3NZEL · Mar 2013

The problem I'm having seems that the Maya isn't baking the High Poly onto the low poly as a normal map, it looks like it's just baking the low poly onto a map.

I've Deleted all history, smoothed all edges, reset transformations, and set the correct models to be bake, each model has a separate material.

I have no idea why this is happening, please help me soon! Project is due in a couple days!

Thanks!

BARDLER · Mar 2013

Did you separate the low and high for easily showing us? Or did you bake them in that position? Your high and low meshes need to be on top of each other.

K1NG W3NZEL · Mar 2013

I separated them just to show you guys haha, I didn't try baking them that way; I know I wouldn't get proper results that way.

EarthQuake · Mar 2013

Are you using smooth preview(ie: pressing 3 on your keyboard) to smooth the high? For baking you need to use mesh -> smooth, not smooth preview.

K1NG W3NZEL · Mar 2013

Yes, I have also smoothed the high poly mesh. These "normal baking problems" seem to happen to a handful of models I make, and it's always frustrating; sometimes Maya bakes normals perfectly, and sometimes craziness like this happens.

K1NG W3NZEL · Mar 2013

I'm soooo sorry for wasting everyone's time... I just realized that I didn't have the "Texture" preview selected, so it wasn't showing any texture period. My Normal is completely fine. Wow... I just wasted about 2 hours over the simplest thing...

K1NG W3NZEL · Mar 2013

It turned out perfect:

Maya Normal Not baking High Poly. Please Help!!!

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