baking materials with xNormal
polycounter lvl 10
I have multiple shaders on my high poly to distinguish materials but don't know how to export them/ import them into xNormal. Usually I just bake using maya's diffuse map but with my custom cage in xNormal that isn't really an option anymore. Any ideas?
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Could you wording it a little differently? Cause I don't really understand what you want to say this.:poly122:
Make your own cage and import it into xnormal.
No real need for a tutorial. A cage is just a mesh. Duplicate your low poly (make sure it's triangulated). Use modifiers like push (in max), move verts around just don't change the topology. Export it as a .obj. When you've imported your lowpoly into xnormal, right click the box again and "browse external cage".
B. If you can easily split up your highpoly meshes into separate OBJ files per material type, Xnormal has some option to bake a color map with random colors. I forget where the option is. This can be annoying if you have partial face selections, you would need to break those meshes apart.
C. You can do really ugly uvs, and make an image map with big squares for the colors you want, then simply drag the uvs for each bit to the correct sqaure on your uvs... UV's don't have to be good, just a simple planar map will do (I can make an image for you if this doesn't make sense). Then load the color texture map into the highpoly base texture slot in the highpoly input section of XN.