Triangle Weirdness Baking

ThatOtherGuy · Aug 2015

So today I've finally gotten around to bake some maps for an armor piece. But every time I bake the dang maps I get this mess of artifacts:

The process was sculpt in Zbrush, Decimate it, retopo it, and then bake it in Xnormal (version 3.19).

I've tried several tweaks and such but there have been no improvements. Any suggestions?

peanut · Aug 2015

could be skewed detail, would be hard to tell without seeing the flats but who knows ? have a look at those threads some people have spoken about this no more than a few weeks before

http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=147227
http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=107196
http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=81154

Quack! · Aug 2015

First off, your normals green channel is inverted.

Second, when triangle errors that small appear it usually means your high poly was somehow corrupted in the export process.

Are you retopo-ing in zbrush or another program?

ThatOtherGuy · Aug 2015

Quack! wrote: »

First off, your normals green channel is inverted.

Second, when triangle errors that small appear it usually means your high poly was somehow corrupted in the export process.

Are you retopo-ing in zbrush or another program?

Okay didn't notice the normals flipped.

I exported the High poly as a decimated obj directly from zbrush. Let me try that again and see if it works.

I retopology in Topogun.

ThatOtherGuy · Aug 2015

Okay apologies for the double post but I found the solution to my problem:

I use harden normals in stead of exported/average on my high poly and use average normals on my low poly. Seems to fix the majority of the problems.

Bartalon · Aug 2015

I'm surprised setting your high poly to all hard edges would make your normal map look any better :poly115:

Triangle Weirdness Baking

Replies