Lowpoly mesh triangles appearing in normal map
Hi there,
I'm sure this isn't the first time someone's come crying for help to this fine userbase and I do want to start by saying that I have been trying to comb through all the great articles and posts that might help me solve this on my own.
That said, I was wondering if anyone can point me in the right direction toward solving this problem. I'm extremely new to the normal baking process and am totally at a loss trying to figure out how to resolve this issue:
My workflow so far is this:
- sculpt in zbrush, triangulate the high poly mesh (~300k tris) and export out as an .obj, then decimate it down to anywhere between 200 - 2000 tris and export out as the lowpoly.
- import both .obj's into Maya and unwrap the low poly and slightly smooth the high poly. export both out as new objs
- currently I'm experimenting with Substance as my baking tool of choice (though i was getting the same artifacts by doing it in Maya as well). I'm setting it to raytrace in from the averaged normals with aliasing set to 4x4. These are my current settings:
So thats about it. I'm guessing if anything this is an issue with my UV? But maybe not since it doesnt seem like these artifacts are limited to the edges of my UV shells? Anyway, hopefully someone here can point me down the right path
I'm sure this isn't the first time someone's come crying for help to this fine userbase and I do want to start by saying that I have been trying to comb through all the great articles and posts that might help me solve this on my own.
That said, I was wondering if anyone can point me in the right direction toward solving this problem. I'm extremely new to the normal baking process and am totally at a loss trying to figure out how to resolve this issue:
My workflow so far is this:
- sculpt in zbrush, triangulate the high poly mesh (~300k tris) and export out as an .obj, then decimate it down to anywhere between 200 - 2000 tris and export out as the lowpoly.
- import both .obj's into Maya and unwrap the low poly and slightly smooth the high poly. export both out as new objs
- currently I'm experimenting with Substance as my baking tool of choice (though i was getting the same artifacts by doing it in Maya as well). I'm setting it to raytrace in from the averaged normals with aliasing set to 4x4. These are my current settings:
So thats about it. I'm guessing if anything this is an issue with my UV? But maybe not since it doesnt seem like these artifacts are limited to the edges of my UV shells? Anyway, hopefully someone here can point me down the right path
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I'm relatively new to Maya so I may need a little bit more info though. Coming from C4D I'm used to thinking about welding as combining vertex's and whatnot. Seems like Maya call's this 'merging' so is that what you mean? Any chance you could elaborate a bit?
Thanks!