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Artifacts when baking normal map

I'm working on the retopology of a high-poly model I made. I'm not very experienced with retopology and baking normals. When I extract the normal map in Substance Painter, I see these triangular arti…
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Fabi_G

Question about baking normal/uv mapping

Hi, I'm having some problems with baking normal map. Could you help me if I done it correctly, should it look like this? Thank you
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Puggy

Calling All 3D Artists: Share Your Texture Baking Preferences!

Hi everyone! I am a 3D Art Student, currently writing my Bachelors Thesis covering the topic of Texture Baking. Currently, I am trying to find out which software is the most popular fo…
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davit3d

Calling All 3D Artists: Share Your Texture Baking Preferences!

Hi everyone! I am a 3D Art Student, currently writing my Bachelors Thesis covering the topic of Texture Baking. Currently, I am trying to find out which software is the most popular for Bak…
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davit3d

baking problems. Marmoset

Hello everyone. Please help me solve the problem.I think Marmoset is broken or I did something wrong. I needed to replace a small detail on the UV set. I deleted the old mesh, added a new one (LP and…
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hleb

Blender Procedural Baking

Hello, I am having an issue with baking a procedural texture down in Blender, for reference this has been my standard workflow for a while now without issue but for some reason this time the Normal m…
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gnoop

Marmoset Consistently Crashes While Baking Objects with High Tris Count

Marmoset Toolbag 4 crashes while baking at around 40-50mil tris for me (split among 120 high objects). Anything below that and it doesn't crash, but when I bake with objects that are more than approx…
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Sidney Eliot

Baking round, hard edges with blender's multiresolution modifier

In blender when baking with a multiresolution modifier from this highpoly:The baked normal-map on the low-poly looks like this when using "Bake from multires":These are the UV seams:I thought it had …
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okidoki

Wireframe affecting shading in substance painter

I feel like this is probably a fairly common issue but I cant seem to find anything online so im probably googling poorly. Im sure the answer is probably how the triangulation is done but im not sure…
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TannedBatman

Low-Poly way too low ? Objects that were "sitting" on it now just "float"

Hello everyone. I have this fuselage over here with all these little details sitting on top that were matching perfectly while I was doing the highpoly. Now however when making a low things just "flo…
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pior

Baking in Marmoset

Hi guys. Why is it that when I try to bake normals and press the "bake" button, nothing happens? I clicked "preview" but still nothing, it just doesn`t start baking. Someone tell me what the problem …
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Nikita_Koshkin

Maya average normals averaged unintentionally

This is causing weird bakes, I know this because I manually changed the direction and it fixed itI believe this may be causing issues elsewhere and Im wondering why its averaging normals as such and …
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TannedBatman

Any advice on this upper jaw, before I start with the lower jaw

https://imgur.com/a/GW3s32I (video for different angles and light move)For a game engine ready female character. (Normal and AO maps are visible in the image with mirroed UVs.)I spent quite long crea…
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Sidney Eliot

Bake artifact - Help pls

Hello, I have been having a problem when baking these meshes. The edges of the low poly are projected, (in my high poly you can't see those egdes) I don't know why that really happens. I would be ver…
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Just_And

High poly to Low poly bake

Hey there, i'm trying to bake a high-to-low poly model but I'm having some issues,I'm using this high model as a test:first I tried to bake with Substance Painter and here's the result:then I tried t…
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GhostMasaki

What to do with this lamellar armor (retopology and bake)

I've done this armor as part of a personal project and even though it's not gonna end up anywhere other than my portfolio, I wanted to show some retopology skills as well.This is how I decided to ret…
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gnoop

Artifacts in baking

So i decided to make my first model of Nanachi from Made in abyss and retopologize it fully in blender, but eventually it came to using Marmoset and Substance and it just drove me nuts, since there i…
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Dragon_Demon

Baking Normal Maps Using Bevel Shader?

Hello, I wanted to ask about the "Bevel Shader" in Blender which is being used by a quite a few game artists to generate the normal maps for the low poly asset. And I find it quite a "Niche" way to b…
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sacboi

Baked Vertex Paint Issue

[{"insert":"Hi\nWhat can be done to fix this...? I've just tried baking the Polypaint from my high poly to my low in Marmoset using Vertex, but the UV seams show up, both in Marmoset and especially o…
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PinkRabbit

Generate AO from height map, without high poly mesh

Hi!is it possible to generate AO map in MT without high poly mesh, just using displacement map? In Knald you load in displ map and then you can get AO, cavity,... Knald gives me some artefacts and Ma…
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EarthQuake

Baking normal map error / baking book pages on flat plane / random gradients

Decided to create some books and got some normal baking errors. So basically I'm trying to bake my highpoly book on low poly but getting some gradients in places where pages are located. 1/ So this i…
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Born_Jason

Normal maps messed up in Cycles (but not in Eevee for some reason)

While experimenting with different ways to bake an AO map for fairly lowpoly objects with normal maps on them inside Blender I noticed that - for some reason - normal maps don't display correctl…
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Buffinbag

Retopologizing garments and baking overhanging details

Hi all, I'm new to the forum but I've read a lot of wonderful info on here and this community is amazing so I figured I'd give it a shot to ask here before I try and reinvent the wheel on my characte…
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MagicMeister

Baking single mesh with one area adjacent to another

Hello there. I have a question regarding baking of a mesh with areas that are situated very close to each other. For example, a robe with a hood, where the hood touches the back, so to say (to show w…
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0_sum_0

Need help with trim sheets on atlas textures

Hi everyone, as title says I am modeling some spools. The wood itself are all unique textures, however the cable is very long and I decided to go with trimsheets for it.When baking in Marmoset withou…
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Raphael_Bouch

what is causing these dark artifacts? (normals)

I've baked and textured this in substance painter, but when I assign all textures in marmoset toolbag the results have these strange pixellated shadows in the normals. I've tried flipping normals, tu…
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iam717

normal´s baking error

Hello everyone, I've been struggling with an error in a project.I'm baking in marmoset, and in there it looks alright (next images)the problem comes when I use the bakes in substance painter, some ed…
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fofo

Bake AO using Self Occlusion?

HiThis might be more of a feature request than anything, or I simply haven't used the right settings, but, is it possible to bake an individual element, or everything together, using Self Occlusion? …
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DustyShinigami

Advice when baking thin strips

HiThis is something I've had problems with for a while now. It was great when I discovered the Unitize tool under Modify, in Maya's UV Editor, as it allowed to more easily keep curved strips nice and…
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DustyShinigami

Baking on a cylinder not working correctly?

Whats going on here? Shouldnt the averaged normals stop this? Or am I forgetting something.
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TannedBatman

Issues with baking

Hi. I'm working making a set of furnitures with boat themed that are around my house. I got one of the first with good topology and UVs but when I bake it it doesnt look that good so I wanted to try …
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Fabi_G

Point normals at camera in maya?

I can control the vertext normals with 'Set vertext normal' and 'Vertext normal edit tool' but I want to specifically point the normals at a location in the world. The other options just point at the…
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BlueFlytrap

Should one recompute tangent basis if geometry, uv, shading (hard edges/smooth groups) are changed?

The title basically describes my question. Should I create tangent basis from scratch before exporting to marmoset or SP for baking/texturing if I committed any of the enlisted changes?
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Klunk

Changing direction of cage normals?

I heard it was possible to do this and Im wondering how, specifcally I want to bake the details of a high poly as viewed from a specific perspective, how would I go about making the normals of the ca…
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EarthQuake

I have a question regarding odd artifacts in substance painter.

So I am fairly new to UV unwrapping things but I get the idea behind it and how to do it. But I am running into an issue with a design that is more organic than usual and I am getting odd artifacting…
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SamDesigns

Weird triangular artifacts while baking

Baking turns out weird on triangles of these specific objects. The geometry is clean and triangulated, I'm not sure what could be causing the issue. The rest of the mesh bakes out absolutely fine.
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Mordred_X

Transparency in Marmoset Baking (naming/baking groups) Solved

Hello to all,im new to marmoset acutally its my first bake, but i aint new to using 3d software. i have this issue for a couple of days now and ive tried so many things with no luck. i was working on…
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Bahgatov

Marmoset beginner here

Hello,I worked on a crate in Blender (a low poly and a high poly version) and then I imported it in Marmoset for baking and it does not look good. The low poly and the high poly are positioned i…
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marmosie

Wavy bake in Marmoset Toolbag 4, support edges and skew paint don't help.

Hey everyone, I have a low-poly model here that I use to bake a nanite mesh on inside Toolbag, all looks fine except for this little crease line that looks absolutely skewed from the sides. What is c…
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Raphael_Bouch

Baking phone cord on a tube. What am I doing wrong ?

Hello, here is a high poly phone cord mesh I try to bake on a tube for the low poly. But no matter what I try I will always end up with artifacts, is anyone experienced with this and could provide so…
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Raphael_Bouch

Normal Map baked good but I see low poly edges in other apps

[{"insert":"Hi,\nI applied all the rules to the normal maps baking and in SP it's all good:\n"},{"insert":{"embed-external":{"data":{"url":"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/5021068\/uploads\/IX9IPVKW221W\/ima…
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poopipe

How to bake several textures (including transperent ones) into one diffuse texture?

[{"insert":"Haven't found any solutions so I decided to ask here, examples are attached below (all of them use only one color texture + normal map)\n"},{"insert":{"embed-external":{"data":{"url":"htt…
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ZacD

How would you handle UVing/baking this rope? Zbrush, insert mesh

[{"insert":"Hello there, I'm currently doing some tests with ropes, I made an insert mesh which I UVed in Zbrush and created a curve to make a rope brush. \nNow each section's UVs are overlapping to …
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xiphos

Substance Painter - Wireframe showing through high poly bake

[{"insert":"So I'm trying to bake a high poly mesh on a low poly mesh. It looks like the low poly wire frame is showing through the bake. You can see in the photo the grid showing through all the map…
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poopipe

[SOLVED] Substance won't bake my model using a HP mesh

[{"insert":"Hello everyone! i imported my LP (and unwrapped) mesh onto substance painter and went to bake my HP mesh that i sculpted off the last one (unwrapped (not the same uv map)) (has the same l…
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albertobalsalm

Wavy normal bake (NOT edges)

[{"insert":"I'm trying to bake pattern with straight lines to plane. but for some reason bake is wavy, not in direction, but in depth, while hi poly mesh is uniform, as well as low poly one. Tried to…
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pior

Normal map baking preview in Marmoset problem! HELP!

[{"insert":"So i've been grouping and using marmoset toolbag 4 for baking and I was doing a piece by piece thing, but after a while I started having this issue with everypiece, wich I kept fixing but…
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EarthQuake

Can you not bake lightmaps in Marmoset?

I decided to get Marmoset Toolbag 4 today as I wanted a piece of software that is able to bake lighting into the textures. I know Substance painter does it but unfortunately you can only have 2 light…
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Slevin

Baking Albedo / Diffuse Textures

[{"insert":"Hi Polycount,\n\nI spent the last few hours googling away to find a way to bake albedo \/ diffuse textures from one 3D object to another.\n\nFor anyone that isn't aware of this, you are a…
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gnoop

Baking issues in painter

[{"insert":"Hi, I have an asset I created in Maya and is textured with a trim sheet in Maya. I took the asset in zbrush as well to add some damage and cracks and then tried to bake it on the low poly…
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Fabi_G

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