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Weird Artifacts When Baking High Poly to Low Poly in Substance Painter

Help Needed – Weird Artifacts When Baking High Poly to Low Poly in Substance Painter Hi everyone, I'm currently facing an issue when baking a high poly mesh onto a low poly mesh in Substance Painte…
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Eric Chadwick

Maya: AO to Vertex Colors?

How do you bake Ambient Occlusion to vertex colors in Maya nowadays?Mental Ray is no longer supported, developed or even shipped with Maya. Arnold lacks this functionality, and TURTLE is yet ano…
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poopipe

How would I unwrap and bake this car model?

I'm currently working on a car model and am at the stages of baking and doing the materials. However, I've run into an issue when baking the low and high poly models. The material is a bit distorted …
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Neox

Baked high to low normal map has seams in Arnold CPU render on all hard edges.

[{"insert":"Hi, I'd like to render my baked normal map in Arnold CPU, does anyone know how to get rid of all these seams? Scene file here if you want to take a look "},{"attributes":{"link":"https:\/…
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gnoop

Support Edges+SubD vs Bevel for baking

Hey,What are your thoughts on using bevels vs support edges+subdivision, for high poly mesh.I find it easier to use a bevel modifier on my low poly to make the edges smoother and bake it that way. Th…
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dimwalker

[Game Art] Modular Kits related Issues

This is my modular wall piece. For the wall, I am going to use tileable texture, and for the wood panel below, I am going to use unique texture. As the corners are so sharp, I wanted to sculpt those …
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rafiii

Need help in baking related problem

 I’m experiencing a baking artifact and have tried various solutions but haven’t been able to pinpoint the cause. If anyone can help me identify the issue, I’d really appreciate it!Low Poly mesh…
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rafiii

Please help, whenever I am trying to place my albedo file, it is being placed like this

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Fabi_G

Flaoting Geo normal map bake warped?

I have this very simple mesh with a floating geoI don't know why the normal map bake is warped, it's just a flat surface. I can't really make it more flat lolI can turn off the average normals, but i…
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poopipe

Issue with baking my normal map

Hello. I have an issue with artifacts on my normal map. The low-poly model was created in 3D Max, and I’m baking it in Marmoset Toolbag. The hard edges follow the UV seams. However, in Substance Pain…
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Neox

Curvature map, Ambient occlusion and thickness map

Hello, I would like to ask few questions about three maps which can be baked in Substance painter. I was trying to search more informations about this but i am unfortunately not able to find how…
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Polygon_seal

3D Character : Closed mouth Baking

Hey! So I'm making my second ever 3D Character, and it will be rigged and used for VRChat so I need the inside of the mouth to be textured and modeled.I saw about as many people saying to sculpt with…
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Alex_J

Seam showing in mirrored UVs After Baking Normal

Hi everybody. I have a very persistent problem I seem unable to solve. I am working on a model and to save texture space I mirrored some parts. The process I follow in From Blender to Substance is:Un…
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Neox

Visible edges on baked mesh

Hello, im not new to baking so ill quickly explain what im doing. Im using Blender, in there i put hard edges on places i need them amd put a seam over thoes hard edges, I unwrap the mesh with 4px of…
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gnoop

Seemingly random faces appear inverted when baked

Learning Substance painter for the first time an encountered an issue when baking my world space normal map and ambient occlusion, as seemingly random faces appear inverted. I then went to blender to…
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poopipe

[WIP] Not-a-Glock — Game Ready Asset Optimization (feedback is appreciated)

GoalTo improve my understanding of non-destructive game asset optimization and topology, I'm modeling a pistol with the intent to work effectively in VR. I like this as a stress test of my current sk…
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VIVIVICG

Photoshop showing 32bit Normal maps from Marmoset washed out

I've gone through quite a lot of threads on polycount that seemed very promising but none of them anwsered one of the seemingly most important questions in regards to washed out normal maps.My goal s…
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Sidney Eliot

High to low baking issues, help would be much appreciated

Hi, i'm currently following Eugene Petrov's game ready pistol tutorial and it has been going pretty smoothly up until this point where i have so much of this issue where once I bake the high to low t…
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feint

CS2 Skin: Choco Loco

Hi all,I've just finished my first CS2 skin and want to share it with fellow artists! :sunglasses: I tried going for a Willy Wonka/Snickers style chocolate bar, as you can see in the images.This is m…
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Magnus N

Weird shading issue between Substance Painter and Blender, no idea how to fix

Hello, I've been working on this game-res guitar model for the last month or so and I've noticed that some issues seem to pop up when exporting my texture maps from Substance to Blender.As you can se…
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Fabi_G

Inflating high poly before baking normal map

Hi everybody, I wanted to discuss and ask advice regarding a part of the high to low poly pipeline. My mentor told me that, as a last step before baking the normal map from my high poly to low poly, …
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Dantexagc

Baking intersecting elements

Hi, tell me how to bake an intersecting element without artifacts. Thanks  
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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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llllkkmm

Low poly Artifacts after baking (Please reply)

I made a high poly mesh in ZBrush and decimated it. but after baking it, it leaves this weird low poly cluster.Tris: 3milLow poly is already smoothif anyone can fix it, I would appreciate it a lot!Th…
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Harshkoshiya991

Problem with Baking Normals

Hello everybody, I am self-taught and trying my best to learn how to make game assets.I am trying to make a revolver game-ready asset, but I am facing some difficulties when baking the normals.The pr…
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poopipe

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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Ivanose

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

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

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

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