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Workflow for Morph Targets (Unity Engine) and Normal maps!

Hey everyone! I'm a 3D modeler working on a character that needs morph targets for an extreme facial transformation think something like a "Venom-style" mouth opening, with a lot of jaw and face def…
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kiraykell

Houdini HDA breaks FBXs normals into Unreal Engine

Hi everybody, I have a problem regarding normal maps and shading in Houdini and in Unreal Engine when I bring my HDA. I will try to be as concise and to the point to explain the issueCONTEXTI am maki…
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Dantexagc

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

[MAYA] Creating a normal map with rounded corners of a low poly model without baking high poly

I once used a script that transferred the selected edges and maya to photoshop, creating a ready-made normal map with rounded edges. Has anyone seen anything like this? (I tried Quixel Suite/nDo, but…
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Klunk

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

Substance Painter - Cage not working correctly?

Hi,I'm trying to bake my high poly on my low poly by using cage, because some details are just skewed when I try to without it.Everything should be alright and work, atleast in Blender it does, but w…
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nickholl

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

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

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

Pianting normals creates artifacts

I've been trying to correct some small imperfections in the normal map using Substance Painter, but every time I paint, small artifacts end up appearing (they look like small grey-ish dots).It's not …
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Fabi_G

Unity normals are funky

Yo yo,I'm having a hard time to get my normals to behave exactly how i want them. Maybe someone has the knowledge to guide me in the right direction. My normal maps work exactly as intended in marmos…
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LouisPhilippe

Different types of normal maps?

Why do some normal maps in 3D engines differ in color?For example:In one normal map the "neutral" color appears to be grey (#7F7F7F), but in another blue (#7F7FFF).
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NephilimFree

Looking for a tool with api that I can use to generate pbr maps from diffuse

Hey polys,I am looking to create a software related to PBR materials. My goal is to generate the standard PBR maps from a diffuse map within my software. Do you know any good tool/repo that offers an…
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poopipe

uncertainty with normal map in large bicels

well I have a friend who sent me this, and the question is why in the normal map the bicel appears inverted, both the hi poly and the low poly are correct, and then in any painting program like sutba…
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Klunk

THE TOPOLOGY OF THE MESH HAS CHANGED DURING CREATING NORMAL MAPS

Hi! I have several meshes with subdivisions and morph target and when I try to create displacement maps everything goes without any problems, but when I press to create normal, cavity or ambient occl…
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Phena

Problem with Normal maps exported from photshop

Hello everyone.i got a problem everytime i try to edit 2 normal maps togther in photoshop.after i export my final normal map and view it in substance it shows with alot of artifacts and kinda pixilat…
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gnoop

Can Someone Help Me please

[{"insert":"Hello everyone,\nIs this Normal or is it a problem because it kinda looks wierd\nin my maps bake from highpoly to lowpoly (Straight lines ) doesn't look straight \nand if its a Problem ca…
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DiscothunderX

Why baked normal map does not look good on a model when displayed as a texture? "Flipped" look?

[{"insert":"Hello there.\n\nI have a problem with my normal map does not looking \"right\" when i display it on a model as a texture. I don't quite understand why this is happening and what gives me …
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EarthQuake

Odd triangular artifacts when baking a triangulated mesh in substance painter

[{"insert":"Hey everyone,\nI am trying to Bake my low poly Chest asset with a high poly mesh. I triangulated the mesh and shaded everything smooth since there are no super hard edges and exported eve…
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iam717

Seams visible on normal map baking.

[{"insert":"Hello,\nI have been working on this project. Eventually I am stuck right now. I am baking this model in substance painter but the seams are visible. I have tried everything I know. Please…
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naman

Color picking from normal map?

[{"insert":"I am trying to do some minor fixes on a baked normal map, and would like to color pick from it, but the colors always turn out different when painted. Like i color pick a cyan hue, and it…
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poopipe

Substance Painter - question: normal map darker on the upper side

[{"insert":"I've been learning to use substance painter and the sculpt->make-normal-map-for-low-poly-mesh pipeline. I'm trying to make some textures and normal maps for bricks, stone and wood, baked …
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poopipe

Weird Shading

[{"insert":"Hi\nI swear I already started a thread about this, but I can't seem to find it in my post history. Not sure if I used a different account...\nBasically, after mirroring a symmetrical char…
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DustyShinigami

Tileable Normal Map Causing Incorrect Hard Shadows After Light Map Bake

[{"insert":"Hi,\nI've been having an issue with a tileable normal map in UE4. Whenever I bake the lighting, I end up with this result:\n"},{"insert":{"embed-external":{"data":{"url":"https:\/\/us.v-c…
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Fennec_Raptor

XNormal bakes normal map with transparency

[{"insert":{"embed-external":{"data":{"url":"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/5021068\/uploads\/0OG5PMEJO309\/screenshot-2022-08-26-205844.png","name":"Screenshot 2022-08-26 205844.png","type":"image\/png","s…
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Ghogiel

Normals look shiny

[{"insert":"Hi. For whatever reason, when I import textures over to marmoset, the normals seem to make things look glossy. Is there a way to fix this? Cheers.\n"},{"insert":{"embed-external":{"data":…
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EarthQuake

Problems with baking a hair cap

[{"insert":"Hi\nI seem to having some issues when baking a hair cap using Marmoset Toolbag 4. I've been following this tutorial - "},{"attributes":{"link":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_IU4DkEW…
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EarthQuake

Tips for Cleanly Baking Continuous Overlapping Cloth?

[{"insert":"Hey Everybody, \nI'm curious to hear some tips on how I might go about getting a clean bake of a continuous mesh that touches or folds onto itself. My current conundrum is a sash that i…
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Alehr

Normal map baking issue

[{"insert":"Hi. Benn stuck with this issue for a couple of days now when baking the hi res details of a mesh it would output some artifacts. I've made sure that every intersecting geo has their own r…
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vlaint

Normal map squares?

[{"insert":"Hello everyone! I'm having a problem with my normal map specifically in which these tiles appear underneath the texture on certain areas of the model:\n"},{"insert":{"embed-external":{"da…
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Plesiosaurus_123

Question regarding baking normal maps

[{"insert":"Hello everyone, I've been making game assets for a while now, baking maps etc, but i'm now wondering if i've been doing it correctly.\nThe thing is, whenever I create a lowpoly mesh, I al…
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Kanni3d

Custom tilable normal map has seams.

[{"insert":"I want to create my own tilable normal from baking a pattern into a plane. Then using the baked normal to apply and tile it onto other objects but I get seams. But the height map doesn't …
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Worldevour

Need help with texture mapping/ normal maps and getting a specific look for my model!

[{"insert":{"embed-external":{"data":{"url":"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/5021068\/uploads\/WNH0OQ3CFLS4\/mhair-albgry.png","name":"mHair_AlbGry.png","type":"image\/png","size":32399,"width":256,"height":…
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Mink

Getting normal edges smooth by sampling from neigbor islands

[{"insert":"Hi folks, mb someone of you knows whether is's possible to sample normal data from neighbor UV islands and filling margins with this values not just edge color, does probably xNormal or …
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jozin

Loading model for baking issue

I'm trying to load 2 models (high/low poly) for baking in Marmoset toolbag. But when I load models using "quick loader" the baking groups are missing. This is leaving me unable to bake textures maps.…
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EarthQuake

Normal Map/Baking issues

hello im super new to texturing and everything ive googled doesnt seem to be quite my problem so i thought id make a post here to see if anyone could help me. Any time im baking my normal maps i get …
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zhaiires

Seams UV Normal Map

Hello to all.I have a problem with the UV seam.As you can see in the attached photos.I created a model in Zbrush, since it is very simple I used the polygroups option to do the Unwrap.I exported the …
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EarthQuake

Weird artifacts on baking textures from high to low poly

Hii guys,I am extremely new to the world of 3D and Substance Painter. I am trying to model and texture a game asset from Maya and Substance Painter. The problem I am facing is whenever I try to bake …
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parikshittiwari

How to avoid this when baking normal maps?

So I'm using Substance Painter to bake maps for characters but I always stumble upon this issue: when baking the high poly into the low poly there's always artifacts in the "smaller" areas such as th…
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poopipe

Is there a way to bake a normal map with "overlaying layers" of objects on a plane?

Hey everyone. So I mean is there any way to do this kind of normal map in my example in just one go, one bake, one click? Maybe some magical "translucency" shader tricks? Or some plugins/scripts…
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gnoop

!NEED HELP! NormalMap Problems(AlwaysFun)

Hello:)I have been modeling for quite some time now and baking aswell but i never seem te get it right. There probably is a ton of research but nothing i havent seen yet. So i thought maybe the stron…
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Ckafee

Weird baking artifacts in Marmoset from highpoly to lowpoly (Solved)

(Solved)Hi everyone! I'm baking normal maps in Marmoset, and I have and issue. Some sort of artifacts has appeared in my texture, it is like the wireframe has baked on the normal map.As you can see i…
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vaspo

Substance Painter: Mesh turned grey after baking

As the title suggests. I'm having issues baking from high to low poly. During baking I only changed:- Antialiasing 4x4- Match to By Mesh NameAnd changed nothing else. No idea what's happening. I…
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JackoHammer100

Weird Normal Transition Between Seams

Hi, I don't know why this happens to my high poly to low poly baking. Very bad textures along seams! I have tried almost all of the baking settings, but nothing helped, I've also checked that my UV's…
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pior

UV seams on normal map [solved]

this is a problem that I am currently unable to solve completely The only solution was to turn up the texture resolution of the mesh.Below are the assets and bake settings I usedproblem:it shows…
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norbyscook

Normal map looks weird

Hi, when I bake my normals in marmoset they look strange, but for the same mesh some maps are looking quite good, and other look like this; any ideas ? 
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DragonJojo

Normal map hard surface issue when imported to Marmoset but there was no problem is Substance

Hello, i was wondering if anyone could help me, for my project i have had to do a bake down of this naval cannon, along with adding additional normal information, which I've done by adding hard surfa…
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Sharkill4

What is wrong with my normal map?

Hello! Sorry if this isn't where/how I'm supposed to ask, I have never posted before. Creating this texture is part of a school project. Only one of my instructors knows 3D software well enough and h…
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finnrsg

Broken AO - NRM bakes - Curvature (artefacts)

I have a Tommygun of which I am trying to bake all maps for with a highpoly mesh.However the metallic part is receiving major artefacts when baking for both AO, Normal maps and Curvature.Problem lies…
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Zoddo

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