normal maps

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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…	1 Last	poopipe Sep 10 2023
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…	5 Last	Klunk Aug 13 2023
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…	10 Last	Phena Aug 12 2023
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…	11 Last	gnoop Jun 15 2023
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…	5 Last	DiscothunderX Nov 2022
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 …	4 Last	EarthQuake Nov 2022
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…	3 Last	iam717 Nov 2022
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…	9 Last	naman Nov 2022
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…	5 Last	poopipe Oct 2022
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 …	5 Last	poopipe Sep 2022
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…	9 Last	DustyShinigami Sep 2022
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…	1 Last	Fennec_Raptor Sep 2022
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…	1 Last	Ghogiel Aug 2022
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":…	6 Last	EarthQuake Jun 2022
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…	12 Last	EarthQuake Jun 2022
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…	2 Last	Alehr May 2022
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…	10 Last	vlaint Apr 2022
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…	5 Last	Plesiosaurus_123 Mar 2022
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…	1 Last	Kanni3d Mar 2022
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 …	4 Last	Worldevour Feb 2022
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":…	3 Last	Mink Feb 2022
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:\/…	5 Last	malcolm Jan 2022
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 …	0 Last	jozin Dec 2021
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.…	1 Last	EarthQuake Dec 2021
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 …	9 Last	zhaiires Nov 2021
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 …	1 Last	EarthQuake Nov 2021
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 …	10 Last	parikshittiwari Nov 2021
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…	11 Last	poopipe Oct 2021
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…	1 Last	gnoop Aug 2021
!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…	12 Last	Ckafee Jul 2021
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…	2 Last	vaspo Jun 2021
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…	0 Last	JackoHammer100 Jun 2021
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…	1 Last	pior Jun 2021
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…	1 Last	norbyscook Apr 2021
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 ?	0 Last	DragonJojo Feb 2021
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…	1 Last	Sharkill4 Dec 2020
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…	4 Last	finnrsg Nov 2020
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…	5 Last	Zoddo Nov 2020
Trimsheet normals inverted when rotating UV islands I find myself stuck with a mistery that is making me loose hours of work without any progress whatsoever figuring it out.I'm making a modular environment and I'm making some trimsheet textures. In th…	19 Last	Prime8 Oct 2020
[Tool] fNabla: Displacement/Normal/Curvature 2D conversion + Ambient occlusion fNabla is my first serious programming project that I've been working on for a while. It takes a displacement, normal or curvature map and outputs any combination of the other maps and ambient o…	2 Last	Borx25 Sep 2020
substance painter baking logic question hello, i am experimenting with baking of high polygon mesh details on low polygon meshes and i faced an issue where i dont understand the logic behind. i ve added the files as fbx if you w…	6 Last	phat3d Sep 2020
[Blender 2.8] Bevel shader normal map baking artifacts on flat surfaces Hello, everyone.I decided to try out Blender 2.8 bevel shader for Low-poly normal baking. While the results seem to be quite impressive, I get some artifacts, mostly on flat surfaces, which are seemi…	33 Last	Zeist Sep 2020
Normal Map To Displacement Map I have a model that i downloaded from internet which comes with normal map. I want to take it in Zbrush. Because in some area the details aren't correct. As Zbrush doesn't support normal map, How do …	2 Last	Eric Chadwick Aug 2020
Multiple UV Tile Normal Map seams on Character Model Substance Painter textures I recently sculpted a character model from scratch in Mudbox, built the low-poly version by Quad Draw in Maya, unwrapped and cut the UV's into mirrored shells over multiple UV tiles, Baked the Normal…	1 Last	rgadiy Jul 2020
Why isn't it possible, to connect 2 identical uv-islands, turning them into single one. This at least seems more time saving option for me. As for now, what I see in Blender at least, mirrored face works by laying 2 identical uv-islands on the same position, but that doesn't make them a…	2 Last	monster Jul 2020
Problem with displacement in corners on Zbrush Hello! I'm having a problem when I do a displacement in Zbush with in objects that have a sharp corner. I put some image as example with a cube.In my situation I'm trying to do a crystal shader, so I…	2 Last	AlberMR Jul 2020
How to improve this bake? Hey guys,I am still trying to figure out how to get a good bake so I test with simple objects like this. I uploaded it here so everyone can check it out:https://we.tl/t-4GG1l2wALmSo I think the bake …	22 Last	Obscura Jul 2020
Do low poly game assets that are using normal maps have to use smooth shading as well ? Just wondering, because as far as I saw when baking normal map, marked sharp edges are evil, they will just mess things up. So I guess, if I don't want to put on my mesh seams everywhere where there …	1 Last	Obscura Jul 2020
Normal Map Always Bakes Wrong And Gives Bad Shading - HELP Hi, it's me again.I tried to bake my normal map again, after someone here wrote that I should triangulate the mesh and all the problems will be solved. Well it did help with some areas, the majority …	7 Last	Alander787 Jul 2020
Substance Painter. Issues with baking Hello everybody, I've been dealing with this thing almost a week and still can't understand what is wrong I'm doing. I have a model in low poly, then exploded it, made the same with high poly, then t…	1 Last	Kanni3d Jun 2020