normal maps

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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
Baking/Shading Artifact - How Can I Solve This? I'm desperate... I have unwrap my lowpoly, everything is alright, no stretching, overlapping etc.I have my highpoly and lowpoly at the same coordinates.When I try to bake my textures in Substance Painter or even in B…	16 Last	gnoop Jun 2020
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…	1 Last	Blaizer Jun 2020
[MAYA] Hard edges on UV seams when baking normal map. So I have this problem as you can see in the picture below. I have made the model in Maya and made the entire object have soft edges. For some reason when I bake the normal map from the high poly mod…	26 Last	Gladioluslab Jun 2020
Please help, going crazy with this, substance normal problem. Hi! I'm having issue with normal map or normals on the object, I can't figure out which one.This is in Substance Painter:This is in Substance Painter when I make a new file and re import the maps on …	6 Last	sprunghunt May 2020
[PAINTER] Texture Exports With Artefacts I am quite new to Painter and am trying to export textures of this one mesh.The problem that is it exports with artefacts for some reason, which is weird because I baked texture multiple times prior …	1 Last	Zoddo May 2020
Normal map distortion from substance Hello! Recently i got wierd issue and i realy dont understand what is going on here. This part of my model in subs look pretty solid, nothing about artefacts, but UE4 for some reason put some artefac…	3 Last	Arkideit May 2020
Errors baking in Marmoset - Chain mail Hello to eveyone!I keep having some strange error in my maps when I bake in Marmoset (or even other baking softwares). Want to bake a Alpha Mask of a chain mail made in Zbrush with Nanomesh, on a sim…	6 Last	EarthQuake May 2020
Correct Workflow between Blender and Substance Painter for baking good normal maps? I'm having seams I've seen a lot of posts, videos...related to normal maps, shading...But I'm still having some issues when baking my normal maps, so I did some tests, and I wanted to show you to ask if I'm missing a…	3 Last	Obscura May 2020
What happens to the existing normals of an object after you apply a normal map to it?? To clarify what i mean by 'existing normals', in blender you can visualize the normals of faces,vertices etc as little arrows shooting out from them, these exist even when you have never even importe…	4 Last	Eric Chadwick Apr 2020
Strange artifact on normal map always appear in meshes with this shape. Hi, while modeling some props for games I've encountered the same error 2 or 3 times, and I wanted to know how to solve it becouse it's very annoying and I don't understand why it happen.How should I…	2 Last	Kanni3d Apr 2020
Decimation and normal baking issues. Hello. I'm an amateur 3D modeler hoping to make a career in it. I work in Blender and Substance Painter. I spent a lot of my modelling time since I began several years ago focusing entirely on learni…	2 Last	Vitoria90 Apr 2020
[Solved] [3ds Max/Arnold] Mikkt Normal Map problems/conversion. Hello anyone.I had some weird black border artefacts whenever I render low-poly objects with Arnold (3ds Max). The artefacts do not appear in Sketchfab, Substance Painter or Unreal. After some troubl…	8 Last	Dihemi Mar 2020
Normal Map Black (hard) Edges in V-Ray I know that normal map issue will never end, so... :)I created a lp cylinder and hp cylinder with top edgeloop beveled.In lp cylinder I set the top edge loop hard (because it's 90 degrees). in u…	0 Last	greenAnka Mar 2020
Is there a specific way i should be baking floaters in Marmoset? The one on the left is baked in Marmoset Toolbag 3 and the one on the right is baked in Handplane. The two inner rim lines are actually floaters but every time i try to bake in Marmost toolbag it alw…	7 Last	Glacierfox Mar 2020
Pixelated Normal Map Artifacts I'm modeling a gun with a scope and have just gotten to the baking phase of my project and I've run into a small problem. It's not a huge problem but it's really annoying me. On my high-poly mesh I h…	2 Last	EarthQuake Mar 2020
Issues with my mesh, bake or normal map? I'm currently having an issue where my mesh is showing black spots after applying my normal map. I checked that the Ray's are pointing in the right direction and made sure that my mesh could handle t…	4 Last	kanga Jan 2020
Whats causing these baking errors? Hi, I'm trying to export from Max into Painter, but when I try baking the normal map in SP, I get a ton of errors. I thought I'd done everything correctly, is there anything that stands out?-Thanks i…	7 Last	Taylor Brown Dec 2019
Dynamic Wrinkle Maps Hey! I am a complete beginner to UE4, I just picked it up about 2 weeks ago. I've used Unity a bit and have some very basic coding knowledge so with all of that I wanted to try out UE4 and the Bluepr…	2 Last	HarlequinWerewolf Dec 2019
How do I get rid of these Glitches I baked my scar model after that I get these annoying glitches. What should I do?	5 Last	Neox Nov 2019
substance painter high poly bake issue Hey guys im also following one of Tim's tutorials and having a floater bake issue and could use some help.Before this issue appeared I had this issue...which was caused by an ngon i missed and had to…	2 Last	MisterSande Sep 2019
Polycount of the high poly in the baking process Hi guys there are any limit of polycount of the high mesh when i am doing the baking process on substance painter?In my case i have a lot of subtools from zbrush and the amount of total points is ver…	9 Last	kanga Aug 2019
Open GL vs Direct X for mapping in maya. I was wondering whenever i try bake my maps is there anyway to bake a tagent based normal and an object based normal at the same time using transfer maps? or do i have to go through baking object by …	0 Last	GarethStandfield Jul 2019
At wit's end with xNormal... So I'm trying to bake PBR maps of my high poly mesh (a photo scan of some Cedar wood slats) onto this low poly plane. No matter what I try, the maps come out completely wrong. The diffuse comes out r…	2 Last	VenomSX Jun 2019
Normal Map Problems, Zbrush to Maya Hey guys, I'm bringing my model to Maya from Zbrush and I'm having some problems with the normal map, particularly in the facial area. I created UVs in Zbrush, but I'm not very familiar with the UVin…	4 Last	kmacneil91 Jan 2016
Issues with normal map baking in 3ds max hello guys.for the last three weeks im suffering with 3ds max baking my normal maps with problems. the funny thing is that i even tried xnormal but im still getting the same results. so basically i g…	1 Last	gnoop Dec 2015
My model loses a lot of detail from zbrush to real time. Normal problem (uv, baking or mesh?) Hi guys! I've read the normal map thread but i can't really get what is wrong with my model...I've got quite a lot of detail on zbrush, but after exporting the normal maps with xnormal, my mesh gets …	8 Last	Kyle_butler Dec 2015
Normal mapping distortions...Pls Help :( Hey everyone this is my first post here so if i say something stupid please forgive. Now, i've been modelling for like a 3-4 months so i'm not an expert, but in the meantime ive made some models and …	9 Last	jass Dec 2015
Severed Moose Head Hey guys! I'm new to Polycount and I wanted to share a recent project I worked on.I'm always open to learning new things, and thanks in advance for feedback.Turntable can be found here: https://vimeo…	6 Last	kmacneil91 Dec 2015
Answered: 3DO - Colour ID, Normal and AO Maps not appearing on model. Hi there, I'm new to here but I have an issue which I really need resolved.When I create my base in DDO, everything is fine, I bring in my OBJ file for the mesh, my Colour ID, Normal and AO maps all …	4 Last	GCRev Dec 2015
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Solved: Suite 2 NDO can't edit normal map I'm just trying to learn NDO and so far I can't add details to a normal map. when trying to add a rectangle to a normal map, it just comes up with a box and generates a new entry in the layer system …	9 Last	Synaesthesia Dec 2015
How to texture tree into maya Hello Please anyone help me in how to texture tree and their branches. When i am texturing it i can see seam between tree and the branch. Please have a look on below attached image. (Area …	1 Last	Eric Chadwick Dec 2015
Zbrush Normal Map issue - Blender Hi, I finished making a texture and normal map in Zbrush, then I put them on my model in Blender. I thought it looked fine until I noticed the shadow on his back wasn't smooth, and it was split.…	3 Last	GemJello Dec 2015
Trouble with Normals in Toolbag Hey everyone,I wasn't sure where to post this and have been having problems finding a fix for my issue so sorry if this is the wrong place. Basically I've been testing some normal bakes from substanc…	2 Last	Green Pirate64 Dec 2015
Workflow for mechanical widgets/normals features? (bump_patterns,pegs,intakes,panels,insets) I am hoping to identify the following (4) things: #1. The best workflow, presumably between something in Blender (can blender paint normal map widgets?), Substance Painter for instancing prema…	0 Last	dlots Nov 2015
New Image Editor with Native Normal Map Support Hello,I am developing a node based image editor with native support for normal maps and 3D texturing.Some of the normal map features that I have implemented are:- Convert rgb image to normal image.- …	4 Last	pixaeiro Nov 2015
Weird issue with normal map. Hi everyone. This is the first time I am having a weird issue when baking a normal map (well, with the result of baking, I mean) and I am going crazy trying to figure out what can be causing it.…	6 Last	m4dcow Nov 2015
First time baking normal maps for a school assignment Hello professionals!As you could probably notice by the shitty normal map, I'm new to all of this. My teachers introduced me to baking normal maps, but I'm not experienced enough to do my proble…	15 Last	Revic_95 Nov 2015
Would it be possible to bake straight from Maya using xNormal? Hypothetically, would it be possible to write a plugin for Maya that would provide xNormal with the necessary meshes from a) directly in the Maya scene that are automatically output to temp files and…	2 Last	Spudnik Nov 2015
Fanta & 7up tank concept Hello polycount users,I have been practicing my 3D skills and concept thinking and i just wanted to know what you all thought about it.This is a concept i made about fanta and 7up themed tanks.These …	0 Last	Olivierus Oct 2015
Skewmesh Tutorial Peter K goes over an interesting work around to fix details that normally skew when baking normal maps Take a bolt for example, baked to a flat surface. The angle of the cage often skews the bolt, …	13 Last	JohanL Jan 2015
Qualifying your normals Have you ever had your normal maps just refused to behave no matter what you did? Alec Moody may have a workflow that can fix that. He has posted a tutorial/explanation at 3D Motive on how to work …	17 Last	AlecMoody Jun 2013
Handplane The first version of the normal map conversion tool Handplane has been released "handplane is a new tool designed with the goal the of solving tangent space mismatch issues for everyone. handpl…	9 Last	Thousand Feb 2013
handplane - Public Beta A new tool for resolving normal map issues across various game engines Created by Polycounter Alec Moody and Luke Hodorwicz, handplane is a new tool meant to solve the all too common problem of tan…	13 Last	RockSPb Nov 2012
3dMotive - Baking Normal Maps 3dMotive and Alec Moody have just released another training video. Our friends over at 3dMotive, along with tutorial machine Alec Moody, have just released yet another gem of a tutorial, this time …	9 Last	lordsme Nov 2011
Averaged normals, ray projections Joe Wilson has created a thorough outline on understanding averaged normals and ray projections. This information is for any 3D videogame artist, no matter your experience.Polycount Forum moderator…	4 Last	Joshua Stubbles Feb 2011