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Question about making light maps
My question stems mostly from creating a light map. I know that when you make a light map, that it has to be on a second UV channel and if the object that is being UV'd has overlapping UVs on the first UV channel, then you need to make the second UV channel have different UVs that are non overlapping. But, what I don't… -
baking light maps with maya/mentalray
need some help with batch baking mental ray maps in Maya. I am trying to generate some light maps for an environment, I have worked out a lot of issues to produce something I think will work . .. all except for the maps it spits out look like they are 8-bit. Here is an example as well as my settings - I have tried setting… -
Need help with normals / exploded bake
Hey all, I have run into some normal mapping trouble with a model I am making. While I am getting these issues all over the model, here is a simple example of one of the cars headlights and the issue I am getting. Low poly and UV Low poly + cage High Poly UV + Ray miss The beautiful result So as far as I can tell, this is… -
Re: baking time with Substance Painter...
The normal, ID, curvature etc. should not take more than a few minute after the initial loading of the high poly mesh. AO and thickness are more costly but should not exceed 10 min maximum. Can you take a screenshot of the AO/Thickness baking settings? -
Re: High Poly > Low Poly Bake Help
ZBrush can bake out your normals too, but obviously you'll need to have UV'd your mesh before you send it to ZBrush. On some assets, such as this one, that would be fine as you wouldn't be changing the silhouette too much. For characters, or other assets which are starting from a very primitive base and likely to be… -
Re: normal map baking cage help
One thing that can help in terms of intersecting errors is to merge together parts of the lowpoly that don't move. I see this really often, people will model the lowpoly with as many mesh chunks/objects as teh highpoly, which doesn't make any sense (wastes uv space and makes bakes more complex). Also in terms of editing… -
Some Normal Map Baking issues
I'm making my hipoly and baking normals onto my lowpoly but during the process I'm not sure why my normals come out w/ so much noise. I have checked smoothing groups on the pieces but those are ok, I don't have lights in the scene, and Gamma and Lut is disabled, also for the lowpoly I set materials on default materials, so… -
Making Base Mesh - Anatomy Critiques
Working on a male base mesh for future projects and decided to post shots of the progress for critiques. The torso is pretty much blocked out and the arms are still a work in progress. -
Re: Baking AO with Mental Ray ...... HELL!!
Mental ray does suck, XNormal is better but I never got used to its workflow and Gui and setting up complicated scenes became a ball ache. Vray is really nice, but has similar cage issues in my experience when using High to Low projections. So ... I do occasionally use mental ray for the AO if I'm in a hurry. The trick is… -
unwelded geo bake seams issue(video process)
My goal is to have some of my lowpoly parts unwelded/intersected for easy lod making. But when I bake it I get some noticeable seams. I looked at some tutorials where this technique was used but I didnt see any deep explanation on how to do it or maybe I am just missing something. Anyway, I have recorded my process and I…
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