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Re: "Dirty" normal maps.
Oh no! I'm sorry :( I've been beating my head against the wall with this for days now... my work completely halted. My main question now - what the hell happened? I was working with marmoset for years now and all was fine. But now, suddenly, all is far from fine. I don't want to go back to xNormal. As good as it is for a… -
Re: Problem with normal bake (XNormal)
If you simplify the lowpoly mesh and remove those grooves from the handle your bake will come out cleaner, they barely effect the silhouette anyway and this is the sort of detail the a normal map can handle well. This will also reduce the likelyhood of smoothing errors depending on where the model is going(which engine… -
Re: Normal map confusion.
The normal map only stores the differences in slope between the highpoly Zbrush model and the lowpoly in-game model. When the slopes are similar, the normal map will be very plain-looking, and when it is applied to the lowpoly model it will look like it did before being normal mapped. You use a normal map to grab all those… -
Re: Highpoly artefacts on normals ?
I would recommend having more edge padding on your shells and spacing them further away from each other. This isn't causing your issue, but it will cause different issues down the road if you keep them so close to each other. You need to use that script in Modo to bake correct normal maps, and if you don't there is know… -
Re: Zbrush Normal Map Smear issues
Before you spend too much time trying to find out what could be the problem and how to solve it (from my point of view there are some messed up UVs - most likely some vertices stretched over the UV layout, it could have happened along the way as you were sculpting) I would suggest trying something else than Zbrush for… -
xNormal Cage/ray distance issue
I am new to polycount. I am having a serious issue with normal mapping using xNormal. This is not my first attempt at normal mapping so I am pretty stuck on why this is not working with my work flow. I sculpted in Zbrush. Retopo done in Topogun. Polycount is around 4k. I tried to create normals in xNormal with a cage and… -
Re: high frequency normal maps
I don't know what the book covers. However, there has been quite a lot of new applications dealing with normal map popping up in recent years, so my bet is that the book is indeed outdated although still applicable. As far as I know, today there are a couple ways to create normal maps. Painting per channel as you mentioned… -
Zbrush makes empty normal map, Xnormal makes ugly one, model looks insane and other problems.
Hey guys, I am trying to teach myself this stuff. I roughed in a character sculpt and started detailing. I retopologized the sculpt in maya, which I think I did properly. I cut the UV's, maybe they are good, maybe they are bad. I don't know, I'm new at this. Pictures attached.... Zbrush Problem: I put the retopologized… -
Looking for help Normal maps with Substance Painter and Maya please.
I've been watching many tutorials but am still having trouble with normal maps. Mine all look terrible trying xnormals and Maya until I baked in Substance painter. It looked better than the others but I am still having problems. Should I smooth my edges in Maya on my low poly? or does the normal map do that since I am… -
Re: Normal map warping at curved edges
http://polycount.com/discussion/81154/understanding-averaged-normals-and-ray-projection-who-put-waviness-in-my-normal-map That thread should explain what's going on. One option is to bake an object space normal with a different low poly that has a few more supporting edge loops. Then use something like Handplane, or…
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