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Re: Maya 2011 MR Batch Bake not filling seams
That's the padding issue I get when I use Mental Ray in max 2010 and up. Not only does it fubar the padding causing seams, but it incorrectly fills in the background color of the normal map, even though the "background color" is set to the right color in the render to texture settings. It also has a bad habit of… -
Re: Problems when baking normal map in substance painter
Experiment a bit, there are lot of quick things you can try to understand what is causing the issue. You can make a beveled cube and try baking it the same way as you are baking this to see if you get the same errors. As I said, usually, there are jagged edges when the baker can't find enough room to work with. Increasing… -
Issues baking multiple UDIM UV sets in Marm
So I'm recently trying to use Marmoset to bake my normals/AO/curvature maps. I have my low poly set up with UDIMS in Maya with different materials and UV sets and Marmoset recognizes everything when I import my low poly FBX into the baker. Materials are created per UV set and the texture set drop down button shows all my… -
Baking Albedo / Diffuse Textures
Hi Polycount, I spent the last few hours googling away to find a way to bake albedo / diffuse textures from one 3D object to another. For anyone that isn't aware of this, you are able to do so in Marmoset Toolbag; you can take an already textured model and transfer / bake those textures on a model that has either been… -
Re: I can't bake a good normal map : Green artifacts and missing AO
I think you're expecting too much out of your normal map. It can't make up entirely for really low geometry, and it can't look perfect from every angle. Remember, a normal map is essentially faking shading based on the projection angle of the rays. So, any angles far outside of the ray projection angle can still look… -
Ensuring correct cage without test baking
Hey guys, I am working on one of my first full mechanical current gen projects, and I am asking to see if there is a way to ensure that I have my cage setup correctly without having to make tons of test bakes. While I have a fairly decent laptop, bakes still take way to long to use for a testing purpose. Is there a faster… -
Re: [HELP] Is projecting all in Zbrush same idea as baking normal maps?
They are two different concepts. In Zbrush, projecting can be a prerequisite step that might need to be done before you move on to baking the maps. Basically Zbrush is limited in that it won't let you bake texture maps (color, normal, displacement, etc) using two different models. It can only look at a single model/tool at… -
Re: Problem with baking Normal Maps - Direction seems to switch on every UV-Shell
We're only seeing a cropped view of the full texture, and there is padding. That's the orange outline. It could perhaps use more, though. I don't know what you're getting at with curves, and Max can display normal maps just fine if you load the texture with the right gamma, though it will not be the correct tangent basis… -
Re: Normal Map/Baking issues
Your NM artifacts is your projecting rays in search for hi-res target going too far away and make details reflecting in each other like in mirror. And since Painter does set the distance as a value/ a share of some cubical bounding box around it's always a problem for something long and stretched. Typical workaround is… -
HardCuts – voxel based hard surface modeling tool (Alpha released)
Hi everyone, Today I released the Alpha version of a tool I’ve been developing called HardCuts. HardCuts focuses on fast hard-surface concept modeling using voxel booleans and parametric shapes. The idea behind the tool is to make workflows like these very fast: • blockout shapes • boolean cutters • base mesh creation •…
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