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I need some clarifications on normal maps and tangent spaces
I need some help understanding tangent space, tangent basis and getting a good normal map baking workflow. Please correct me if you notice something wrong! :) Let's say there's the following scenario: I work in Maya and have to create an asset, the client specifies their engine tangent space is synced to xNormal (Mikk),… -
Need help baking normal maps using Maya
Hi, so after reading EarthQuakes post on making sense of hard edges, uvs, normal maps, vertex counts & Understanding averaged normals and ray projection/Who put waviness in my normal map? I decided to re-bake a normal map of model I created some time ago but never managed to get good baking results. The thing is I use Maya… -
The Wonders of Normal Map Baking
So I've done a bit of testing with normal maps in Unreal to see how optimal I could make my results, after testing different things for years. I've known about smoothing groups causing issues for normal maps for years. But only recently learned about how different engines use different tangent spaces and not all normal… -
Normal Map baking issue
Hi, ive recently been working on a character for my university course but i have hit a brick wall with regards to normal map baking. This is the error: Not good, anyways im new to this so i wasnt sure how to fix it. What i have tried, is re unwrapping, reseting the normals, flipping the channels, baking in max and zbrush… -
Errors while Baking Normal Map in xNormal/Incorrect Meshes for Normal Map baking.
So I've read a thread by visoutre about all kinds of problems with baking normal maps in xNormal which was posted a few years ago, but the solutions given there weren't that much of a help to me, so I assume that I am doing wrong something else. I fastly modeled a cave like thing in ZBrush and exported the High and the Low… -
Re: Hard edges, uvs, vertex use, normals, etc
A lot of the info in here is already covered in the wiki. To be redundant, MM, here's a visual aid and a little explanation. Here are two boxes, with a normal map baked onto them. They are geometrically identical, the high poly is the same for both, and they used the same bake-settings in xNormal (they are even on the same… -
normal map help hardsurface modeling.
been haveing a few problems with the normal maps from a prop im working on. getting some pretty extream gradients on my normal map, which are causing a lot of artifacts when UDK compresses my normal maps. here is a shot of my model with wires. and here are my UV's with the normal map. i have assigned hard edges to all my… -
Normal Map - Flat Surfaces Bake as Concave
Hi, I've recently begun having a problem when baking out maps in XNormal, and I have been unable to find a solution elsewhere. Basically, almost every flat surface that I bake normals for ends up looking concave, rather than flat. This issue becomes worse as faces become thinner, or more elongated. I've included images… -
Normal mapping seams/black. Looks decent in Maya, horrible in UDK.
Hi all. I've been searching/testing out multiple methods of normal mapping and am still stuck when I view my mesh in UDK. I've been waiting to submit a thread until I attempted everything I could think of/find. With that said I will try to make this as detailed as possible. Let me know if there is anything else I should… -
Re: Zbrush generates normal map with screwed up normals at UV borders
Thanks, both of you! I followed the Handplane channel's walkthrough for the baking process - taking the models into Xnormal, creating a cage using the "Viewer" that covered the entire model, putting the cage into the lowres-model slot and rendering an object space normal map from there (had to switch off tangent space in…
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