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Re: xNormal - MASTER THREAD
Remember to ResetXForm in 3dsmax before exporting ( or Freeze transformations + triangulate in Maya )... and don't use the super-bugged max2obj 3dsmax's exporter! gagan: Show the normals in Maya's viewport to see if they're made hard or not. Sure you export it with the MayaObj exporter's "Export smoothing groups" option… -
Re: xNormal - MASTER THREAD
You really shouldn't use the ray distance calculator unless your lowpoly mesh has no hard edges; otherwise, you'll get discontinuities in your normal map where those hard edges are since ray distance doesn't create a proper averaged projection mesh. Also if I were you I would export .fbx for your lowpoly mesh if your… -
Re: xNormal - MASTER THREAD
I just uploaded the 3.14.6 ( yep, for some strange reason I like Vista .. ok, no, I hate it :p ) - Some UI improvements like drag and drop, multi selection, etc - Bigger preview - Multimonitor enhacements - Cage autoassignment message-box after pressing the "save meshes" - Added two buttons to clear the lowpoly/highpoly… -
Re: xNormal - MASTER THREAD
I noticed too some bright problems in the baked base texture... Need to investigate a few Are you using OpenEXR or HDR format? The exposure control is a pain Also caution with the Photoshop 7/CS and TGAs... there was a bug in the importer/exporter that premodulated the alpha. [ QUOTE ] to load a bump/normals map ontop of a… -
Re: xNormal - MASTER THREAD
Yes the problem MM is getting is not related to using geometry vs surface normals because it only makes a difference with hard edges as far as I know. Yes this is true you get the exact same. This however is not the same. One thing I should have noted on my ray casting diagram before was that in both cases the normals are… -
Re: xNormal - MASTER THREAD
Hey everyone. I ran into some problems today when playing around with curvature studies. An image is worth more than a couple of words or something: Anyone know what's going on? Am I doing anything wrong? At one point I managed to export a SBM which had less of these errors, but still not completely free from them. My idea… -
Re: xNormal - MASTER THREAD
Big improvement! Thank you. But I'm still getting artifacts: As you can see some parts of the model have what seems like reflections of other parts of the model on them. Same issue I previously had with the occlusion maps. Since it doesn't seem to happen to you, is there something hardware reliant in the algorithm you're… -
Re: xNormal - MASTER THREAD
Your lowpoly ( aka LP ) mesh must be UV-mapped in order to make a texture bake. Opening the mesh in Mudbox won't tell you what's wrong really... unless you open some kind of UV editor :poly121: If your mesh have UVs then perhaps the problem is that you're using several UV sets for your faces. xNormal can currently work… -
Re: xNormal - MASTER THREAD
Thx a lot for that awesome little software and your dedication. I have to admit that I didn't read through the whole thread, so my question might have been answered already. Is it possible to render AO directly to the Highpoly without projection ? Because the Highpoly is mostly finished when it comes to baking and the… -
Re: xNormal - MASTER THREAD
Johny, i've dropped the parallax wall normal map TGA into Photoshop CS2/CS3 and also in the DX9 texture viewer and seems it works ok... Perhaps is something related to this known Photoshop bug? http://nicolaescher.com/journal/article/20/photoshop-7-tga-plug-in-alpha-channel-bug Any other having this problem? Perhaps you…
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