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Re: Baking between legs (crotch are)
Honestly its very hard to get rid of all the imperfections when doing these sorts of bakes. What I normally do is just manually fix this. You could try creating a custom cage to get the perfect bakes but sometimes it takes a long time and IMO isn't worth the effort. I use the method I learned from Marc Brunet. I try and… -
Baking Directional Light Maps in Blender? Is that possible?
Hi folks I was trying to make a Directionality Lightmaps (Radiosity Normal Mapping) Find whis topic, but unfortunately its outdated and all the images are gone :/ : https://polycount.com/discussion/71538/how-to-directional-lightmaps-with-3dsmax-vray Currently this is what im doing: Here's my 3 basis which i use to bake GI… -
Breakdown of the AAA pipeline for game-ready realistic hero props
Hello! Some time ago I finished a project and thought I’d make a breakdown of the whole process from start to finish. This is not a detailed tutorial for every step but rather an overview over the process that I hope will help people (especially beginner 3D artists) get a better understanding of how the pipeline works.… -
Re: Baking high rez in maya question
Unbfortunately no, atleast in the versions of Maya I've used, if you're using smooth preview that result will not bake, which is totally rediculous and means you have to actually sub-divide the mesh. Worse yet, if you don't delete history, bakes can be VERY, VERY slow. And if you do delete history, you can't undo the… -
Re: Hard Edges, UV Seams, Smoothing Groups, Cages & Baking Trouble.
First off, let me start by thanking all of you for reading and replying! I really appreciate it! JEDTHEKRAMPUS I don't actually know. I am just exporting from 3dsMax as an OBJ with texture coords, normals and smoothing groups checked, and just putting it into Xnormal. If you could elaborate on how to do it and test with… -
Re: Black foliage? Light baking issues.
Hi! Don't know if applicable here, the terrain-documentation mentions that lightmapping is not supported with GPU instanced details. To check whether the gras mesh bakes itself bakes nicely, I would light-bake it in a small scene (has non-overlapping lightmap UVs, sufficient resolution). With lots of foliage lightmapped, I… -
Re: Normal Map baked good but I see low poly edges in other apps
if the tangent basis used in the baker and viewport don't match you get shit results if you try to bake a greater difference in surface direction than a normal map can handle (absolute maximum in perfect conditions is 180 degrees) you get shit results this is explained at length in the threads about normal map baking -… -
Bad performance with reflection probe, and how to bake them the right way
As you can see in the images, having a realtime reflection probe over my large body of water seriously tanks performance. So the obvious thing to do is bake the probe. I've done this, first setting the water mesh to static, but the resulting texture of the reflections I get seems to be locked to world space. It does not… -
Substance Painter, normal map errors when baking with multiple meshes together
I'm modeling in Maya, exporting with FBX, and using Substance Painter to bake the maps. I'm using bake by mesh name, but I'm getting some really weird results that are acting as if the baker is still reading other meshes. Now if I take each individual element and bake it separate, I get the results I expect, but when I… -
Re: My bakes still look like shit!
Hey Rooster, If you are baking a really large mesh, that has something to do with it. From my experience break pieces off and bake them, you will get waaaayy cleaner results. Also from my experience with how frustrating this can be, you gotta find answers man, I found mine. Make sure with whatever pieces you break off for…
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