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Normal Map baking problems with Cage
Hey guys, I could really use some help here. I've recently started working with normal maps and already spent quite some time with the whole normal map baking topic. Today I found out about cages and how to use them, but this is where my problem comes in. The edges of my low poly object (with the normal map applied) look… -
Normal baking issue [3DS Max]
Hi, I got some issues with the normal baking. I have already read all the wikis and tutorials that has been shared here, on Polycount but couldn't find any relevant. https://www.dropbox.com/s/6orflzkp1a21ho6/Screenshot%202014-04-24%2017.12.03.png So as you can see on the picture it doesn't want to grab the outer sides of… -
Would it be possible to bake straight from Maya using xNormal?
Hypothetically, would it be possible to write a plugin for Maya that would provide xNormal with the necessary meshes from a) directly in the Maya scene that are automatically output to temp files and b) via a path (for sculpts that are too heavy to live in the Maya scene), provide info about which maps to bake and the… -
M84 Stun Grenade (Warning: Large images)
Edit: Newest... Unless there's any substancial critique, I'm calling this done :) For this one I leaned heavily on booleans and modifier stacks, making it much quicker and easier to decide upon how many sides I wanted on my lowpoly, and to get a solid base for the subdivision. I introduced myself to toolbag baker which… -
2 Questions: Black Seams on AO Bake & Selecting Inverted Faces Only
Hi there! Beginner digital artist here. I'm texturing someone else's model, and I've run into two problems in Maya 2012. I'm doing an Ambient Occlusion Bake on the texture using mental ray batch bake of a Surface Shader with mib_amb_occlusion mapped to Incandescence. Works fine most of the time, but the bake always ends up… -
Normal Bake Issue / Color Map ID [Help]
Hi Everyone, So I'm having a issue baking both normal and color id map using substance. For my normal map, I'm not getting the best results for my handle that i'm hoping for or it's not catching some of the details... For my Color ID I had applied separate materials to my low poly models and then adjusted the settings for… -
Re: 1st Time Noob Normal/AO bake in max==Epic Fail for half a day of work
First, you don't really need to explode your mesh, because you can keep it together during the bake, if you use material ID's to render the different elements(check "hit only matching material ID's" in the render to texture options). If you trying to bake the ao with exploded mesh, you will never get proper ao map, because… -
Baking Issue Question
Hi I'm sure this may be obvious to many and I'm sure it online but it helps if I have get a direct answer on things I work on, what are these issues I'm getting when I'm baking my model. I know it on the normals. Does it have to do with the edges not being smooth or my UV unwrapping. Just curious on what things I should… -
Request - Normal Map Comparison (Baked Vs Generated)
~ Okay, I'm bored of looking through the wiki, and the sticky'd threads now. I can't find what I'm looking for I'm hoping I could get some help? Are there any images of normal maps that are generated from flat images (e.g. crazybump normal from a photo of bricks) compared to normal maps that are baked from a high poly. I… -
Any drawbacks to baking at 16 bit channel/format?
Hey guys, when baking normal maps in marmoset I usually select the 16 bit format option(32 bit causes my old laptop to close Marmoset lol) as when I select 8 bit I notice some dithering after the bake. But I have heard that 16 bit format is not always the best way to go? Or is that when exporting out the texture maps out…
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