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Re: Baking perfect Synced Normals without chamfers?
A 'synced' workflow just means that the baker/renderer are using the same tangent basis. It's an averaged(cageless) bake that doesn't require uv/smoothing splits. A caveat, however, is that sometimes the gradients caused by the single smoothing group result in mipping artifacts. Also, as usual, skewing occurs (not a… -
Re: [Maya] Baking normal/bump maps issue
Alright, I see. The cube was throwing me off. Baking works by having the high and the low in the exact same position in 3D space. If the high poly is not overlapping the low poly, there will be no information to capture accurately when the baker goes to shoot rays from its cage. https://youtu.be/wZ-Z3kA-f9s?t=272 Hope this… -
Re: MightyBake Tool Announce
Hey Moose, quick rundown since I've been using this tool for a while now. 1. Fastest baker on the market, faster than all others, I think even the new knald is slower for normal and ao. 2. Cage and low poly do not need to match concerning verts, or uv's. 3. Can bake Maya and UE4 tangents, to my knowledge this is the only… -
Re: Smoothing groups when baking?!?
Even if the tangent basis matched between renderer and baker I would still bake with a cage and add hard edges at UV splits on hard surface models as it clears out gradients in the normal so it compresses better and doesn't mip badly. I have friends that still don't get it and come at me with "look I can just extract maps… -
Re: [Substance Designer] What is the Transferred Texture from Mesh bake?
I tried the baker after applying some materials to the hp. 'detail texture loading failed' is the reply. how do the load the texture? in Blender you must apply a material with the uv maps etc, to the hp and then you can bake this to the lp, so you will have a uv map with a rust texture etc tiled on it. is that the same… -
Re: [Solved] AO artifacts when baking in SD
Thank you for taking the time to try some test bakes Nicolas. The problem you show is definitely not what I expected, nor can I reproduce it altering parameters inside the baker. Are you sure you exported the normals correctly when you grouped the highpolys as an fbx? Stranger still, much like you said the artifacts that I… -
Re: A Practical Guide On Normal Mapping For Games
Mirrored UVs need to be offset in UV space because that way the baker knows exactly what geometry you want to bake to. In some cases it might get different results for different geometry (especially if you modeled the high-poly hurriedly and it isn't 100% symmetrical) and if the baker tries to bake two different spots on… -
Re: Advice for a first timer?
Yeah a dark gray background like in your reference is a safe way to go. You can certainly try Xnormal if you like as many people like it a lot. Having said that, when I was first learning how to bake and I found that advice online, trying Xnormal just confused me even more. That was me at least. The issues you are having… -
Re: Baking normal map problem.
what EQ said, however if you want better quality of normalmap display then use 3pointshader with "quality normals" combined with 3dsmax baking the tangentspace map. with these extreme angles you will always get issues if baker and realtime display are not synchronized (think of encoding/decoding). Despite all tangentspace… -
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