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can you bake high poly and then apply trim sheets
I'm currently working with trim sheets to texture a roof, and I'm aiming for a smooth geometry. I'm curious about how to achieve a smooth appearance on low poly models without baking from a high poly mesh. When texturing in Maya with trim sheets, do you simply add bevels to the low poly to enhance its smoothness? Or is… -
Re: Hard surface edge baking - how to improve?
Your normal map is only going to be accurate on the mesh on which it was baked. If your low poly has 1 smoothing group across a 90 degree corner then your normal map is going to have a strong gradient to make it shade correctly. Once you change the geometry of your mesh in a manner that changes the shading of the low poly,… -
Baking AO, what options do i have?
Hi fellow polycounters. Probably an obvious question to all of you, but before that im going to explain the situation. Im making a bunch of models, theese models have no "highpolyversion" and i want to bake an Ambient Occlusion pass for them. However when i try to bake in max its ALLWAYS freezes when i try to make a test… -
Re: Sculpted Bakes & Optimized Rock Wall
Not bad for a first shot (mine were waaaay worse :) ) I don't believe scuplting out of a box is a good way to make textures. Some like to start with a displacement map extracted from photosources with software like CrazyBump or Knald and then start sculpting on top of the displaced mesh. If you want to keep a tiled result… -
Combine High Poly Bake & Trimsheet ?
Hi, I'm learning trimsheets at the moment and I'm asking a question that may seem a little stupid but I'm asking anyway. Is that possible to combine high poly bake & Trimsheet ? When you're making a Trimsheet texture, you're making a normal map with it. So, if you want to have a complex model (without extreme amount of… -
Normal maps and triangulation, baking in Maya
Hey polycount, I've been trying to figure out the "proper" workflow for triangulating a mesh before baking and if it is even is a requirement. From my understanding one of the reasons it is good to triangulate prebake is so that your normal maps dont get messed over when another app reads the normals differently. However I… -
Re: Please Help with Photoshop: Editing Bakes
heh, MOP, you anwsered while I was posting this last response. I can't keep up with you guys. :) The bake has a lot of detailed high poly stuff, and just to render it takes a while (over 15 minutes). where the edits on the maps as slum suggested would take a couple of minutes. The edits I want to make are very minor. -
Xnormal what is happening to my bake? why is it pink :( ?
Hello, I was testing baking a basic high poll tire to a low pol one, I tried baking with a cage and without one, but my bakes still remains broken, it's all a weird pink color. I've tried making the highpol smooth, but it's also totally broken I've never seen such a weird colored normal, What worked is turning off tangent… -
Re: Baking problems :/
I am pretty new here on the forums but I figured you have to start some where. There are always a few things I keep in mind when I am baking detail from high poly to low poly via normal map. 1. always make sure that the high and low and as close to on top of each other as they can be so that your cage need the least amount… -
Re: Sketchbook: Zetheros
i've learned from working on Exanima that it could be an absolute nightmare if character customization, particularly armour layering, isn't properly planned out before making a bunch of assets for. I definitely won't be doing armour layering that's for sure, we'll just replace body parts with different pieces of…
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