From what I understand you want to always use an Average Projection. What this means for xnormal is you need to export a cage. Theres another alternative to that within xnormal but I'm spacing on it. Its a really easy alternative. The reason why you want to use an Average Projection is because the cage will ignore any hard…
Let me see if I'm finally understanding all of this: 1) Average Projection cage and Explicit Projection cage determines how the normals will bake. Average Projection does just that, it averages the normals together between the low and high poly completely ignoring any smoothing groups you apply. Explicit Projection uses…
Short blanket statements without understanding the theory behind them is always a bad idea. Its why we have people posting "Just use 1 SG" in response to other users bake problems, often to the detriment of the user seeking help(IE: with a non synced system its terrible advice). Or "Always use quads" Or "Never use…