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Re: Making sense of hard edges, uvs, normal maps and vertex counts
Indeed, you will want to enable your smoothing groups and binormals when exporting from Maya. I would also suggest to stay on the "unweighted" vertex normals mode (you can change this setting in the shape node of your mesh under "mesh controls"). Also avoid the triangulate setting when exporting in FBX, it's a different… -
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You need to change the color space from sRGB to Linear for .tif images. As for inverting the green channel in blender you can probably use a simple texture node setup to do so. -
Re: Making sense of hard edges, uvs, normal maps and vertex counts
Nope. Nothing to do with altering vertex normals. Vertex normals are generally soft(averaged) or hard(split along an edge). Vertex normals can also be manually edited, but thats a more advanced topic. Not really here nor there. Nope. More extreme gradients equate directly to more extreme vertex normals. By extreme vertex… -
Re: Making sense of hard edges, uvs, normal maps and vertex counts
Ok! So, if I understand correctly. 1: If I use a cage mesh in Xnormal (a cage mesh which I import from Maya where I define it by hand), it overrides or makes irrelevant the smooth normals setting. 2: The cage mesh should be set to all soft/averaged edges regardless of the low-poly. 3: The low-polys hard edges should be… -
Re: Making sense of hard edges, uvs, normal maps and vertex counts
Ok, so first things first. This is a test mesh I created to show off 3Point Shader quality mode. What that means is this mesh was created specifically for a synced normals workflow and to show off the benefits of that workflow, there isn't an excessive amount of uv seams, in fact there are less than I normally would use… -
Re: Making sense of hard edges, uvs, normal maps and vertex counts
nevermind the first part. I just created a copy and subdivided it in simple mode, creased all the hard edges and baked it out as a LP and then i replaced subdivided model with regular one. The waves are gone. but im still wondering if its possible to combine 2 normal maps and picking the best parts out of them and… -
Re: Making sense of hard edges, uvs, normal maps and vertex counts
I'm glad you posted to ask for help with this as the last thing you should ever do it edit your normal maps in Photoshop to remove stuff like this. It opens a huge can of worms & can really mess your bake up :) For the custom cage, I use this method. * Triangulate your LP mesh using the Triangulate modifier set to Beauty.… -
Making sense of hard edges, uvs, normal maps and vertex counts
Of interest to most who will read this thread, I wrote an extensive tutorial that covers this topic and many other common baking issues. It's geared towards baking in Toolbag, but most of the Basics and Best Results sections apply universally. Check it out on the Marmoset site:… -
Re: Making sense of hard edges, uvs, normal maps and vertex counts
Nope. I'll try now and show the results. -
Re: Making sense of hard edges, uvs, normal maps and vertex counts
Okay just found out: Maya does not render with the ``3` mode on (the smooth preview!)
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