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Curvature maps and gradient maps for hard edge bakes
Hey Typically when I bake my guns, I just rely on the basics, AO and Normal and a cavity map converted from the normal. A while ago I did the swap from single smoothing group baking (no cage, only ray distances in xnormal) to cage + smoothing groups + SG UV splits. Of course, when you bake this method, the hard edge is… -
Re: Curvature maps and gradient maps for hard edge bakes
How are you generating your curvature map? If you're generating it from the normal map post-bake it's normal that you get poor results. Why not bake out the curvature information directly from your hipoly in xNormal for example? That will give you a perfect result normally. -
Re: Curvature maps and gradient maps for hard edge bakes
Do you have some examples of how hard edges are visible with hard edges vs soft? There shouldn't be any difference in how a curvature map is baked either way. What are you using to bake the curvature map?
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