Here's a great tutorial for you about baking methods: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OONQzKcWeMY&list=PL6MdElM0q0fqsVDes6xatahjsWq7MggEJ&index=37 If I remember correctly (I just stepped through it real quick just now) the video should show you how to make great bakes with Blender (and maybe xNormal), but most of the…
Thanks for the links, some real cool info to listen to on the process of baking. I'll have to find a tutorial to play around with it in maya, gonna work on roughing out the mesh then I'll go back and look at details. The information on UV/edges rules was also good, definately guidelines that I didn't know about and…
After reading some of the vertex article I'm definately missing something in my understanding. I've got the basics in maya, so I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that I need to understand the process of baking normals, and the workflow of high poly vs low poly. I'll definately take a step back from detailing and block…