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Re: [Tutorial] Perfect Normal Map baking in Substance Designer 5 without using a Cage
Thanks for this great tutorial. iam gonna try this out on my next model. -
[Tutorial] Perfect Normal Map baking in Substance Designer 5 without using a Cage
Hello everyone! I created a video explaining the process I use to bake my normal maps. This removes cage creation from the process while retaining the benefits of an averaged cage. Comments and critiques are welcome! [ame] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGC2X6Qazvs[/ame] -
Re: [Tutorial] Perfect Normal Map baking in Substance Designer 5 without using a Cage
I think it was Wes from Allegorithmic who told me he'd have the Substance devs check this thread out, though I don't know what good that'll do. -
Re: [Tutorial] Perfect Normal Map baking in Substance Designer 5 without using a Cage
mobpapst+Titus - I hope you guys find this useful, let me know what you think! -
Re: [Tutorial] Perfect Normal Map baking in Substance Designer 5 without using a Cage
Hmm, I didn't see any 45 degree bevels if your video, maybe I missed that bit. Anyway, here you go (tested in XN w/o cage, run it through substance): https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/499159/skewquack.zip As you can see, the floaters near the beveled edges are still skewed. Floaters in the center part of the face look… -
Re: [Tutorial] Perfect Normal Map baking in Substance Designer 5 without using a Cage
AHH, I misunderstood what you meant. But I(think), I understand now. In my method, I believe I have that exact test-case? 45° angle bevel, with the adjacent areas on the same smoothing group and uv. This method just uses the non-averaged version which would have perfect detail projection. -
Re: [Tutorial] Perfect Normal Map baking in Substance Designer 5 without using a Cage
I basically make my low polys watertight nowadays. My cages, even on large objects are usually not more then a few rather large chunks. This technique isn't really about speeding me up, but speeding a large number of people up that I don't have time to personally train. And no worries, about me taking the feedback the… -
Re: [Tutorial] Perfect Normal Map baking in Substance Designer 5 without using a Cage
50k (or 25) doesn't sound like a significant factor; how do you generally create and edit your cage? My typical workflow in modo is: Create a new morphmap on my lowpoly > Use Push tool, pan around model to ensure HP is covered, export via pipelineIO script (1 or 2 clicks and my exploded lp + cage is exported to a fixed… -
Re: [Tutorial] Perfect Normal Map baking in Substance Designer 5 without using a Cage
There are lots of methods to bake nowadays and many ways to get fantastic looking bakes. It all boils down to the tools at your disposal. Many parts of the pipelines can be automated to a certain degree as long as there is experience available to make that automation happen. In my case, I wanted a 'turn key' solution to a… -
Re: [Tutorial] Perfect Normal Map baking in Substance Designer 5 without using a Cage
Will be watching this ASAP,but damn your thread's title is eye catching :D
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