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Re: Do you need smoothing groups if you have normal map?
Well what it comes down to is a chicken and egg problem. UV splits add vertexes and so do hard edges. I've outlined my process for avoiding making a model that takes up too much memory. But in what order do you do it? I can see that the sphere example isn't something I would've encountered since I wouldn't be adding a hard… -
Re: Do you need smoothing groups if you have normal map?
I don't have one specific order, i place UV cuts where i need them, harden edges that i need hardened. But if i need to harden an edge that has no UV cut, i also make sure it gets one. I am no big fan of completely automatic solutions that just convert UV seams to hard edges, because that will create hard edges in places… -
Re: Do you need smoothing groups if you have normal map?
Any examples? Answer is mostly yes. is it just a generic tiling normal map? the underlying hard/soft edges could be anything - up to your visual discretion. is it a baked unique normal map? Can't just throw hard/soft edges around as it'll break the normal map (normal maps basically are baked out based on your low poly's…
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