Yes I am able to boost the contrast by increasing the strength of both RNM color and normal map. Something like x2 for the colors to increase the gamma and x3 for the normals gives something very similar to ground truth:
Pretty cool. Looks like RNM is less contrasted than ground truth, based on this image from Bakery plugin for Unity (which is the baker we use). Now i couldn't tell if you could do something to improve it. https://geom.io/bakery/wiki/index.php?title=Manual
So I was finally able to bake my directional light maps in Blender. And the result is really good. But I cannot compare with other software so I compared with Blender Cycles and the first thing I notice is that I lose a lot of contrast. I wonder if it is a known limitation of the RNM or if there is something I can improve…
Hmm. I really struggle with understanding and dealing with tangents, so i just run a series of tests. My current test shows what i need opposite: im converting pixel normals from world space to tangent space. So basically if i calculate dot with vec3 of 0.0.1 - lightmaps looks okay* Same for textures. I use tangent space…