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1. Normal maps and smoothing group woes

   

   Topic by wannabeartist · Oct 2010 · Home› Technical Talk

   ...one more time! Asked about this before, but I'm afraid I still don't get this...sorry! Where exactly should one place smoothing groups to make normal maps look nice? Here's a mini-example. On one screenshot you can see my lowpoly corner with the checker map on it. On the other one is the same piece in Unity3D with…

2. Re: Normal maps and smoothing group woes

   

   Reply by wannabeartist · Oct 2010 · Home› Technical Talk

   Thanks guys! Ah, that is definitely mistake #1 - I actually though it doesn't need re-baking! @Vig, I have been baking the maps in ZBrush and using GoZ to bring them back to max. It creates a DirectX -shader, which I disregarded at first, just taking the model and the normal map to the engine. But then I noticed that…