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Re: Normal baking from blender to xnormals
for the cage, just copy the lowpoly mesh, set all normals to soft, than scale out slightly on the normals. not sure if blender has a tool for this but max has the push modifer, and maya has a tool to transform with the vertex normals as a constraint. also a exploded bake might help you for some pieaces. -
Re: Simple box normal mapping
Yeah, I just tried making a normal box and a rounded box and baking the normals in xNormal with the default settings. You still get the edges, so either you make a cage within xNormal or another software, or bake in another software where, either way, you will need to get a cage to push it just slightly. Here's the result… -
Re: Normal map workflow
Thanks for that link its great. It seams more people tend to use Xnormal with a cage. Especially when producing game art. I never have success when export a direct Normal map from Zbrush or Mudbox. Since the two responses seem to be leaning towards Xnormal and now handplane I will try these method. That video gave me a… -
XNormal Height>Normal map step problem
I'm having a problem when I use XNormal to convert a height map to a normal map, the generated map has stepping: (Even with higher smoothing applied I get the same result, just a weaker normal map) I created the map with Gimp with the solid noise generator, I'm not sure if this is an issue with Gimp or XNormal I thought… -
Re: Baking normals from mesh with custom normals causing issues
Sure, where can I send it to? Maybe you can PM your email address? I doubt that the workflow itself is used by anyone but me, though if there is a general issue regarding custom normals and baking, it might be a problem for different workflows as well. If it is not baking correctly from itself it will not give an accurate… -
Re: Xnormal - normal map seams, inverted??
This. It's perfectly normal to have normal map look crappy when it's displayed as a diffuse texture, so don't worry if it looks like there is a seam when you apply it as a diffuse map :) When the edges of your mesh are rotated in UV space, there will always different colours at those edges. This is because they are at… -
Painter - height / normal UV discrepancy
I have encountered a problem - when I have multiple different texel densities on UV islands, Painter incorrectly renders normals. This is a test mesh in Blender - the rectangle has denser UV: Here we have incorrect normals in Painter with a visible rectangle: But when tessellation is on, height is rendered correctly, while… -
Re: Any tips for normal mapping curved surface?
Micky: In max, by default if you're using a cage, your cage should be "averaged" or "welded", unless you have a really old version of max, or your edges are actually split instead of just using hard edges(smoothing groups). To get unwelded results you have to go into the bake options and click "use offset" this will use… -
Re: Normal Map Problem
Basically yes , because its already a seam for a videocard and every hard edge is a split edge doubling vertexes along it. Yet not every UV seam needs to be a hard edge and you don't have to always do hard edges along beveled edges. Google and try to understand face weighted vertex/split normals or ask chat GPT? Shading of… -
Fixing ZBrush SubD Shrinking & Normal Map Waviness
Minding my own business working on an asset when I encountered an issue and here we are with a tutorial. Most of it is part of old Polycount but some fresh take. Full version here: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/rlGqrE Its 2025 we have nanite, AI, lots of procedural tools and fancy features yet I keep seeing students,…
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