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Approach to buildings & normals for buildings
I've had a lot of time to anticipate my next environment... it will be in PBR and I've been keeping a close eye on programs such as Substance designer and gradually learning PBR... I've got a question to the people who are familiar with cityscape models... If I were to build a.. for example Castle style kingdom or any… -
Normal map baking nightmare
Hi guys, I have a problem that is driving me crazy. Let's start from the beginning: I am new to modelling, baking and all this stuff, but I am learning fast! So, I have modelled a gun in blender for a project of mine. I have come to the point of baking but everything I try is not working. I used both Substance Painter and… -
Re: xNormal and Maya textures problem
So, a cage is a copy of the lowpoly mesh (but with soft normals) that takes the place of ray projections. Generally, it's a much more flexible system, and gives control to the user in a million small and useful ways. Basically, duplicate the low, soften the normals on the duplicate, and expand (using the transform… -
Normal Bleeding into neighboring GEO
Hello The first image is my Lowpoly and the second one is LP+Baked Normal. as you see there is a strange bleeding of normal data into neighboring geometry. although UV islands are seperated. thanks in advance -
Re: Nifskope/normals/Skyrim import help
1) For a normal map, we usually create a high poly model first, one that has much surface detail, smooth transitions, etc. Then model a low-poly that matches the general shape, 'baking' detail from high>low to create a normal map. <or> use something like nVidia's normal map plugin to create a surface detail normal map from… -
Fiddling with Normal Maps
I made this box in Max and used nDo to make the normal map out of the bump map. Its kind of my first time messing around with creating normal maps. Anything I can do to beef it up? Tips and tricks would be much appreciated. Thank you!:) -
Re: Can I add verts to a model after baking a normal map?
If you want it to look correct then yes you will have to rebake. The bake accounts for the exact vertex normals of your mesh, so when you go in adding/removing verts you're changing the smoothing etc and break the normals map. Some times you can get away with this, say if you have a simple cylinder type object with hard… -
Re: Need advice on approaches bevel the geo or use normal map for bevels? and some workflow questions
Smooth lod switch is extremely important for a racing game as Eric said. Geometry bevels you do on such objects usually have to be propagated up to next few lods. Otherwise you instantly see certain shading switch. So my choice usually is bevels baked into normal maps . Even if it looks not that great at close. If you want… -
Re: problem with normal map bake
1. As to the first issue, it looks like your mesh normals on the low poly likely need to be smoothed. 2. As to crashing etc, you may be running out of video memory. What GPU do you have and how much VRAM does it have? One thing you can do is remove any unused meshes from your scene, and make sure any other art or VRAM… -
Re: Map baking in Zbrush vs. Xnormal
From the top of my head, Xnormal lets you: Use completely different meshes for the lowpoly and highpoly (good for when the highpoly contains multiple meshes, floating geometry, etc) Specify the tangent basis of the normal map Have control over a mesh's vertex normals Bake more map types Preview maps as they bake,…
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