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Substance Painter - Effective pipeline when working with xNormal
Hey there, I've had this question in my head for a little while now and I haven't quite worked it out or found a way around it... but I've watched all these tutorials about baking maps to use with substance painter and I'm wondering how flexible SP/SD is when you use maps from xNormal... So my problem is that I've baked… -
Re: Zbrush: Some fairly minimal normal map issues
I would suggest not baking in Zbrush. Xnormal or Maya will do a better job with an exported model. I haven't baked normalmaps in Zbrush, but it looks like the gaps are places where the raycasting failed, where the baker couldn't "see" the highpoly surface for some reason. Could be overlaps, could be ray distance, dunno.… -
Substance Painter - painting "normal" above "normal"
When projecting a normal map above a normal map can I fully replace the below normal with the top normal map (all on the same layer) ? I used a cross-normal-map in the example, I thought when I draw the first cross, then paint over a second cross, the second cross will fully replace the first cross... but this is not the… -
Normal Mapping - Surface vs Geometry Normals
I've noticed when normal mapping that selecting surface normals or geometry normals in the Maya bake settings gives much different results. Both methods result in errors in the maps, but in different ways. I was hoping that someone had advice on how to achieve bakes that don't suffer from these issues, and to see if this… -
Tangent basis convertion Xnormal/3dsmax?
I was wondering if there is a way to bake in Xnormal and convert the tangent basis for 3ds max's renderers? I'm preparing a course for my students on lowres modelling and normal maps baking and I want them to see the power of Xnormal. The problem is that we have to make renders in 3ds max and I'm getting the "black edges… -
Help with tangent normal maps
Hi I'd like to know, besides topology tweaks, if something can be done in terms of normal map baking and the filetypes used. My setup has been xnormal TGA bakes Of course, as an asset gets textured, normal map compressions tend to disappear in the noise so to speak, but I'd like to get as perfect a bake as I can anyway.… -
To normal map or not to normal map
I apologise upfront if this seems like a noobish question, thing is i am a software dev by day and spend my nights with my passion for 3d, i am aware of what normal maps are and how they work, i have always just used them as they help with shading and adding details to low poly mesh. My question therefore is do i use… -
Normal map won´t work...
Hi! I have baked out my normal map in Xnormal and I have had a lot of trubble with them... They do not work correctly in 3d Studio max with the Xoliul shader. But the same normal map work great in mudbox. What am I doing wrong in 3d Studio max? I have tried to flip the green but it doesn´t help... -
Re: Are normal maps always necessary?
you don't have to always make high poly models to create normal map. alot of normal maps are still created or added to by either painting greyscale images or using photos/images and converting them into normal maps using something like the Nvidia plugins for photoshop, or a program like crazy bump and even xnormal has a… -
Normal Map Baking Issue- HELP Please
Hey Polycounters, I am new to the community so this is officially my first post. I am currently working on a next gen model for my demo reel/portfolio. I have never really done a normal mapped full scale piece before from high poly to low poly. So, yep you got it I am having some issues with baking my normal maps. First…
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