If you don't have already try it, go in the Tools Tab of XNormal and launch "Ray Distance calculator". Click on "Go" and when the calcul is finish click on "Copy Result" and "Close" the Ray distance Calculator. Relaunch the "Generate Maps", if it's not better, you should have your own cage.
As ZacD said, use a cage. If you absolutely must avoid using a cage (which is a mistake, a cage is a must if you want quality bakes), then you can get rid of the issue by adjusting the ray distance. (xNormal's Ray Distance Calculator is a good place to start, under "tools")
Another lighting attempt, I'm liking this one alot more. I moved the light rays so that it works with the Crysis lighting, which is, the sun rays are coming from the door window. Change the lighting color near foreground to a more orange color, with a softer blue lighting in the background
Firstly, holy crap thanks for the support guys, It's really blown me away haha! I just hope there is some stuff in here thats useful and its not all absolute rubbish ! Delega: No sorry she wasnt! Beestonian: It will be a realtime, textured asset, the budget might be quite high though as I anticipate a lot of polys in the…
Twilison cause there is no exact science to it and I firmly believe they do not interview/survey enough people to make it accurate. The included location averages are the top 10 paying states so a place like Texas is not listed even though it has a crazy amount of developers and not to mention you get more for your buck…
Hey all together, I just got to check this post again. Thank you all very much for your feedback and knowledge. Indeed its really by far not the best mesh to work with further (it shows also i still have to learn much about character retopology, reflecting the last days until now...). I have to try and fix the mask then…
Changes since last time: - Updated the table and chair meshes and did some vertex painting - Updated the stone tile texture you see by the door, and all wood textures - Added a lighter wood color for contrast on the railing - Updated materials for the bar - Added the rugs with placeholder textures to help with color…
New 2017 packing needs a lot of RAM. Check if it uses new packing methods. For upgrade, I usually upgrade after 3-6 month since we need to wait plugins and finish the current project. Even though there are beta testers and QA, there are always a few bugs which no one caught . Usually SP1 address that. But, waiting more…
The Skylabe generation is very efficient in render engine like Mental Ray or VRay, the 6700K 4 cores is as fast as the 5820K 6 cores. Take a look to this bench (sorry in French, but the graph is easily understood): http://www.hardware.fr/articles/940-9/cpu-rendu-3d-mental-ray-v-ray.html
Unless your tv does 1080p do not buy a ps3 as a blu-ray player. I have a 1080i tv and blu-ray actually looks worse than standard DVDs on it. I wouldn't buy a used 360, there's a chance you'll pick up one that was perma-banned from Live.