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Artifacts when baking normal map
I'm working on the retopology of a high-poly model I made. I'm not very experienced with retopology and baking normals. When I extract the normal map in Substance Painter, I see these triangular artifacts(like cuts) as if it were a mesh problem. When I bake normals in Substance, it generally looks pretty good, but if I… -
Re: Zbrush: Normal Map Over 500k polygons
Why not use xNormal? Easy to use, fast, no viewport loading. http://boards.polycount.net/showthread.php?t=41776 Edit> Damnit, rube!! Though, it sounds like you are trying to normal map a model at your highest subdivision level. you'll need to drop it down to Level 1, the level you imported it / created it and bake from… -
Re: weird artifact in normal map
What happens is when it it tries to bake a high poly mesh onto a low poly model it establishes a "cage" around the low poly model. This cage tells it from what direction it should project the high poly onto the low poly to make the normal map. Making this cage poorly can really bugger up your normal map baking, controlling… -
Re: Xnormal vs Other Baking options
http://www.handplane3d.com/ Handplane will allow you to convert an object space normal to a perfectly weighted tangent space normal. I mainly do dota workshop these days, and the handplane plugin is amazing for perfect source normals baked in xnormal. Also if you are using UDK handplane can be a life saver. This also goes… -
Re: Finished - Desert Communication Relay – Environment Scene
Also, if you're baking a normal map from those high-resolution sculpts, then it would make sense for you to sculpt the striations into those. Another reason to consider using tiled textures, instead of sculpting unique whole-rock normal maps. What's the current texture resolution you're using for each rock? -
Re: Weird normal maps outside Substance Painter & Bake glitch
Hm, simply throwing the meshes into Painter and baking an normal map (OpenGl), then rendering the mesh with that normal map applied in Toolbag, I couldn't reproduce the shading issue you showing in your post. Here is the result I get in Toolbag (hid the left boot for better visibility of the seam): Attached you find the… -
Substance painter: Correct way to increase normal map intensity
Hi! I am doing some landscapes. Texturing in Substance Painter with pbr materials. What is the preferable way to increase normal map intensity to match other masked layers? Using levels on a normal map and with an upper slider? Or using a contrast filter to increase contrast? If I play with the level slider, I can get some… -
Zbrush VS Xnormal for Baking... Advice
Hi guys Just watched a few videos on zbrushes mapper plugin, thought it was quite straight forward and as I'm used to using zbrush thought it might be worth a use for my current character project to produce the normals for my retopped mesh. Problem is I've heard Xnormals is better not only that but my retooled version… -
When to normal map and when not to normal map
Hey Polycounters. Learning to be an environment artist and I'm struggling with something. When to bake and when not to bake. Example: Let's say I'm creating a modular building to be used across my level. Am I making a high poly version of this building and baking it down so I get nice edges on all my 90 degree edges, or is… -
Re: PBR Export Issue
Hi! I would make sure the normal map is OpenGl and the texture sampler in Blender is set to non-color. If the normal map is DirectX, you could also flip the y-channel in the shader in Blender.
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