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Re: Killer apps for Baking Normal Maps and UV:s etc.
Roadkill works pretty well in stand-alone although it really needs some getting used to because of some small problems with the UI. Haven't managed to run it in Maya 2009 yet, but I suppose it should be even better there. As for baking normals, after using xNormal the first last year I thought it was overhyped shit, and… -
xNormal Issue / Maya OBJ Export
Hello all, I'm going to try to explain my issue to the best of my abilities and hopefully someone can help. I have a high poly cactus that I modeled in Maya, it has been combined to be one mesh and is about 1 meter in diameter. I export it as an OBJ so I can import it into xNormal. (I've done this with my low poly also.)… -
Re: (Noob) Baking High Poly Normal Map to Low Poly Normal Map
The high poly does not have to be UV mapped to bake a normal map. There are very few situations where you will ever need to UV map a high poly mesh. A normal map is a 2D representation of the high poly's physical surface curvature in relation to your low poly's surface curvature and vertex tangents baked into the UVs of… -
Re: Normal maps showing weird artifacts
Hey,If you set up your models in Maya so that you have hard edges on all of the UV borders and re-export. Then setup in xNormal to use exported normals instead of average this might help give better results. Try using a cage in xNormal to. Check out this post has lots of info on it, and also a script for Maya to add hard… -
Re: Persistent UV seams in normal map
It looks pretty bad as expected. There is no reason why that seam should be there.The normals on the UV seam are averaged just like the others in the mesh. Someone's argued that this is normal when you put a seam between 2 non planar polygons and that I should just paint it over but I would rather get a clean bake and save… -
Re: zBrush – baking normal map from highpoly to lowpoly.
It's really not a detailed process. There's certainly a lot less options than the old zmapper. I'm not even all that familiar with the options they do give as I usually use xnormal. But the general process is: 1. Switch to your lowest subdivision level 2. Hit create normal map 3. Hit Clone NM to clone it and send it to the… -
Re: Another problem baking on xnormal ...
Throw an edit normals modifier on your mesh, select all the normals and click "Make Explicit" I am starting to think it might be easier to just diagnose your cage issue in Xnormal :D I would have to see a screen of your cage in Xnormals model viewer, preferably at an angle where I can see the window well, question, are you… -
Need help with normals / exploded bake
Hey all, I have run into some normal mapping trouble with a model I am making. While I am getting these issues all over the model, here is a simple example of one of the cars headlights and the issue I am getting. Low poly and UV Low poly + cage High Poly UV + Ray miss The beautiful result So as far as I can tell, this is… -
Re: Edges and Seams visible on Normal Map
@wrote Like Kanni3d said, it looks like a tangent basis problem, max and xnormal have diffrente ways to calculate and display the normals, so you either have to export from max without tangent, or make that xnormal doesn't compute them using mikkt. I im not a user of both of this programs, so im don't know the… -
Re: Normal Map Problem
Im using Xnormal for baking. Settings used: I have added the highpoly mesh. Then i added the lowpoly mesh. Under the low poly mesh i added the cage (Which i have checked and its fine). I set edge padding to 4, bucket size 32. Normal Map tangent space checked and X+ Y+ Z+ As swizzle coordinates Closest hit if ray fails.…
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