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Re: Do hard edges split geometry or just the vertex normals?
I used to model with Blender back in the day. There was an issue I encountered when preparing assets for cage baking normal maps where the "edge-split issue" was the main culprit. Found a solution later in this thread:… -
Re: Question about baking normal/uv mapping
Looks perfectly normal and reasonable. The stronger the gradients and colors in a tangent space normal map- the more difference there is between the high poly and low poly shading/normals. With a properly synced tangent space workflow, it shouldn't be much of an issue, but it can cause issues when textures get mip'd down… -
Re: Normal maps and triangulation, baking in Maya
In Maya, yes you would lock normals before exporting if you've baked with quads, otherwise you will get smoothing errors. Again this applies specifically to baking in Maya. I don't know about the issues you've had with locking normals, I'm not really a Maya expert. Ben uses Max, in Max, your mesh is always triangulated… -
3DSMAX - Export high poly hair and fur to OBJ for xnormal normal map projection?
When you render hair and fur in 3d studio max, it adds a lot more extra hair that isn't there. How do you export a high poly hair and fur as an OBJ for use with XNormal? How do you export that final rendered look as an OBJ for Xnormal? -
Re: Normal Map Issues
TLDR; Normal maps are limited in what they can do by their bitrate :) As you said, when you're using tangent space normals, it alters each vertex's normal by adding onto the model's vertex normals, so because OP split the vertex normals, the normal map is the limit to how well the split can be covered up. The normal maps… -
Low-Poly Normals Issue
Hi Polycount, Is there a way to fix normals like this? I usually don't care about normals like that as I would use a baked normal map on top of that to hide it. I was hesitant asking about as I thought it was embarrassing beginner question, but I just can't get it off my mind and cannot find anyone talking about this… -
Xnormal Mesh Cage being wierd
Thanks for your time I am facing a problem now with my Xnormal where baking my normal maps and curvature maps had artifacts on them so I decided to take a look at the model and see if there was any manifold geometry I had missed out surprisingly there where none so I went over to check the face normal direction and it… -
Use Vertex Normals For Better LODs!
Recently I've come to love vertex normals and have fully adopted them into my workflow. And as of not too long ago I have come across another great benefit of vertex normals. (Sorry if most of you already know this, I'm mostly out of the loop and learn these things independently.) Vertex normals can be tricky to handle,… -
Re: Sketchbook: Zetheros
That looks really sweet, love the detail in the scales and the color design. Looks like there might not be much variation in the roughness channel though? The scales seem very uniform in shininess, as if you might be relying on the normal map for all the reflection variation. Or maybe it is there, but just not enough… -
Mini Tutorial: Baking seamless normal maps for glTF
I made this for a client recently, and it's generic enough that I can share here. So, why not? Here are the source meshes, shaded and in wireframe: When I open hexcube-lowpoly.glb in Babylon.js Sandbox (https://sandbox.babylonjs.com/), the normal map does not represent the beveled high-poly shape from hexcube-highpoly.glb,…
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