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Baking normal map issue

ks741119 — Sat, 29 Jul 2017 18:24:03 GMT

Hello.

I just tried to bake a normal map of this knife model I just created but it doesn't bake really well

As you can see that's really messed up.

And when I tried to bake it in substance painter just black image came up

Is this a problem of my model or something ?

I'll appreciate if you tell me what's wrong with it

i uploaded my .ma file

Re: Baking normal map issue

sean.heasley — Mon, 31 Jul 2017 15:50:50 GMT

Hi @ks741119

I just baked it in Substance Painter and got a decent normal map. All I did was snap both meshes to the origin of the grid (0,0) and exported as OBJ then baked in Substance. Let me know if this helps!

Re: Baking normal map issue

sean.heasley — Fri, 04 Aug 2017 19:11:05 GMT

Hi @ks741119 just checking in, did my post help you at all?

Re: Baking normal map issue

djonesuk — Sat, 05 Aug 2017 16:35:12 GMT

Your high res mesh doesn't align with your low poly mesh. This is the reason the normals look 'odd' on the finger guard.

Re: Baking normal map issue

sean.heasley — Mon, 07 Aug 2017 15:47:36 GMT

Hi @ks741119 just checking in, are you still having this issue?

Re: Baking normal map issue

sean.heasley — Wed, 09 Aug 2017 15:51:21 GMT

Hi @ks741119 any changes with getting your normal maps working?

Re: Baking normal map issue

ks741119 — Sun, 04 Feb 2018 14:25:22 GMT

Sorry for replying late.

I totally forgot I uploaded this post after I solved this out.

Anyway thanks for answering I just accepted your reply as solution